Been playing TES series going back to Arena in 94 but for me Skyrim has taken things to a totally new level of fun and realism, well I thaught this for the first 8 or so Months where I poured over 300 hours into my level 53 Nord Ranger who I believe completed pretty much everything there was to do and see in Skyrim! Now I originally bought Skyrim for my PS3 and just a few weeks ago, began a new Mage charachter which changed the way I viewed Skyrim, all of a sudden I couldn't sit in the shadows and dispatch a foe with one shot from 100 yards, no I had to completely restructure the way I played the game! Using defensive spells and offensive spells simultaniously while healing my Tank (Lydia mostly) created a whole new Skyrim experience for me Quite realistically I would die often when a Melee mob got through my spell defence, but as I leveled (she is now level 20) I found her Destruction spells much more damaging and the game balanced nicely!

To top this new Skyrim energy off I went about bought Skyrim off Steam on sale for 29 dollars for my Asus G74 gaming laptop, I loaded up Skyrim it defaulted to 1920X1080 with everything set to HIGH, AA and AF on to 8 I loaded up a new charachter ... A Barabarian named Conan (yes very original) who loves big swords and axes and has the looks to match it ... WOW ! once again a new experience, looking at Skyrim in Full-HD rendering up to its max preset 60fps is stunning! Then I started looking for Mods..... then I started drooling, don't get me wrong I love my PS3 version, now 450 hours in, but the PC version is just so damn sixy looking Call me a really devoted fan but I am once again hooked Months after release ! Consider this a Thankyou to Bethesda post for creating a game so wholly addictive (My wife and daughter don't agree!) I can only imagine what nextgen TES 6 is going to look like (I am hoping it will be set in Valenwood, huge Forest Cities and Elves... yes please )

Anyone else share a similar experience? Share!

I bought the PC version in disk form for 60 bucks. I was playing the PS3 version, but the PC version was more fitting for my tastes. I prefer more customization, which is why I am starting to prefer PC gaming. I've been a fan of TES since maybe a year or two ago. Loved Oblivion, and have gotten to playing the rest of the main series. I'm playing Morrowind more right now, but Skyrim is up there with Daggerfall and Morrowind as far as favorite TES games go.

My laptop isn't as good, so I have to run in medium and mod the performance like crazy. Only reason I didn't use one that worked really well was because the performance enhancement also meant my game would become blurry as Oblivion gates exploding. It, honestly, made me sick to look at. I don't know what went wrong there.

I plan to get a desktop by next year. My interests in gaming are becoming more expensive, and it is silly, in my opinion, to just buy a new laptop everytime some high graphics game comes out. I don't feel like collecting laptops. Haha.

I've been gaming since I was 4 and the TES games are the first ones to ever keep me so busy without wishing to play a different series. Not joking. The main games I've been playing have mostly been TES games.

Funny, I just got back from Aria PC. I'm having a Radeon HD 7850 fitted on monday. The only reason for this is Skyrim - I want to make better videos

I bought Skyrim with fingers-crossed that I could get it working on my ancient PC 3000 with igig ram. No, well it was time I upgraded, so I got a new good motherboard and dual core i3 graphics and silent ASUS HD card and new ram. Lovely and silent, I actually hear the game.

Yes it was worth-while with it all in high rez. The graphics are great, the game said it takes advantage of the second core for some extra graphical enhancement. A bit of tweak here and there I guess. I did notice that the graphics act as your eyes would act when you go from a light to dark area, what was originally a black area where you could not make out detail, your eyes gradually became accustomed to it and detail gradually appeared - as it does in real-life, - and the other way around. I was impressed, I swung around at the cave entrance a few times just to watch it, good stuff - and a great game with so much to explore.

Yeah I bought my laptop as a Desktop replacement, I used to be a crazy upgrader, I would upgrade pretty much every second Video Card and CPU cycle and spent thousands on thousands of dollars over the years going back to my old IBM 386 40 mhz ! I looked at my ageing desktop and sighed, enough was enough, so I looked up gaming laptops in my local stores and noticed Asus have a whole range of Gaming laptops which they suspiciously touted as desktop replacements.... I was apprehensive as I had only owned one laptop before and it was so slow the only games it could play were solitaire and pacman! But technology has changed I guess, its getting smaller, faster and cooler enabling higher-spec components to fit into smaller spaces, heck even my Samsung Galaxy s II mobile phone has a duel-core processor in it now lol I have sold off most of my desktop, the rest is collecting dust, hopefully this laptop will last 2-3 years it is still cheaper than upgrading!

Very interested in what the next gen consoles will look like still, gaming in 52 inchs and Surround Sound is still alot of fun Maybe we will be console gaming in 1920X1080 soon enough?

Yep I noticed a massive difference right from the first cart-ride, the detail, the lighting, the textures, all so much sharper and vivid! Not to mention the loading times have less than halved, on average it takes my saved game 5 secs to load and 3-4 seconds to go inbetween cells, I don't understand how much detail and graphics can be fit into such a small loading time, maybe its the 8 GB of Ram or the 3GB 560M video? Dunno but it is much faster playing than on my PS3. Bethesda have done an amazing job, the gameworld is so detailed I can't stop pressing TM in the console menu and hitting f12 for Screenshots

I might check out the next gen consoles only for console exclusives and console versions of games I don't want to play on the PC. I prefer to play the PC version if it is a big RPG from someone that isn't EA. I like to save the smaller games that can be played on the consoles for the consoles if they play better there. I don't bother with much sound stuff.

Too sensitive to sounds. I use an Acer laptop. Just a brand that my family has preferred for the past few years. I wasn't going for a gaming laptop, just a good one. This one is fine for now. The game, while not as optimized to work fully well on the PC, will usually have better framerates than the PS3 version. That version, sadly, is just full of issues.

I dont know how anyone can go 300 hours on one character, haha. ive got a total of over 900+ hours with all my characters (pc and ps3), and i got like 10 - 15 characters (so many i cant count off the top of my head). Each one i got to about level 40-48 and i get bored with the character (usually cus my main skills are already 100 and i dont like playing rpgs after you cant level up and dont want to start using skills i havent used yet and changing my playstyle for the sake of a few more levels, or ive done the guildlines associated with that character, or im just plain bored with that archetype) I think the character i played the longest is at 130 hours or so.
But yeah if you got a good pc, that version of the game will just dominate, especially with all the badass mods. (my favourite mods being Live Another Life and Throwing Weapons, and also Frostfall - hypothermia mod)

I've gone 300 hours on one character in Oblivion, I believe. I only own the PS3 version of Oblivion, by the way.

Can it be? A thread full of fellow Elder Scroll veterans not saying Skyrim svcks and that Morrowind is the the best thing ever?

Gentlemen, its been an honor playing through this game series with you.

I don't know how much of a veteran I am but I can say that Skyrim is my favorite installment in the series. But I love all three of the last games, for different reasons.

I'm not exactly a veteran, but I've played the whole main series, just not the all the main quests. I like them all. Daggerfall is my favorite, with Skyrim almost going in second place rather than Morrowind soon. Morrowind is awesome, but I just can't call it the best one. I don't consider any to be the best. I just find that Daggerfall and Skyrim have what I like more. Daggerfall gives a deeper role playing experience, and Skyrim gives a more fun role playing experience. Morrowind is in between.

I can never get into a series without at least researching all there is to know about the series. TES is one of the few that I find myself not obsessively researching and playing. This and Devil May Cry are the game series that I play more than research. Silent Hill is in there, as well, but it requires research.

1 more point to the "buy a Gaming PC" urge. I need to get Skyrim on PC.