Do you want Skyrim to be funny?

Honestly, I want Skyrim to be very serious and dark, It would seem a lot more realistic to me. For example;

When a dragon raids a town, I want people to be screaming in terror, wives clutching their children with tears in their eyes, men being burned to a crisp in seconds, maybe soldiers brave enough to face the dragon only to be ripped to shreds. I want the character to get a sense of this dark atmosphere and a feeling of Oh shi....

I want to see whole villages ravaged from raiders and bandits, maybe see a stack of corpses of men and women. And this village could of been a place you've known before, maybe even did some quests for it. You'd certainly feel the loss from that and again, sense that sort of dark atmosphere that goes with it.

I mean, I thought it was kind of lame when you go to Kvatch in Oblvion, hoping to see this wide spread devastation with lots of bodies lying around. Sure, the whole place is destroyed, but you never really made a connection with it, so you don't really feel the loss. And the only body you see is the count :banghead: I didn't really get a feel of this dark atmosphere that Beth was trying to display in that part of the game, maybe they were not even trying? Either way, I didn't feel the loss for Kvatch and I want to feel more of that in Skyrim!

Thought's/Opinions welcomed

It is easy to become conditioned to the environment if it is ALL doom and gloom. You need light situations to give the dark ones greater impact.

Maybe a few funny NPC's and the occasional quest, but this is TES, not Fallout

the cities shouldn't be dark etc. they are save places but the world should be dark and dangerous

Well I guess I just like Doom and Gloom kind of games. It would certianly be more realistic, since we're talking about a time period that's more primitive than in Oblivion, even though it's 200 years later. Add the fact that there's a civil war, I wouldn't expect to see much humor to when you're mostly going to see chaos. Oh, and dragons. Not to mention the one that "eats worlds."
This game does seem more end of the world type, which is like Fallout. So lets make it more dark please.

Exactly, kind of why I dont really care much for low fantasy. Just look at Dragon Age, they focused too much on trying to make everything dark and gritty but the end result is just bland and boring, in contrast if you look at the Baldur's Gate series dispite the high fantasy setting the games do explore a lot darker themes and in the end they do come off as feeling a lot darker.

Get another quest about taking care of some woman's rats in her basemant.......that was their attempt right there. If they can make me laugh out loud, then I would appreciate it because it adds character

The game is going for a dark gritty feel, so that is what I'm expecting for it, and from looking at some of the screenshots, the lighting looks better so hopefully the dark places will really be dark.

As for humor I don't want much in this kind of game, except maybe certain situations, b/c it can take away from the atmosphere. If anyone played Shadow Hearts for PS2, it has a real nice dark feel, and then there was the sequel which has some humor, but it was a little too frequent at times, weakening the mood. Then there was the third and last in the series, most over the top and weakest of the series.

So it's okay to have some humor in it, but I rather it be too far on the dark side than the cheery side, so I vote for third option. Closer to Diablo than Disneyland :thumbsup:

Agreed. Especially in Skyrim of all places, and the end of the world nigh, I don't expect jokes to be cracked every second
That said comic relief is welcome

I want it to be like Conan where there are some funny moments but otherwise they are all serious

I think a bit of humour would be nice, with a bit of a dark side too. It needs a balance.
As to whether TES needs more humour than it had in Morrowind or Oblivion, I'm not sure. And I don't really mind either. They could probably add some more funny, interesting and quirky dialogue in Skyrim than we saw in both Morrowind and Oblivion.
But yeah, I agree that the dark parts of the game should be darker. For example, Mathieu Bellamont's little place he had under the Anvil Lighthouse was extremely disturbing, but engrossing and powerful at the same time. It was one of my favourite places to explore in the game, and although it was just a tiny couple of rooms, I spent like 15 minutes in there in awe, taking in the gross scene. So unexpected.
And all the same, if a whole city gets destroyed like Kvatch for example, there should be women crying, men roaring in anger, and vice versa. There should be bloodied bodies strewn across the battlefield, with Scamps picking at the bodies and buildings crumbling around you.

Some dark humour here and there is always appreciated.

I don't want the game to be funny as a whole, no. I don't think of the Elder Scrolls as a comedy, but in even the most serious of works, a bit of humor now and then is fine. So I don't mind the occassional joke, as long as Bethesda doesn't go too far with them and cause the overall tone of the game to change, not that I think they would. Nothing I've seen or heard in relation to Skyrim makes me think that we're going to get a comedy.

guy gets his legs cut of by cavalry

" TIS BUT A SCRATCH"

-Yes, but only a little humor
Generally speaking, I agree with the OP - darker, gloomier, more serious content would be much preferred. I've always thought TES was blessed with a wonderful setting, and a little let down by its quirkiness, a large part of which is its sense of humour. I mean, Morrowind is an incredibly camp game. I've always wanted to see an Elder Scrolls game with a tone, atmosphere and maturity to match much of its lore, which despite the occasional bit of silliness, is pretty heavy stuff. The lore's full of ambiguity, complex abstracts, horror, intrigue, six and violence; the games themselves are often quite stupid (and I mean that in the fondest possible way) in comparison.

I realise a game has to appeal to a lot more people than its lore does -- and that as a medium it lends itself less to dark subject matter than literature -- but with a lot of fantasy, I can't help but feel that quirkiness and comedy is merely compensating for something; the inability of its writers to capture "dark" well, perhaps. It feels like an excuse to me, a cop out. Nor have previous TES games' NPC AI, character models, and voice acting helped to express the dark and monstrous heart that beats like a vast and ominous drum beneath its deceptive exterior of silly anecdotes and camp, whiny, flamboyant characters.

So I want a much darker, meaner-looking and meaner-sounding Skyrim, and I hope the series continues in that direction. But some lighter-hearted moments are probably necessary.

Poll result says it all, humour is effective in moderation. I can't wait to hear what the Argonians have to say about the Dunmer :
"Why do Dunmer lick their own butts? Because it's really easy when your head's already firmly wedged up there."

It wouldn't feel right if the game was entirely serious or funny. A healthy balance of both is the way to go. Leaning more on the serious side when taking into account the current setting and situation in Skyrim.

I like how Red Dead Redemption handled this, there were moments when i was cracking up and moments when i was mortified about what just happened. I think some NPCs should be funny in a genuinely funny way, not just be easter egg kinda funny like maiq was.

I don't see the problem in the game being funny, as far as it is in a realistic way. About raided Villages and dead people, I preffer this not happening to NPCs I feel attached to.

This.

TES always had teh humor. Most of it was pretty... dark XD Like the girl asking what is the fine for necrophilia and stuff like that. And don't forget the bugs. lots of them leaded to furiously funny situations.
I think you need both, of course.
Take a Canibal corpse song for example. Everything is treated the same, from the beginning of the song to the end. No calm bits or stuff like that. At the end it just kills the effects they wanted to produce, and all becomes a boring soup.

A little bit of humor is always welcome (Lord Rugdumph anyone!?). But it's been said over and over,Skyrim will have more of a serious note to it.

I think there definitely has to be at least a bit of humour. If I wandered around Skyrim and found nothing but depressed, miserable NPCs I'd struggle to see the point in saving them - humour is hope after all.

Sure as long as the voice acting is good. And as long as it's just every now and then to lighten the mood in the middle of the story.

If it is too gloomy and depressing all the time, it will just make me depressed. I mean I like that at times, but you need some relief from the impenetrable darkness.