Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

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I finally got my new card working without texture corruption. Behold!
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Sexy.

I have to admit, I feel like complaining about something. That something being "standard interface controls".

PC gamers are familiar with dialogue boxes, and how to confirm or close them with enter and esc respectively? Whelp, due to echoes of Oblivion's console-orientation that ain't happening. Every choice must be mouse clicked. As a thief, I actually dread selling all the stuff I have to sell, and that's a whole lotta stuff. I run to my fence, and proceed selling an entire backpack of loot.

The game asks me to confirm the sale of every single item I want to sell. If I have more than two of an item, a total slider pops up (confirm that), and then the confirmation for sale pops up. Oddly enough, if I have but two of an item, the game sells each one individually with seperate confirmations. Now, it wouldn't be so bad if I could lean my mousing thumb on the keypad enter and alternately hammer the mouse and keypad to sell and confirm, but no: I have click-drag-click-drag for everything I want to sell.

Another alternative would to treat selling like Morrowind: You put everything you want to sell on the table, take anything you want to buy, and confirm the sale once. I might be able to live with enter and esc not being bound to "okay" and "cancel" that way.

This is one of the greatest problems I see with cross-platform developments tied to a simultaneous release. Because the XBox 360 players wanted to have Oblivion, the PC players suffer for the console's interface restrictions. If Bethesda had taken about as much time to tweak the PC version's UI to make it intuitive (read: How we've been doing it for years) as I have taken complaining about it, then I wouldn't have to.

Also, not a gripe but rather an odd observation: Does anyone else find that when they take something off a table, everything on that table levitates an inch or so? Gravity must be entirely different on Cyrodiil as it is on Vvardenfell, since on that hunk of rock people could barely clear the height of their knees with a jump, yet Cyrodiilians can clear a horse with a single bound :w00t:

I'm now a fully-fledged member of the Dark Brotherhood. Best. Crime scene. Escape. Ever. I hacked that poor stablehand to death, told the approaching guard to swing on it, then leapt off the nearby hillock onto my waiting horse on the road while the guards were clanking and huffing their way around the corner. Moments like that make me feel alive, people. Unlike that poor girl I butchered. :shuriken: