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Finnisterre

The game's content is appropriately humorous

If anything, it can be a little tame. I love the sense of humour in the Elder Scrolls; from the obvious to the subtle to the downright filthy. I have to replay some of the quests on my alts just to hear the banter again.

I do miss the guards' snotty comments, though. Nothing like strutting around after saving the world, and a random passing guard makes a cutting remark.

thumpthing

The game's content is appropriately humorous

well, the game is definitely not meant for gradeschool kids, but it's fairly balanced (even groundbreaking) in the humor and sexuality departments. if you find it offensive, I'm sure there are some great games out there with more blood and less attempted humor.

Maryal

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We need another major quest line involving Cadwell and/or Sheogorath. I love these NPCs ... great 'personalities' and they each have many one-liners that make me laugh out loud!

TelvanniWizard

The game's content is appropriately humorous

Seems good to me.

KingofAnnwn

The game's content is appropriately humorous

Seems pretty bang on the money for me. Although I do find some things a little tame. At the end of the day, it's been given a pegi 18/ mature rating, people need to realise this if they find something offensive in game.

VaranisArano

TheShadowScout wrote: »

That one is a viable argument for robe-clad mages who expect only short encounters and not drawn out warfare...
(Or demi-gods like the tribunal who could keep up damage shields forever and never run out of MP no matter how many standard mobs beat on them)

But the fact remains that anyone making actual -armor- is gonna make it for -coverage-, so it will fulfill its purpose even after the damage shield is depleted, right?

I mean, you -could- go adventuring with a wooden pucket on your head and swinging a broom while otherwise nakesd as a drunk nord... (and some people have done that for the lulz) but it won't be quite as effective in keeping your HP in your HP gauge and not leaking all over the mobs weapons, right?

No? Here's why.

1. Mages wear clothing in the single-player elder scrolls games, relying on Alteration armor and wards/shields to defend themselves. ESO gives that clothing an armor rating and calls it light armor, but its effectively the same thing. Furthermore, end-game enchantments/spells in the single-player games make that clothing just about as good as actual armor.

Now, Battlemages, who you might expect to wade into melee, do typically wear heavy armor in the single player games. The clothing wearing mages can wade into melee and do just fine but generally focus on staying at a distance and frying enemies before they get into melee range - its just better tactics. If I can kill you with a lightning bolt before you get in range with the axe, why not?

2. Clothing/Light Armor makes the mages more effective for a greater benefit than the increased survivability of heavy armor. That's not always true, and you do see the desire for heavy armor come and go in PVP depending on the state of heavy armor. However, for the long drawn-out fights of PVE Maelstrom and Trials, you see mages in light armor, not heavy. That's because, again, the benefits that clothing/light armor gives to a mage character in the Elder Scrolls magic system generally outweighs the survivability of heavy armor. More armor vs more damage shields, essentially. As for PVP, once I knew what I was doing, I was able to play my healer in light armor as well as or better than I could in heavy armor because those benefits contributed greatly to my survivability as a healer.

Finally, I mean, you could use the bucket and the broom, but those are level 1 Pay-to-Lose items. You can complete parts of VMA naked if you know the arenas really really well. Depending on how you play and how good you are at your role, you can easily be far more effective in light armor than you would be in heavy armor.

ADarklore

The game's content is too prudish

So we have the option on whether to engage or not in a drunken night with Captain Jimila, yet we never get the option to engage in anything sexual with any of the people we encounter, or save, along the way. Now, I wouldn't mind some of those options, with Jakkarn in particular.

Wolfchild07

I don't think sexualisation in games makes them mature, I think it makes them more IMmature. Like a 13 year old in high school. Lame and mostly unnecessary.

When I think of M+ games, to me they should or would contain graphic violent battles, gore, etc. Swearing also, I guess, although too much of that I find unnecessary also.

I don't think there's too much of it, it just feels like there is at times. Vvardenfell doesn't help, with Naryu acting like a complete 's' word. She's not like that in the base game, but she overdoes it in her conversations in Vvardenfell.

jcaceresw

The game's content is too prudish

Supposedly this is a 18+ game. However, I feel they made the game were reworked for 10+ content. I really wish my female character were more bustier and the sexy dress showing cleavage were more pronounced and not diffused (or obscured) like we actually have.

Jade1986

The game's content is appropriately humorous

Wolfchild07 wrote: »

I don't think sexualisation in games makes them mature, I think it makes them more IMmature. Like a 13 year old in high school. Lame and mostly unnecessary.

When I think of M+ games, to me they should or would contain graphic violent battles, gore, etc. Swearing also, I guess, although too much of that I find unnecessary also.

I don't think there's too much of it, it just feels like there is at times. Vvardenfell doesn't help, with Naryu acting like a complete 's' word. She's not like that in the base game, but she overdoes it in her conversations in Vvardenfell.

Mature to me contains everything. It doesnt have to be over the top, but it should be there. And that is a very American thing to say , " Sex is bad blood and gore is good ", personally I would prefer sexuality be explored over decapitations.

Seraphayel

The game's content is appropriately humorous

I just did a very nice questline with Naryu on Vvardenfell and just let me quote her:

"You know, attending a House Redoran council meeting was always a secret goal of mine. Right after getting a lusty Argonian maiden to scrape my flesh raw with her abrasive tongue."

Filthy Dunmer.

MjolnirVilkas

The game's content is too prudish

Jade1986 wrote: »

Wolfchild07 wrote: »

I don't think sexualisation in games makes them mature, I think it makes them more IMmature. Like a 13 year old in high school. Lame and mostly unnecessary.

When I think of M+ games, to me they should or would contain graphic violent battles, gore, etc. Swearing also, I guess, although too much of that I find unnecessary also.

I don't think there's too much of it, it just feels like there is at times. Vvardenfell doesn't help, with Naryu acting like a complete 's' word. She's not like that in the base game, but she overdoes it in her conversations in Vvardenfell.

Mature to me contains everything. It doesnt have to be over the top, but it should be there. And that is a very American thing to say , " Sex is bad blood and gore is good ", personally I would prefer sexuality be explored over decapitations.

I couldn't agree more. It's so darn childish to only consider violence as "mature" and a single sexual reference or a bit of skin just triggers people. Sex is mature. Don't want something overly sexualized? Don't sexualize it then. Grow up.

I've no problem with sexual topics/content in game at all as long as it makes sense and it's not there as a gimick. I love Witcher 3 and the way they handled the mature topics. It felt genuine. I understand people not liking it, so they stayed away.

This is kinda on topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB6TiRJNI-Q

Samadhi

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DoctorESO wrote: »

Do you think the game's content is overly sexualized, appropriately humorous, or too prudish?
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All three
how the content is received simply depends on the individual judging it

Arizona_Steve

The game's content is too prudish

My biggest issue here is the lack of options for the player. There are some rather... interesting... mods out there for Skyrim that help out in that regard, and the milder versions of these could be added to ESO in order to provide the player with some romancing options. Or just a simple chat-up/one night stand.

Would certainly keep me playing.

Jeremy

The game's content is too prudish

DoctorESO wrote: »

Do you think the game's content is overly sexualized, appropriately humorous, or too prudish?

Some examples:

• Dark Seducers telling you, "You look like a sturdy one. Shall I treat you to my whip or my riding crop?"
• Constant references to "sleek Khajiit" and "sweet meat."
• Queen Ayrenn's reference to an incident involving a purple velvet dress and a drunken schoolmarm.
• Lorebooks titled "The Lusty Argonian Maid" with very suggestive content
• Spider daedra bosses telling you they are waiting in anticipation and not to keep them waiting any longer
• Womanizing-like comments on the part of Razum-Dar
• Abnur Tharn saying he has an appointment with a young lady
• The quest involving the naked nord
• The quest involving the other nord who lost his pants
• Other similar examples (feel free to list below)

Too prudish for my taste. While the game does occasionally have adult themes, they are only suggested and never depicted.

As far as I have seen this game has no nudity or sex scenes. There is a scantily clad dark elf dancing on a bed in Ebon Heart and a shirtless Darien scarfing down some bread as if he's worked up an appetite. He pulls a James Bond and seduces information out of an enemy officer (who is still asleep in the adjoining room). But none of that is actually shown.

This game would barely rate PG-13, if even that.

Immoralthang

The game's content is appropriately humorous

ESO is rated M for MATURE. If anyone thinks it's too graphic, they can go play WoW or something else more family friendly.

Eddyble

The game's content is too prudish

Based on the games rating, I was expecting GTA levels of sex and violence. I was sad but then I found some of the content mentioned and had a good giggle. Its all quite mild and tongue in cheek for me. The "executions" that came with dark brotherhood added a bit but im still waiting for more blood splattering. The costumes recently being added seem to add some sexiness but it a bit one sided as some other posts have noted. Overall, I think its fine.

Elfen3Warrior

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First of All, This is a M Mature rated game. Don't play it, if you don't want that.

I think the humor is appropriate, and would like there to be a little more of it.
I think it is a bit prudish. It is rated M, with sexual themes.
I agree with some of the previous posters, that we should have some additional dialogue options, occasionally, here and there as appropriate.
As far as armour, well, you have magic, wards, shields, to aid in protecting yourself.
Players should have the options to dress their characters as they want. There is inequality though, because there are less options for reduced coverage male clothing.

Kiralyn2000

The game's content is appropriately humorous

Elfen3Warrior wrote: »

First of All, This is a M Mature rated game. Don't play it, if you don't want that.

Not that I'm agreeing at all with the OP's position, but.... there's a very wide range of what fits into "M". One can be fine with an M-rated game, but not want as much (blood/swearing/sex/whatever) as could fit in the rating. Like.... Fallout, Skyrim, and Nier:Automata are all M. But so are GTA V, Saint's Row, and crazy Japanese console sex games. Just because some types of content are "allowed" in those latter games, doesn't mean it would fit in the former ones. Ditto for what people prefer - they can be fine with the silly lewdness of Saint's Row or Senran Kagura, but not want anything to do with the zombie nastiness of Dying Light. Or just the opposite.


tl;dr - just because you're ok with playing an M game, doesn't mean you're ok with everything that M can mean.


...
For me, I don't have an issue with sexy stuff, find excess cursing to be somewhat silly (Bulletstorm was hilarious though ), and dislike excessive gore - particularly the 'realistic' and/or traumatic kind. (like.... I can play Dead Island just fine, but the pics I've seen of Tomb Raider awful-death-scenes or Dying Light's zombies, make me never want to go near those games.)

Vahrokh

The game's content is appropriately humorous

When you relog to ESO's website, sometimes (IP change?) you get an age verification prompt.

One day I mystyped it and I got banned, and told the game is only for mature players.

Now, if we play a game where the very website has age check like "mature websites", people get a very clear message: do not enter or play if you are not fine with it.

Nobody is pointing you a revolver to the head to force you play ESO.

Vanthras79

The game's content is appropriately humorous

Now only if they could have a joke about the "natch potes" in game.

Azurya

The game's content is too prudish

perhaps you are from some religion and think you can preach here the morals according to your believe, but we are not interested!
the game is certainly not oversexed, even without clothes on, the chars still wear underwear!
the saying by the npcs are okay, according to western standards!

If you don´t like that, or cannot live with it, try at least to live without eso and go to your temple or whatever and think over what you are doing!
Thanks for reading!

Kodrac

The game's content is appropriately humorous

It'd be interesting to see the breakdown of the poll results between Europe and America. We in the states are a bit repressed when it comes to sexuality. Killing and violence is OK, even cool, but flash a *** and the country loses it's mind. (Oh for F's sake it's even censored. Starts with an n ends in an ipple.) The responses like

Immoralthang wrote: »

ESO is rated M for MATURE. If anyone thinks it's too graphic, they can go play WoW or something else more family friendly.

are probably Americans tired of the Puritanism we've had shoved down our throats for the last century or two. And the ones like

Baranthus wrote: »

Overtly sexualised? Are you living in a nunnery?

are Europeans that are used to seeing (literally) half naked women on TV or the beach.

Respect4Elders

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I haven't seen any overly sexualized content in this game at all. I have no idea what you're talking about.

Kolache

The game's content is too prudish

For the rating I would personally appreciate a little more graphic.. everything. Not like HBO GoT stuff... just wherever it felt appropriate.

Not a big deal, just my $.02

Lysette

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Respect4Elders wrote: »

I haven't seen any overly sexualized content in this game at all. I have no idea what you're talking about.

Its anyway just a piece of illusion magic - nothing is revealed at all, we are all wearing armor - just the illusion woven into the costume makes the one looking at it think it would be revealing - but it isn't, it's just an illusion.

MjolnirVilkas

The game's content is too prudish

Seriously? I've seen girls wearing less than that on an average Saturday night.

TelvanniWizard

The game's content is appropriately humorous

The only obscene thing i´ve come across in this game were some really weird, messed up roll players doing nasty things...

Zorgon_The_Revenged

I've been playing since 2014 and only just realised (or maybe re-realised) my female character has frontal jiggle physics when she runs.

A lot is left to the players own interpretation, and I guess I have a innocent mind as I couldn't understand why half of the things were in the OP's list in the context of a "sexualisation" poll.

VaranisArano

Seraphayel wrote: »

I just did a very nice questline with Naryu on Vvardenfell and just let me quote her:

"You know, attending a House Redoran council meeting was always a secret goal of mine. Right after getting a lusty Argonian maiden to scrape my flesh raw with her abrasive tongue."

Filthy Dunmer.

That sounds like a remarkably unpleasant experience. Somehow I get the feeling Naryu doesn't like meetings.