I should have known...ugggg I heart CONSOLES!
FYI I am about to stand up on my soapbox and shout in the middle of a busy crowd...ahem...
OH an let me get this out there as well; The Witcher 2 totally changed my view and expectations of what an RPG should behave like, both from a story and graphics perspective. So that is my direct comparison because that was the last large RPG game release that I played.
OK I come to gamespot like I always do...I click on PC cause that is what I play games on. I click on Elder Scrolls: and I see first impression videos that are clearly based on consoles, then a marathon video featuring 3 clowns sitting on a couch playing this game with XBox 360 controllers in their hands. I watch a menu pop up on screen that says to press "A"...well for a PC gamer "A" means left! it doesn't open doors, menus or anything other than LEFT!
People are creaming their pants over the graphics...of course they are, they are playing / reviewing it on an XBOX 360...a console that hasn't had any graphic engine changes since it came out in 2003! Which by the way is when Microsoft announced DX9 (insert ooo's and awe's here)...
But for the rest of PC gamers that grew up and updated our Pentium II 400 with Voodoo 3GFX card to modern technology to be able to play DX11 games (its 2011 right?) I think we expect more from Bethesda, oh I don't know, something lets say...NEW?
I had a bad feeling when Fallout NV tripped over itself at launch that whatever title Bethesda would release next would be less PC based and geared towards lazy console programming...because "programming for PC's is a headache!" hell why not right, add some barely improved textures on an already outdated Fallout engine and viola a NEW game!
More bad coming sorry Consolers of the world!!!
The UI is totally consolized, the mouse feels awkward but of course it does...consoles don't have a MOUSE!
The game totally lacks proper keyboard support, the menu controls are counter-intuitive to PC gaming, get ready to rebind your keys PC games (consolers your SAFE...phew!)
Once again I will tip my hat to Projekt CD Red and companies like Blizzard who care more about PC than consoles...HEY consolers how was the Witcher 2, Starcraft 2 or WOW on console (zzzzzzz) who FN cares! Go play HALO or SONIC leave the PC gaming to big-boy gamers!
But I digress...back to Bethesda who basically put lipstick on a pig and tried to sell us on new cosmetic changes just to disguise this old product...guess what Bethesda this is another title that you have sunken your teeth into that stinks (see RAGE), thank you for nothing...But you can build open world games though, to bad you put nothing in it!