The Elder Scrolls Online - gone B2P

According to a tooltip your guild membership is limited to 5 guilds per character, so there might be some C&C there.

 

I like how this game makes gamebryo engine look good in comparison.

Also: The Elder Instances Online

 

At least it loads in the background and alt+tabs well.

 

So far it feels like a poor man's TES VI, VII, etc with bunny hopping people all around and worse graphics.

 

Also

 

The Morrowind area has a place with three boss mudcrabs...

 

So, in the last beta the first Fighters Guild quest ended with a special boss fight, a sorceress turning into some sort of snake monster spewing AoE lightning and getting healed by orbs that the player had to whack once before they reached her. The fight took about a minute at the recommended level if no other players were around; virtually the only vaguely challenging thing in the game.

Lots of really bad players complained that the orbs were too fast for them to whack. This beta, the entire boss fight has been scrapped; instead, you just get a standard sorceress who fires some weak bolts at you until you kill her.

 

Did they forget to put monsters in this game or what, I've cycled through like 12 streams and nobody ever fought anything.

 

Combat is horrible in this game, we've established that already.

 

Tried it,TOR was way better mainly because they copied real game design.This is abomination ,it shows that they were told by the suits "Make it like Skyrim" and they added first person,looting urns,sneaking and shit,coz you know they were in it.I don't even give it time to fail ,it will be in failure state on launch.

He means it feels so empty,like it's in alpha and they are yet to put the mobs in.

 

Oh, it's no worse than Skyrim in that regard. Consider also that mobs give little to no xp and never drop anything of value.

 

No.
Leveling was the same as any other shitty mmo, the pace was acceptable, which means it was shit for the devs, because players ended up without much to do faster, which was a problem because of slow updates.
PvP battleground is always somewhat fun, in pretty much any game its people killing people with friends, its also shit. self contained player versus player with no outside factors and no real impact on the game. Its simply a pointless waste of time,
Classes were shit, jedis shoehorned into holy trinity crap.
Its only redeeming quality was an interesting early game, and that it didnt abuse the fuck out of skinner box like nw online did. Also no microtransactions i think, now that its gone f2p its disgusting.

 

Char creation isn't half-bad:




Too bad about everything else.

 

So, money well saved?

 

This sounds like something out of Mass Effect series.

 

So it's realistic in some way at least.

 

I'm trying to figure out what emotions this game evokes in me and I can't think of any. It's not bad enough to make me angry, but it's not good enough to make me excited either.

It seems to be more competently made than the average mainstream WoW-clone MMO train wreck, i.e. shit seems to mostly work (most MMOs are completely broken at even launch) and they probably accomplished what they set out to do. It seems to me that they tried to make a multiplayer Skyrim and they probably succeeded, but that doesn't mean the game is any more interesting than the knee-deep ocean that Skyrim is.

Honestly, I'm not the biggest Skyrim fan, but I'd much rather just play that - or, better yet, something else altogether. It's all just so safe, generic, bland and boring.

 

Angry Ho is not impressed. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upE802rZl7Q

 

So that is where all the money went...

Too bad he will be covered up in armor and a helmet too soon enough making the whole damn thing redundant.

 

That is so true and it's in first 20 min in the game where you don't know anyone.There are tons of moments that scream -omg this devs are retards and they got management telling them to "make it like Skyrim" on top of that.Like you can ask the first NPC you talk after tutorial about some other NPC you never met;or the first time you use GW2 teleports you are rushed by women who gives you guest(just like in Skyrim™) and her outfit is without sleeves,snow everywhere and looks pretty cold;you are also wearing some light clothes with your chest pumping out of it.They could have told you when arrived "hey dude it's cold here,take this fur robe" or some shit like that.

edit:Also the introduction felt very confusing and lacking.They drop names,places and organizations like you are expected to know ES lore more than real geography,explaining motivation for everyone is non-existent and dialog is very generic so you want to skip.

 

this game is beyond shit.

floaty skyrim shalow melee combat
arg _dunmers_nords together wtf is this shit?
those advanced gears on character panel all look like fucking skyrim deadric offpins. and since when are khajits fucking samurais?
i can get stable 30fps in opened areas when i had no such a problems with gw2 which looks 10times better
that art or rather lack of it

:patriot:

dont even remind me of those dialogues and "YOU CHOSEN ONE" IN FUCKING MMORPG

 

I've not played this since last night, but having slept (for 14 hours like an idiot) on it, I can give a judgement.

PROS:
Graphics are alright, considering it's an MMO.
Voice acting is relatively strong most of the time.

CONS:
Why is it even an online game to start with, I played for like 4 hours and never interacted with anyone else. My only interaction with other people was people repeatedly stealing kills from me, which I was fine with since the combat is no fun anyway.
Elder Scrolls lore rape, etc. Actually, lore rape might be the wrong word since there's nothing (so far) that goes directly against lore, but it's the most boring use of ES lore possible. It's like making a Fallout game where you run around a shanty town shooting people and that's it. It's not against the lore, but it's the most boring, soulless, un-cool-est use of the lore possible using only the most basic elements from it. Except the factions, which are lore rape.
Awful combat, to be expected from Elder Scrolls games.
The quests, to their credit, do sometimes have more than "kill 190231923 mudcrabs" but they're ruined by the fact that they feel unfinished and also there's about 500 other people doing them at the same time.
The art style doesn't feel like Elder Scrolls and, as I said earlier, the provinces don't feel very "alive". It's like they said "Skyrim = snow world, Elsweyr = palm tree world" etc rather than portraying them as the in-game books describe them.
Bad dialogue system. Very rarely do you get to say more than one thing. The Elder Scrolls games always had bad dialogue and your character rarely had a personality, but at least you could choose what to say.

 

Welcome to modern MMO theres nothing in those games since world of warcraft (except raids) justifying the multiplayer part. You are another customer in the theme park , nothing else, forget roleplaying , exploration, epic storytelling and combat there's nothing of that anywhere.