Fair enough, I'd read some articles about it being really buggy, Jim Rosignol on Rock Paper Shotgun absolutely slated the UI too, still can't wait to play it!

The GUI is annoying, especially trying to find out what poisons etc. are affecting you, but the majority of your time in the game is spent doing stuff in the world, not the menus, so it doesn't really affect the enjoyment a whole lot. The best way to cope, I found, is to not bother with the mouse - stick to WASD to navigate the menu.

I agree. They could be better (they couldn't be a great deal worse). But one interacts with them so little it's of little importance.

The favouriting things needs sorting though. There's no way to consistently get unmatched paired weapons out with keys. That is annoying.

Bioware do good UIs.

I ... can't remember them.

Good. That means you can't argue and have to accept what I say. :)

I do. Their games are fucking dreadful though.

Did you ever play Dungeon Siege?

If so, curious what your thoughts on that are?

I never got round to playing that but I keep meaning to. I do like (non-Blizzard) hack'n'slashes. If I get around to it I will let you know :Y

It's better than Skyrim! Go play it now! :@

Ok, well, "Destroy the Dark Brotherhood" was shit. All I had to do was kill everyone in one sanctuary. Which was easy. And... that's it. Despite there clearly being other sanctuaries which I've found :?

I am almost tempted to play the game like this:

I am currently both happy and annoyed. I just had a CTD, which tends to happen from time to time. This annoyed me. Then all of a sudden steam started updating skyrim. This made me happy as it should hopefully reduce the number of CTD's, etc. However it won't let me play the game until it's finished updating, and i was right in the fucking middle of doing something. This annoyed me.

 

EDIT: Hmm, it's finished updating already. This makes me happy as i can now continue playing, however it also worries me as such a small update can't really have fixed much.

Some people are never pleased.

Anyone else done Wolfskull cave? It was aweeeeesssommmmmeee. Also I did my first throat slitting today, clearing out a bandit encamped ruin.

 

I LOVE THIS GAME

Which one was wolfskull cave? The name rings a bell but i've vleared so many cves and whatnot i can't remember individual ones.

You interrupt a summoning ritual in an underground castle.

Funnily enough, I've just finished Wolfskull cave myself. I amused myself for about 10 minutes by sitting on the far side of the cave and making the people on the top of the tower run around whenever an arrow landed near them.

Oh yes, i remember. I got some very pretty screenshots from there.

Speaking of pretty screenshots. I've just been doing some of the main quest and the really really deep place you go to get the Elder Scroll was just amazing. I'd post some of my pretty screenshots but it'd really be better to wait until you see it yourselves.