I have been following this game since it came out, but other then the odd after thought mention that it was coming out to PC, and them revealing the system specs today, I have never seen or heard word one about the PC release for this game to date. I must just not be looking in the right places, but I mean I have seen/heard literally nothing about what they are doing with the PC release and I was wondering with it only being a few weeks out if anyone has found anything yet. A single screen shot? An interview where they talk about it? Anything? They even made the people at PC Gamer play the god dam 360 version for crying out loud.

I was planning to buy this game next pay check, but given how they can't even seem to muster the effort to to even talk about it I think I'm going to wait and see what others have to say about it. It just feels like they are trying to hide it for some strange reason, and in this day and age where PC gets the shit end of all the sticks when it comes to multiplatform releases it leaves me worried that it's going to be an atrocious port or that they will pull a Ubisoft and delay the PC release for 6 months at the last second.

It will be exactly the same, just with mod support, higher resolution, and better framerate provided you have adequate hardware

Steam lists it as November, and the game is fully Steamworks I believe so they seem to be caring about it.

Yo have you seen the 360 footage?

Like that, but at 1080p and 60 fps if your rig can handle it.

Yeah essentially its the same as the 360 version except a little better looking and with steamworks.

@Doctorchimp said:

Yo have you seen the 360 footage?

Like that, but at 1080p and 60 fps if your rig can handle it.

All right. Good enough for me. Lol.

Poo. As I thought. Just assumptions but nothing official. Oh well.

@crusader8463 said:

Poo. As I thought. Just assumptions but nothing official. Oh well.

What else do you need?

It was true for Oblivion. It was true for Fallout 3. It was true for New Vegas. Bethseda doesn't ignore the PC players. It has the same release date as the console versions.

Seeing as the recommended system requirements is a like a 300 dollar PC you can safely assume it will look quite bad. As long as it isn't as low res/stiff/looks like shit as FNV and the others, then I'm ok.

@crusader8463: You're being unreasonably cynical.

Bethesda's PC versions are always the ones with official mod support & toolkits, higher resolution textures, better frame-rate and better patch support (doubly so now with Steamworks). Yeah, PC gamers sure are getting stuffed by developers these days.

I swear...you never this kind of stuff from PS3 owners, who literally got the worst versions of Oblivion and Fallout 3. The PC version of these games was the best (especially after a few months of mods), while the PS3 version made Obsidian look like the industry benchmark for quality control.

@Ertard: Woah, buddy. Good optimization does not equal bad graphics. Consider the 360 came out in what, 2006? They made the game look great on there, so they should be able to do it on older pc hardware.

@Cataphract1014 said:

@crusader8463 said:

Poo. As I thought. Just assumptions but nothing official. Oh well.

What else do you need?

It was true for Oblivion. It was true for Fallout 3. It was true for New Vegas. Bethseda doesn't ignore the PC players. It has the same release date as the console versions.

sound like the OP is expecting a personal visit from Tod Howard for a sit down chat and a blow job to thank him for once buy a PC game

Latest issue of PC Gamer has Skyrim as the cover story. Haven't read it yet, but you might want to check that out.

@jetsetwillie said:

sound like the OP is expecting a personal visit from Tod Howard for a sit down chat and a blow job to thank him for once buy a PC game

Does that come as part of the Collector's Edition?

@jetsetwillie said:

sound like the OP is expecting a personal visit from Tod Howard for a sit down chat and a blow job to thank him for once buy a PC game

Does that come as part of the Collector's Edition?

@jetsetwillie said:

@Cataphract1014 said:

@crusader8463 said:

Poo. As I thought. Just assumptions but nothing official. Oh well.

What else do you need?

It was true for Oblivion. It was true for Fallout 3. It was true for New Vegas. Bethseda doesn't ignore the PC players. It has the same release date as the console versions.

sound like the OP is expecting a personal visit from Tod Howard for a sit down chat and a blow job to thank him for once buy a PC game

He's not my type so no thanks on the BJ, but how exactly is asking them to do at least one interview/preview somewhere where they talk about what they are doing on the PC version asking so god dam much? I just want to hear some official statement from them saying what they are doing with it. Apparently that's asking too much these days.

@McFly said:

@crusader8463: You're being unreasonably cynical.

Bethesda's PC versions are always the ones with official mod support & toolkits, higher resolution textures, better frame-rate and better patch support (doubly so now with Steamworks). Yeah, PC gamers sure are getting stuffed by developers these days.

I swear...you never this kind of stuff from PS3 owners, who literally got the worst versions of Oblivion and Fallout 3. The PC version of these games was the best (especially after a few months of mods), while the PS3 version made Obsidian look like the industry benchmark for quality control.

Becasue PS3 games are exact carbon copies of the 360 ones with nothing more then the button prompts changed to reflect the different controller, and the games are, for all intents and purposes, played with the exact same input device. So if it plays fine on the 360 it's going to play fine on the PS3. When you get the odd time where it doesn't run well on the PS3 because of it being poorly optimized you do hear nothing but complaining, and justifiably so, about it. Leading up to the games release however PS3 owners can watch the same 360 footage and know that's the same game they are going to be getting. PC however has a completely different input device that can require a different UI design and tons of little changes to take advantage of the things you can do with a MKB that you can't with a controller. One of the first mods people make for these games is a UI mod to do all the stuff PC gamers expect from the games that they never do, so I wanted to know if they are actually going to do these things from the get go or should I wait a few months and let the mod community do all the work to make the UI what it should have been.

As for their history with PC releases, I don't believe in judging a new game based on the old ones. I have been burned too many times doing that. So I take each game on its own merits, and so far this game has had zero talk about the PC version which leaves me feeling uneasy on it.

@bonorbitz said:

Latest issue of PC Gamer has Skyrim as the cover story. Haven't read it yet, but you might want to check that out.

I'm hoping to, but I just subscribed and I'm not sure if that will be my first issue I get or the one after, so I don't want to go buy one and end up with two copies. As for the content of the article, I hope I'm wrong, but I recall reading in several different places that they didn't even get to base that article on the PC release but on the 360 ones shown off at some press event. If they did get to base it off the PC release then I will poor over every word of it, but I don't think that's the case sadly.

@crusader8463:

• Bethesda games are always best on PC. There's no ifs and or buts about that and they have already stated that it will look and move the best on PC.
• Oblivion was technically better on PS3 than 360, better textures, better rendering effects and more variety in terms of models. That's because it came out later.
• I'm not sure if you've been following Skyrim but the UI is designed to be universal and takes up the whole screen in every context from map to levelling to spell/weapons selection and inventory. The Inventory has rotatable, fully rendered items which can zoom in on too.
• It will be a fine PC release. This is 2011 not 2005.

@crusader8463 said:

I have been following this game since it came out, but other then the odd after thought mention that it was coming out to PC

Wait... it's coming out on the PC? Whoa... Mind blown.

I thought this was going to be about the specs being released...sad panda. I'm excited for the PC version. YAY Mods.

It's a console port with minimal DX11 support, but it will have mods so the console version is irrelevant.

Wait until it's out and see? Past Bethesda games have always been great on PC. Just like Oblivion which was mainly featured on the 360, the PC version was fantastic.
 
These dudes know how to make PC games, plus ports have gotten much better than they used to be.

@Chavtheworld said:

It's a console port with minimal DX11 support, but it will have mods so the console version is irrelevant.

Minimal? I thought it had zero DX11 stuff in it. Colour me surprised. : )

It's a console port with minimal DX11 support, but it will have mods so the console version is irrelevant.

@Cloudenvy: @wolf_blitzer85: Yeah, as far as I know you aren't forced to have a DX11 card, but the Ultra settings will offer it for those that want it.

See linky

@Chavtheworld said:

@Cloudenvy: @wolf_blitzer85: Yeah, as far as I know you aren't forced to have a DX11 card, but the Ultra settings will offer it for those that want it.

See linky

Neat, looking forward to some pretty effects then!

Hopefully I won't hate the game. : (

Here are the system requirements for the PC!

@Cloudenvy: Mmm, yes and no. Although they are using it, the article makes it sound like the only reason they did was that it was easier for them to make the game with DX11 for PCs than keeping it DX9.

"I guess the real question here is do we take advantage of DirectX 11's big new features and the answer is 'not specifically,'"

Sounds like DX11 is just for optimisation at the higher graphical levels, rather than for fancy things like what the Crysis 2 DX11 patch added. But, there's always a chance it could have some of that too. And at least it will obviously run smoother and look way crisper than consoles.

My biggest worry atm is the fact that the game install is only 6GB. I hope we're not getting the same textures as the console versions.

@Gav47: Yeah. As I said in another thread, I'm pretty sure I'm going to go PC version with a 360 controller. If, however, the benefits are minimal on the PC over the console (excluding mods), I'll probably just get the 360 version. I'm an achievement whore anyway - even though I only have 12k points :)

My biggest worry atm is the fact that the game install is only 6GB. I hope we're not getting the same textures as the console versions.

@ChaosDent said:

@Gav47 said:

My biggest worry atm is the fact that the game install is only 6GB. I hope we're not getting the same textures as the console versions.

When they say, "hand crafted dungeons" they don't necessarily mean, "not tile-based." 6 GiB will go a lot farther than it would in a game like RAGE. That said, Oblivion is only about 4 GiB and i'm pretty sure they only shipped the console textures.

Yeah I know, Rage is only 2.5GB without the textures. That said it, would be pretty easy for them to do a high res texture download what with them using Steamworks and all.

@Commisar123 said:

Yeah essentially its the same as the 360 version except a little better looking and with steamworks.

A lot better looking and pretty much this and mods too :D

@ripsaw117 said:

@Commisar123 said:

Yeah essentially its the same as the 360 version except a little better looking and with steamworks.

A lot better looking and pretty much this and mods too :D

...and it's a first-person game on a system with a mouse and keyboard.

@Gav47 said:

My biggest worry atm is the fact that the game install is only 6GB. I hope we're not getting the same textures as the console versions.

Rage was 25GB and it had HORRIBLE, and I mean HORRIBLE textures. Even with the tweaks, and the patch. They were some of the worst textures I've ever seen. Size != quality.

@Cataphract1014 said:

@Gav47 said:

My biggest worry atm is the fact that the game install is only 6GB. I hope we're not getting the same textures as the console versions.

Rage was 25GB and it had HORRIBLE, and I mean HORRIBLE textures. Even with the tweaks, and the patch. They were some of the worst textures I've ever seen. Size != quality.

Rage's textures were fine unless you were standing face first looking into a wall and their are almost no game available today that will shand up to that scrutiny . Playing that game as you would any other shooter it is, in my opinion, the best looking game released this year.

@Gav47 said:

@Cataphract1014 said:

@Gav47 said:

My biggest worry atm is the fact that the game install is only 6GB. I hope we're not getting the same textures as the console versions.

Rage was 25GB and it had HORRIBLE, and I mean HORRIBLE textures. Even with the tweaks, and the patch. They were some of the worst textures I've ever seen. Size != quality.

Rage's textures were fine unless you were standing face first looking into a wall and their are almost no game available today that will shand up to that scrutiny . Playing that game as you would any other shooter it is, in my opinion, the best looking game released this year.

I think The Witcher 2 is the best looking game out this year.I agree was a great looking game, but the textures weren't amazing.

They recently released the minimum and recommended requirements. They are actually pretty forgiving.

@Gav47 said:

@Cataphract1014 said:

@Gav47 said:

My biggest worry atm is the fact that the game install is only 6GB. I hope we're not getting the same textures as the console versions.

Rage was 25GB and it had HORRIBLE, and I mean HORRIBLE textures. Even with the tweaks, and the patch. They were some of the worst textures I've ever seen. Size != quality.

Rage's textures were fine unless you were standing face first looking into a wall and their are almost no game available today that will shand up to that scrutiny . Playing that game as you would any other shooter it is, in my opinion, the best looking game released this year.

I think The Witcher 2 is the best looking game out this year.I agree was a great looking game, but the textures weren't amazing.

Unfortunately my PC is a bit old and I don´t own a Xbox so I think I'll have to stick with the PS3 version if I want to play the game.

Just hope it's like the Xbox version in terms of quality.

http://thehalfgame.blogspot.com/2011/10/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-preview.html