Do you want the option to be left handed? : V - Skyrim

» Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:57 pm

Well either way I'm in a quandary, since I'm left-handed with a bow or a rifle, but right-handed with everything else. Weird, huh? :blush:

» Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:46 pm

Bandit: There's something you must know.
You: ?
Bandit: I'm not right handed either!

You: But theres somthing else you forgot, im level 25!
Bandt: So am I! *brandishes daedric dagger*

/jab at Oblivion level scaling

» Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:47 am

I'm a righty, yet I see no reason why we can't have left-handed characters.

I'd love to have my characters be left-handed.

» Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:11 am

i'm left handed, but i don't give one rip...
i've thought about that before, though. no video games chars seem to be right handed.

» Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:34 pm

I'm left handed too and would like it but I doubt it will ever happen.

» Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:49 pm

Why not.
Can't be too hard to put in the game.

It would require doing all the animations again but backwards. So however long it takes to do the animations, double that. Animations are not fast. So it may not be hard, but it would be long and tedious.

» Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:51 pm

why wouldn't you want that option? I mean, I realize it's probably the last thing they're worried about, so I'm ok without that option. But it'd still be nice.

» Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:31 pm

It would require doing all the animations again but backwards. So however long it takes to do the animations, double that. Animations are not fast. So it may not be hard, but it would be long and tedious.

Do they really not have the technology to just flip the right handed animations?

» Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:24 pm

I don't think we need this, it's too much work (animations) for too little result.

Uh... "y:=-y"

whoa that's a lot of work...

» Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:26 am

i'm left handed, but i don't give one rip...
i've thought about that before, though. no video games chars seem to be right handed.

Link from Zelda is left handed, except in twilight princess.

» Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:47 pm

Do they really not have the technology to just flip the right handed animations?

I thought about this, but I don't think it works that way. I could be wrong.

» Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:05 am

I'm left handed and I don't feel left out, I just learn to play right handed.
My left hand does the most work, so left handed mode is a disability.

» Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:09 pm

I thought about this, but I don't think it works that way. I could be wrong.

I guarantee they could find a way without having to do double the animations.

» Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:57 pm

I don't see why not. As long as it doesn't cost the devs an arm and a leg to implement, yes.

» Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:00 pm

Nah, not something I'm ultimately interested in. Even though I'm left handed, if I used a sword it would be in my right hand. I guess I'm not fully right handed(I write and play guitar left handed but everything else is right handed)

There are just other things I would set my priorities on than which hand is being used.

» Tue Oct 20, 2009 7:33 pm

I am a leftie myself but I don't care. It's Bethesda's choice if they include left-handed animations or not.

» Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:08 pm

I'm left-handed as well.