SKYRIM gets Kinect voice command support
SKYRIM gets Kinect voice command support
Bethesda Softworks announced this morning that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is getting Kinect support for "more than 200 voice commands" at some point this month via a title update. The developer promises that said voice commands will apply to a variety of verbs across the world of Skyrim, from Dragon Shouts (Fus Roh Dah!) to follower commands, and a mess of other voice-activated actions.
The Kinect functionality for Skyrim is the latest product of Bethesda's internal Skyrim game jam, following on the heels of the 1.5 update which featured the kill cams from said game jam. There's an adorable video showing off how it'll all work that we've embedded just above.
Update: A Bethesda rep told Joystiq that the update is exclusive to the Xbox 360, despite Kinect existing on PC.
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When I first saw this, I thought it was going to be lame like what they did with ME3. But now, I think it will be pretty cool. I do spend an awful lot of time navigating through the menus or "favorites" to change weapons and stuff. I think this would be especially useful for weapon/magic users so they don't have to switch out everything all the time. The map functions look pretty cool, too.
So damn tired of them shoving Kinect in our face. We get it. It's a shitty peripheral nobody wants so you gotta redeem yourself somehow. Once again there's no reason I couldn't wear my headset and talk into that, but that doesn't earn them an extra $99.
Being able to actually shout "Fus roh dah!" is going to be the bomb-diggity. My kids are going to love it.
Ya....... I'm not really sure all this voice control stuff is really what I was looking to get out of Kinect. But most of the motion stuff has been shit with a few exceptions. So maybe Voice is where its' at now.