It’s a big week for longtime The Elder Scrolls fans who continue to enjoy the latest the franchise has to offer on the PC. The PC versions of each installment, specifically Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim have always benefited from the availability of toolkits and community modding, which not only make the player experience limitless with additional content, but improve it by offering tweaks, graphic upgrades and more features.
The other week we showcased screenshots and video of a community-driven project to recreate what some believe is the franchise’s best installment (The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind) using the Skyrim engine in a project dubbed Skywind. This weekend, the original recreation project had its latest version (Morrowind Overhaul 3.0) release, offering an updated collection of mods improving the game that began years ago.
Morrowind has never looked so good and if you’re interested in upgrading your old version of the classic, head to the Morrowind Overhaul wiki to learn more and download here.
On the official side of The Elder Scrolls additional content, the Hearthfire DLC which first released as a timed exclusive for Xbox 360 players of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim a month ago is now available for PC players via Steam at a price of $4.99. For PS3 players, the sad tale continues. Not only is there no date in sight for Hearthfire, but Bethesda and Sony (who are now working together on this issue) cannot get the previously released Dawnguard expansion to work with the console either.
Bethesda’s Pete Hines says there’s still no news for Skyrim DLC on PS3.
I don’t have any info on Hearthfire, Dawnguard, or DLC in general for PS3. We’re still on it. Will share update when I have one.
— Pete Hines (@DCDeacon) October 4, 2012
Some fans expressed their satisfaction that the multiplatform game hasn’t worked right for their console (the PS3) since the beginning with the game launching with massive bugs and issues that hinder gameplay performance. With some tweets directed at Hines out of the belief that Bethesda is blaming Sony for the issues, to which he responded “we’ve never blamed anyone or anything. It’s our problem, and it’s on us to solve it.” He then followed up with the explanation, “ the performance isn’t good enough in all cases. for most folks, it’d be fine. For some, it wouldn’t be.”
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is currently available for PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 although we highly recommend the PC version.
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Sources: Pete Hines, Bethesda
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do u need morrowind to play it ?
Lol
No you don’t need Morrowind to get it, but only if you download Undead Nightmare for Red Dead Redemption on a full moon at exactly midnight on a friday the 13th…
Just watch the movie “Candyman” in reverse at normal speed while drinking candle wax out of a PINK candle while sitting on a cactus you named “Marge” for good luck.
Can it be a potted cactus or do I have to go find one in the desert?
WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT???
If it were a potted cactus you would need to have a rookie Babe Ruth card blessed by a shaolin monk nine days before easter and dropped in the fire of mordor, wait a full year and sacrifice a mountain lion to Orcus ON THE DAY of when it was first in Mordor then sit on a potted cactus!!!
In short, a cactus in the desert… (scoffs) Amateurs…
The monks name needs to have “Reggie” as the first or middle name.
Okay, sounds like I should go find one in the desert. Thanks for the help!
“He then followed up with the explanation, “ the performance isn’t good enough in all cases. for most folks, it’d be fine. For some, it wouldn’t be.””
This is the problem, and I hate Bethesda for it. Dawnguard would be good for most PS3 players, but not all. Hmm, didn’t Bethesda face the same situation before Skyrim released, but they released it on PS3 anyway? So they’ll release a $60 game knowing that it has potentially game-breaking bugs, but they won’t release a $20 DLC expansion for it? That’s xtremely hypocritic and aggravatingly flawed logic.
I don’t have a PS3, but I totally agree with that Matt. It sucks, maybe PS3 players should overflow Bethesda with emails and such.
I don’t know what else you could do, it sucks man, I feel for you, I really do.
That wouldn’t help at all. It might even hinder PS3 users. Cut them some slack, at least they’re still trying. I agree the whole situation sucks.
An idea that would do nothing is better then no idea at all…
Thanks man.
Bethesda not just only made unfinished game (11.11.11. sounds ‘sooo coool’), they suck with anything after release (countless bugs, poor DLC’s). To be frank Skyrim is not even rpg, it’s Hack and slash with some linear story. As an old fan of TES I will never buy their game again – ain’t worthy anymore.
Shivering Isles
Shivering Isles wasn’t bad, but vanilla Oblivion is more than disappointment.
PS3 players don’t deserve it. They DO play PS3s, after all.
Fanboy.
Say it with me now “PS3 is FAIL” we all know it, but no one seems to be willing to admit it.
That’s because it’s not a fail. Sure the technology of the PS3 is outdated, but that’s because it was released in 2006. The Xbox 360′s technology is outdated, too. The only major con of the PS3, when compared to the Xbox 360, is that it doesn’t have shared RAM. Other than that, I consider the PS3 superior to the Xbox 360, what with its Blu-ray technology, free online play, and better exclusives, not to mention longer life span.
Better exclusives, LOL! That is so funny. That’s all the PS3 has is the few decent exclusives it’s got because, as the system is a fail system, anything that is available for both systems is far better on the Xbox. I mean this article is talking about a DLC pack that has been out on the Xbox for months, but is STILL not out for the PS3 because the system is poorly designed. All Sony had to do was make the PS3 a glorified PC underneath the hood like MS did, but NO they had to make something that was completely different and hard to code for. Though I have read some stuff that paints the PS4 as a more standard off-the-shelf design without the custom cell-processor that should make it easier to code and design games on.
Every company makes lemons from time to time, I LIKE Sony tech, but the PS3 is a lemon… FACT.
You’re talking about the PS3 as a developer. Yes, it’s harder to code for, so developers probably prefer the Xbox 360. But as a consumer and a gamer, the PS3 is not a fail system. Coding issues are the problems of developers, not gamers. When someone is deciding if they should buy an Xbox 360 or PS3, I believe the PS3 is the better choice. By the way, is a lemon a good or bad thing?
I actually have both systems, and I wish I had never bought the PS3. The controller is terrible compared to the Xbox one, and the menu system is so out-dated and hard to navigate as to be almost laughable. I already had a bluray so I didn’t even need it for that.
I don’t have an Xbox 360, so I can’t compare their controllers and UI. But I find the XMB (the PS3′s menu system) easy to navigate. You just scroll left and right to the category in which the destination you want is located, then scroll up and down to find the application. It may be a little hard to find things at first, but once you figure out where things are, it’s a breeze. You may already have a Blu-ray movie player, but PS3 games are Blu-ray discs, too. Xbox 360 games are standard DVDs, thus lower quality.
Tell me i do not deserve dlc for skyrim one more time. I stayed up To midnight 11.10.11, I have well over two hundred hours in the game, on one playthrough. I just put in eight more hours today. I waited through the bugs, I avoided water because it froze my game everytime my camera went underwater. I have completed every quest, had the platinum trophy in December. I have explored every available skill tree. So tell me again why i dont deserve more content for a game i have dedicated way too much time to? Becquse i use a console that gives me free online play? Because I own a ps3? Stfu please a$shole.
If all that is true, maybe it is good you don’t have the DLC… Every single quest, you put eight hours in yesturday, just think about it. It is most likely a blessing that you don’t have the DLC, since if you put that time in yesturday without the DLC, imagine how much more time you will spend on the game? Go outside for a walk.
Not saying anything bad about the PS3, I think it sucks for those users, but some people should not even have one…