PS3 / console version or PC version?

[Hobbit XIII]

PS3 or console, you buy them and you can just play it and enjoy yourself.

PC you buy it and then get punished for it and eventually you can get it to work and despite the occasional meltdown of your game you get lots of cool stuff to add to it.

Which do you prefer console or PC version ?

[peppermint hollows]

The PS3 version is arguably the least stable of them all, as the CPU architecture was notoriously difficult for developers to work with (in fact IIRC the Dawnguard DLC release was delayed on the PS3 version because of performance issues). Even compared to the 360 version, it was just more prone to problems especially for longer playthroughs on a single character. So it's weird that you mention it separately. If any version is likely to have a meltdown, it would be the PS3 version.

I've actually played it before. PC version is far more stable, both for LE and for SSE/AE.

[Hobbit XIII]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von peppermint hollows:

The PS3 version is arguably the least stable of them all, as the CPU architecture was notoriously difficult for developers to work with (in fact IIRC the Dawnguard DLC release was delayed on the PS3 version because of performance issues). Even compared to the 360 version, it was just more prone to problems especially for longer playthroughs on a single character. So it's weird that you mention it separately. If any version is likely to have a meltdown, it would be the PS3 version.

I've actually played it before. PC version is far more stable, both for LE and for SSE/AE.

I loathed dawnguard so much. its a good storyline but on PS3 it just made it clunky to play and the whole super monster vampire was pathetic of what could have been a really cool gothic tale.
I hated too that unless you wanted vampires running around killing the people of Skyrim and reducing your enjoyment of the population of people wandering about you had to get on with Dawnguard quickly.

Anyway...

I say PS3 separately because that is the version I had on console.

My problem with multiplatform gaming is I think well mr developer, shouldn't you be the ones making it work and if you cannot then rebuild it from scratch it's not like the company is not going to be making untold fortunes from the sales of the games once they are made.

- speaking as a programmer myself, before anybody wants to get there bats out and defend their overlords.
(bats, dawnguard, overlords... get it? yeah its bad I'm bored).

[peppermint hollows]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Hobbit XIII:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von peppermint hollows:

The PS3 version is arguably the least stable of them all, as the CPU architecture was notoriously difficult for developers to work with (in fact IIRC the Dawnguard DLC release was delayed on the PS3 version because of performance issues). Even compared to the 360 version, it was just more prone to problems especially for longer playthroughs on a single character. So it's weird that you mention it separately. If any version is likely to have a meltdown, it would be the PS3 version.

I've actually played it before. PC version is far more stable, both for LE and for SSE/AE.

I loathed dawnguard so much. its a good storyline but on PS3 it just made it clunky to play and the whole super monster vampire was pathetic of what could have been a really cool gothic tale.
I hated too that unless you wanted vampires running around killing the people of Skyrim and reducing your enjoyment of the population of people wandering about you had to get on with Dawnguard quickly.

The Volkihar Vampire clan was actually first mentioned in an in-game book in Oblivion, and at the time they were rather unique and interesting based on their description in said book. But they just became very generic run of the mill vampires once they appeared in Dawnguard.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Hobbit XIII:

Anyway...

I say PS3 separately because that is the version I had on console.

My problem with multiplatform gaming is I think well mr developer, shouldn't you be the ones making it work and if you cannot then rebuild it from scratch it's not like the company is not going to be making untold fortunes from the sales of the games once they are made.

- speaking as a programmer myself, before anybody wants to get there bats out and defend their overlords.
(bats, dawnguard, overlords... get it? yeah its bad I'm bored).

The differences between console and PC versions nowadays is usually not really as bad, but back then problems like Skyrim's were pretty frequent because of the aforementioned wildly different CPU architecture. They weren't the only devs to run up against this problem.

[Hobbit XIII]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von peppermint hollows:

The differences between console and PC versions nowadays is usually not really as bad, but back then problems like Skyrim's were pretty frequent because of the aforementioned wildly different CPU architecture. They weren't the only devs to run up against this problem.

I remember the flame wars across magazines on Sinclair / Amstrad and C64 versions of games. Back then in the 8 bit era 'why can't they just make one standard system' I was about 9 and had no idea there was a thing called communism and that was a bad idea generally.

[Leyla]

PC. You can use ~ magic button to fix almost any bugs (lots of them if you play 1000+ hours and mods).

[Skumboni]

Due to memory constraints, consoles are on the sucky end of electronic gaming. While it takes a while to get a heavily modded game set up correctly, once done it runs great as long as you update nothing until you are ready to start a new game.
What I would like to know from a console player is; How does the mod 'Legacy of the Dragonborn' play on a console? The answer to that is all the explanation you need to play on a PC.

[Morgan Fun Gamer]

i choose pc

[FauxFurry]

The game was made for Xbox so it had the least issues. I said the least but that does not mean that it, too, was not bug ridden.
The PC version has mods to increase stability and to fix bugs (be it the Legendary Edition or the Special Edition) so that is my preference even without other mods being considered.

[Sairek Ceareste]

PS3 version is nearly unplayable due to a memory leak issue that stacks with every save you perform on your save file. Eventually loading times take minutes and the game stutters and struggles to reach even double digits on the frame rate.

It happens quickly too. Like, you start really noticing the effects by 20 hours with an occasional stutter here and there and longer loading times than before. Then by 40~50 hours, you're struggling to even play the game at all.


PC version is always better, least of which is modding, but you also get access to the developer console, which widely increases your ability to brute force through the game's bugs yourself if needed. With console, your only option is to reload a previous save and hope your playthrough isn't broken and that a bug won't happen again after the reload.

[Mez Koo]

PC everytime. People who choose console over PC usually don't care about having the most basic experience and don't want the responsibilities of owning a using a PC.

[Lord of D:]

Fun Fact: at launch, the PS3 version had a game breaking bug that forced it to save constantly, and because the save files increase size with each save...

[Hobbit XIII]

So nobody likes the gaming consoles over the PCs ?

not even the bonus of just pick up and play out the box?

[alexander_dougherty]

Game is buggy, PC players can use console commands as a last resort.
Players on a console do not have this as a possibility, making it more likely to be stuck on a broken quest.

[peppermint hollows]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Hobbit XIII:

So nobody likes the gaming consoles over the PCs ?

not even the bonus of just pick up and play out the box?

Well keep in mind you're asking on the Steam discussions, so it's natural the answers are gonna lean towards PC. If you try asking somewhere else (Twitter, reddit, etc.) you'll probably get more people who say they prefer console.

[Hobbit XIII]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von peppermint hollows:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Hobbit XIII:

So nobody likes the gaming consoles over the PCs ?

not even the bonus of just pick up and play out the box?

Well keep in mind you're asking on the Steam discussions, so it's natural the answers are gonna lean towards PC. If you try asking somewhere else (Twitter, reddit, etc.) you'll probably get more people who say they prefer console.

No way, I don't want to talk to those people. Who knows where they have been, and their servants smell.