User blog comment:Kacj321/ The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim rated 15 by BBFC/@comment-1915112-20110908041325

Ugh, all this argument over decapitation and dismemberment is pointless I think. When in an Elder Scrolls game has there ever been these things? Besides a few tortured dead people hanging from a wall here or there, there has never really been much gore in ANY of the Elder Scroll games, so why start now?

We are talking a game about Elves and Dragons and Cat People, amongst other things, so adding it in, especially when it never was present in the first place, would detract from the games they've already created.

Keep the guts and bloody hacked off body parts for the Fallout Series, where they have always been from the very first game!

Of course, if they used the game engine to make a more realistic medieval game, say, something about badass Viking raiders, I'd be all for the blood and carnage :)