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Old 09-15-2006, 05:11 AM   #5
SpiritWarrior
Jack Burton
 

Join Date: May 31, 2002
Location: Ireland
Posts: 5,854
Well, Morrowind was kinda similiar but not as bad. Fistly the whole realtime casting thing is more gamepad oriented. You'd have better luck mashing buttons and controls rather than hitting 'C' or your mouse and aiming in the right direction

Then the merged spell/character/stat/inventory menu. You have to click everytime you want to look at a seperate tab. This menu is clearly designed for hitting the right control button on your gamepad and hitting 'A'. Then you just scroll down using your 'down' buttons and the result is you gliding through your inven. and spells, dropping items, switching items, taking potions and choosing magic. On the PC we have to scroll dwon using the bar or set keys up for specific tabs. It takes alot more time and alot more pausing, taking away from the overall immersion. It is just horridly console-friendly.

Then there are no actionbars, everything is keys. Some people play with keys but i'm used to clicking. I can't see the spells I have saved in my keys so I have to memorize where each one is. I can't even make the radial menu permanent so I can see what spell is what key if i have just gotten some new spells and changed it around. And God forbid I have 2 spells with the same icon next to each other because I have to make absolutely certain I have the right spell selected when i hit the corresponding key as there is no way to tell them apart and no text to even tell me what I am casting.

Then the issue of grabbing items. I have to click 'take all' each time I want everything. I amn't sure of there is a way to map your mouse to do that but it would sure save me alot of time (you know the amount of boxes and barrels in this game). Last time I asked I was told there was no way to do this.
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