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Skyrim for iPad, are you game?

Under: Apps, Tablet PC
Date: October 31st, 2011

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim release date is November 11, 2011, this will be released on Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows for PC and the PlayStation 3, but here is something worth considering, what about Skyrim for iPad, are you game?

The new role-playing video game “Skyrim” developed by Bethesda Game Studios is very interesting indeed, and follows the highly popular Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. The main story to this game basically revolves around the player trying to defeat a dragon god who is bent on trying to destroy the world.

This new game is set 200 years after Oblivion and the gameplay looks astonishing, it will be an epic game on the three gaming platforms mention above but it would be fantastic to see it released in the future on the popular Apple iPad tablet PC, surely this is possible.

Could Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim work on the iPad? Ok the graphics will not be as perfect on the iPad as the Xbox, PX and PS3 but surely something close would be good enough, we believe the iPad frame-rate could handle the game.

The game is complex, there is no doubting that, but can you just imagine the sales if this were possible. Would you like to see Skyrim released on the iPad in the future? Please do use the commenting area provided below to have your say.

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Jhdfdsd

no
- Dirkblanchat
  
  Yup it will work
Fssefsefg

nope
- Dirkblanchat
  
  Yup sry ur wrong
Craigdean18

Never.
DgfdV

Lol I think that’s a no……
ghhj

stupid article
- Dirkblanchat
  
  Well, I can just tell by ur writing that u gghj have a stupid face! And ur stupid this will work! Get a life grandma!!!
- Mattkluever
  
  Why
No

Are you stupid?
- Dirkblanchat
  
  No, but I know u r
Ssarrasum Blackscale

Not so much on iPad, maybe on Adroid 3.1
Dylan

How the hell could you even play Skyrim on a touchscreen? The game uses so many buttons and controls that I just don’t see how it could even begin to work without either adding an accessory to the iPad or completely revamping the gameplay to remove several elements of play.
- Dirkblanchat
  
  Listen here geek, if you can come on this website and speak sh** to this guy that has more creativity in his fingernail then u do in ur body, then skyrim can DEFINATLY BE PLAYED ON THE IPAD.
  - Dylan
    
    This is an excessively late reply, but your post interests me on a few levels.
    
    First, there is a difference between creativity and imagination. Imagination does not exist in the real world and therefore does not have to answer to reality. The same is not true of creativity. Creativity is about making something–applying imagination to reality. Crations have to be capable of really existing.
    
    I don’t think that a game as complicated as Skyrim can work WELL or ACCEPTABLY on an iPad. The problem I see is in the number of simultaneous imputs required as well as the amount of information that is already on the screen that would then have to also share space with all the controls. For example, a mage often has to press as many as five buttons at a single time. Say he is dual casting a spell (two triggers), avoiding attacks (left stick), tracking an enemy (right stick), and suddenly needs to do a fifth command without casting the spell, like jump or drink a potion or enter sneak or a number of other things. That would be awkward on a flat surface that offers no tactile feedback. It would also only be possible with multiple fingers on the screen and the iPad layed flat on a surface or in your lap. That already sounds like a horrid user interface.
    
    I own an iPad and an iPhone. Touchscreen interfaces do a great number of things much better than any other interface I’ve used, but they are not superior in every way. Touchscreens make three compromises: they offer no tactile feedback, and they sometimes force control imputs to occupy the screen which limmits the user’s information, and they are limmited in their ability to accept rapid or simultanious imputs.
    
    I’m currious as to why you are so deeply offended.
Barrett Montgomery

Lol I think this is the stupidest thing I’ve read all day.
- Dirkblanchat
  
  Obviously not BARRETT because u looked I pn e mirror to day and saw ur face
  
  OHHHHHHHHHH SUCK THAT
  - Arseni_k18
    
    i bet there’s nothing to suck, so shut it please
- Mattkluever
  
  What hell is wrong with you what is so bad about the idea
Loststory08

What did I just read? While this guy is at it… lets suggest Battlefield 3 for Ipad as well, that sounds like a great idea… Author, just stick to ipad fanboyism and angrybirds. Leave the big-boy thinking/gaming for the rest of us…
Nope

This article made me cry.
Anrikay

Please no. Just no. For one, the iPad has less than 2gb of RAM. The PC MINIMUM is 4 gb. So right off the bat, they have to eliminate half of the game to meet the minimum requirements to play it. On top of that, the processing power, video card, etc., just cannot hold up to the size of a game such as Skyrim. On the PC, it requires a fairly good PC to meet the minimum requirements. On an X-Box and PS3, which have top-of-the-line processing power as capable today, the graphics have to be brought down. Even Wii-U, capable of HD, may not be able to handle Skyrim. On top of the technology problems, there is all the problems with NOT A CONTROLLER. So no, I would not like to see the most anticipated game of the year butchered to make it work for your iPad.
- http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001216894497 Ernesto Mercado
  
  Ram isn’t actually storage memory. The minimum GB of data iPads have is more than enough.
  
  Also, the Skyrim PC requirements are actually really modest compared to what the game entails.
  
  And PC games have had better graphics than consoles since like 2008. The Wii-U is by no means an exception, since the promised HD is comparable to what the other two big consoles already have.
  
  Still think Skyrim on the iPad is a horrible idea, though.
NEIN

NO NEIN NICHT NON NADA NIET!
…. can’t think of any more words for no, but u get the picture
Nijssjs

Whatever it is the author of this article thinks is wrong. It is just not possible to experience a game like the elder scrolls on a tablet, no matter how powerful (frankly, no tablet no can even come close to matching the power of a gaming rig).
Blargha

er… the amount of gameplay would burn out your iPad
- Vinsane
  
  Stop it
Moumou

oh man… please tell me you are being sarcastic… please tell me…
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XW4VHMTIV5ITYA6NK22WROTSEQ angelspackersrock

wtf so random. but anyways there is no way the iPad would be able to hold all the memory this game needs
Wow

This guy must literally be retarded. Not only is the idea preposterously stupid, but the article is badly written as well. FAIL.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Smith/1750571019 Richard Smith

Stick to angry birds and fruit ninjas or get a real game system.
Vulgra

if youput skyrim on iPAD it will explode.
Yes!

I think if they get it to work, without butchering the game and play, then by all means bring it on! …. But as a 360 gamer AND an iPad gamer…. I’ll be playing that one on my XBox.
Stevei_TT

To all haters,

Give the guy a break, he is just suggesting an idea, no need to get so angry about it,
Yeah, it might not be such a good idea for controls and other stuff, just give the guy a break…

And so what if the article isn’t spelt absolutely right and there are a few mistakes, I’ll bet not one person reading this has’t made a small mistake on something like this.

Anyway, if they could pull it off, maybe getting rid of some of the quests and villages, it would be a really good idea, being an Xbox player as well though, I think it should stick to console.

Yours sincerely,

The anti-hater
Dirkblanchat

YES!!!!!!
Goed

Absolutely!!!!

I would also be willing to pay a fair amount for this, not the usual few dollars paid for most apps.
Mossinpursuit

I used to consider skyrim on the iPad, till iPad took an arrow to the knee.
Mossinpursuit

I used to consider skyrim on the iPad, till iPad took an arrow to the knee.
Dwarren876

I would be the happiest man in the world !! I would be happy even if oblivion could come to IPAD
Imbobby74

Ipad3 is said to have a quad core proccessor so i am sure that could handle it easy. Seeing as the Xbox is almost 7 years old, plus Morrowind was on the 1st Xbox. Arolon is out for ios right now and runs perfect on my old iphone 4. I tell my nephew I am playing Oblivion on my iphone and he believes me because it looks sweet.
- Rzguns
  
  I cant find the app?!?!?!?!?
Simon Furber1

One word, Splashtop
Vlad

я хотел бы видеть Skyrim на Ipad 2
Vlad

я хотел бы видеть Skyrim на Ipad 2
ThatOneGuy

You know this is an actually creative idea…whoever wrote this has an imagination
ThatOneGuy

You know this is an actually creative idea…whoever wrote this has an imagination
Thomas

probably impossible and the controls would be awk but id take the bait
Cnicholas1850

I would love to see skyrim on the iPad
It could work and so many people would buy it, I’m sure
Dameon Grey

I would love it. I know that some of my larger games take up a huge chunk of space, and it seems like the larger they are the more difficult it is to operate the game without it crashing, but I also have some games that use the Internet to store some of your progress. Granted, I would need Internet when ever I ay the game, I wouldn’t mind them using an online account like game center to store my saves. I would take care of the space issue. I wild hate for it to be a smaller version. I would want it to be just as expansive as the Xbox game.
http://www.facebook.com/enok.eriksson Enok Eriksson

This would make it worth buying an Ipad for me
Rpreschern

Dude if there was a way we could get skyrim for the I pad I would buy it regardless the price
Tomcorp45

That would be amazing, to play one of my favourite games on my portable iPad. Even cooler if I could use my iPhone 4 as the controller and my iPad as the console!
Lekasaja

YES YES YES YES YES YES PLZZZZZZZ
J Rlilc

Yes do it please I would make ALOT of people happy
–

I like how people are desperately pleading “pleasssseeeee” down there as if the guy who wrote this has any control over what bethesda does.
R443D

Hey android lovers! iPad is better. I know what ur thinking. iPad couldn’t run something that complex but a game with lower graphics is possible. Bethesda should really consider making elder scrolls online for iPad because there are already apps like order and chaos online which work perfectly
Mason

Yea, all you Hester’s need to stfu. Skyrim for iPad would be cool, and would probably sell a lot. And if y’all really hate the article and all, why would you waste your time writing about it.