If you really want to be playing TES as your main thing and you've got some cash to burn, it might be worth it to just buy a half-decent gaming laptop and take that with you instead. Generally the difference between console and PC versions of games is pretty superficial and usually just boils down to resolution and framerate, but with Elder Scrolls games it's a completely fundamental difference and the PC versions are vastly, vastly superior. On the PS3 version you can just be stuck with a broken game and have nothing that can be done about it.

I also have a mod that implements voice-activated shouts with my headset.Īnd of course there's always the issue of if a quest bugs out or an NPC randomly disappears, you don't have access to console commands to be able to fix them. When I play Skyrim I pretty much never have to go into a menu during combat and can switch between my sword, shield, bow, and healing spell all by hitting 1-4. The thing that made Skyrim on the same level as Morrowind and Oblivion for me was the amount I could increase the depth of the world with mods whether it's having a party of followers that I give custom classes, perks, and combat styles in the Creation Kit, adding huge 40+ NPC groups of enemies to spawn and have battles around the overworld, or customizing the stats and appearance of my weapons and armor.Īnother big issue is the lack of hotkeys on a controller compared to the 8 you get with a keyboard. If you've never played it you'll enjoy all the major questlines and the novelty of exploring but after a while you'll start to see how shallow it is. Skyrim is generally okay vanilla, but like I just said it's also only okay. You could probably still subvert that issue by just cranking the difficulty down, that way you won't have to be hitting boars 50 times to kill them by level 10. One of the main things people tend to mod about Oblivion is the way the leveling/enemy scaling system works because enemy scaling is pretty broken in vanilla.

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