EDIT:
So the poll options won't work properly for some reason. The 3 and 4 get cut off.
3 = I didn't buy it, but plan on buying it later.
4 = I didn't and won't buy it.
So, ESO has been out for a few weeks now. And Angry Joe did his Review of it yesterday. His verdict? 4/10 for PvE, 7/10 for PvP.
His problems with the game?
-Grouping is totally pointless. It feels like you're playing a singleplayer game, but not enough so that you can play it as one.
-Linear questing. You're basically just following a narrow line through the quest area's.
-Can't help friends. Once you've complete a quest you can't help a friend do it any more for instance.
-Tons of glitches and bugs, some of them highly noticeable and even game breaking.
-Enemies drop barely any gold even at max level, let alone gear. (2g and nothing else from a mini boss for a quest, while normal mobs give 1g? All while a good horse costs 41k gold.)
-Imperial behind 20 dollar paywall, good mounts almost impossible to grind for, urging you to pay real money to get them, etc.
-Floaty first person combat, and overall the combat doesn't have as much impact as he'd like.
-Graphics are 'passable', not even 'good'.
-PvE has a lot of pointlessness and underwhelming 'bosses' for normal quests. Level design is apparently pretty poor later on. A sense of discovery and wonder is only rarely found.
-Game constantly breaks immersion, mostly because it's an mmorpg. Though it could have been fixed with all the phasing they're already doing in the game.
His positive points?
-PvP is great. (though you can get just as good elsewhere, and without sub.)
-Voice acting and sound. Some voices are poorly chosen, but overall the sound and voice acting is great.
-Freedom to pick whatever weapon and armor you want to wear, with whatever class.
-Crafting appears to be pretty good.
-He had a ton of fun in the faction vs faction vs faction pvp raids.
Well, that's everything I picked up from watching the review at least. And I for one am glad that I didn't buy this game in the first week of launch. I did think about it. I was excited for an Elder Scrolls mmo, but got this constant feeling of 'you'll regret buying this game in a month if you do so', and apparently that feeling was right. I wouldn't be surprised if it'll just be another mmo that goes F2P within half a year, and moves to the background together with DCUO, SW:TOR, DDO, LOTRO, and others. Maybe I'll play it for a while once it's F2P though.
So, did you buy the game? And do you enjoy it?
So the poll options won't work properly for some reason. The 3 and 4 get cut off.
3 = I didn't buy it, but plan on buying it later.
4 = I didn't and won't buy it.
So, ESO has been out for a few weeks now. And Angry Joe did his Review of it yesterday. His verdict? 4/10 for PvE, 7/10 for PvP.
His problems with the game?
-Grouping is totally pointless. It feels like you're playing a singleplayer game, but not enough so that you can play it as one.
-Linear questing. You're basically just following a narrow line through the quest area's.
-Can't help friends. Once you've complete a quest you can't help a friend do it any more for instance.
-Tons of glitches and bugs, some of them highly noticeable and even game breaking.
-Enemies drop barely any gold even at max level, let alone gear. (2g and nothing else from a mini boss for a quest, while normal mobs give 1g? All while a good horse costs 41k gold.)
-Imperial behind 20 dollar paywall, good mounts almost impossible to grind for, urging you to pay real money to get them, etc.
-Floaty first person combat, and overall the combat doesn't have as much impact as he'd like.
-Graphics are 'passable', not even 'good'.
-PvE has a lot of pointlessness and underwhelming 'bosses' for normal quests. Level design is apparently pretty poor later on. A sense of discovery and wonder is only rarely found.
-Game constantly breaks immersion, mostly because it's an mmorpg. Though it could have been fixed with all the phasing they're already doing in the game.
His positive points?
-PvP is great. (though you can get just as good elsewhere, and without sub.)
-Voice acting and sound. Some voices are poorly chosen, but overall the sound and voice acting is great.
-Freedom to pick whatever weapon and armor you want to wear, with whatever class.
-Crafting appears to be pretty good.
-He had a ton of fun in the faction vs faction vs faction pvp raids.
Well, that's everything I picked up from watching the review at least. And I for one am glad that I didn't buy this game in the first week of launch. I did think about it. I was excited for an Elder Scrolls mmo, but got this constant feeling of 'you'll regret buying this game in a month if you do so', and apparently that feeling was right. I wouldn't be surprised if it'll just be another mmo that goes F2P within half a year, and moves to the background together with DCUO, SW:TOR, DDO, LOTRO, and others. Maybe I'll play it for a while once it's F2P though.
So, did you buy the game? And do you enjoy it?