Okay so first off I love the PS3, and mine does not lag or anything like that. I am a console player and love using controllers as keyboard and mouse are completely alien to me. I was just recently at a EB games and saw on the PC case that the game can be played on PC with an Xbox 360 controller...I am wondering if this is true and if it works well because for Oblivion I have had some problems trying to do this. Also is there anyway to take a saved PS3 game file to the PC? Lastly what are these mod kits??? Can you create your own house and stuff with them because I think that would be great. Any info guy's would be great.

Thanks.

The 360 controller should have worked with Oblivion, however it does work just fine with Skyrim on the PC. In fact, some PC users prefer the 360 controller. I don't know if the PS3 controller can be used on the PC.

There is a way to move saves from the 360 to the PC and back again using portable memory. If the PS3 can use the same memory, then that should work too. I think they use a USB Flash drive on the 360, not sure as I have not moved saves around like this since the first Xbox and that used something else.

The Creation Kit is an editor that you can make anything you want with. Houses, quests, factions, weapons, weather, lands, NPCs, silly stuff, serious stuff, whatever you want.

You can use Xbox controller with the game, yes, and it works really well. In fact, they started putting drivers to use the controller in the OS with Win7.

I am not certain if you can import PS3 games to PC like you can on Xbox. Would have to look on the interwebz a bit to confirm that.

The creation kit will let you create you own items for mods, etc... yes......(if you know what you are doing that is )

yes ive tried it. im a mouse keyboard guy myself except for racing games which i prefer a controller to even over a racing wheel. i have my laptop hooked up to my HDTV in my living room and i play skyrim and some other games up there from time to time. microsoft has a wireless xbox controller that you can find at bestbuy which is where i got mine. the big advantage to using a PC is that you get true 1080 resolution.....not the fake upscaled stuff that consoles make as well as longer draw distances and better textures more most things. the mods are pretty much essential at this point because of how they screwed up destruction magic and some other balancing issues.

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/

almost forgot. thats the main source for skyrim and fallout mods and you will soon be visiting that sight every single day to see what new creation someone has come up with. if its a bit daunting just stick with the top 100 mods list as thats a good indicator of the really good mods. happy mod hunting.

It does use a flash drive, trick is just having a problem to convert the format. As CCNA pointed out, they have it for xbox, but I am not certain if they have something similar for PS3 without having to check into it a bit.

Info: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Xbox_360

When comparing, computers usually open up a wider range for selection. These "mod kits" aren't available yet, or the tools (The Creation Kit). The Creation Kit should do much more than allow you to create your own house, but your own worlds!

Using such tools can allow direct editing to the game, though it could be more difficult to get such mods working because of Steam, which I do find Steam to be a waste of time, for Skyrim is obviously a single player game.

Yes, you can easily use a Xbox360 controller on your PC, because Microsoft have standard drivers for it. So using it in Skyrim is also possible. If you want to use your PS3 controller on the PC you need a 3th party driver. I myself have experience with the "MotionJoy driver". Program doesn't look nice, but it works great (and is free). This way you can set up your PS3 controller as a normal Xbox controller (and get Skyrim support)I use it myself, and can recommend it. You can download it here: http://www.gamefront.com/how-to-use-a-ps3-controller-on-a-pc/ . (Just ask if you don't get it to work).

Once the Cration Kit gets released there's nothing keeping you from doing the same stuff that the developers have done with Skyrim.

I wouldn't want to play with a controller, but just as it is for you, that is a matter of taste and experience. I hear you can use a controller with the game, but i know no one who has tried it.

You shouldn't be able to take a save game from one platform and be able to play it on another. After all, they're different platforms, meaning they require different programming. The difference may be slight between the versions, but they are enough. It's the same thing as comparing a human and a chimpansee -- we're different species, not different races. It is the exact same thing with consoles and a PC -- different species that aren't compatible with each other.

The Xbox controller works like a charm on the PC, just make sure you plug it in (and install the drivers if need be) BEFORE you launch a game that has the Xbox controller option, otherwise the game won't register the controller. Not sure if PS3 controller works on the PC or not. One more thing, I would highly recommend getting the WIRED Xbox controller, since there have been many complaints about the wireless one.

Steam will have no effect on Mods in this game just like Fallout New Vegas had no issues with mods. The only thing new here is they are thinking of using Steam as another distribution channel for mods rather than just downloading them from Nexus and installing them yourself. How that works, if it does, remains to be seen. However, once you have the mod, Steam will have no effect on the mod as far as you using it.

Wow, thanks a lot guys...tons of information for me now to decide if I will get it on the PC, it's looking like I will. Thanks again!!!

The main worry here is censorship. If all Mods are available on Steam then likelihood is they`ll control what you can and can`t have.

The beauty of Mods is you can make your world what you want it to be.

Another reason why I don`t like putting all my eggs in one basket that can, if it wants to, restrict my gameplay freedoms. I hope the Nexus never goes down or becomes controlled by Steam.

Yes, I use the my wireless Xbox controller. I bought the Wireless PC Adapter for ￡16 ages ago, I simply keep that plugged in, turn on my controller and the game switches to the Xbox interface. It's really well done.

Bit off-topic but just to calm Blade witcher's worries:

A direct quote from the official "What are we working on"-blog from bethesda (http://www.bethblog.com/2011/12/01/skyrim-what-were-working-on/)

Prefer to use existing modding sites? Not a problem. You’ll still be able to upload/share/access Skyrim mods on fan-created mod sites.

That's like saying a jpeg shouldn't work on a Blackberry, a PC, and a Mac because they're different platforms. Skyrim is the same game on all platforms, and the savegames store the same data. As long as their design is robust the savegames should remain in the same format or at most require a straightforward conversion tool. This works very well with other games, so it should work with Skyrim. It also makes sense from a development standpoint to have only one form for any data wherever possible; debugging is easier that way.


Preventing people from using non-Steam mods would require serious work on Bethesda's part and be a PR nightmare. They won't do it.

Thnx. Hopefully, they won`t change their minds...

The 360 controller works on ANY PC game... you just need to download x padder....

I know with a transfer cable you can download your xbox profile to your PC, so you could possibly import your char. As for PS3, no idea.

you can use a ps3 controller on pc. like someone above mentioned, use the motionjoy program, it does work quite well (and free is always good). i find it to be a little cumbersome (sometimes it turns on my ps3 and other times it takes a couple of tries to get it working but i think it's more my user error than the program itself) so if you have some extra cash i would just buy a used xbox controller just for ease of use. i can't use mouse and keyboard for games like skyrim or FNV either.

mods are great. i'm guessing they'll have a tutorial for the creation kit like they did with the geck, but you'll also be able to find a lot of videos on youtube to help you out. for mods and load times alone pc is a great choice for beth games. if you have a pc that can run skyrim, or have the funds to upgrade your pc, it's definitely worth it.

Console controllers for the PC have been aroudn for years now. Never needed one myself till I played EA's Rugby 2006 because the game wasn't really designed for moused and Keyboard. But remembert for a game like TES, for shooters and RTS games, the mouse and keyboard set up gives you much speedier and more efficient control.

I doubt you can use a PS3 Save on PC without some major technologivcal background and a lot of peripheral hardware.

In previous TES games the mod tool has allowed people to:
- Create buildings, dungeons and other locations - even new landmasses
- populate these with NPCs and monsters
- create quests and questlines
- Add content like skins, weapons and armor, even new creatures
- rebuild, reform aor otherwise alter existing world spaces
- improve graphics and performance (although these have already been done by whizzes using simple hardware command lines and drivers)
- change fundamental gameplay such as levelling and statistics of NPCs

The construction sets for Ob and Morrowind effectively made modders de-facto Bethesda team members who could add content to the game and extend its life for years, literally years. Thanks to mods I still play Morrowind nearly ten years on.

Some games force you to use an Xbox controller. Microsoft made direct input for DirectX so devs don't have to support tons of controllers and how all devs support is the Xbox controller with their games on the PC sometimes. You plug any controller in and Windows detects it, it should work in the game.