Rant: Game interface design

[Archon_Wing]

Yes, Starcraft's interface is rather confusing. I will admit to never bothering to assign hotkeys to a unit. In fact, it's more practical to use the command hotkeys (A for attack) then to bother clicking on a command. Of course, the hotkeys are inconsistent too. M builds a marine while c builds a medic. Yes they do begin with the same letter, but that's still annoying. I don't know many people that can associate the letter c with medic immediately. Also, the hotkey for Psionic Storm is T. Why is it T? Yes, they forgot to realize we can't read progammer's minds. Bah!

But I did grow to like the game. My head was fortunately still intact. :)

Then of course maybe part of the fun is overcoming the difficulty of the interface. And of course the AI. Think D2 merc AI

On the other hand, the controls for First Person Shooters drive me nuts. Well, you can customize them, but I like to play games without memorizing keys. After all, it is better to point and click rather than hammer the keyboard in frustation only to find out you've been pressing the key next to the one you should.