Why don't you just go buy a keyboard and mouse?



Depends on what you consider expensive. Keyboard: about $30-$70 Mouse: $20-$60

I'm a console player who's only recently had a PC which is able to run some games (nowhere near Skyrim levels, unfortunately). I found playing with a keyboard and mouse really difficult, although I've been told it's just a matter of getting used to it, and most people get to like it after a while.
But shipping a k&m to console users will probably only end up with them not using it if they're not used to the controls I think. People will just want to play the game, not wrangle with a new way of playing.

Considering the amount of money that people are having to pay for so little in the current collecters edition it would be smart to add the keyboard and mouse for just an extra $10/￡5 (i live in the uk) but I dont see what a keyboard can do for the game unless youre on the pc so there is no point adding in these to rather pointless accesories, it would be better if they added a cloth or authentic map and a soundtrack cd to make it worth the price i, i know i am one of the few who are actually buying the collectors edition wether or not it gets new items.

I will probably give it a try for my PS3 controller on my PC. Hopefully it works. OR we can start requesting for it now, I think we can still make it in time.

i prefer my console control to KBAM i realy dont like point and click plus the points others raised you know console about relax in front of 121cm TV NOT HUNCH OVER [censored]Y PC

Modern graphics card should have HDMI that can be connected to your TV?

I'm going to use a console controller for me computer, so I don't really know what you mean.

I don't play on either the 360 or the ps3, but I dimly recall, way back in the misty reaches of time, that when the 360 was released, Microsoft decided that there wouldn't be any *game* use of a keyboard and mouse. It wasn't that the developers didn't want to do it; they weren't allowed to do it. I also think I remember seeing that someone managed to do it for at least a few games, however it required modding the 360, which is *not* discussed here. If I'm remembering correctly, has this official stance changed? What about the ps3? I don't remember any information for that, but it wouldn't surprise me if they had the same policy.

I think Microsoft doesn't want it to happen.

Also, if you get a XBox 360 game where you can input a text or so through a virtual keyboard, you'll notice that the game probably handles USB keyboard there because I think it's required by Microsoft too.

Personally, I can't understand it when people say "Will the PC version support controllers?".... but that's probably just me - I basically can't play anything first-person-ish on a console. :tongue:

(Which is a shame - apparently, I'm missing some good games. Resistance, Gears of War. Killzone.... tried the Uncharted demos, those have basically the same "needs fast & accurate aiming" issue that the first person games have, so those are out too. :sadvaultboy: I'm fine with platformers, things like Ratchet & Clank, third person & JRPGs, SSX & racing style games - just not anything that needs decent aim & first person movement. For those, I need mouse & keyboard.)

It has nothing to do one thing with another. One thing is a virtualized keyboard, and another is an external device, which needs drivers to work.

Could it be incorporated? Probably yes. Will it be incorporated? If it isn't already, I doubt it.

I prefer the anologue sticks on the controller for movement by far. WASD is 4 set directions, The anologue stick can move in angles and slight angles. Same can be said for the camera, Mouse is irritating. The screen would move when I'd want to click on something and having to reach over from WASD to L for skills or whatever else has no fluidity to it. Controller > Mouse and Keyboard for anything other then FPS games. For FPS games a mouse and keyboard will always dominate.

we can all state our opinions and thoughts on this matter but it simply comes down to personal preference. some will like controller, others mouse and keyboard. one is not necessarily better than the other except if it's the one i like. :tongue:

Personally I agree that I would rather have a anolog stick for movement, but I despise having a anolog stick for camera control, specifically in first person games. Ideally the split fish would be awsome if they made a decent one with good drivers for the pc.

sry but i prefer mouse and keybord and pc too way better than anything

I don't know what can't be understood. We just want the option to be able to choose based on personal preference or whatever mood strikes us at the time we start playing. As to accurate aim on controller and moving around, you get used to it.

Of course, this one time I had a friend play Halo with me when he was slightly inebriated and you know that part where you gotta cross the little "bridge" near some waterfall right at the very beginning? He was determined (for a while) to get across but kept falling off, which cracked me up and I started laughing super hard... And uh, he got really sad and angry and hates anything Halo now. Oops.

1) You can push more than one key (forward + strafe left for example) in order to move in angles. Rotate view up-down-left-right keyboard keys are mostly unused, as that is handled by the mouse.

2) You can configure other keys, you know. It hasn't to be WASD (which I hate personally). I use the keyboard arrow keys for movement, jumping and one "special key", and some keys of the numberpad for misc stuff. Never ran out of keys easily at hand to configure in all the games I've played



With a little practise, and a little basic hand-eye reflexes, you can do precise jobs with the mouse. In fact, it even becomes logical to choose the mouse over a gamepad for precise jobs, as with the more practise you've with it, the quicker you can get things done, and the most precision you obtain.

An anyways, virtually all games have a "Mouse sensibility" option, to reduce mouse speed in game and improve precision for those unfamiliar with it.

I suppose It isn't Skyrim specifically for which I want a keyboard/mouse set-up. As far as functionality goes, Skyrim, being the sort of first-person action rpg hybrid that it is, can use either set-up equally well. Sure, first person games tend to be better with mouse/keyboard, but TES aren't usually as demanding as first person shooters. But since it isn't a hardcoe rpg with full party control and online chatting, competitive competition, etc., a keyboard/mouse is hardly a necessity.

I guess my real issue is that we're not getting games like Neverwinter Nights for the consoles. A long time ago, this would have been because consoles didn't have hard drives, didn't have internet connectivity, and didn't have keyboards/mice. All those constraints are now gone, and yet still we aren't getting better RPG's on consoles (TES being a notable exception). I guess my theory is that we aren't getting them because nobody has or wants to buy a keyboard/mouse peripheral. My thinking was that a game as highly anticipated as Skyrim could be the one to take the first step and ship it with a keyboard/mouse (fine, optionally. required was a bad idea on my part) in order to alleviate this problem and open up the possibility of making something like TES Online in the future. Phase one, get everybody a keyboard and mouse. Phase two, exploit this newly created niche in console gaming and profit?? After playing Dragon Age on the PS3, it surely seemed to me that they had trouble getting the controller to work as well as a keyboard/mouse, and so I assumed it was a constraint that was holding back some good games.