As I’ve said before, I don’t mind gore. But I dislike the nonsensical, unrealistic death animations.
I used to use a mod that disabled dismemberment because it was more immersive to have people just fall down in a pool of blood than explode from being stabbed in the gut.
If Funcom made gory death animations that made sense in the context, I’d be happy to see gore. But I’m afraid that would be more work than simply making the bodies not explode (since the animations for dying without dismemberment already exist).
So, I’m not bothered by senseless violence. I’m bothered by nonsensical violence.
Fatalities give me hope that the game can one day recognize the cause of death without needing to do a little dance every time we want to splatter somebody’s brains with an axe.