I picture Skyrim being a much more brutal and unforgiving place than Cyrodil or Morrowind even so it would add to immersion. Now of course this is a video game and a fantasy one so there are levels, hit points and armor so your not going to be lopping off heads and arms right and left but I think it should be able to happen. Now this was a horrible nasty reality so I don't want say anymore about it, but it is a modern example of how fragile the Human frame is. I was watching a documentary on the Bataan Death March not too long ago a much more serious subject than a video game but regardless there were a number of reports from POW's of Japanese Soldiers taking swipes at them with samurai swords taking off limbs and on some occasions even heads without too much trouble. If you look at real gore from a real warscene or whatnot, that's about what it looks like.Īnd if you think about, an explosive fireball with lightning on the side cast by an experienced mage would probably do a bit more damage than a bullet. Specific heavy executioner's swords were reserved for this purpose, especially in Spain.īut yeah, in the middle of a battle with a normal long sword would not be very easy. We have the finishing moves system they're implementing. When fighting someone and dealing that last blow that reduces their health to 0 and they go down shouldn't be a immersion breaker because they don't reflect all the combat that just happened or they weren't dismembered.

I vaguely recall reading somewhere that people going to the guillotine would bribe the guards to go sooner skip ahead in line, as it were - because the blade would get dull, and it wouldn't cut cleanly after a few goes.Īnd, again, that's with a braced neck. And, honestly, it gets old in FO3 pretty fast.Įven without taking the Bloody Mess perk. And, yeah It's amazingly far from 'realistic'. Freestanding dude dodging around in a fight, neck not braced against anything? Same with limbs. Arms and limbs being lost when you keep chopping away with a claymore makes much more sense than shooting it off with a dartgun. If Skyrim has some form of this, it's ok, but not Fo3 style or realistic style. For those of us who like extreme gore, we will enjoy it turned on.Īll it had was limbs being ripped off and people being a little blown apart. Too little is just as cheesy as too much. Ragamuffin, on 27 March - PM, said: This thread is for realistic gore. How would you ever make 50 whacks with an ax realistic? You would go down with a couple of whacks with an ax.

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