Xbox development kit, specially designed.

Excellent article, exactly summarizes all my fears (expectations really)!!

This. This is the main reason I picked 360 vs PC. If I carried my PC into the family room, my kids would eat it. And that's an expensive dinner

Meh, mostly mindless drivel IMO:

1) "It's Not PC First" - It will look fine. I'd rather have open world exploration than ultra realistic graphics. One day, we'll have both from Bethesda, just not 11-11-11 and I'm totally fine with that.

2) "Bugs!" - My concern level for this is minimal at best. Frankly, while I realize others have experienced various bugs in Bethesda games, I personally have been pretty bug free for the most part. But I meticulously clean and maintain my PC like it were a Rolls Royce. She's my baby and I take care of her. Perhaps there's a connection there?

3) "No Ken Rolston" - Ummm, ok. Whatever. I'm not concerned in any fashion about this. I have full faith that Todd and the rest of the team have produced a wonderful game.

4) "The Dragon Age II Trap" - I'm sooooo tired of hearing the incessant bleating on about Bethesda "dumbing down" this game. It's just stupid IMO. It's like a bunch of crybabies wailing on that "insert feature of choice" was removed, when really not that much was actually removed. Yes, some things have been shuffled around but does this really matter that much in the end? I will play how I like to play, use the perks I think I will like, and that will be that. In the end, I thing all this is much ado about very little to nothing.

Some people worry far too much.

LOL

Gamespy still exists?

hehe aye, recent years have left us PC games rather paranoid, and sometimes with good reason

Blast! You beat me to it

You really think it will look better and run better on a 360 than a high end gaming Pc with a SSD drive?

Ill bet you a copy of Skyrim on that your choice of system

I've never trusted gamespy as a reliable pc source.

*snip*


Patching is a lot faster for PC as they don't have to wait for Microsoft certification, which for other games can sometimes be up to 2 weeks after the PC version gets it's patch. With previous Bethesda games the PC iteration has invariably had the least issues, also, do you honestly believe the game runs better on an Xbox 360 as opposed to a PC?

How many "don't get me wrong"s and "in the end, it'll be fantastic"s does it take before one is allowed to speculate, merely speculate, on the games shortcomings? They aren't saying the game will svck. Quite the opposite. I mean, did you all actually read how complimentary it was? They are speculating on what might go wrong. What's so wrong about that?

And I share the same doubts regarding graphics, streamlining, and bugs. I'm glad the article articulated them for me.


Actually, it sounds like very honest way to present criticism. Would you rather them have not presented both sides?

Steamworks should be the biggest problem, yet nobody has any problems with being tied down and losing your right to own the game, pity.

FUNNIEST STORY EVER!

Seriously? you think the xbox is going to run the game faster? That it will look better!?!

That it will be patched faster?

Maybe on Tamriel, but not here on planet earth.

Lulz, horrible article. I'd forget about that in a second.

So many of these today? What's up y'all? Pre-game jitters?

Real way to start a platform war? Ill take you up on it though. Youre spreading lies like no other. Skyrim will be better on consoles IN WHAT WAY EXACTLY? You already stated you are too lazy to hook it up with your TV, this is not the fault of platform or game, but you.
It will run better? Grasping straws? Invisible non-existing straws at that, a decent PC will eat Skyrim while console will be sweating. Patched faster? PC's are ALOT faster to patch, patches on the consoles need to go through MS and Sony, PC's just get applied. Less issues? 90% of the time its user error, also look at past games, tend to have atleast as many problems on consoles as PC's with few exceptions. Your last point ofcourse is invalid.

Now lets put out some facts shall we?

PC's run the game better while its prettier.
Itl get patched faster, should Bethesda fail, we even get community patches from amazingly dedicated fans, we can REMOVE OUR OWN ISSUES. You cannot.
We get mods.
Quality mods can be equal to quality DLC, or in this case, "expansions"
We get preffered way of playing the game, controller or k+b.
Consoles have nothing, its outdated hardware, I personally cant wait for the new generation, just too bad MS and Sony will never make upgradeable consoles, cause as long as consoles are static they will remain technically inferior and crappy.

These guys are worse then the people here who post on these forums. They should know better to make comments without playing the game first. Some people are always ready to make a splash so people will start to talk about what they said and all sudden supposition becomes reality after a few thousands of people read it. You know the game they play sometimes at school where they start with a story with one person and at the end of the line when they ask what did you hear it's a different story then when it started.

After all the blowing and puffing for 3 or 4 paragraph they end up to say it's going to be a great game. To me these guys are also mad about this game not being exclusively PC. BTW in case you wondering I am a PC gamer so no I am not a 360 layer blowing my horn.

Finally if we would listen to everybody when a game comes out we would never buy a game lol.

If anything it made me more positive about the PC version.

The only thing that should make you nervous is that idiots like that GameSpy reporter are allowed a medium with which to voice their ignorance.

The website is making a doom-and-gloom article just to get some traffic, don't worry about it. All of these things can be patched out or modded out, and easily ignored. Don't let something like this sway you, there will always be articles about how bad the game is. Hell, the next few weeks I would not look at a review or post about Skyrim at all. I had reading negative reviews, because had I not read them, I would never have noticed the minor issues that they complain about.

They are not telling you to not buy the game. They are PRAISING the game for a large part.


But I mean 99% of this forum is speculation about a game that hasn't come out yet. Don't tell me you haven't enjoyed speculating on the game these past few months.

Let's get this straight thought, you're upset that they're speculating about the negatives, right?

I do think PC games suffer in quality because of consoles, and that PC gaming growth has been held back in many ways because of it. Interfaces usually suffer in a large way. Whenever I watch a Skyrim gameplay video I can't believe how much time is spent buried in an interface screen, and that happens because it's designed to be console friendly rather than streamlined for a mouse + keyboard setup. It's frustrating for PC gamers. But there's money to be made in console versions and we're stuck with that, for better or for worse.

Don't get me wrong, I can understand the appeal of flopping on the couch and gaming with a controller in front of the TV. I just wish both worlds could exist without one messing up the other. But that would only be possible if development studios weren't cutting corners wherever possible (so, in other words, not possible most of the time). Every now and then a developer will release a game that is available on multiple platforms and have a team working on the PC version from the ground up, but it's pretty rare. I appreciate it whenever it happens, though.

What fantasy world do you live in? "It will run better? Have less issues?"

lol, sensitive


doom and gloom indeed