very fun movie but it seems even moderators sometimes don't read the original posts

No way for lefty Bosmer in green tunic.

I read the OP, and I am left handed.

thanks i appreciate that CCNA, most responses are just knee jerk reactions, so I'm glad you took the time to read my OP

I attack with the left mouse button (index finger) and block with the right button (middle finger). Left mouse button is the trigger, right is alter action (block/scope/cover). That has always been the PC way since every other game. I doubt they are stupid enough to attempt to make the most basic mistake in human computer interaction and go against decades of user learning, unlike the bloody lotus notes.

So, my take is there will be some kind of left-right inversion for Lefties and every single right-handed PC player.

It would have been cool to have the left handed option I suppose. Seems like someone needs to lighten up a bit, maybe put a beer in that left hand homie :celebration:

hehe nah to busy with my speedpad in my left hand

First of all, this is a forum where anybody can come along and voice their opinion, even if that opinion is "I don't care" and even if you don't like that opinion.

Second of all, I don't care about this shield thing. I suspect that I am not the only one, and in fact am one of a vast majority.

I could not possibly care less about this.

You're welcome.

The whole button issue is void, especially for PC users. You can invert the mouse, or the game can just switch the button functions for block/attack based on which hand your sword is in. I really don't see any reason for no lefties. I'm a southpaw, and I want my sword in my left hand, dammit!

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Do you have anger management issues?

The reason they aren't including this in the game is that they don't want people to be able to dual-wield shields, or have to redo blocking animations for the opposite side.

1138 look were both fans of the TES, I'm not angry in the slightest. Anyone with nerevarine as their username makes me happy, it mean you at least have a back ground in TES and enjoy the series like i do.

Honestly bro do you really KNOW why this was left out of the game? I'm sure you don't know just like me.

The OP was to ask for ideas from other fans like us on how we can get this in to the game.

For whatever reason it was removed/ not included for reason you and i don't know, and would like to hear some option for modding it back into the game.

Well the main problem, though that's a big word is that if they allow the reverse shield option they would have to remake all animation for blocking with the other side. I doubt it's hard as such considering they did it for leftblocking, but Bethesda must have weighed the benefits from adding blocking with the other side against the extra costs and decided it wasn't worth it.

Well that's the only reason I can come up with.

But im a lefty But hey i got used to using a mouse in my right hand i think i'll be just fine.

Alteration has a shield spell though, which summons a magical shield in front of you that you can't bash with. Possible left-handed shield with shield spell in right hand?

Luckily, there are also rules here about threadcrapping...you're not threadcrapping, are you sir?

Yes, you're allowed to have an opinion. Yes, you're allowed to post it. No, you are not allowed to intentionally come in and post flamebait and/or derail a thread, mmmk?


OT: I'm left handed and it never really bothered me to be honest. I've grown up with the left mouse button (and later, right trigger) being attack that I would find a reversal of that trend hard to get used to. If the change were purely cosmetic, then it's still harder to adjust to in Skyrim as the controls are aimed to represent your hands rather than functions. Would certainly appreciate the option to have it though if there were not too much work involved

Try about 87-88%, not 98%. There are a lot more left-handers out there than you might expect, but nearly half of them are ambidexterous enough to "function" as right-handers, and find it easier to "fit in" that way, even if it's not their "natural" side. Previously, schools and churches would punish children for using the "sinister" hand, and they had very little choice but to fake right-handedness to get by.

Also, the "off hand" is often stronger than the "preferred" hand in both left and right handed individuals, although it's less controllable. People generally use the preferred hand for their weapon for the control, not the strength.

I always liked archery in Morrowind: the animations were done left-handed, so there was no such thing in the game as a "right-handed archer". My suspicion is that the animator was probably left-handed, and it looked perfectly natural to him or her at the time. Incidentally, 3 of the 4 people where I work are "lefties".

I have no idea why you cant just play with a shield in the right hand and sword in the left, I thought it wasnt any harder than mirroring all the animations. They prob have a good reason, however, dont fear lefties, I am sure that there will be a shield in the right hand for you all shortly available as a PC mod, if I was lefthanded I'd want it.

I cant remember, but did you hold the bow in your right hand? because that'd be the proper for a lefthanded person. I am righthanded, so I hold a bow with my left hand and let go of the arrow with my right hand, that is the right-handed way of handling a bow, as you would with a rifle, trigger with right hand. If you held the bow in the right hand in morrowind I actually think that was what the developers thought was righthanded bow, it might not be as obvious if you are not used to handling weapons. But I'm sure they didnt want the player to switch from right-handed to left-handed when handling different weapons by purpose.

I think this is where I point out that I'd rather eat a sword blow with my fore-arm than my face....

"hmmm I'd hate to lose a hand, do your stuff nose!"

I understand both sides. If I was a left I guess I would probably want to be able to switch. I also think I would understand that it would take to much work for Bethesda and understand why it wasn't implemented.

Yes, Morrowind featured you holding the bow with your right hand, with the draw arm being the left--making it a lefty weapon I have a feeling it might have to do with weapons being placed in the right hand by default, so rather than change that for bows, they just adopted a lefty stance for it :shrug:

I'm left handed and this doesn't bother me at all. As others have pointed out, there are several possibilities as to why the devs did not include it, along with one that was not mentioned yet, time. There were many, many changes made to combat and this was not a feature added. It neither adds nor detracts from gameplay in my opinion.

It's seems like a wierd and pointless thing to leave out, but hey. You PC guys have Mods right?

Darn Kovacius, you basically nailed exactly how i function in the world. In baseball i throw with my left, when shooting guns its with my right, if my parents hadn't "corrected" me every time i picked up a spoon or a crayon as a child i would of been totally left handed, now I'm ambidextrous to "function" in society. Man those were some brilliant real life observations.