tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765136501328523372.post8219375008096520718..comments2023-11-03T02:45:14.110-05:00Comments on I Have Touched the Sky: In Which Comfortable UI Trumps Interesting Progressionrowanblazehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06820814610269599162noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765136501328523372.post-7708029999645025302014-05-19T15:59:16.565-05:002014-05-19T15:59:16.565-05:00Yes, it's almost too easy to customize the WS ...Yes, it's almost too easy to customize the WS UI. I can't tell you how many times I moved my character portrait accidentally.<br /><br />I will see if I can find the conversation about the TESO UI mod. My research access is limited right now.rowanblazehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06820814610269599162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4765136501328523372.post-18814361606586412592014-05-19T15:42:10.662-05:002014-05-19T15:42:10.662-05:00Oh that's really interesting, the thing about ...Oh that's really interesting, the thing about a mod for TESO that lets you play it like a real MMO. I agree with you that having a significant other who also plays MMOs does make for a very different dynamic when it comes to choosing what games to play. <br /><br />Mrs Bhagpuss and I don't always play the same MMOs and when we do play the same ones we by no means always play together. Mrs B tends to stick to one at a time while I play anything up to half a dozen concurrently but we do usually play the same main MMO at any given time. The UI is probably the number one deciding factor on what MMOs we can play together. While I prefer a mouse&hot key set-up, I can adapt to just about any UI but she really can't be doing with anything that veers far from the MMO gold standard. <br /><br />The worst experience we ever had was probably FFXI, which has a nightmarish interface on PC, designed for a game controller. I painstakingly taught myself how to use it and became fairly comfortable, then tried to persuade Mrs B to try it. She spent an entire weekend struggling with it and it was not a fun time for anyone! In the end we abandoned any idea of playing it together and within a couple of weeks I stopped playing and have never gone back.<br /><br />I think we'd probably both enjoy TESO if it wasn't for the reticule UI. If I knew for certain that there was a mod that would fix that problem then I'm pretty sure we'd give it the game a try, although possibly not before the inevitable transition to F2P. <br /><br />As for WildStar, it has a massively customizeable UI. You can turn almost everything off, including all the telegraphs if you want. How playable it would be then I wouldn't like to say. I was going to try it in beta but I never got around to it.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.com