Skyrim wins 2011 VGA GOTY award and over a dozen more.

[lestatdark]

Reasonable said:

lestatdark said:

Reasonable said:

Khuutra said:
I got to the first town in Skyrim.

I think I'm going to switch over to using a gamepad.

You on a PC?  If so I'd recommend it.  The game is totally designed for gamepad.  I'm playing on PC with Xbox gamepad and it works a teat.  Lock picking and menu navigation with a mouse is pretty poor - and while mods will no doubt fix that eventually it just feels more natural with a gamepad.

Well, it's true that the game is suited for a gamepad and it plays better with it at start, but after finding how to quick-tab outside the Favourites menu (to the 1-9 keys like in previous ES games), I haven't looked again into my gamepad XD.

I use both.  Quickkeys plus pad for better movement and lockpicking.  Makes the game flow really nicely.  Minimal need to use menus but ability to easily creep, run, etc and rumble assisted lock picking.

Never did have any trouble lockpicking with the mouse, to me it's easier than it was on Oblivion, but the rumble for Dragon detection and menu navigation is a lot better with the pad, especially since the mouse wheel sometimes isn't recognized by the game and you've have to manually select with the arrow keys.

There are a couple of mods coming along to fix that, but so far your method seems to be the best