I'm at work right now so I can't take pics, but Skyrim's has some issues. My biggest problem with it is what is missing: A summary screen.
The UI is based around the four points of Map, Items, Magic and Skills, but the center of that selection menu should have been "Status", showing our character, everything we have equipped, with their respective bonuses, stats, armor and attack ratings, active effects, ect.
Instead I have to go third person and manipulate the camera to see my character change armor and menu dive to see equipped items, effects and stats. Kind of baffling, IMO.
Absolutely. One of the most frustrating parts of Skyrim's interface is how
every time I find myself needing to see plain ol' character status, I have to fumble around the menu looking for it... before I remember it's accessible from the map/journal screen only. Why?!
But Skyrim's PC interface is just a fucking disaster in general. SkyUI fixes a lot of these problems (and looks sexy doing it), but even then you have a nightmare of jank. The number of weird bugs that will apparently never be fixed for no reason is mindblowing. Why do I have to switch to my keyboard after reading a book in my inventory and then backing out, once again, to the "books" menu? Why doesn't the cursor consistently highlight what it's pointing at? Why do I have to put something in my favorites menu
before I can bind it to a key?
And maybe the
worst of them all (in my experience): why does everything fuck up if I rebind the "F" key? That was the "ready your weapon" key in Oblivion, and I played tons of that, so it was easiest for me to rebind "F" to that action in Skyrim. But when you do that, you can't use your stupid favorites menu anymore unless you reset to default bindings! (And the UI "reminder" at the bottom of the screen won't change to indicate a new binding, either. The default binding is "F", and so it always says "F".)
So
every time I find a new weapon to replace another I've been using, I have to switch to default bindings, add that weapon to my favorites menu,
then bind it to the right key,
then rebind the controls to my custom setup. It's been like this since day one, and no fixes are coming, ever? How difficult would that be to fix? How long would it take? I refuse to believe nobody has noticed this at Bethesda. [/rant]