Fluent Plays Elder Scrolls Online

[Deleted Member 16721]

Fantastic game. Best RPG I've ever played by far. It has everything. Buy it, play it, dig into it. Ultra good and high recommendation from your comrade Fluent. Peaaaace.

 

[Wunderbar]

inb4 Fluent drops ESO

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

I will play this game for hundreds of hours, guaranteed. It's fucking epic. EPIC.

 

[Sentinel]

game's on steam though

 

[Bester]

Wanna take this opportunity to give a shout out to the Army of Lovers. Fantastic band. Inane thread. Peace.

 

[LizardWizard]

I will play this game for hundreds of hours, guaranteed. It's fucking epic. EPIC.

You should play Enderal instead if you're going to slum it.

 

[Martyr]

I actually wanted to play ESO two years ago, but after downloading 50+ GB I couldn't even start the game. read the steam forums, obviously I wasn't the only one with that problem and nobody knew a solution, so I refunded it.

 

[Yosharian]

Because I've always dreamed of playing Skyrim with a bunch of retards online, without all the mods that make Skyrim tolerable

 

[rusty_shackleford]

pros:
the quests are good
the game is incredibly lore-dense
the world is fun to explore
cyrodiil pvp is fun

cons:
basically everything else
animation canceling is aids but the community would cry if it was ever removed
nu-mmorpg focus on 'rotations' and very short duration buffs is stupid
additionally, nu-mmorpg focus on every class essentially being identical except looks different. Why even have classes?
trading is really cumbersome(large part of this is due to how shit the guild traders are with constantly dropping searches due to shit programming,) but that worked in my favor because I wrote a mod to find the best deals and made lodsamone
delves should have either been instanced or much harder. They're designed to be done by a single person so having other people in there with you just ruins the experience.
I really hated the gear system. Gear doesn't have stats, only when items are combined into sets do you get any bonuses at all from gear.


If you pick it up cheap it's worth playing IMO. It's not something you'll be playing a few months down the line though.

 

[anvi]

It is nothing like Skyrim, and it is much better. There are more things about ESO that I dislike than things that I like though. But overall it was fun for a month.

 

[anvi]

Lizard is mad cuz he can't pirate an MMO :c

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

It's way, way better than Skyrim. I enjoyed Skyrim but ESO makes it look absolutely archaic and simple in comparison. There are just so many good things ESO does that make it the best RPG I've played by far. I'm thoroughly enjoying myself.

 

[Gerrard]

If the animation canceling was removed there would be literally zero player skill involved in the combat, and already today the game is filled with shitters who think they are "good" when 90% of damage is in stats.
Also I have no idea how the devs imagined the trade system working. Did they imagine people going around the whole world checking every guild trader? This shit would be unusable without the indexing addons, it's just a single step above spamming a trade chat.

 

[Bumvelcrow]

This thread is sponsored by Bethesda Softworks LLC.

 

[Sukhāvatī]

Still waiting for ES: Blades to come to PC

 

[Hobo Elf]

The gameplay is way better than in any mainline TES game, but it's too easy. MMOs are afraid to challenge players these days and so playing them feels hollow after the initial glamour is gone.

 

[Jack Of Owls]

Does ESO require a monthly fee? And does it include micro-transactions? If so, then the game should be banished to the lower depths of Hell, below The Circle of Shit

 

[TheImplodingVoice]

Does ESO require a monthly fee? And does it include micro-transactions? If so, then the game should be banished to the lower depths of Hell, below The Circle of Shit

No monthly fee. It's buy to play. But there are microtransactions. All though I haven't played it in a long time. But there was microtransactions. Might not be so now. But given that it's Bethesda I doubt the microtransactions are gone

 

[ADL]

I actually wanted to play ESO two years ago, but after downloading 50+ GB I couldn't even start the game. read the steam forums, obviously I wasn't the only one with that problem and nobody knew a solution, so I refunded it.

You did yourself a favor. No matter how many people scream "DO NOT BUY OR PLAY THE GAME ON STEAM" people continue to do so. The Steam version relies on Steamworks authentication which regularly goes down so it's just adding another unnecessary layer of things to go wrong if you want to play your game.

The gameplay is way better than in any mainline TES game, but it's too easy. MMOs are afraid to challenge players these days and so playing them feels hollow after the initial glamour is gone.

Craglorn back when it was an adventure zone was one of the greatest things ever. It was challenging and fun and actually forced people to play with others instead of treating it as a single player experience in an MMORPG. Unfortunately it was group content introduced back when the game's grouping mechanics were broken so of course people hated it and now Craglorn is just another zone that you can one shot enemies in.

If they can address the power creep problem, I'd absolutely recommend it. That being said, I'm taking a break until the Q4 zone release to see if they do.

 

[luj1]

It's way, way better than Skyrim.

Just like.... *drumroll* pretty much anything else.

 

[TheImplodingVoice]

It's way, way better than Skyrim.

Just like.... *drumroll* pretty much anything else.

 

[Mortmal]

Yes its cancer but if you dont anim cancel dont even bother joining a group, really its extremely important . Oh well dont even bother joining a public group for dungeons,last time i joined a pug i was doing 80% of the damage on the dps parser.

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

The gameplay is way better than in any mainline TES game, but it's too easy. MMOs are afraid to challenge players these days and so playing them feels hollow after the initial glamour is gone.

I don't know, my High Elf Sorcerer has died about 10 times so far. Level 14. It occasionally throws a hard one at you.

 

[Yosharian]

The gameplay is way better than in any mainline TES game, but it's too easy. MMOs are afraid to challenge players these days and so playing them feels hollow after the initial glamour is gone.

I don't know, my High Elf Sorcerer has died about 10 times so far. Level 14.

And this disproves his point how

 

[Deleted Member 16721]

And this disproves his point how

If a game is too easy you don't generally die 10 times in the first sub-20 hours. It's pretty easy but it's not too easy IMO. Even a bad pull pulling an extra enemy or two can be deadly.