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#1227 Feb 10 2012 at 1:28 PM Rating: Excellent
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Would not having a PC that's able to play Skyrim at an acceptable level be a reasonable excuse?

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Would not having a PC that's able to play Skyrim at an acceptable level be a reasonable excuse?

Absolutely not! Go buy a new computer! Smiley: grin
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#1229 Feb 10 2012 at 1:50 PM Rating: Good
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Why would you buy Skyrim for a console? I mean, don't get me wrong, some games are better on a console, like most arcade games, but Skyrim? Skyrim wsa built for modding and you can't mod it on the console. And I bet you paid more for it than the PC version, right? Right? Smiley: tongue

I'm insanely biased since I was born and raised on a PC (no, literally, Nanny McAfee), but what do consoles deliver that make the games worth the extra coin? I get it if you're into multiplayer games where cheating is an issue (CoD, for instance), but playing anything that requires you to control the camera and movement at the same time seems stupidly clunky on a console with a controller. I guess you could get a keyboard and mouse for the console, but then you've still got the locked graphics, zero hardware upgrades and zero software modification to deal with.

Sorry, but it's mind-boggling why anyone would buy a game like Skyrim for a console. It just seems like a very bad deal, especially when you look at the price.

Feel free to enlighten me.


There's a bunch of reasons for me, all of them pretty reasonable, I think.

- I bought an expensive drafting laptop 4 years ago that, while great for any other purpose, does not handle games very well due to overheating issues. I won't be in the market for a PC until it dies.
- I don't like having to troubleshoot my games, and I've done enough PC gaming to know that sh*t happens once in a while.
- I do some lighter PC gaming, it's just that higher-tier stuff like Skyrim is a no-go. Somehow I managed to get through both Dragon Ages on it, though.
- I play a lot of shooters, and cheating would drive me nuts.
- I prefer the console exclusives.
- I prefer console controllers (not to say that this isn't possible on PC, but just that I don't have any burning desire to use a mouse and keyboard).

I'm not opposed to PC gaming at all. It's just not in the cards for me right now. Maybe I'll get back into it heavier in a few years.

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My PC is powerful enough to run quite a few modern games, at medium settings. But on something like Skyrim, I would want the best graphics possible. My PC just wouldn't provide it.
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My PS3 runs Skyrim better than my computer runs Firefox.
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#1232 Feb 10 2012 at 2:05 PM Rating: Good
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Mazra wrote:


Sorry, but it's mind-boggling why anyone would buy a game like Skyrim for a console. It just seems like a very bad deal, especially when you look at the price.

Feel free to enlighten me.


Speaking for myself there are a few reasons to get a game on console rather than PC.

First is control method. If it's a game that is designed to work well with a controller (a lot of games i have on PC i can tell are designed with a controller in mind and I play them with an xbox controller :P) I might get it on a console. Some games suck with controller I agree.

Second is system requirements/cost. In the time i've owned my 360/ps3 ive put probably a thousand dollars into my PC and it is questionable whether or not it would run Skyrim at a reasonable setting. It just meets the recommended specs. I could buy a 250-300 dollar video card and would be in business, that's the cost of an entire console. With a console I know it will run well.

Third is mood, and this is really specific to me I'm sure. Some games i want to relax and my computer is in my office which is kind of small and secluded in my house. I have a 21" monitor and a comfortable office chair. I have a 2 speaker stereo hooked up to the sound. its an OK experience.

On the other hand, my console is in my family room where i have a lot of room to let the kids be kids. It's also my home theater and the whole package is a lot bigger, louder and more comfortable.

Primary reason though is #2, especially with games with no demo to see how well your computer can handle it. Ive had too many occasions where i exceed the recommended settings on a PC game in the past and it ended up running at what I consider unplayable.
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I'm playing Skyrim on a 9800 GTX+ and it looks positively lovely.

I don't really care what anyone plays it on though; PC or console. The console-esque controls annoyed me a little at first but I guess that's what mods are for.
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Well, yeah, if you don't own a PC, or your PC is a craptop from the late 90's, you may want to hold off on that purchase until you upgrade your PC.

But xypin, don't you live in the US? You guys, with your silly economy, can buy decent computers for like $500, right? That's, what, five console games and some silly accessory thingamajig? I paid $500 for my CPU alone. My PC cost me $1,800 total. Smiley: glare

Upgrade your craptop. Experience gaming like you've not experienced it since Windows 95.

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Primary reason though is #2, especially with games with no demo to see how well your computer can handle it. Ive had too many occasions where i exceed the recommended settings on a PC game in the past and it ended up running at what I consider unplayable.


That sounds really odd. If you've dumped a thousand dollars into a PC since 2006 and it still can't run Skyrim then what the hell did you put in it? Smiley: dubious

As for comfort, yes, I can see the appeal of being able to play video games from the couch in the living room, but with an HDMI cable, you can hook your PC to the TV and play your PC games from the couch as well (my sister's boyfriend plays his PC games on a 50" TV). Stick a USB controller in the PC and play the game with a controller even. The only difference is that you get to mod the game, get to change the graphics and get to fix hardware/software issues without having to rely on the companies to do it.

Yes, a PC costs a bit more if you wish to keep it updated, but at least you can keep it updated.

On a slightly different note, how the hell do you guys stand playing FPS games with a controller? Or any game that requires you to aim at moving targets? I can see how the melee combat of Skyrim would work with a controller, but archery/spell casting? Smiley: eek

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I gotta get my minesweeps on at 120 FPS. Smiley: grin
#1236 Feb 10 2012 at 2:33 PM Rating: Good
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I have a PS3 and I have a desktop. They are not in the same room, nor is my desktop situated so that I can sit or lie on a couch while playing games on it. A game like Skyrim, where I'm likely to play for several hours at a go, is more enjoyable for me on PS3, particularly since I already spend enough hours at my PC as it is.
#1237 Feb 10 2012 at 2:36 PM Rating: Good
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Well, my reasons for getting it on Xbox 360 instead of PC:

* My PC is probably powerful enough to run the game... just not well. I'd likely have to tone down the graphics quite a bit, which is something I really don't want.

* I rented it on Red Box (console only) before I bought it. Therefore all my saved files thus far were on my Xbox 360 and not my PC.

* ... I wanted the achievements for my gamerscore on Xbox...
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Mazra wrote:

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Primary reason though is #2, especially with games with no demo to see how well your computer can handle it. Ive had too many occasions where i exceed the recommended settings on a PC game in the past and it ended up running at what I consider unplayable.


That sounds really odd. If you've dumped a thousand dollars into a PC since 2006 and it still can't run Skyrim then what the hell did you put in it? Smiley: dubious


New video card a few years ago (my only real bottle neck currently) then a whole new rig aside from the video card a year ago. Its a great machine if you ignore the GTX 260. If i cant run the game at a setting that looks substantially better than console, it really deters me from getting it on PC. I could probably run it on medium settings, but MEH.

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As for comfort, yes, I can see the appeal of being able to play video games from the couch in the living room, but with an HDMI cable, you can hook your PC to the TV and play your PC games from the couch as well (my sister's boyfriend plays his PC games on a 50" TV).


This is always the rebuttal I get, but the truth is almost nobody does that. I've never known 1 person to do it and pretty much all of my friends are PC gamers. /shrug I have certainly considered it tho :P Would need a snazzy 'lap desk' that i could use on the couch, and some decent wireless peripherals.... Maybe when I get a new video card :)

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On a slightly different note, how the hell do you guys stand playing FPS games with a controller? Or any game that requires you to aim at moving targets? I can see how the melee combat of Skyrim would work with a controller, but archery/spell casting? Smiley: eek


Combination of strafing and aiming. Dunno, its not so bad once you get used to it. I like FPSs on console because the 'skill cap' is lower due to the controls, and I am better relatively. At least thats my theory.

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what are you talking about my xbox and ps3 play every game available at max settings! :P

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I guess it boils down to preference and what you're used to. Like I mentioned earlier, I've been playing on a PC since forever, and while I've tried consoles (and prefer them for certain games), I still prefer the PC for the customization and performance.

I can definitely see why people might prefer a console, though, so thanks for enlightening me. Smiley: grin
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#1240 Feb 10 2012 at 6:00 PM Rating: Decent
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What's clunky about a pair of analog sticks? Sure they don't work as well as a mouse for pinpoint accuracy for shooters, but that's the only genre that a keyboard and mouse are better for. I have Skyrim on both 360 and PC and I use a control pad for both. The game was designed to be played with a control pad, using a keyboard and mouse would annoy the hell out of me in Skyrim.
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So I just redownloaded and installed Skyrim on my new computer, and I'm itching to get back in. But now I'm interested in mods... anyone have some recommendations? Modding always worries me, but since finding some amazing ones for Minecraft I've gained a whole new respect for them. I was reading this article and a lot of them seem promising, especially Sky UI, Midas Magic, and Tytanis. No idea which graphical ones I should look at. Recommendations? If I got, say, Midas Magic and Tytanis, since both introduce new spells, will there be issues?
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So I just redownloaded and installed Skyrim on my new computer, and I'm itching to get back in. But now I'm interested in mods... anyone have some recommendations? Modding always worries me, but since finding some amazing ones for Minecraft I've gained a whole new respect for them. I was reading this article and a lot of them seem promising, especially Sky UI, Midas Magic, and Tytanis. No idea which graphical ones I should look at. Recommendations? If I got, say, Midas Magic and Tytanis, since both introduce new spells, will there be issues?


The most useful mod to me is Val's Crafting Meltdown ...it lets you use a smelter to break down all armor into leather or ingots.

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This girl has a pretty amazing voice.

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Yeah I linked that video on post 1129 and Mazra linked a different video of her singing on post 1128.

None the less she has an amazing voice. Comments on her video are... disturbing... to say the least. Yes, she is attractive. No, making a "Your one handed skill has increased" joke doesn't make you cool.
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What's clunky about a pair of analog sticks? Sure they don't work as well as a mouse for pinpoint accuracy for shooters, but that's the only genre that a keyboard and mouse are better for. I have Skyrim on both 360 and PC and I use a control pad for both. The game was designed to be played with a control pad, using a keyboard and mouse would annoy the hell out of me in Skyrim.


I, personally, wouldn't want to use a controller for any RTS game either. And I imagine you'll run out of buttons on a standard controller for most MMO games, not to mention targeting can get a little hairy if you rely on Target Next for everything. Basically, anything that involves clicking stuff, or precision, I'd go with a mouse over a controller.

A lot of games are designed for consoles and ported to PC because it's easier to play a video game designed for consoles on a PC than the other way around. Why? Because they can design the UI and gameplay around using a stick/arrow keys and copy it to a keyboard (WASD/arrow keys), but you can't design a game around using a mouse and copy it to the console. You end having to move a mouse cursor around with your little thumbsticks and it's a giant mess.

Skyrim's UI and gameplay was designed to support consoles, which is why the UI is horrible and bows have auto-aim at close distances. If they'd designed the game for a PC, it would be nigh unplayable on a console (without using a keyboard and mouse). This way, they don't have to design two games like in the old days, giving them more time to do other stuff, like making dragons fly backwards and whatever.

Luckily the PC market is still big enough that they bother porting their products at all. They'd save a ton of money on bug fixing if they only released the game for consoles, because every console is identical and troubleshooting one console, theoretically, fixes all consoles.

It's quite sad, actually.
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I'm getting seriously irritated with Bethesda.

I think I've been patient. I think I've been extremely accommodating. I bought this game 3 months ago. For the past 2 months, I haven't been able to play. Not because I couldn't sit down and play the game, but because PS3 players had the enjoyable experience of lagging like crazy once their save file started building up. If you were lucky, you might just encounter the glitch where saving (auto or manual) had a high probability of freezing the game. You could play... you just might have to play the same thing multiple times.

2 months. TWO MONTHS I waited. I made excuses for them. I understand that big games come with complex code. I understand that glitches can be difficult to fix. I didn't complain when invisible mobs killed me. I accepted it when dragon bones piled up in Whiterun. I laughed it off when quests wouldn't advance. Hell, I didn't even criticize them for the fact that most glitches in Oblivion were fixed in fan patches, and not available for console players. But those weren't performance glithces.

Patch 1.4 was supposed to fix the stability issues for PS3 players. I had the pleasure of freezing twice before I could get a new character to Whiterun (going straight there without detours). When I went to save while in Whiterun, the game locked up for about 3 minutes (I waited out of angry curiosity). The whole time, I had plenty of framerate drops. I even followed their advice--I made a manual save at the start, restarted, waited 72 hours in game, restarted, THEN played. Nope, I still have a game that's ridiculously unstable.

No. That's just not okay. At all. I've been patient. I shelved the game for two months simply because I believed Bethesda would fix the PS3 problems. Now I'm just angry. If these issues can't be fixed in two months, then the game should NEVER have launched in the first place.

I'll give it a few more days, to see if the patch will sort itself out as it gets rid of script errors. But I'm so annoyed with Bethesda right now that I barely want to play the game now. I refuse to make excuses for them anymore. I accept game breaking glitches at launch. Three months afterwards, I'll even accept the annoying glitches. But they sure as hell shouldn't make the game unplayable.
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I'm getting seriously irritated with Bethesda.

I think I've been patient. I think I've been extremely accommodating. I bought this game 3 months ago. For the past 2 months, I haven't been able to play. Not because I couldn't sit down and play the game, but because PS3 players had the enjoyable experience of lagging like crazy once their save file started building up. If you were lucky, you might just encounter the glitch where saving (auto or manual) had a high probability of freezing the game. You could play... you just might have to play the same thing multiple times.

2 months. TWO MONTHS I waited. I made excuses for them. I understand that big games come with complex code. I understand that glitches can be difficult to fix. I didn't complain when invisible mobs killed me. I accepted it when dragon bones piled up in Whiterun. I laughed it off when quests wouldn't advance. Hell, I didn't even criticize them for the fact that most glitches in Oblivion were fixed in fan patches, and not available for console players. But those weren't performance glithces.

Patch 1.4 was supposed to fix the stability issues for PS3 players. I had the pleasure of freezing twice before I could get a new character to Whiterun (going straight there without detours). When I went to save while in Whiterun, the game locked up for about 3 minutes (I waited out of angry curiosity). The whole time, I had plenty of framerate drops. I even followed their advice--I made a manual save at the start, restarted, waited 72 hours in game, restarted, THEN played. Nope, I still have a game that's ridiculously unstable.

No. That's just not okay. At all. I've been patient. I shelved the game for two months simply because I believed Bethesda would fix the PS3 problems. Now I'm just angry. If these issues can't be fixed in two months, then the game should NEVER have launched in the first place.

I'll give it a few more days, to see if the patch will sort itself out as it gets rid of script errors. But I'm so annoyed with Bethesda right now that I barely want to play the game now. I refuse to make excuses for them anymore. I accept game breaking glitches at launch. Three months afterwards, I'll even accept the annoying glitches. But they sure as hell shouldn't make the game unplayable.



I don't have the PS3 version, but just out of curiosity did you delete the Game Data files and all your old saves first, let the patch re-install and try again? From what I remember the lag due to the game generating a massive save file because the autosave didn't know how to restrain itself.
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The patch, once you reset and "wait" actually reduces the size of your save file (reports are saying that it's significant, too--3-4 MB).

I'm actually going to delete all of those files today and try that, though, including the character files. I figure, if it works, fine--I was going to create a new character anyway. If it doesn't, I'll probably be permanently shelving Skyrim, so it still wouldn't matter.
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Yeah I linked that video on post 1129 and Mazra linked a different video of her singing on post 1128.

None the less she has an amazing voice. Comments on her video are... disturbing... to say the least. Yes, she is attractive. No, making a "Your one handed skill has increased" joke doesn't make you cool.


That's YouTube for ya.

There's a reason why any video with a thumbnail featuring boobs has one million views or more.
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#1251 Feb 11 2012 at 3:02 PM Rating: Excellent
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Yeah I linked that video on post 1129 and Mazra linked a different video of her singing on post 1128.

None the less she has an amazing voice. Comments on her video are... disturbing... to say the least. Yes, she is attractive. No, making a "Your one handed skill has increased" joke doesn't make you cool.


That's YouTube for ya.

There's a reason why any video with a thumbnail featuring boobs has one million views or more.


I kind of want to make a video that is nothing but extremely obnoxious, borderline epileptic seizure-inducing flashing neon lights and a whining noise that gets higher pitched and more annoying as the video goes on. The thumbnail would be boobs. I just want to know how many would sit through the video expecting boobs.
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