April 12th, 2012
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Bethesda has announced they will be bringing Kinect support to Skyrim on the Xbox 360. The update, hinted at back in February in Bethesda’s Skyrim Game Jam, will be released later this month and will be free. Now you’ll be able to wake up your entire household shouting Fus Ro Dah at your television set.
In the same post, Bethesda has also announced the first set of game add-ons which will be exclusive to the Xbox 360 will also be coming soon. Below is some of the post from Bethesda. Head over to the BethBlog to read the full announcement. You can view the official Kinect shout announcement trailer below.
“A full list of Voice Commands will be revealed in the coming weeks, and we’ve got more Skyrim news coming. Bethesda Game Studios has been hard at work on creating the first set of game add-ons that will be exclusive to the Xbox 360. This additional content will add new quests, locations, features, and much more to the world of Skyrim. Stay tuned for more details.”
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This had better be a timed exclusive, hell hath no fury like a PC gamer scorned.
wonder if it comes with voice commands like “dragon, stop flying backwards!” and “make my f***ing mission load!”
eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-26-skyrim-dlc-timed-xbox-360-exclusive
timed exclusive btw folks
That article is from August last year.
what’s your point???, it’s still timed exclusive lol
I dont care either way, Im not a fan of the game at all, but I was simply putting up info for peeps.
eurogamer.net/articles/2012-04-12-the-elder-scrolls-5-skyrim-kinect-support-announced-first-video-released
Article above again refers to timed exclusivity
I’m amazed at how these Xbot kids are declaring that shouting at a microphone while playing a game is some new and original technology that just started with Kinect. Clearly these morons don’t remember Hey You Pikachu, Seaman, SOCOM (PS2), or even TC’s Endwar. Come on people. This is nothing special. It’s just Microsh*t trying to pretend that Kinect is actually worth a sh*t by dangling their c*ck, while Bethesda comes in for the suck. Come the hell on.
cheesus crust, my envy detector just explode
do you remember how badly voice commands worked in a lot of those games? having voice commands that actually work well IS INNOVATION! XD
@Fixerman Yes I’m totally envious. Even though I have access to a 360 with Kinect, and of the few games I’ve purchased over the last few months, not once have I been even tempted to buy Skyrim, I’m still totally envious of it and this amaaaaazing new technology. Right then.
@BigBurito Clearly you didn’t play Endwar. The voice commands in the game were actually near perfect. Everything else about the game sucked. And no, Innovation taking an old technology and only slightly improving it.
“Even though I have access to a 360 with Kinect”
Very likely.
@DIALGAMARINE
while endwar’s voice commands were good this is quite a different pony. supposedly it is going to have around two-hundred commands you can use to tell your companions to do and for you yourself to do (heck even just all 20 of the dragon shouts are split into three words each so the game has to recognize each one individually (since you can unlock a lot of them by simply exploring and you might not find the first word of a shout first) so that’s 60 and it would have to be able to understand each one if the words are in the wrong order (for instance if a shout was kull na kest (I think that’s the spelling for the whirlwind sprint shout) you could learn na and kest before learning kull so the kinect should be able to recognize it without being in the right order/complete. in other words it can take what you say and understand it even if it’s different from what it is supposed to go. which is quite the achievement!
AWESOME! Another kinect addition that will be just as awful, pointless and buggy as everything else kinect does!
if it works as well as it appears to in video(I have doubts), it would be a good addition(if you dont mind shouting at tv a lot), and in a game like skyrim, where you use menus a lot, it would certtainly make it far less tedious.
Well by that logic, Kinect should work as well as it did on the M$ advertising campaign (remember the kid doing karate kicks and riding his own skatebord??) We all know how that turned out. I predict it will work in theory, but mis-interpretation of voice commands and on screen sensitivity issues will make it very fustrating. Not many gmes with kinect functionality as an after thought survive much past the novelty aspect.
Shut the fuck off and take my money
Wait!…. IT’S FREE!
OH I WANNA PLAY ON PS3 WITH 15 FPS… LOL…
Its quite comical how you all seam to be under the impression that this will even work properly. Skyrim is one the buggiest games ever released complicating the control system by adding voice recognition will just result in people screaming at the tv in anger.
I read all the comments here, and I just laugh. I remember being in the “console” war’s when I was younger. Now I’m 33, and it’s not systems I like. It’s games. Any game that is fun after a long week is great by me. I bring on this addition. I don’t have to use it. I have a kinect for my wife, so I’ll atleast give it a try before I start writing xbot this and psfanboy that. We’re all gamers, but on this site people aren’t gamers. They are 1 system players. Anyway, thats my rant. I love games. Not systems. Bring em all on. I’m a gamer.
…………I have 4 systems………..
Ok lets see, I have a Ps3, my son has Ps3,xbox360,ds and psp, my daughter has Wii an ds, we have a decent Pc setup as well. Have had Master system, snes, ps1, ps2. Skyrim is shit and kinect is shit. Has everyone forgotten the Eye toy for ps2 it is basically the same as Kinect but it was less laggy
Yeah, everyone knows Kinect is basically just the eyetoy, but re-worked enough to avoid copyright infringement. No one bothers to talk about it anymore as it is common knowledge.
@samchez77
you should probably take some time to learn about what you’re talking about before you start talking about it. for one the kinect isn’t an “eyetoy” it’s able to capture motion in 3d. check out some of the stuff people have been able to do with it on the PC, it’s really quite incredible. and two, patents (copyrights are for ideas not physical solutons) don’t work like that. if the man who invented shoes filed a patent for how to make them and the final product he can say “you can’t make these without my permission!” but if another man decides to invent sandals the shoe inventor can’t say he can’t because you can only patent the product and the means to produce it, you can’t patent the end result (the end result being less wear on your feet, as by comparison the end result for eye toy and kinect is controller-less gaming.)
also @billy323
skyrim is awesome, I know you can’t play it on your master system but trust me it’s really good!
@bigburito. I know exactly what I’m talking about. Kinect is basically an extension of the Eyetoy idea. I have seen many a youtube flick about the other potentials of the system in area’s other than gaming. there was an influx of them when Microsoft eventually realised it had no idea what to do with it, and made it open source for universities and the like to experiment with. And there are some amazing ideas out there. I wasn’t talking about copyright. I understand exactly how it works and you do have a point about overly protecting technology resulting in a progresion stand still. Sort of like what M$ does with the Xbox itself, and the financial deals it makes with developers.
At the end of the day we are gamers, and other than the novelty aspect, we like to push buttons. Now going back to the eyetoy topic, I agree the Kinect is far more advanced but the principles remain the same, and eyetoy was there years before.
Huge LOL. You guys make me laugh…every time I read the posts on this site….All I can do is laugh. I like coming here and reading the same exact people arguing over the same exact thing since 2006. Its utterly laughable. LOL. Thanks for the laugh guys.
Xbox headset has a microphone as does the Kinect. This is a rip off.
It would be if you had to pay for it. M$ are just trying to validate the usefulness of Kinect, even though it could probably be done with a head-set.
that was actually something I was wondering, it really depends on whther the kinect is using additional hardware inside the kinect to decode and understand speech or if the xbox does it and the kinect is just a receiver for it…
yeah, that a good question. probably a bit of both. I know I bash the kinect a bit more than I should. truth be known I think its an impressive addition to the Xbox arsenal and full points to M$ for sticking it out and continuing full support for it. Something Sony never did with its sh*t eyetoy. I’ve actually had a lot of fun & laughs with Kinect.
Kinect is for children!