When I logged in and seen this game for the first time, it was everything I ever wanted in a future rpg. I was for many years wondering if something like this would ever come out, and now it has, and I'm so happy its here, and proves every post I had ever said about what I wanted in a game come true. Even if it has a few buggs, I have no doubt will be worked out someday and feel my money is in the hands of the right people who will make future games I want so much to play. I liked it so much and wanted to share it with my son, but hes a teenager, and I dont want to share all the blood and gore in this game with him. So I was wondering if there ever was a plan on re-releasing this game someday with a T rating or a Mod that might be out there with a endorsemnt from bethesda that allows it to be turned into a T rated game, I havent tried the creation kit yet and it seems challenging to me to do the whole game, If anyone knows anything on this please let me know, so I could share this extremly fun game with my kid.

There is not that much blood and gore in the game. Although the Kill Cams can be quite graphic, not with the blood per say, but the action that occurs.

However, there are folks who have modded earlier games to make them more kid friendly. One even put Moogles in Morrowind, but that is for someone younger than your son. Gore reducer mods are common. The sixual references in the game are tamer than what you would experience on prime time network TV, so that should not be an issue. Look in the Mods section for this game to see what has been done so far.

You could also steer your son to play a mage, those attacks generally don't result in bloodshed.

Also, the chance of there being a "T" rated Elder Scrolls game in the future is unlikely, I'm afraid. Teen games just aren't respected by the video game market nearly as much as mature games, so its as much a business decision as it is of taste.

Skyrim's barely an M rated game to begin with.

Skyrim is not a bad game at all...barely any cursing..barely any gore and the sixual references are so obscure you might not even notice them...your son should be able to play this

Sure, why not? Honestly, the gore is minimal, and present only in melee attacks. If you mind it, just go for a simple gore remover/reducer mod (if you're on PC).
And the sixual themes are so subtle you have to get your brain in a knot to actually notice one.
I hope your son enjoys the game, if you decide to share it with him.

I remember reading somewhere that Bethesda just makes the game and doesn't go for a rating. They let ESRB take care of that part. Although I don't know how true that statement is.

All of the sixual references are in the books, so if you're worried about that, just read 'em first and then decide if you want your kid doing the same.

There is T rated games out there that have more objectionable content.

I'm of two minds on this. I'm completely and utterly behind sharing this kind of world with kids, such a thing should be encouraged more, so much living magic as it were has just died out in childrens media since the 80's but on the other hand it's taken this long to get developers to mainstream mature content in video games that encouraging them to tone down for wider audiences at this point is possibly a dangerous move and risks losing the ground we already fought so hard for.
Though that said some kind of setting that toggles mature content the same way as a blood/gore setting does now could be a problem solver.

You're son is 13 and you don't want him to play this game because of the violence?

[REDACTED] if he's 13 I can almost guarantee you that he's been exposed to stuff that's a lot more graphic and violent than Skyrim. I'm pretty sure most 13 years olds know quite a few swear words and are pretty much surrounded by adolescent swearing hormone induced teens at school.

Skyrim is pretty mellow compared to say...Saints Row 3 (from what I hear) and the GTA series. If your 13 year old son has played any of the CoD: Modern Warfare 1-1000 then he's pretty much conditioned to not be bothered by some violence.

Bethesda will not release it as a "T" game because TES audience is late teens to 40 years. That being said, you can disable killcams in the .ini on PC and you can probably find a mod that blocks out the blood (though the really graphic material is the killcams themselves, not the minor amount of blood.)

This is assuming you are willing to drop ~2 grand to buy a PC worth playing on, because without maximum settings, it detracts from the game.

I concur; the entire CoD series has more blood than Skyrim has in the worst situations. Plus, as a 13 year old he most likely has spent the night at a friend's house, who most likely has that atrocity of a game or exposes your son to bloodier games than Skyrim.

And the most objectionable one is "The Lusty Argonian Maid," which is quite funny and more implied xD

OP, seriously there is absolutely no reason why your 13 year old son can't play this game. Hell, my son is 12 and plays this game, Fallout 3 and New Vegas, CoD Ninety Billion, GTA and he'll probably play Wasteland 2 when that comes out.

What's "T-Rated"...? Sorry I'm across the pond...!

"TEEN" its for Helicopter Parents here in the US. I never pay any attention to the games rating and generally yell at the kid in Gamestop when he tells me, 'Mmm..you know...your son shouldn't play this game. It is rated....' I usually cut him off with, "I don't [censored] care. Take my money give me the game and shut the [censored] up." But that's for another topic.

Ah I see, but that creates another question:

"Helicopter parents"...?

I'm not one to say how one should raise a child, but I had a friend way back who was not allowed to watch R rated movies or play M rated games. He said that made him really depressed, how he was really not experiencing anything 'exciting' when he was a teen.

Really what I'm trying to get to is that Skyrim basically isn't even an M game. The blood is hardly noticeable and if you kid is a teen(AKA 13+), I say just let him have the game as it is. I mean, there starting puberty man, kids at that age start watching porm for gods sake.

I'm not trying to be that person to give you kid advice(Considering I don't have one yet), but from personal experience of being a kid, having some freedom like playing an M rated game won't harm the mind AT ALL, let alone Skyrim.

A "Helicopter Parent" is a parent who pays too much attention to their child's experiences, problems and what they are doing. Its also known as "Over Parenting", I just call it "Babying".

Ah - and I have to say, I agree with you.

Not all kids are exposed to such things and what's wrong with not wanting to show them the kill cams and what not. I would not let my 13 year-old play skyrim. It is for advlts

If you think about it, the only thing that is for advlts is all the logical explanations of the game. The backmasking or hidden sixual references are already hidden to a point where most people of the age of 15 wouldn't get, let alone a 13 year old would understand it.

Anyway, you want your kid to learn at an early age, it will give him confidence and skills on how to learn on his/her own. That's why 'helicopter parenting' is so dysfunctional.

Let's be realistic here, video games is not a source of evil. Most kids by the age of even 12 know most curse words and sixual words, and have been exposed to a lot of as you call it 'advlt' aspects of life. It's part of growing up, let him discover things on his own so he won't become dependent of everything.

Its rated R13 in my country anyway.

In gonna let this one go. Let's just say I don't agree and ill leave it at that