Quote: This menu can then quickly be brought up during a fight, pausing the action, so you swiftly adjust to the changing nature of a battle without having to page through the main menu system, though on PC an option to also bind items and spells to number keys would have been appreciated.
It surely would have. After watching a few videos in the heat of battle, it seems to break the flow of the game any time that you need to go to the main menu to use something.
PC hotkeys are definitely in. That right there is an unfortunate oversight on their part.