I still do. I play it on both 360 and PC.

It all depends on whether or not I want a couch-controller-bigscreen combo or a chair-keyboard-mouse-smallscreen combo. There are other factors, but that one choice kind of controls everything else.



On the flip side of that coin: as much as you people want console gaming to go away for ever, it won't happen.

That's the best part, being able to open with unrelenting, and by the time you kill one mob you can turn and just bark out another of your fav. shouts at someone else while switching up your weapons for a variety of combat styles without having to stop game play once. I was starting to grow bored with the game but the kinect has rekindled my interest, I was going to put it down until DLC released but now the wife has to suffer through me talking to the TV until then

I used to be a console player like you... until I bought a gaming computer.

I don't have a good enough laptop for it yet, so I'm stuck with the PS3 version. I'm saving up for a new laptop for gaming purposes, so I hope to get one good enough to play the game on at least mid good graphics. I don't mind playing it on consoles as it isn't too bad. My hands are so much more used to controllers, so I sort of feel more in my comfort zone when gaming on a console even though I also prefer PC gaming due to it being so much more convenient. I do virtual schooling and since I have to use a computer for my schooling, it seems gaming on the PC is just easier to have access to.

When I do get to play Skyrim on the PC, I will be less mod happy due to it being a much more graphically powerful game than Morrowind and laptops not exactly being things gaming is best for doing. Oh well.

I sense you aren't really understanding how it works. First of all did you get the list of commands that Bethesda made available? You can't just say anything. The Kinect only recognizes certain commands even where equipping things is concerned. You can find the full list here - http://cdnstatic.gamesas.com/akqacms/files/tes/extras/skyrim-kinect-voicecommands.pdf Look under the heading "Favorites Menu and Hotkey Equipping" to see the acceptable commands.

To assign them you need to have the item, spell, potion, or other piece of equipment that you want to use on your favorites list. Next open the favorites list and move the cursor beside whatever it is you're wanting to equip. Just for this example let's say you want to equip a glass sword. Once you have the glass sword selected simply say "Assign Sword" and you should see SWD appear just to the left of the words Glass Sword. That lets you know you assigned it properly. Then just close your favorites menu and you can say "Equip Sword" and the sword will be equipped. You can use any of the other commands shown in that document like "Equip Left Sword", "Equip Right Sword" or if you have 2 of them you can say Equip Dual Sword and it will put one in each hand.

You have to repeat the assigning process for every single thing you want to use a command with. You cannot simply say the name of an item on your favorites list because the Kinect will not recognize that. So if you have a "Glass Dagger of Flame" on your list for example, you cannot say "Equip Glass Dagger of Flame". You have to highlight the dagger on the list and say "Assign Dagger" and then you can say "Equip Dagger" while playing to equip it.

Once all the assignments are made you don't have to open the Favorites list any more unless you want to change something.

Also you can assign the commands to any item. For example I have the "Light" command assigned to a torch on my favorites list so that when I say "Equip Light" my character pulls out a torch. You could also assign The "Light" command to a spell such as Magelight so that when you say "Equip Light" it puts the spell in your hand. Some here have said they use "Equip Light" to take a healing potion since it's easy to say. I use Equip Axe for that one for the same reason. My character doesn't use axes so I had that one free.

The main thing to remember is that you can only use the commands on that list. Nothing else will work. I hope this made sense and that you find it helpful.

If you're going for a gaming laptop, go with Alienware. You won't find one better IMHO.

Mods would be the only thing to convert me at this point or the ability to take screen shots, but the bro. plays on PC so I can get my " mod fix " by hanging out with him and fooling around on his game. Other then that I just cannot justify spending lots of money for a gaming PC when the 360 is more then sufficient for playing games for entertainment.

I blame Oblivion for this. It demanded such high tech hardware that it locked out a lot of people that couldn't afford those things. Now it's assumed that any game after Oblivion will require a high tech computer. Actually Skyrim demands very little in terms of GPU compared to Oblivion. For an AMD, I have one of the weaker versions(an X6) and I run the game just fine.

Right now I'm still on the 360 (unfortunately) but this summer I plan on building a super pc

I actually need a new laptop for other reasons, such as my current one probably not being good for as much. It works, but it won't be able to handle all the games I want to play on PC. I also will use the thing for schooling even though any non-text thing my schooling has me do is just powerpoint crap on a PBS site that I can easily avoid by googling the answer.

I'm also wanting to do coding as a hobby, so yeah.


I actually heard Alienware isn't that great of a brand. The laptops seem insanely overpriced, as well. I could probably find an ACER laptop that could do everything the Alienware ones do and pay less. This is just my price range, though. I'm trying to squeeze as much out of something that costs under 1000 bucks as I can. Thanks for the suggestion, I just see no need in paying 1000 green papers for something that might get outdated too fast. Besides, it's much more fun to hunt for cheaper equivalents and even learn to squeeze more out of them. I guess you could say I'm a tinkerer of sorts. I may as well be Sotha Sil from Morrowind only I'd be the goddess of computers. Haha. If there is no other choice, though, I will end up buying an Alienware computer.

Yep. They're pretty pricey if you want a good one though. But, in my opinion, I'd rather have a laptop for portability reasons. Otherwise, building your own PC is best... much cheaper and you can continually upgrade. The other thing is, you can't do things like "overclock" a laptop's processor if you ever wanted to do that... it'll melt. A homemade tower is the way to go if you want to tweak, tweak, tweak until you get the max out of your machine.

This is true. My parents won't let me build my own computer, sadly.

Actually, I owned one around 4 years ago, and it was great. But you don't need an Alienware to play Skyrim. I have a Dell laptop (XP15 I think, with best video cards that they'd offer at the time) and after checking the specs for Skyrim vs. my Laptop specs, I have plenty of power to run Skyrim. And my laptop is 2 years old.

So you don't need the best laptop. Just one that you like. And since I have Windows 7 on it, I can use a 360 controller if I should choose to do so.

My laptop is an ACER Aspire 5534. I don't know if it could play Skyrim, but maybe I'll see for myself. Mine is also four years old. I guess I'll just buy a PC version of Skyrim just to see if it works. Thanks for the suggestion.

X360 player and not switching any time soon. Two big reasons. Friends who all play Xbox and more importantly, med school cost

Just so you know:

Minimum PC specs for Skyrim

OP System: Win XP/7/Vista (32 or 64bit)
CPU: Dual Core 2 GHz
Memory: 2 GB system RAM
Video Card: DirectX9c compatible video card w/512MB RAM

Recommended PC specs for Skyrim (to run on High-settings, not quite Ultra {at least according to the PC hardware thread})

OP System: Win XP/7 64bit)
CPU: Quad Core Intel/AMD CPU
Memory: 4GB system RAM, 6GB free HDD space
Sound: DirectX compatible sound card
Video Card: DirectX9 compatible video card w/1GB memory, GTX260/Radeon 4890 (or higher)


See? the specs necessary to even run the game at a very good quality aren't that severe. I just stay on the 360 because of all that Xbox LIVE offers, and the ease of the user interface. I used to be a very hardcoe PC gamer for about a decade, then I weaned myself off of it once the original Xbox debued, Been with the Xbox ever since.

I'm still playing Skyrim on PS3 and have been since launch date. I just started a new Mage character a few weeks ago with the latest 1.5 update, and so far only 1 miscellaneous quest is stuck. I must have killed a bandit before the quest actually started.

I haven't played games on my PC since I got a PS3 a couple years ago. No turning back, although it would be great if the mods would be included in future console updates.

I play Skyrim on the PS3 and I don't have any plans to switch to PC. I have Morrowind and Oblivion on the PC and while the graphics and mods are nice I never ended up using very many mods with either game. I always found the base game to be good enough for my taste, and dealing with all the bugs, glitches, and incompatibilities that come with a lot of mods turns me off from bothering with most of them.

I'm playing it on the 360 right now, but when I'm done with it on 360 I'm going to play it on pc for the mods etc.

Currently playing it on the 360 but will likely pick it up on PC when it's cheaper.

360 and staying that way.

Mods are cool, but this game already consumes enough of my imagination. If I could tweak everything in the game, plus add new content.... there would be no room for anything else. In my life or in my head.

I see myself becoming kinda crazy and myopic, creating a tiny little fantasy universe that takes over my actual reality....

It's just a game. I appreciate it for what it is and have no desire to make it a lifestyle.

Heretic

Well I just hope the glitch I have goes away than I will test it all later tonight but right now what happens is I can use a shout a few times than it keeps saying I am saying it wrong even if I say it in English, than I can try any voice command and nothing works so I have to go to my settings, uncheck the kinect thing and recheck it after I use a shout the normal way than it works again but its a pain in the ass tbh :/ I don't move from the place I am sitting or touch the Kinect so idk whats going on, also no calibration card so idk how to calibrate it and calibrating has never been my best ability it seems :/ (I guess my room just isn't long enough for the damn thing :/ though I have yet to try it since I bought Nyko's Zoom)

Still playing on Skyrim on Xbox 360. But when it comes doen to all my old school games. And morrowind and dagger fall. Thats what the pc is for. But im planning on playing TES#6 on the pc just because i like the controls and i really like the way the games used to feel back in the day.

but i still like the 360. It works fine and plays the game at a above average performance.

I play on XBOX and i have no intention of ever getting the PC version. I dont need mods, i play the game the way it was intended and still enjoy it. Id have to flay my own scalp if i ever became a PC Elitist