Don't get me wrong, I love most everything about this game, but how do you mess this up? Finding out my character can't be properly left-handed was probably the most disappointing thing for me. I can't poison a weapon if it's in my left hand; the game doesn't think I have any weapon equipped. When it comes to shields, those will only equip in the left hand, too.

As it turns out, the only purpose to being able to equip a weapon in the left hand is to be a totally awesome ninja dual-wielding katanas or something equally ridiculous. Surely I can't be the only one disappointed at this?

Unfortunately for us, there are no kill animations for left handers

Yeah, that's another thing I noticed. Once I switched to left hand, they were all gone away.

Are you surprised? You can be much more left-handed than in any other TES.

it's silly but you know, how many RPGs cater to left handers?

I don't know about you guys, but I don't think the developers sits around thinking "You know what we have to implement in the game for the release? Being able to be left-handed!".

Have you ever seen that in an Elder Scrolls game, or any other RPG, before? I can't recall seeing that atleast.

in the earlier days, the right arm was always the weapon arm and the left the shield arm...from there comes the custom to shake hans - you cant hold a weapon in your hand if your shaking it with someone

Are you a left handed person?
No, I assume you are right handed, me too.

But please, try to understand that certain things come natural to some people while other things are completely alien to them. My entire life I wrote with my right hand, if suddenly a game told me I MUST WRITE with my left hand. I must REALLLLLLLY love that game in order to not quit on the spot.
As I said before, there are certain things that are natural for right handed people, namely: Writing with your right hand, eating with your right hand, brushing teeth with your right hand, scratching groin with your right hand and so on. The same thing can be said about left handers, Counter-Strike 1.6 accounted for that, no excuse for Skyrim not to.

Actually its because about only 1 in 10 people are left handed. Also LH people were considered weird - look to Latin
; Dexter - Right , Sinister -Left

unfortunately it's a case of "main hand" and "offhand" rather than true left and right.

for me the real issue is where the offhand is controlled by the right mouse button and the main hand by the left.
when you're sword/shielding or 2handed weaponing it's fine, but if you're dual wielding weapons or spells it can quickly get annoying since the visual info on the screen is telling you one thing and the controls are telling you another.

not to mention the headache of trying to equip something to the correct hand from the inventory or the favourites menus

I suppose you have a point. What I am trying to say is that it was propably not a prio feature to put into the game when having a deadline to beat. Counter-Strike did not have it from the beginning either, did it?

It's more that they boasted about being able to chose that (perhaps even with perks) more than anything else. I hadn't expected it before, but some interviews talked about it, and then it was pulled away after I'd already planned to have two different characters who were left-handed.

Kind of see this as a good sign if this is an issue that causes complaints about the game.

In Ultima Underworld you can choose your handedness..

Even Link himself went rightie so you're doomed.

Innovation, my friend.

I don't know how much truth is behind this. But it seems to me that being a left handed melee fighter would bring you at a terrible disadvantage. Not 100% sure but I think in medieval times being left handed was either unheard of, or if it was, a curse.

Think about it, if your fighting someone with sword and shield they have there sword on there left side from your prospective. If you were to have your shield on your right hand your left side would be unprotected giving you a disadvantage. You wouldn't be able to block there swings without turning your body so you no longer face your opponent.

also something to note, many.. in fact most left handed people are only left handed in writing. So you would probably still wield a sword and shield as if you were right handed. For instace the mouse you use for your computer, something tells me you don't use it in your left hand whilst using your right for WASD. (my brother is left handed and had tryed to get used to using the mouse in his left hand to have better aim in FPS but ultimately he found he was to used to playing right handed.)

I also can't cast magic in real life. Should I complain about that? Seriously, though, as others have stated it's not about right or left it's about Main and Off-Hand. This is not directed at you, but people will compain about any and everything, as evidenced by these forums.

Oh shut up righty!

Damn righters keeping us left handers down.

FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT NOT TO BE RIGHT!!!

Also:

Also being left handed can be an advantage. Since many people were right handed they expected the sword and stances to come from the same side but when fighting a left handed person they would be a little tipped off by this. And since left handed people
live in a right handed world they know what to expect. And if a left handed person fought a left handed person they would just fight how the right would fight a right handed person.

While I'm better at some things with my right hand (for example, I usually write with my right hand, but if for whatever reason I couldn't use it I'd get by with my left) but most things I pick up are easier with my left. Main reason I use the mouse in my right hand is that's how I was taught when I was a kid, but I can easily use it in my left hand, too. (As a side note, though, I saw a thread about being unable to re-map the numbers on the number pad properly, so even if I were going to go through all that trouble I might not be able to.)

I'm fairly ambidextrous, but it seems I'm closer to the opposite of what you describe.

I do know that in medieval times, left handed people were said to be fighting for the devil, but I'd say it was more of an advantage because pretty much every swordsman (including those who might be left-handed) trained with their right hand their whole life. If they were then confronted by someone left-handed in battle, the same problems that apply to the other person in regards of shields and such apply to them as well, on top of the fact they likely never trained with someone left-handed.

Fixed.

This also puts your enemy at the exact same disadvantage? Someone holding their weapons the opposite way would also change their stance to be the opposite. You wouldn't use the same stance as a right hander would. If anything you would have an advantage because they wouldn't know how to effectively fight against you. Where you as a left hander would be practicing against right handed people all the time so you already know how to deal with it.

Its the least important thing in the world and may never ever be a stable of any genre of games. Don't like it? Tough. And I'm left-handed.

You also don't get why I'm having an issue with it. It isn't just that I can't be left-handed, it's that they boasted about the ability to put a weapon in either hand and then half-assed the product, giving no forethought to the fact that if they let me put a weapon in either hand, maybe I'd try to use what they've dubbed in the code as the off-hand as the main hand.

I'm not sure if anybody has pointed this out, but right handed people would have the exact same disadvantages against a left handed person.