3 Things Skyrim Players Need to Know About ESO
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So... you're saying it's an MMO... like any other MMO... and not at all like an Elder Scrolls game... pretty much what I expected so I more than likely won't be playing it, I just hope that if it fails it doesn't impact the quality/time frame of Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls 6.
Except that it is a lot more like Skyrim than it is like WoW...PedroSteckecilo said:
It's just not quite Skyrim 2.0.
Why do they cling to old and tired MMO tropes when many modern MMO's have already shown that they aren't necessary?
It's possible that a large portion of Skyrim's fanbase had never played an Elder Scrolls game before. There's a good chance that there are plenty of people who would purchase TESO simply based on the fact that they enjoyed Skyrim. This is a gentle warning to those people I guess.ShakerSilver said:
I'm in two minds whether or not I want this. On one hand I really enjoy the worlds and lore of TES but on the other hand I've never really liked any MMO. I think I'll wait this one out.
It won't. Completely different developers. Published by Bethesda, but developed by Zenimax Online Studios.PedroSteckecilo said:
Honestly, it sounds quite similar to Guild Wars 2... I think? I only started playing GW2 fairly recently, so maybe I'm not best placed to judge.
I was actually playing beta right now. So far after 6 hours the only thing I liked was character creator. The rest feels more empty and meaningless... No, that doesn't reflect the reality of ESO. You now how in Skyrim you could be Archmage, Guildmaster of Thieves and leader of Companions, and nobody gives a flying fuck? It's like this, but times five hundred. NPCs keep telling you how special you are, but that becomes hard to believe when there are hundreds of carbon copies of you running around. And they are all special. Everyone is special in ESO.
Trying to be as general as I can be to hide from the wrath of lawyers 
I?m not easily enthralled by MMOs and tend to hate the core elements of MMO games. The one thing I do really like is the story elements and the way it plays out feel more like a single player game than a MMO. So I been playing the ESO beta I?m not very satisfied with their class system and complete overhaul of the spell system. Basically you can still be a dual wielding axe mage or a magic casting warrior but there are issues which make the magic casting warrior pointless. So I have been a mage,dragon knight and an assassin/thief , my only real complaint to combat has been auto aim.
The world is big enough and looks good and there are plenty of quests I?m just annoyed it has lvl reqs(which is almost a req for an MMO) which always piss me off and I cannot build how I want like in Champions online frankly it?s only saving grace is you can build your own unique character selecting any power/ability as long as you have the reqs for it (which require you to have X number power/abilities) tho you can only do that via subscription(cheap time cards FTW).
I been thinking and they would have been better off using skyrim/oblivion and just set the scale of skills from 100 to 1000 or 10000. And attributes can be raised anyway you want just you get to do it 3 or 5 times longer. Then have no level cap offer delving services for a fee so you can play through expansions without being too over powered. PVP would be open only when you log in you can select if you want to be part of PVP if not you are immune to PVP attacks outside arenas. PVP gear would be based on whoever is killed equipment. Dups of their equipment will be randomly generated based on the items worth and the winner?s stats all those who fought IE did damage whoever was killed will get a chance at looting. An optional 2nd tier of PVP mode will make it so the equipment is not duped rather it?s just randomly generated based on the winners stats IE what you might find and remove from a normal corpse only it is removed from the losers inventory. Players can band together to buy homes, castles, ect and make them their guild headquarters,ect. Just some thoughts.
I?m not easily enthralled by MMOs and tend to hate the core elements of MMO games. The one thing I do really like is the story elements and the way it plays out feel more like a single player game than a MMO. So I been playing the ESO beta I?m not very satisfied with their class system and complete overhaul of the spell system. Basically you can still be a dual wielding axe mage or a magic casting warrior but there are issues which make the magic casting warrior pointless. So I have been a mage,dragon knight and an assassin/thief , my only real complaint to combat has been auto aim.
The world is big enough and looks good and there are plenty of quests I?m just annoyed it has lvl reqs(which is almost a req for an MMO) which always piss me off and I cannot build how I want like in Champions online frankly it?s only saving grace is you can build your own unique character selecting any power/ability as long as you have the reqs for it (which require you to have X number power/abilities) tho you can only do that via subscription(cheap time cards FTW).
I been thinking and they would have been better off using skyrim/oblivion and just set the scale of skills from 100 to 1000 or 10000. And attributes can be raised anyway you want just you get to do it 3 or 5 times longer. Then have no level cap offer delving services for a fee so you can play through expansions without being too over powered. PVP would be open only when you log in you can select if you want to be part of PVP if not you are immune to PVP attacks outside arenas. PVP gear would be based on whoever is killed equipment. Dups of their equipment will be randomly generated based on the items worth and the winner?s stats all those who fought IE did damage whoever was killed will get a chance at looting. An optional 2nd tier of PVP mode will make it so the equipment is not duped rather it?s just randomly generated based on the winners stats IE what you might find and remove from a normal corpse only it is removed from the losers inventory. Players can band together to buy homes, castles, ect and make them their guild headquarters,ect. Just some thoughts.
How much Elder Scrolls lore do you know? Khajiit come in a bunch of different flavours, ranging from almost housecats through to what is basically a catgirl and I'm not lying. Some are digitigrade, some are plantigrade. Same deal with argonians, except they range from lizard people to nearly crocodiles.Really Offensive Name said:
Seriously, read the lore. It gets weirder than that. Trees, moons, it's seriously bizarre.
Well, there goes any flagging interest interest I had. If ESO doesn't have this, it doesn't deserve to have the words "Elder Scrolls" in front of it. It's the defining feature of the series. Before anybody says it, I know that most MMOs are like this, but that doesn't excuse it. Off the top of my head I can think of EVE Online and Star Trek Online as two examples of MMOs that allow you to just wander around aimlessly and fall feet first into quests and other random distractions, so it's not as if it's impossible to do. What's worse is the classic Elder Scrolls formula is the perfect formula for an MMO, all they really had to do was basically make Skyrim with other players running around and it would have worked perfectly.
Just tacking on multiplayer to Skyrim (or any other TES game) isn't feasible because the parts that define the TES experience are system resource-expensive as they are.immortalfrieza said:
I'll spare the technical details where possible, but just due to how the Gamebryo Engine tracks Actors (interactive objects, stuff you can pick up, equip, use, and place) is HORRIBLY inefficient for multiplayer. Hell, it was horribly inefficient for just ONE PLAYER on the PS3.
A different engine entirely was necessary from the start, and with it, most of the things that gives TES its famous "immersion factor" had to be dumbed down or eliminated; A more static environment was an inevitable change.
This is mainly why I never once got my hopes up for a TES MMO. The closest thing in gaming currently is Star Wars Galaxies, but even that handled objects radically differently than any TES game to date.
In short: There's no way to translate TES into an MMO while retaining the full TES experience.
Limited multiplayer, probably, but full on MMO? Not a chance.
I am not looking forward to this at all....and this is coming from a Elder Scrolls fan since Morrowind.
There's also the fact that that line wasn't true (or from a different game entirely). I stumbled onto a bunch of quests playing the beta, some easier to find than others. The distances between cities are greater, granted, but there's still a lot of value in exploration.Atmos Duality said:
"That line"Nimzabaat said:
There are many, including one cited from the article. Which line is not true?
I'm unsure of how to comment until that's clarified.
I think he meant the one quoted from the article, i.e. "The Environment is More Static"Atmos Duality said:
What I really miss in ESO are ragdolls. Playing crossgolf with skeleton's heads is just too much fun to be left out of a modern Elder Scrolls game