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Consoles Lead Skyrim Development

A video interview on Computer and Video Games discusses The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim with Craig Lafferty, lead producer on Bethesda Softworks' upcoming role-playing sequel. He talks about the console editions of the game, saying that they are actually the lead platform for Skyrim: "we develop toward the consoles and then porting to PCs is not too bad, actually." He goes on to discuss their added emphasis on accessibility compared with previous installments in the series, and Apple's inspiration in creating user interfaces. He also touches on gameplay, including bigger boss battles, the main campaign, side-quests, and more. Thanks Reddit via GamersMint.

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46. Re: Consoles Lead Skyrim Development Jun 8, 2011, 17:00 Tumbler
 
I would hope that developing a UI that is large and easily understood from far away, like in a family room, will get you more sales on the PC... I can't be the only one that trys to play PC games on my tv and can't stand the tiny text on everything. I'm not sitting at a desk anymore with a keyboard and mouse. I am fine using my wireless keyboard and mouse in front of my tv but it's so hard to enjoy pc games when they design an interface that assumes the player is 2 feet from the screen.

King's Bounty Armored Princess is a good example. I've been playing that for the last few days via steam and I have to drag my stupid chair forward to understand what I need to do. Even sitting closer and wearing classes i still can't read the tiny text for missions and people talking. Plenty of stuff is large enough to work with but another game like DoW2 just doesn't work for me. The mini map is so small I can't see what is going on, can't read the text, drives me nuts.

The larger UI that so many seem to complain about is a huge benefit to ppl like me wanting to play from the same spot they play their console from.

If they also added enough to the game to make it better than the console version I'd probably be more inclined to spend more money as well but they almost never do...it's always just running in a higher res and that isn't worth an extra $40 to me. (I typically pay approx $10 for my games...if that)
 
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