Mods won't fix anything for console players..everybody's saying mods this mods that

ok?

I know... I have Skyrim on X-box, but I wanted mods, console commands and screencap options. So I bought the PC version too.

You don't say?

I'm on ps3 and I just get tired of people saying mods will fix it..yea it will but it for only 1/3 of skyrim players..console players are left out to dry

It can get a little annoying. On other forums that are divided by what system you're playing it on I've actually seen people post about how a mod/code will fix their problems despite the question being asked in the console section.

You, sir, get one internet.

But yeah, if you want mods, either wait until BGS eventually convinces MS/Sony to get them onto consoles, or buy the PC version.

And for those of you that sound mad at BGS for you not havnig mods, again, it's not their fault. They are trying. It's MS and Sony that aren't allowing it right now.

Pretty sure it's less than 33% of players play on pc, the opening sales was 15% pc IIRC.

I can't justify spending the money necessary to play skyrim on pc, when I can play the game flawlessly in 1080p on Xbox. But the main reason is the people on Xbox I can talk/play games with, which for me is much more varied than pc.

I imagine in the future when I have more disposable income I will build my own gaming pc though, just not now.

Mods never fixed the lore abuse in Oblivion, when Bethesda decided to cash in on RotK.

Could be, but i'd bet the majority of the members of these forums are PC users. That have played previous Bethesda's games. So "mods will fix it" comes as naturally as breathing for us

1) You don't play Skyrim in 1080p on your Xbox. If you could somehow get the hardware to run that, you'd get like 3FPS. You're playing in scaled resolution. In other words, it doesn't look nearly as good as true 1080p and it isn't 1080p at all.
2) PC gaming is not expensive.

i just have to say well no [censored], thats just a dumb observation

op you've been a member for a month and just realized this? c'mon now, you should know by now mods are a pc only thing at the moment

im a xbox player btw, but common sence should still come into play here

Several of my friends have asked me if they should purchase Skyrim. My answer is always the same.

Either buy it for PC, let it sit for 3-6 months before playing it, then mod the [censored] out of it.

Or buy it used, play it for a few days, then take it back to gamestop for a full refund.

Bethesda is still releasing patches, so its not like the game is abandoned and nothing will ever be fixed.

I tried to type a comment three times, but ended up erasing them before posting.

Simply no way that I can say what I want here without making it sound like starting a platform war.

Suffice it to say, you knew the platforms limitations when you purchased the console. You knew that modifications would not be available to any console version of Skyrim. If you believed that the game would not be perfect and might require modifications, then you could have purchased it for your PC instead.

I used to be a console player like you, but then I took a....

Regardless the game looks great, maybe I can't get a mod to improve water texture (or something equally mundane) but the game looks great the way I play it.

It is compared to xbox, to play at the level I am now I would need to spend far more than I did for my xbox a few years ago. I have no problems with bugs, nor do I have any lag problems and loading times are 9 times out of 10 less than 7-10 seconds.

Yea, because you can get a decent PC around for $250.

Pc to the desk?

Breaking news!! Stop the presses!!

This might seem harsh, but that's just too bad for you because you could have known that beforehand. Same as you could expect people to make "mods this, mods that" comments since you'll find many PC players here, and since the availability of mods and the ability to mod do make a hughe difference in the gameplay experience.

As long as Microsoft and Sony don't allow distribution of and playing with mods on their consoles it will never happen. And making mods on the consoles is a whole other matter, since the current generation of consoles is lacking in hardware, particularly in RAM. But that has no impact on distributing and playing mods on those platforms in itself.

Remember how Bethesda kept saying that mods are possible on the console. Then they took a huge dump on our hopes? Good times.

They are possible, it's just that M$oft and Sony won't let them due to various issues, security being one of them.

The numbers I've seen excludes on-line sales, which I suppose includes Steam, so the numbers could be very different.

And this is one of the things that we can thank consoles for: A new computer bought 2-3 years ago can still run new games. A decade ago you could forget about trying to run a new game on a computer that old.

Ok, so i play on 360, and thank you. 360 is component HD, not true HD. Things look better than using the RCA (and oh my god do I hate my RCA) but just because your TV is 1080 doesn't mean you are putting out 1080. *To clarify, when I say RCA here, I'm referring to your standard A/V cable with vidoe and stereo sound. I know Component HD uses RCA connectors. I also found that I was wrong, Component HD does produce HD signals, just not usually 1080p. The 360 does not support 1080p, but it does support 1080i, so not quite the best, but pretty freaking close.*

As far as PC gaming goes, it kind of can be if you want a good build. You can get a decent PC for 800 bucks if you build it yourself (which is as easy as lego's), but an upgrade to the processor, graphics card, and sound card is gonna cost you maybe 100-150 bucks. Then you got to get the sound system, and who wants to play this game without a killer set of speakers, I know I don't (but I use nice set of headphones anyway, so a little bit off a mute point for me). So you drop anther 95 to 125 bucks on speakers or headphones. Great, you're up and running. Except you can't see that rabit out in the distance on the tiny, non-HD screen. "I can't hunt like this" you say to yourself. Time to get a 42-inch HD flat screen. 500 bucks. All said and done, you could easily drop 2000-2500 dollars on a killer gaming machine.

Do you need it, not at all. But it's possible. So now that I have blown everythign way out of purportion and left you scratching your head (though I hope you cracked a smile as well) I bid you good day, sir.