The Elder Scrolls Online - gone B2P

[DragoFireheart]

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2012/05/04/the-elder-scrolls-online-details-online/

It's being powered by the HeroEngine, the same engine behind Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Are you fucking kidding me?

 

[Thane Solus]

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2012/05/04/the-elder-scrolls-online-details-online/

It's being powered by the HeroEngine, the same engine behind Star Wars: The Old Republic.

HAHAHAHA! EPIC!

 

[Angthoron]

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2012/05/04/the-elder-scrolls-online-details-online/

It's being powered by the HeroEngine, the same engine behind Star Wars: The Old Republic.

HAHAHAHA! EPIC!

I sense epic lulz coming from this thing.

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

The one engine nearly as bad (maybe even worse) than what they already use.


Amazing. They go out of their way for shit.

 

[waywardOne]

Probably cheap to license.

 

[Lunac]

So, decline of the decline?


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[Black]

You know, maybe it's not really a WoW clone after all.

 

[Ulminati]

Classes for ESO are revealed. There are only 6 of them, but they all play totally different yet still in the same fashion you'd expect from an Elder Scrolls character. Classes are:

Fightermagethief
Fighterthiefmage
Magefighterthief
Magethieffighter
Thieffightermage
Thiefmagefighter

Also:

 

[SuicideBunny]

sounds like it might be the first wow clone to fail financially as well as being shitty.

 

[pocahaunted]

sounds like it might be the first wow clone to fail financially as well as being shitty.

Couldn't happen to a better publisher.

 

[Thane Solus]

sounds like it might be the first wow clone to fail financially as well as being shitty.

Couldn't happen to a better publisher.

Fake Bro Fist (since the normal one i haven't earn it lol)

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

You know, maybe it's not really a WoW clone after all.

Nah.

Seriously, is that supposed to be a Storm Atronach? Looks like a generic 'magic' golem, even has runes. Blegh.



Five bucks on Morrowind mysteriously being free of slavery in the 2nd era somehow. Bet on it.

 

[Bahamut]

Five bucks on Morrowind mysteriously being free of slavery in the 2nd era somehow. Bet on it.

Even better, Dunmers and Argonians are allies

 

[Tommy Wiseau]

Are they realy gonna make a MMO with that shitty first-person combat system, or they are just going to take Bland MMO™ and throw in ES lore?

According to the IGN.wiki, fights will no longer be 'real-time'. So third-person with auto-attack it is then.

 

[Tommy Wiseau]

You know, maybe it's not really a WoW clone after all.

Nah.

Seriously, is that supposed to be a Storm Atronach? Looks like a generic 'magic' golem, even has runes. Blegh.



Five bucks on Morrowind mysteriously being free of slavery in the 2nd era somehow. Bet on it.

I like swtor but this looks pretty disappointing. Cartoony art style for an elder scrolls game = lame.

 

[Stabwound]

So wait, this is The Elder Scrolls MMORPG: Featuring nothing from the games that people liked?

Haha, oh wow. This looks like a bigger turd than I could have ever imagined.

 

[Angthoron]

So wait, this is The Elder Scrolls MMORPG: Featuring nothing from the games that people liked?

Haha, oh wow. This looks like a bigger turd than I could have ever imagined.

What baffles me the most is the art style. Even Oblivion had a more or less "realistic" look to it (please forgive me the use of that word, I'll try to switch to verisimilitude soon enough), and suddenly it's this? I just fail to understand why. WoW/GW2 cloning I get, they are/will be the big thing. But why the fuck the art style?

 

[Stabwound]

What's wrong with late-90's CGI intro throwback graphics?

 

[Angthoron]

Now that you say it, it does remind me of M&M 6 intro.

 

[Brayko]

omg spears!1

 

[sgc_meltdown]

But why the fuck the art style?

there's nothing else left to fuck in fully realised intellectual property of elder scrolls

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Seriously, is that supposed to be a Storm Atronach? Looks like a generic 'magic' golem, even has runes. Blegh.

Except for the runes it looks like a electrified clump of rocks, like it always did...

 

[Genma:TheDestroyer]

Seriously, is that supposed to be a Storm Atronach? Looks like a generic 'magic' golem, even has runes. Blegh.

Except for the runes it looks like a electrified clump of rocks, like it always did...

It looks like a golem with crafted hands and feet and even some gauntlets, that blew apart slightly when it was brought to life.

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/File:MW-creature-Storm_Atronach.jpg

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/17166/965622-stormatronach_super.jpg

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Storm_Atronach_(Skyrim)


These don't look put together (you could maybe argue Morrowind's)


Whereas the screenshot shows what appears to be Shale...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiffibunny/4605427268/


-if he had sneezed too hard.

 

[Icewater]

It doesn't look like there's all that much interest to begin with, but once they figure out it isn't "Skyrim, but with players instead of NPCs!", what little interest there is will evaporate.

Ultimately, I don't foresee this doing very well.

 

[Lunac]

I have a feeling this will launch with the next wave of MMO ready consoles next year, hence the rush. If so, this piece of shit will sell. No doubt about it.


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