I know this is again a play one how bad the UI is, but it just something that has been bugging me.

In all previous elder scrolls games, going right back to Arena, when you talked with a merchant somewhere on the screen there would also be in the same place with same look, a barter button to open the barter screen.

Now it seems it has gone Fallout style and is just a topic in a list of other infomation topics. For Fallout 3 this was fine, it was how the series had always done it, however the static barter button is much better and is what we should have had in Skyrim.


Even for console users this design flaw is bad, in Oblivion once in dialogue you could just hit a button to get to the barter screen, now they have to scroll and select the right piece of text....for PC users it means we have to try and select a topic with the buggy mouse controls.

Anyone else agree this was quite an oversight, one that obviously stems from Fallout 3 designers being lazy and not changing the system they had in place.