I am a gamer. I love gaming, and above all else, I love roleplaying games. Sadly, because of Reasons?, I am unable to play as much as I want to, and because of this I have to be very strict about which games I buy.

That being said, I am very, very tempted to pre-order Fallout 4, simply because I love Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls so much. One thing is making me hesitate, though, and that is UI design. For me, the user interface is one of the most important aspects of a game, right up there with storytelling and world design. It's even above player choice and character customisation, if only by a hair's width.

In Fallout 3 (and F:NV), the UI was bad, but not bad enough to make me skip the game - the world design, story and game mechanics were more than good enough to make up for it. Skyrim, though... By the gods old and dark, that was an atrocious UI. Despite how much I was looking forward to playing Skyrim, I didn't even buy the game until the SkyUI mod was well under way.

Please, please, please, will gamesas keep PC users in mind when designing the UI for Fallout 4? How about, this time, let form follow function, not decide it? Make a working UI for the PC, then pretty it up, instead of making something that looks good and then try to make it work? And please make separate UIs for PC and console, and don't make a half-arsed PC port of a console UI?

Do this, and you will get at least one more sale.


PS: And please be ethical enough to not release Fallout 4 with Day 1 DLCs or restrict game content depending on where you buy the game? Pretty please with sugar bomb sprinkles on top?

Even if it's decent, modders will make a better UI so you're covered.

Games like Fallout require too much time in making content to have Day 1 DLC. There will be pre-order bonuses however.

Agreed; I think it's a shame that modding was required to get an acceptable UI in Skyrim rather than the Fisher-Price default. Even if it was something just to shrink down the font and rearrange the layout, inspired by Web 2.0 options. If they employ me I'll do it as a one-man job!!

I agree, for once Beth should at least try to make a proper, functional UI. I'm not talking solely for us PC players, every platform deserves a proper UI.

Skyrim's UI definitely was the very worst I've ever seen. Seriously, what kind of braindead moron designed that cluster****? And don't even try to claim it was designed with controller in mind, that's utter BS. You can shove those claims to where the Sun doesn't shine. When SkyUI helps immensely even those using controllers, something has been seriously botched up.

Dare I say they should take some inspiration from the default Morrowind UI.. that was one of the best I've ever seen given how customisable it was out of the box.

Yeah, I very much agree, but chances of Beth doing a functional PC interface are slim - they don't care about this stuff. So we'll have to wait until modders will fix it.

I would love a better UI, please Beth don't let us down!

Yeeeeah...

Seems to be a kick in the fork for PC players. Again.

#disappointed

Well, I HOPE that the PC UI will be more focused on the PC. After the joke of a game that was DA:I, developers really need to spend more time on platform specific UI's.