Skyrim
Posted: 11 Nov 2011, 19:45
firstly, a big thank-you to australian VPNs (i think of them as robots from the future sent back in time to help me) and razor 1911.
i have lots of good things to say, which i won't bother with, because you've all played oblivion and morrowind, and know what to expect in terms of immersiveness and attention to detail in elder scrolls games.
i'll just jump right ahead to the terribad menu system.
It's consolized. you press escape, and see a list of options. you go to click on said options, and realize "hey i need to select these with ASDW" (at which point i wtf'ed) so yes. going through the menu using keys. once you enter a submenu, THEN you can click on things. but it's not even a "click the last item in the list and it scrolls to it" it's a "click any item lower in the list, and it scrolls closer to it by one"
so yeah. menu land. want to go back a step? press tab (lol wut.) want to go ahead a step? press e.
now that the navigation is out of the way, lets move on to actually selecting items. there is no graphical interface. there is no "compare" function. you scroll through the menu, pick the item you want (by either pressing E or clicking RMB) and then mash tab until you're back in the game.
there are no hotkeys, there is a "favourites" menu that you pull up with Q.
want to select spells? press tab ingame of course, then a "directional" selection (like goldeneye) which mashes you into the spells menu, which again is just a massive list with no visual cues.
want to level up? chose your perks from a confusing side-scrolling menu that doesn't display all of the options at once. THEN, once you've selected which basic thread of perks you'd like, it moves you into a submenu based on an astrological sign (by this point you realize i'm either making this up or have hit the nail on the terribad head)
game is good, menu is bad. there are horses, small children, slutty farmers daughters, wolves, and minstrels in the tavern with really shitty attitudes.
runs like a wet dream on my 9600 gso in medium, which was a surprise, so anyone with a nicer card can expect great things graphically
if you're going to buy it, either don't, or buy the console version (or make sure you have a 360 controller and plenty of patience) coupled with the mouse acceleration and the tard menus it doesn't feel like a pc game.
did i mention that the menu sucks
i have lots of good things to say, which i won't bother with, because you've all played oblivion and morrowind, and know what to expect in terms of immersiveness and attention to detail in elder scrolls games.
i'll just jump right ahead to the terribad menu system.
It's consolized. you press escape, and see a list of options. you go to click on said options, and realize "hey i need to select these with ASDW" (at which point i wtf'ed) so yes. going through the menu using keys. once you enter a submenu, THEN you can click on things. but it's not even a "click the last item in the list and it scrolls to it" it's a "click any item lower in the list, and it scrolls closer to it by one"
so yeah. menu land. want to go back a step? press tab (lol wut.) want to go ahead a step? press e.
now that the navigation is out of the way, lets move on to actually selecting items. there is no graphical interface. there is no "compare" function. you scroll through the menu, pick the item you want (by either pressing E or clicking RMB) and then mash tab until you're back in the game.
there are no hotkeys, there is a "favourites" menu that you pull up with Q.
want to select spells? press tab ingame of course, then a "directional" selection (like goldeneye) which mashes you into the spells menu, which again is just a massive list with no visual cues.
want to level up? chose your perks from a confusing side-scrolling menu that doesn't display all of the options at once. THEN, once you've selected which basic thread of perks you'd like, it moves you into a submenu based on an astrological sign (by this point you realize i'm either making this up or have hit the nail on the terribad head)
game is good, menu is bad. there are horses, small children, slutty farmers daughters, wolves, and minstrels in the tavern with really shitty attitudes.
runs like a wet dream on my 9600 gso in medium, which was a surprise, so anyone with a nicer card can expect great things graphically
if you're going to buy it, either don't, or buy the console version (or make sure you have a 360 controller and plenty of patience) coupled with the mouse acceleration and the tard menus it doesn't feel like a pc game.
did i mention that the menu sucks