I'm gonna Get Skyrim on Xbox to get familiar with the game and get all the achievements, then I'm gonna get it on PC.

If you spend all your time with your friends and wife, Mr.Immersion will be sad, do you really want to make him feel lonely and abandoned ?

Sit down in front of the PC and enjoy some quality time with Mr.Immersion, he′s very skilled when it comes to TES games and will make you very happy. You can attend to the others while you play other games.

I can't think of a single way that the PC is outclassed by the 360. With the PC you get mods, the console (Why do some people think it's only used for cheating? I use it all the time to get around bugs and quest breaking problems that are not the player's fault). Unfortunately the 360 also has the tendency to degrade the experience for PC users by making the game incorporate a controller friendly environment- at the cost of the mouse and keyboard. Morrowind was fine, both versions (i have the xbox and PC versions) got a separate interface that solved that problem, however PC Oblivion users got a very clunky interface that made even small tasks tedious and ugly.

These problems are obviously not the fault of 360 users, but Bethedia's tendency not to correctly port the game from the PC to the 360, and instead make the same product for both. The users have nothing to do with it, and unless they also own the PC version- 360 users will never understand what an annoyance it is to play a game with a "console friendly" design in mind on the PC.

I own both the 360, and a PC and both have strengths and weaknesses. What is compatible for one, makes playing it on the other very annoying without a revamped interface. Further the PC is far more powerful than the 360, meaning that extreme amounts of content must be cut on the 360 version in order for the game to be optimized for the PC. Well that is not going to happen, so instead they dumb the game down into the parameters of 4 year old technology. Likewise, many things such as flight simulators, racing games, and sports titles are far far easier on the 360's controller.

every time I launch up the PS# my wife goes to the computer room. Buy it on the console that gives yo the best experience and give dedicated time to the missus so everybody wins.

Depends on what is more important to you. Your wife and friends, or mods. You're damn right the answer is mods! Lol jk I'd go Xbox.

I am in the exact opposite situation. I am single, only have a few friends, and non of them like RPGs like I do. I already have a PS3 and good PC and they have 360 so I am getting it for PC. Also going to go to school for game programming so I definitely go PC.

I've played both. The experience is definitely different from one platform to the next. This is usually my experience:

PC: Install the game. Often, deal with a lot of technical issues stemming from your personal hardware and software configuration. (Not always, though. A lot of games are remarkably stable on PC at release. TES games haven't traditionally been among them at launch in a lot of cases, though. Patches will follow though which, along with mods will solve these issues.) Enjoy precision aiming with mouse and keyboard setup. In the alternative, if you want to play with a controller though, you may or may not have a smooth experience depending on the game. Even if the game has official support for a 360 controller or other gamepads, you may find that things like hotkey functions don't work smoothly with the controller (for instance, in Skyrim, there will be a favorites menu accessible via the D-pad in the console version of the game, whereas on PC you can assign hotkeys to items. There are only so many buttons on a controller, so if you prefer a controller to a mouse and keyboard, it's conceivable you'll have to do a lot of juggling to get it to play the way you want. A lot of games also don't incorporate anolog sensitivity into their gamepad support. So you may not get the gradual gradient of movement via anolog thumbtsticks that you would in the console version. That remains to be seen in the case of Skyrim, of course.) Mods can and will add to the life of the game. You can do everything from change the game's visuals (within months of release they will have become considerably better than those on the console with the right mods, in addition to already have AA and higher resolutions available) to adding new quests, NPCs, weapons, armor, spells, etc. (Particularly useful this time around, since we have no spell creation in the vanilla game.)

Console: Put the disc in. Perform an optional installation. Play. At most there will be some bugs that get patched down the road.

The essential differences are convenience and comprehensiveness, basically. I've played both and love both for different reasons, but ultimately I feel I get the more comprehensive experience on PC in the long run. If your hardware can run it.

I would like to add that I recently started playing Oblivion for the first time on 360, after years of a heavily modded/enhanced version on PC. And honestly, I don't feel like I'm losing much apart from the extra content the mods gave me. The game itself, in vanilla form, is way better looking and playing than I ever would have expected it to be. (And people say it plays and looks even better on PS3.) I would still choose PC personally if I had the option (my PC needs repair,) but the 360 version is more than adequete imo. If they do just as good a job with Skyrim, I don't think people on either platform are going to end up being disappointed.

So go with what you know you're going to want/demand from the game, but go with confidence that either choice will likely look and play very well... just not perfectly or optimally depending on the platform you choose.

If your PC is up to the task, and you prefer the feel of a Keyboard and Mouse, I would strongly recommend the PC. Yes, you can socialize with your wife while you play on the Xbox using the TV - but that also means you're taking over the TV, leaving her without options. Factoring in the lack of unofficial mods for the 360, and I usually stick to PC with Bethesda releases (Despite the fact my laptop can only just barely run them). Heck, even if you have an epiphany and decide you prefer a controller's feel, I'd still just recommend tossing a wired controlled in to the PC.

Personal opinion though, from what I can see in your situation.

PC graphics are best

Why are we having this discussion if you have the money PC IS FAR SUPERIOR there's no question playing on the console is torture the graphics svcks the controls svcks and the game is really boring without mods this is a Bethesda game they aren't very good until you modded them.

I'm going with PS3 for Skyrim mainly because I know my PC has little to no chance of running Skyrim.

Pc version over 360. If you can get the ps3 version I'd go with that one though.

These kind of posts piss me off!

2560x1600 resolution beats consoles hands down... and it doesn't even take a great computer to run it because AA is redundant at that resolution.

quit trolling, playing on console is more comfortable to most people, thats why. Plus, if your computer is only just good enough to play, the graphics are better on console.

This really shouldn't be any competition at all. You want to be in the same room as your wife when you play on computer? Easy. Plug it into your television where you would normally play your xbox360 and play it in there. You can use a 360 controller on a PC if you prefer those controls/find it more comfortable at times too.

On PC you have hardware which is 10-25x better than what is in 360s/PS3s (No I'm not exaggerating, the hardware in them is 5 years old and even then it was extremely cheap budget stuff they put them together with, less so on the PS3) and the graphics will be so much better it is jaw dropping. With full edge-detecting Anti Aliasing and 16x Ansiotropic filtering on Oblivion and a few texture packs, the game looks like it came out in 2011(And looks better than most games that actually have). Even if you have a really bad computer, it will play Skyrim ten times better than the 360/PS3 will on the same settings. You can get frame rates far above 30 (Which the consoles are locked at).. Some people that are quite uninformed seem to think there is no difference between 30-100 but that really is just untrue, the difference is amazing, it brings so much beauty to the game with those sort of frames.

Do I even have to mention mods? Elder scrolls games are MADE to be modded. The things done with mods mean that this game will last you years, just like Oblivion has for so many people. Theres a reason I still play Oblivion more than anything else I buy, MODS. Mods are absolutely amazing and there is basically no limit to what can be added to the game with them. Mods, mods, mods! Playing a Bethesda game without mods is a tragedy!

You want to talk to your friends playing 360 on LIVE while you are on your computer? You can do that too, install Games for Windows LIVE (Live for PC) and then just chat to them on that. Xbox360 microphone can still be used if you use your 360 controller on the PC.

Playing your PC can be just as comfortable as the consoles are by plugging it into your television and using a console controller on them. People who argue that consoles are more "comfortable" are uninformed of what PCs are capable of.

Did I mention the game is also cheaper on PC because of Steam not overcharging customers for their "brand name" like Microsoft and Sony do on the consoles?

PC > 360 in every single way. Every. Single. Way.

I was just thinking the same thing. This is the kind of thread that brings out the elitists. I usually stay far away from these "pc vs console" threads but decided I'd drop in and check this thread out. I saw that comment and was reminded why I stay away.

hmm..judging from your points that you said your self, id say buy it for the PC.

there are always other, more social games that you could enjoy with your wife.
just explain to her why your going to be playing pc alot, and make up for it in other areas
jk.

oldblivion allows even measly two gig ram Nvidia 6150se computers on a setting that looks way superior then a console.

everyone has a computer these days upgrading it doesn't even cost as much as a console get a better graphics card plus ram only 200 bucks same price as on of those 360 machines.


and by the way I play it on a laptop in my couch:)

I really, really doubt the graphics are going to be so much noticeably better on PC (at launch at least). Todd Howard said it looks pretty much equivalent across all three platforms so don't worry about graphics. The only real reason to get the PC version is if you want to install user-created mods. Personally I hate using mods so I'll be playing on PS3

Besides, no one ever brings it up but consoles are so much easier to play on... no installation, no drivers, no hardware upgrades. Conosles FTW!

As I said, he can just use it exactly the same he would his 360, Plug it into his television and use a 360 controller and then he can sit next to his wife and play all night long while also having extremely improved graphics, frame rate which is worlds better than what you see on the console and of course.. MODS! I only ever played one Bethesda game without mods and that was Fallout 3.. I returned the game 2 days after buying it and bought the PC version. Playing a Bethesda game without mods makes me a very, very sad panda. It's like getting a plane to go on on holidays but never actually stepping off the plane, you just look out the window when you land then go back home.

Mods are a must.



Once again my friend, you seem to not be informed of what PCs are capable of (And what consoles aren't).

Todd said himself in that podcast with Game Informer that the PC version will be shipping with higher res textures than the console versions will, also the consoles will play the games graphics on low-medium where as PC users will be able to play on Very High graphics and also use their Graphics card control centers to use 24x Edge Detect Anti Aliasing (It means the game will look twenty bazillion times better) and with 16x Ansiotropic filtering (Once again, a HUGE difference) not to mention all the other nifty things PC Graphics cards can be configured to do whereas 360s and PS3s struggle to have 2x Anti Aliasing and have no Ansiotropic filtering.

If you are wondering why I said the consoles will be playing on low-medium graphics it's because on Oblivion that's the way it is, The consoles play Oblivion on mostly low-medium graphics.

hate using them, or never figured out how to install them correctly

Oldblivion never worked for me. Not just that, but if someone wants to play on the console, who cares. Let them. I prefer console to PC, but I'm not going to tell a pc user "PC svcks lol!!?!?!?"

Plus if you're using a HDTV, Oblivion and other games look pretty amazing.

They sure do, but PCs and Laptops can be hooked up to HDTVs just the same as consoles and look three times as amazing because they can do twice the resolution that consoles are capable of.

No one is saying "Consoles svck", certainly not. We are just making you aware of what PCs are capable of and trying to give the topic creator the information he is looking for. In his situation, the better choice is clearly PC.



That can be a problem for some people, but with programs like Oblivion Mod Manager you can read a 30 second tutorial and then you will be installing mods like someone who since Oblivions release. The beautiful thing about Bethesda games is how easy they are to mod and how compatible they are with mods, it's so easy to get them working.

Oh I agree the graphics will be better on PC, I understand how the technology works. I'm just saying I've seen HD footage of Console Oblivion and PC Oblivion (and PC Oblivion with graphics enhancing mods) and the only one that looked noticeably better was PC with mods.

And I know how to install mods I just find that every game I've ever played that I've used mods on, I found that the mods didn't feel like they belonged in the game world. The extra content feels alien, not of the same style or quality as the rest of the game, and so for me, using mods breaks the immersion. And we all know how important immersion is in TES!

I think Xbox is more worth it because you don't have to have anything different from anyone else's xbox to play it. I just got a new computer like a couple months ago, and I'm guessing it's pretty decent cause it came with like 500 gigs of memory right off the bat, but It can only handle oblivion on medium graphics. (While still lagging a bit.) I'm no computer genius and I don't how to upgrade my computer to be able to play skyrim, (Mods would be veryyyyy nice) but I'm just going to get it on xbox.