That soapbox? Get off it.

All of my posts have been relevant to the topic at hand which you would have known had you taken the time to read them.

Yes, in those posts I also took the time to express my opinion too, is that forbidden now? No, no it isn't; and since that was not the only thing I was doing you don't have an argument. I am contributing; you on the other hand are not.

I was not suggesting your comments in general were invalid. But things like


are just inflammatory. I personally prefer less blood and gore to more, and might well use a toggle. No one but me can say whether such a toggle would be sufficient for me in light of the other violent aspects of the game. No one but the OP can say whether such a toggle would be sufficient for him/her. The OP didn't even indicate that the lack of a toggle was required for him/her. S/he simply indicated such a toggle would be preferred. And it is a point of view I agree with. All other things being equal, it is generally better to have more options than less.

No, unless your getting a mod.

You're right, but that doesn't preclude me from making suggestions does it? Nobody but me knows whether or not I'll enjoy _____ movie but that doesn't stop people from making suggestions based on my own preferences, and indeed such a thing is commonplace.

If you felt that my comments were inflammatory that is merely your own interpretation since they were not intended that way; if I wanted to offend people I could do so easily and without attempting at least to contribute something to the discussion as a whole. Perhaps you should instead question why you immediately jumped to the conclusion that I was attempting to be offensive to people of the mindset of you and the OP? Why you became so defensive?

And criticism of your opinion is an opinion. What's forbidden or not depends on the mods to decide.

To OP: There is no official word on this and there is nobody who has played the game saying otherwise....so chances are no you can't turn it off.

I think he means that you cut the rate of evolution by killing each other all of the time. If there was never any human-conflict or things trying to kill us ever in the history of the world then evolution would be a lot different. We're built to be able kill the way we currently are (physically and mentally) and have been for millions of years.

I didn't say you were attempting to be offensive. I said that you don't know enough about the OP to tell them what they can and can't handle and that you are not in a position to tell people what can and can't be an issue to them. It is one thing to say that you don't mind the blood or that you find it appropriate in light of the other violence. It is quite another to say


The OP asked if there was a toggle to turn of blood. S/he did not say that s/he flips out when s/he sees a blood decal even though s/he approves of stabbing people in the face.

But this is getting away from the original question, which I think has been adequately answered.

It was a question based on a simple assumption made on the context of the OP's post. To me blood and violence against a character in a game like Skyrim go hand in hand and I cannot understand under what circumstances one would desire to remove one but not the other. They are no doubt not mutually inclusive in all games, but both seem to fit very well in the graphical style of TES games.

If other people do not feel that way then that I fine, but I do not understand why that is the case or why there would be a need for a blood toggle in a situation such as this one where the blood and "gore" is so modest in quantity compared to other violent games these days such as Fallout or Dragon Age as I mentioned.

The only reason that personally springs to mind is a phobia of blood, but that's not a valid reason for a toggle (given the lack of say a spider toggle or a bird toggle) so hence my question.