Skyrim Kinect Integration Actually Seems Like a Good Idea

By Brian P Rubin | 12 April 2012 | 17 Comments

Maybe I missed an announcement some months back, but I had no idea that Bethesda was working on Kinect integration for the Xbox 360 version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. But now that I’ve watched the trailer, I think it’s an excellent idea.

Why? Mainly because it doesn’t seem to involve any motion tracking whatsoever, and is basically a fancy, Kinect-shaped microphone that lets you yell at your TV like a crazy person and have it do stuff, like cast spells, dragonshout or whatever that is, and issue commands to NPC allies. Very slick!

The update should be on the way sometime this month, and the Kinect support will feature over 200 voice commands, says a press release published this morning. And to be totally honest—this actually makes me want to play Skyrim, finally. Something about yelling out magic words and having them happen in the game…man, I don’t know why, but that is so cool to me.

17 Comments

Posted by BothersomeOne on 12 April 12 at 9:21am

This is going to bring taking an arrow to the knee back… unless it takes an arrow to the knee, first!
Posted by Drake on 12 April 12 at 10:49am

now I need to learn all the dragon shouts… it will be worth it :D

>:O FUS RO DAH
- Posted by Larell on 12 April 12 at 9:12pm
  
  HA!! I Already learned them all
Posted by Marc on 12 April 12 at 11:13am

I’m baffled at the lack of the PC not being allowed this via microphones….
It’d be simple to implement for the PC. It wouldn’t be as responsive as I hear the Kinect Mic is excellent.

PC users get no love lately :(
- Posted by Fullmetal on 12 April 12 at 1:34pm
  
  Well at least your getting Dark souls which is a good bonus
  o and guild wars 2
- Posted by Emily on 12 April 12 at 3:06pm
  
  We have mods. A whole bunch of them. we just need modders from TES4 to come back out and work on more skyrim mods.
- Posted by AgentMicScarn on 12 April 12 at 5:23pm
  
  There’s been a PC mod that allows users to use their own microphone to perform shouts and much more. It’s been out for several months now.
Posted by René Mathias Rojas on 12 April 12 at 11:34am

Wow… This makes me want an xbox now.
Posted by Saunt on 12 April 12 at 11:59am

Well iirc the Kinect will be coming to PCs sometime in may with its 1.5 software. and its more to do with the Kinects software for voice recognition than just having a mic.
Posted by Guilherme on 12 April 12 at 12:57pm

PS3 owners got FUS RO DAed on the FACE!
:)
- Posted by Larell on 12 April 12 at 9:15pm
  
  So Glad I own both ^-^
  - Posted by David D. Davidson on 13 April 12 at 2:35pm
    
    Both PS3 and 360 version? I mean i would understand a PC and 1 console version but a owning both consoles versions is just plain retarded.
Posted by Anonymous on 12 April 12 at 1:03pm

Ally Blowjob.
Posted by Xenprecs on 12 April 12 at 2:36pm

Quicksave is going to be the best :3
Posted by your ma on 13 April 12 at 2:44am

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Posted by LimeDude on 13 April 12 at 1:52pm

My mother already thinks I am crazy, because I wave my arms in front of the TV and she will send my to the asylum if I start speaking to it. XD
Posted by AkemiYuki on 15 April 12 at 5:41pm

I have a question and don’t answer me like jerks, can’t you do this with any mic(i really don’t know if you can)?

Isn’t that feature mostly from the game software itself rather than on the device?, because this and me3 really have me exited if this become a standar on rpgs, and i mean on pc you can use any mic, and the ps3 has the ps eye and more headsets, why can’t they add that feature on all the systems?

because even if you can’t on ps3, voice commands is like a normal thing on pc.

even endwar/rainbow six vegas 2 have voice commands with headsets so what would make skyrim any different?