Voice Commands Make the Game Better

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At least as far as inventory and item management is concerned. I could care less about shouting FUS RO DAH at the screen, when I can just tap the button to shout. The advantage of the Voice Command DLC is that it makes inventory management much easier.

Three items jump out in particular. First, you can voice command anything in your favorites menu. To do it, all you have to do is open your favorites menu, highlight the item, and say, "Assign Sword", "Assign Fire Spell", "Assign Battleaxe" or whatever. Then, in the main game play screen, you just say "Equip "whatever you said above" and the character immediately equips the item without having to sort through you items/spells/favorites.

It also works for dual wielding. Say you favorited Fireball, and assigned fireball as your "Fire Spell". If you say "Equip Dual Fire Spell" it will equip fireball in both hands. It also works if you want different stuff in different hands. If you are sword/axe/mace and shield, you have to separately assign them (Say "Assign Sword" and "Assign Shield" in the favorites menu). But then in game you just say "Equip Sword and Shield" and it does it. If you are a dual wielder, you have to separately highlight and say "Assign Dual Wield Left" and "Assign Dual Wield Right", but both items can be equipped by saying "Equip Dual Weapons" to the hands you assigned them.

Shortcomings of item management: You are limited to one selection of each type. For example, you can't say "Assign Fireball". You can only say "Assign Fire Spell". And it's certainly possible to have Fireball be your assigned "Fire Spell". What you can't do is assign both Fireball and Fire Rune to the Fire Spell. Similarly, you can't have two sets of dual wielded weapons activated by voice command. Also, you can only have one assign summoning spell. So you can't have both a daedra, and an atronach both assigned to "Summon Spell". You have to pick one or the other.

But given how clunky the item management was on the XBox, and that you could only quick key two items previously, this is an improvement.

Second massive improvement is in the barter menu. On the XBox, you were stuck with an alphabetic listing of your items. Now you can say "My Items Sort by Weight/Value/Name" to sort by that category, which really speeds up the selling process. You can also, for example, say "Their Weapons" or Their Books" or whatever to jump to that menu.

Third is the container menu. You can take only items you value by simply saying "Loot Items" once you set a "Loot Limit" which is calculated by taking the value of an item divided by its weight. So something that had a value of 5 and a weight of 0.1, would have a value to weight ratio of 50. So if you set your loot limit to 50 or less, such an item would be picked up. Setting your loot limit to zero will allow make your character only pick up items that have value, but no weight (like gold). Full list of voice commands here

And I know most of you play on a PC, and don't give a crap about this, so here's something you might find interesting:

Dawnguard will be the first Skyrim DLC with a projected release date of summer 2012... so a couple of months out yet. (And yeah, I know it's the news forum, but hey... maybe you didn't see it.)

 

I play on a PC and at the moment could care less if they brought out a DLC as good as Shivering Isles. If they don't fix the navimesh bug I can do no modding, any quest mod or for that matter even a simple house mod won't work properly.

I am very upset at Bethesda. They give us an editor that is buggy as all , um well it is very buggy. They got a lot of good ideas from the Mods that were made and then turn around and slap the modders in the face.

 

Hey Nakia! Good to hear from you again!