Yes, it's obvious that Bethesda assumes that everyone is playing in HD. I originally played Oblivion on a sdtv and the text was blurry. Then, I upgraded to hd and I immediately noticed the difference with an overall much sharper picture, and books that I could read.

I can run the game 1920 x 1080, everything maxed and get 60fps.
I do enjoy SKYRIM on my PC hooked up to a tv also.

I just prefer my PC to sit in the other room on a smaller HD tv for games like Crysis and BF3.
Skyrim, I prefer to kick back on my couch with a controller and my PS3 looking at a big screen.
I dunno, this game looks great to me at 720p with a lower framerate.
Gives it that classic movie look.
There's a reason why movies run at 24fps - it makes a movie look like a "movie"
This game just looks weird to me at 1920 x 1080 - 60fps.

This thread is blatant console war bait for both 'sides.' Can it go away now?

Err, no, they run at 24fps because it's cheaper and motion blur (impossible with a game) makes it look the same anyways.

I dont really hunch, I more lean back

Same.

Good for the back anyway!

I can assure you if you watch one of your favourite movies at 60fps, you'd hate it.
It would lose all the charm of being a movie.

Sorry for the lazyness, but we're much alike in this regard.

Not to mention while you with your TV is bombarded with ads humming along to the latest juice commercial or what have you, I'm getting the full Jeremy Soule experience, BABY!!

Is it bad if I mention I have seen it before? Well not 60fps but it looked like it was 30 or something. It was weird.

Yea, couple of framerate difference and it stops being a "movie"
This is my point. I prefer Skyrim at my PS3's framerate.
This thread wasn't intended as a f a n b o y statement.
I own a decent PC and a PS3. I prefer some games on PC, and others on PS3.

so true, i play league of legends and Morrowind on pc and they look really really average, i've seen someone play morrowind on xbox and it's amazing. same with my friend on skyrim, after watching it on pc, i went home and played it on ps3 and it was like night and day, pc being night because it did not look as good.

You know people are filming big budget movies at higher framerates now, right? There's no charm in not being able to see what's going on.

Yea, and along with all the CGI crap that has saturated movies these days, I stopped watching them.
Movies don't have an authentic look or feel anymore.
Give me the original Terminator movie - with all it's painstaking manual effects - over that CGI Terminator Salvation crap any day

I can live with CGI. It can do some amazing things if done right, but I agree that nothing beats old-school practical effects.
My biggest gripe with all the hi-def stuff is that CGI looks CGI. Something that I never would have noticed being CG in a VHS played on an anolog tv will stick out like a sore thumb on a Blu-ray played on a plasma tv. Maybe it's just me, but CG always seems to be much "crisper" than the live-action stuff going on around it, and hi-def just accentuates that.

I don't really mind playing Skyrim on my old cheapo tv. Aside from being unable to read most of the text and a few other annoying graphical things, the game's a little blurry, but it looks more "natural."
Yeah, I know, that doesn't make sense. Then again, a lot of things I say don't make sense....

"Hunched" LOL

Practical effects and even older 1920's to 1930's effects are awesome. That is all.

Not you again.

"If you're playing this game hunched over a monitor",

...Then you are an idiot.

There is no excuse in this day and age to not play this game on a quality monitor of considerable size.

That is, unless you cannot afford it.

Even still if one couldn't afford it, I wouldn't waste my time ruining Skyrim on a stupid little 20 inch computer monitor.

I would wait until I got a better, larger monitor.

I specifically purchased a brand new TV for Skyrim on launch.

A 42" Panasonic Viera, LCD 1080p HDTV 120 HZ.

The 120 HZ. Makes Skyrim incredible.

Forget mods. With 120 HZ. The flowing water with absolute perfect fluidity looks better than any mods.

The screen refresh rate is so awesome with 120 HZ. It is mindblowing.

Only cost me under $400.

I will never understand PC players crammed up against a tiny monitor at a computer desk, pecking away on a keyboard.

For goodness' sake, grab a $20 cable to run from your PC to a huge monitor.


Using a keyboard is also weird.

On the flipside, I wouldn't recommend playing Skyrim on a standard def tv. You do realize you're missing over a third of the graphics?
I mean you're literally missing the graphical fidelity and point of having a PS3 (or xbox) since the jump from PS2 to PS3 was 720p native games, ie more pixels and more detail.
I remember when I tried unchecking 720p and running Skyrim at SD - it basically looked like Skyrim on PS2.
It's not just about "bluriness". You have a console outputting 720p native games and you're stripping these games of half their pixels.
That's a bit like buying a 50" tv and covering nearly half of it up with a sheet.
A PS3/XBOX needs a 720p tv.

There's no wrong way to play Skyrim, except on a standard def television; or some old 1950's black and white TV set.

PC gamers just need a reason to justify a $1,000 computer, in comparison to a $200 console; beyond modding and some prettier graphics.

Because we don't want to play on drunk goggle resolution?
Until you have a game that is more complex than ten buttons. And I want to be able to block when dual wielding, which is where the Caps Lock key comes in.

I have keyboard cooties and I got it from my keyboard.

My ancient black and white TV looks much better than any modern TV set. There is no wrong way of playing TES it's just personal preference. IMO a 40" + TV and or multiple monitors are just overkill.

You know there are a lot more reasons to game on PC than just mods and better graphics.

If you are hunching over a moniter you are an idiot.

If anything I can say... Playing On a consol is the wrong way to play.

Pc
Mods
Higher resolutions/ refresh rate
Mods
Higher consistent frame rates
Mods
Better graphics because of modern graphics card.
Mods
I can connect my pc to a hd tv
Mods
Multi tasking
Did I mention mods?