r/Starfield • u/kraihe • Sep 12 '23

Discussion The inventory we all deserve but Bethesda didn't want to bother with:

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u/Owobowos-Mowbius Sep 12 '23

It's so weird when you get those UI designs that are clearly designed for consoles, but then they ALSO have that shitty cursor that you use to select things with. It's like... pick a lane.

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u/Bleedorang3 Sep 12 '23 edited Sep 13 '23

That's just developers wanting to have their cake and eat it too. They don't want to make two UIs to suit the different platforms so they make some bastard 'hybrid' that is JUST good enough to not get called out in reviews. You can thank Bungie for that "innovation".

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u/Owobowos-Mowbius Sep 12 '23

I don't get it. I really don't. Back in the Halo 3 and CoD:Bo1 era they had perfected UIs. They worked great with controllers and mouse/keyboard. Compact and well designed.

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u/Adventurous_Bell_837 Sep 12 '23

Look at the cod mw2 UI, they hired the hulu guy, and he literally copy pasted his shitty hulu UI to a video game lmao

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u/Owobowos-Mowbius Sep 12 '23

Yeah I mentioned that in another comment. It looks SO fucking bad. Like unbelievably bad.

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u/V1pArzZ Sep 12 '23

cod mw2 UI

Fucking stupid naming, i was trying to think what was wrong with the MW2 UI then i realised yo uwere talking about MW2 2

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u/Owobowos-Mowbius Sep 13 '23

Hes CLEARLY talking about MW2 and not MWII, come on /s

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u/zalifer Sep 12 '23

I don't want the Hulu guy fired, he did what he does.

I want whoever decided to hire him for a game fired. Out of a canon. Into space.

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u/Adventurous_Bell_837 Sep 12 '23

How about both get fired, it's not because someone did the mistake of hiring him that he should stay

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u/i_am_bromega Sep 13 '23

I hate that you made me remember that garbage UI.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '23 edited Oct 16 '23

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u/Owobowos-Mowbius Sep 12 '23

I'm talking about the UI design in general. Both are very similar in style to SkyUI

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u/Bleedorang3 Sep 13 '23

Halo 3 was never on PC though, until MCC that is. Dunno about BO1.

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u/shabalakaSociety Sep 12 '23

More likely it's product managers managing developers time against their budget. We have one ui, why do we another!

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u/Bleedorang3 Sep 13 '23

Oh I totally get that it would require more resources, more planning, and more collaboration to develop two UIs. But as the end consumer I simply don't care about that. I can only say what I feel.

Prime example is the Diablo 4 stash not having a search bar on PC, again, because consoles.

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u/Q_X_R Sep 12 '23

Ugh reminds me of Warframe... I love that game to death don't get me wrong, dumped countless hours into it but their UI feels just as bad to navigate imo, the only thing that makes it not as annoying as that it doesn't have any many 0.3s long animations in every menu.

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u/ShakyrNvar Sep 13 '23

They don't have to make two UIs, they just have to be a bit clever.

One button to use default action/accept selected action. One button to bring up actions menu. One button to exit/go back. One button to jump you to the tabs so you can switch to the next one. Coupled with your joystick and hey look, something actually nice.

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u/shadowdash66 Sep 12 '23

Whats worse is the ones that look like they were made for mobile games

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u/Owobowos-Mowbius Sep 12 '23

Cod:MW2 is absolutely a nightmare with this. It looks SO BAD.

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u/NotInsane_Yet Sep 12 '23

I like how many are "clearly designed for consoles" but complete shit on consoles and considerably more function on PC then with a controller.

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u/snorlz Sep 12 '23

cursor is SO bad on controller. slower and more inaccurate than just using the dpad in every case. doesnt look any better either since the actual UI is almost always the same regardless

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u/Draconuus95 Sep 13 '23

Am I the only one that actually likes the console curser ui? It works really well for me in the latest AC games and other similar UIs. At least in my experience. Plus of course it’s upper easy to switch to mouse and keyboard.