Bethesda Announces The Elder Scrolls Online

[SajuukKhar]

Hell, go look at the Dishonored comments on videos. Theyre hilarious.
Seriously...

It's so bad that I STILL have to correct people, to this very day, for saying Bethesda made New Vegas.

I find it funny that whenever companies do something like DLC people are up-in-arms about how "companies must think we are stupid to fall for it" yet those same people cant tell the difference between a developer and a publisher.

 

[Aprilgold]

][li]A rabid fanbase[/li]
[li]A robust mod community[/li]
[li]A developer with a long history of high quality games[/li][/list]

Well I have problems with two things that you said.

[li]Yes, it has a rabid community, thats a fact.[/li]
[li]Modding can't be done on a MMO because it would give people freedom to openly get the best weapons. Honestly, if you allowed modding, so many people would be using the weapon that can 1 hit bosses and enemies that the game would literally be broken at the core.[/li]
[li]Finally, high quality my ass. If by "High Quality" you mean a developer that openly allows bugs if their funny into the game, bugs that they never patch and should. Low quality textures in some spots. Bad voice acting and patches that actually make certain bugs worse, yes they are very high quality. Wasn't to long ago when a patch for Skyrim made the dragons clip through the world and fly backwards.

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Its going to be a stereotypical Elder Scrolls game with people who are calling you a ****** for no reason. It'll most likely have a subscription, will have their Dragon AI and will be using Skyrim's engine most likely, so that means the following:
[li]Stale combat and stale PVP.[/li]
[li]More then likely bad voice acting.[/li]
[li]Bugs such as animals telling on you to the city guard.[/li]
[li]Players will think that their the only person to save the world, and so will many others, creating heated competition between players, instead of co-operation.[/li]
[li]Nothing will be memorable after a few months such as quests, characters and the world itself.[/li]
[li]Terrible gimmick.[/li]

Yes, I'm being cynical but if anyone thinks this will come out as the WoW killer needs to take a look at better examples like Guild Wars 2, and many other F2P MMO's that are gaining in popularity. You can't beat WoW by simply having brand recognition.

 

[Faerillis]

Surely I can't be the only one who sees that setting this in the Second Era is a TREMENDOUSLY stupid idea. Don't get me wrong, I'm excited for the game and I love the Elder Scrolls but 1000 years beforehand is incredibly stupid.

This is a pre-established game universe, so we already know exactly what happened. Adding something big and important that is in no way mentioned in any of the games already would be an utter ass-pull. Also, what's wrong with setting it in say 4E210? You want 3 Factions? The Cyrodilic Empire (Cyrodiil, High Rock, Orc Strongholds), The Free Nations (Skyrim, Black Marsh/Morrowind, Hammerfell), and The Thalmor States (Summerset Isles, Valenwood, Elsweyr).

 

[SajuukKhar]

Surely I can't be the only one who sees that setting this in the Second Era is a TREMENDOUSLY stupid idea. Don't get me wrong, I'm excited for the game and I love the Elder Scrolls but 1000 years beforehand is incredibly stupid.

This is a pre-established game universe, so we already know exactly what happened. Adding something big and important that is in no way mentioned in any of the games already would be an utter ass-pull. Also, what's wrong with setting it in say 4E210? You want 3 Factions? The Cyrodilic Empire (Cyrodiil, High Rock, Orc Strongholds), The Free Nations (Skyrim, Black Marsh/Morrowind, Hammerfell), and The Thalmor States (Summerset Isles, Valenwood, Elsweyr).

Actually we dont know what happened, most of the second Era is a historical dead-zone.

Also there is a thing called a dragon-break that allows Bethesda to rewrite time at their leisure.

furthermore setting during Skyrim is a even more stupid idea that would pretty much kill off the SP games.

 

[Meight08]

Can't say I'm too happy about this, because now elder scrolls will literally be frozen with the mmo coming out. Expect the next single player elder scrolls in 10-12 years.

Its being made by zenimax online not bethesda.
READ THE ARTICLE BEFORE SAYING ANYTHING

EDIT: sorry just saw you added something.

I did, and I don't see why you are in such denial. There is still a high possibility of single player elder scrolls being frozen that you need to see, just because the mmo is made by a different company does not change that. It is VERY unlikely to release a new elder scrolls game because they will wait for the mmo to finish up its lore, which could end as stupidly as warcraft with its space alien race.

The game is set 1000 years before skyrim just to avoid that possibility.

 

[Faerillis]

Surely I can't be the only one who sees that setting this in the Second Era is a TREMENDOUSLY stupid idea. Don't get me wrong, I'm excited for the game and I love the Elder Scrolls but 1000 years beforehand is incredibly stupid.

This is a pre-established game universe, so we already know exactly what happened. Adding something big and important that is in no way mentioned in any of the games already would be an utter ass-pull. Also, what's wrong with setting it in say 4E210? You want 3 Factions? The Cyrodilic Empire (Cyrodiil, High Rock, Orc Strongholds), The Free Nations (Skyrim, Black Marsh/Morrowind, Hammerfell), and The Thalmor States (Summerset Isles, Valenwood, Elsweyr).

Actually we dont know what happened, most of the second Era is a historical dead-zone.

Also there is a thing called a dragon-break that allows Bethesda to rewrite time at their leisure.

I'm saying that if, as is the plan, Molag Bal tried to pull all of Tamriel into his Daedric Realm of Coldharbour at any point in history there is no way we wouldn't have heard of it.

 

[SajuukKhar]

I'm saying that if, as is the plan, Molag Bal tried to pull all of Tamriel into his Daedric Realm of Coldharbour at any point in history there is no way we wouldn't have heard of it.

Again

Dragon-break

multiple parallel timelines are formed that are then merged togeather with most of each erased.

the entire game could be set during a dragon-break and just be one of the limitless timelines that got erased

 

[luckycharms8282]

So Bethesda stopped a game developer from creating Fallout Online (my favorite game series) and will instead put out an Elder Scrolls MMO...

Me no likey I want my next Fallout installment please Bethesda.

 

[SajuukKhar]

So Bethesda stopped a game developer from creating Fallout Online (my favorite game series) and will instead put out an Elder Scrolls MMO...

Me no likey I want my next Fallout installment please Bethesda.

Bethesda stopped them because they violated their contract.

Blame Interplay's incompetence if anything.

 

[Something Amyss]

Ok so it will be a fairly huge game, tiresome combat and probably loaded with bugs.

I think that alone qualifies it as a TES game.

"I'm tired of simply ruining individual experiences....How can we ruin thousands at once?"

 

[Charli]

So it begins, the inevitable is coming.

I watch on with cynical but expecting eyes.

 

[renegade7]

As long as it maintains the Elder Scrolls feel, that is to say immersion before everything else. It should be nothing more than an Elder Scrolls game in MMO fashion.

cloud nine: ah yea, that's about how I feel about this =D

 

[Meight08]

So Bethesda stopped a game developer from creating Fallout Online (my favorite game series) and will instead put out an Elder Scrolls MMO...

Me no likey I want my next Fallout installment please Bethesda.

They are not making this game zenimax is making this not bethesda.

 

[Alexchaser]

I've always wanted to play elder scrolls multiplayer. However what i wanted was ELDER SCROLLS if they go the normal mmo route and decide to change the freeroam adventure (the very heart of the games) with the generic mmo setup it will basicly just be WOW which is just meh.

However why not co-op skyrim basically has co-op except their ai controlled why not allow a second player to control one of the mercenaries in the game that would be awesome.

 

[hentropy]

Ughh. I don't personally like MMOs, but I can't sit here and say no one should have a TES MMO if they really want one. Whether people actually want one or not is another issue.

The problem I have is how long will it take until we get the next good single-player TES game? I loved KOTOR1-2 and when TOR was announced I knew they would probably make a single-player KOTOR somewhere along the like... but TOR took 6 years and there's no new KOTOR in sight.

I just want them to make another good single-player TES game, and I fear we might witness the end of single-player TES the same way we saw the death of single-player KOTOR. It's the same reason I did a celebratory arm-pump when I heard the Fallout MMO was finally killed. These games are good because of what they are, just keep making them and feed the money machine, don't gamble it all away on these extremely costly and ultimately likely nonprofitable ventures that you decided to embark upon based on metrics from 5 years ago.

 

[Meight08]

Really? Well damn. Guess I'm not buying another Elder Scrolls game ever again. Shame they didn't announce this before I got Skyrim. Well @ least now I won't feel the need to spend money for its DLCs as this announcement has ruined the series and every game in it for me.

How the fuck does that work?
Bethesda is not even making the game!
Their still busy with their next game.

 

[Kinguendo]

If you can get a house, cast traps, summon deadra guards and lock your doors then wait for other players to try and break into your house... that will be great!

I want to break into my friends houses and move all of their things! I wont take anything because why would I steal from my friends? Maybe put a lightning trap on their bed, hahahaha!

 

[SajuukKhar]

Someone leaked scans of the gameinformer info

it is interesting

 

[Stormz]

Yet another series killed by an MMO. You can guarantee that another ES game will never see the light of day now. Thanks Bethesda...I guess.

 

[SajuukKhar]

Yet another series killed by an MMO. You can guarantee that another ES game will never see the light of day now. Thanks Bethesda...I guess.

BETHESDA ISNT MAKING IT