8-Bit_Jack said:
True, it isn't the first multiplayer game, but that just means its the second time they've made the wrong damn game.
The elder scrolls have always been about ONE person changing the world, and even have in-lore reasons for not HAVING multiplayer. But I will admit, part of my hate is purely out of general bias toward MMOs in general.
But hey, supposedly the Fallout MMO is more like a MAG match, so that could be good.
That's entirely untrue. One of the most core principles of Elder Scrolls lore is that there are TONS of adventures out there doing things.
Its been like that on purpose so Bethesda can keep what choices you made to yourself, while still making every questline be done. They just call everyone a "random adventurer" so that if you chose to do said quest in the past games then, when the quest is mentioned in the next game, you can be like "it must have been my guy from the last game", but if you didn't do it you would be "ohh must have been some other guy doing stuff at the same time I was in the last game".
An example
ALL guild questlines are, in lore, assumed to have been done. But does that mean YOU did them? No.
-Say YOU didn't do the College of Winterhold questline in Skyrim, well in lore that means some other adventurer did, the Eye of Magnus stuff still happened, even though it wasn't YOU that did it.
-Say YOU didn't do the Dark Brotherhood questline in Skyrim, well that means, in lore, some OTHER assassin killed the Emperor.
-the Companions still go through all thier stuff, even if YOU don't join the guild
-The Theives guild ends up killing Mercery frey after all the Kraliah stuff even if it wasn't YOU that did it.
In Oblivion Modryn Oreyn mentions that an adventurer gave him the helm of Oreyn Bearclaw. Was it the Nerevarine from Morrowind? could be, if you did the quest to get it in Morrowind, if not then it was some other random adventurer.
Hell Sheogorath in Skyrim may not be your character from Oblivion, as Sheo did the Dark Brotherhood questline apparently. If YOU didn't do the Dark Borthehrood questline that means the Skyrim Sheo isn't your guy, but some OTHER adventurer who got the mantel passed to him.
In lore there are, and always have been, TONS of adventurers out and about, helping deadra lords, doing guild questlines, finding magical world-ending artifacts, and various other things, if anything the MMO is MORE true to lore then the SP games in that regard. There has NEVER been just ONE hero at any given time.
In Skyrim the random mercenaries you can find walking about are those people who,in lore, do all the things you don't. I know Oblivion also had random adventurers in dungeons, its version of the mercs.