Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Thread (WARNING: Spoilers Inside!)

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  1. Skater

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    Why can't I get into Irkngthand? I'm trying to clear all of the dwemer dungeons and I only have Mzulft and Irkngthand left.
     
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    Another source regarding kinect in skyrim.

    'Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim' comes to Kinect - CNN.com

    I liked how the kinect was handled in ME3, enhancing the gameplay while making certain things easier, instead of forcing gameplay through it. What I'm hearing about kinect support in skyrim is that it will be the same way. I say about time my kinect has purpose.
     
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    I almost want to buy Kinect just so I can yell FUS ROH DAH at my TV.....
     
  5. ShaddoBlade

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    Thank God they are working on Kinect integration instead of DLC...
     
  6. pinohkio

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    They're working on both, or that's what I understand from reading articles on other forums/news sites. DLC is slated for later, but they're still making it, their chief concern now though is Kinect.
     
  7. ShaddoBlade

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    Okay, let me rephrase my statement: Thank God they are working on Kinect integration contemporaneously as the DLC, resulting in a delay in which said DLC will be released.

    I don't really care, as I thought Skyrim was rather bland. I just think it's lame that Bethseda would choose their casual fanbase over their hardcore fanboys.
     
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    I could see any of my friends being a total **** by coming into the room and just screaming "FUS RO DAH" at my tv so that I shout when I didn't want to.
     
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    My TV room doesn't have a lock, or a door for that matter, and my father is definitely going to do that.
     
  11. PacMonster1

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    What....? This kinect integration was already mostly implemented by 1 developer within bethesda who did it as their game fest idea. They are still working on whatever "very large" DLC expansions they said they have been working on since release. Let's not talk from our asses now and assume things we have no idea about.

    Also that second part made even less sense. Do you think any support of kinect makes for a casual game? According to the details of what the integration would do is that you would be able to quicksave by voice, order your inventory in different ways, and use weapons and abilities just by saying them instead of equipping them. All that and its all completely optional. So what is your problem with it exactly other then it is obvious you don't trust any news wih the word kinect in it.
     
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    Well if it IS a graphics update, it will most likely only be on the PC... if not, next game, methinks. Although it seems a little early to start teasing about that.
     
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    Perhaps they've made a CGI trailer for their DLC, and that's a screenie?

    I know that seems strange, but they did mention the DLC would be much bigger in scale this time around, so it's viable.
     
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    Call me crazy but my first thought was Haymitch...
    Honestly if Hunger Games was made into a game, I would put Bethesda at the top f my list for best developer for the title, but one of the lowest on my list for plausibility...


    But it is probably the MMO they've been hiding, and it is probably fallout themed.

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    Main reason I'm happy for this kinect integration is it gives console players a way to sort inventories or possibly quick save. If they would fulfill their promise of making certain popular mods available for xbox, the first one I'd want is a more in depth inventory sorter (Weapons, Armor, Clothing(including jewelry), Books, notes/journals, keys, food, ingredients, potions, soulgems, materials, misc.).
     
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  17. ShaddoBlade

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    If you took the people working on Kinect integration, and put them on the DLC project, it would make the DLC better or available earlier. So, instead of making content exclusive for Kinect owners at the same time as the DLC, they should finish the DLC first, then work on Kinect integration. And, yeah, I think Kinect is a joke, especially when included in a game that works fine without it.
     
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    Shaddo... wow...

    A company in the right mind would target a larger audience, not a small already dedicated one. You are confusing programmers with executives. Of course they are going to bring in a big name like Kinect with coding that is pretty easy to whip up for a team of professional coders. The DLC is going to come out, don't go Cartman freeze yourself for horse armor. If they took the people working on Kinect integration and put them on the DLC project, you would have an overloaded project leader and a waste of resources. You think Kinect is a joke? Good for you. People enjoy it. This integration isn't a new arm swing makes your sword slash thing, this is just adding a microphone for the xbox players. Remember End-War? Its just that. Stop getting all whiny about a precious little expansion pack not being a focal point of a board of executives. And microsoft is always pushing for people to buy new products (like any reasonable company) so why wouldn't they send some kinect help to bethesda so that they could add yet another facet to the ever growing kinect library.

    Well there is my ranting thought for the day.
     
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    Added on to what stouf said it appears you didn't listen to a thing I said in that post where you quoted the last sentence of it.

    How do you think developing works? Sure why not have every single programmer in the company work on the same thing, that must make projects come together super fast right? No, that actually makes things worse. The more people working on the same project the higher likelihood problems will emerge, people will disagree with things, and is a waste of company resources. No, smaller teams work on various projects with varying amounts of developers allocated to how large the project is. The majority of the Bethesda dev team is probably working on their next game. Then there are most likely numerous "DLC" teams each responsible for working on planned DLC that was discussed at some internal creative content meeting.

    Simply moving over developer from one project to another doesn't make the content move much faster and it certainly has no bearing how when it releases. When content releases is completely an executive decision. Bethesda signed exclusivity agreements with Microsoft before Skyrim released, which promised the platform maker first dibs to DLC content released from the developer.


    The idea to merge Kinect with Skyrim came from one of the game's designers after the its release last year. During a "game jam," where game designers are given a week to work on whatever they want as long as it is related to the title, Ricky Gonzales, a programmer on "Skyrim," came up with the idea of using voice commands to do things within the game.
    "He deserves a lot of the credit for putting the time in to get it to work and then working with Microsoft on some of the extra bits that they helped us out with," Hines said.


    ^ Again, 1 person did most of the kinect integration work, not the entire DLC team you think is doing it.

    Finally...there is no way for you to know if Bethesda's working on this free kinect integretion DLC delayed them in any way toward full content DLC. In fact all evidence points to that being not true. Bethesda copyrighted the name Dawnguard just a month or so ago and have continued to say even while revealing the kinect integration that there will be

    new quests, locations, features, etc

    So, other then you hating a feature that will have no bearing on your game, what is your problem again...you know with at least some sort of proof backing it.
     
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