The Elder Scrolls Online - gone B2P

[RK47]

Races confirmation I guess, but yep. This game doesn't have any reason to exist in the MMOG industry.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Moron central Kotaku doesn't like ESO. http://kotaku.com/5916106/kotakus-winners--losers-of-e3-2012-day-two

I've seen the same reaction from other mainstream gaming sites. These are usually the type who drool all over games like this. Very interesting.

 

[Jashiin]

It's so generic it's not even funny. They didn't even get bethesda's signature awful faces right.

edit:

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2012-the-elder/731254

dear fucking lord. complete trainwreck the moment the guy starts talking 30 seconds in.

"You're using your health magick and stamina stats, to really affect combat"

 

[Angthoron]

So how come Morrowind looks nothing like Morrowind?

 

[Angthoron]

Watching more of that video, loved the "Will you be able to stop playing Skyrim to play TESO?".

 

[Jashiin]

Watching more of that video, loved the "Will you be able to stop playing Skyrim to play TESO?".

I just can't stop laughing about how this guy starts pitching this game. Creative director no less. The whole first minute just cracks me up every time.

Douche interviewer simply asks, tell us about the project:

his response:

So basicaly ehm you know the elders scrolls online has been a franchise people have been familiar with for twenty years and now you get to play it online. You get to play it with your friends, you get to play it with strangers. From the ground up we've made it just so it's incredibly accessible. Right, so, you get in ehm, we wanna make sure that you can group very easily with people, so it's gonna be one of the most accessible as far as socialy, you know, we have a lot of features planned that gonna make it so... you get together with your friends, you know, maybe you see them in the game, or maybe you see them offline and you say hey I wanna go play elder scrolls online so thats gonna be one of the, eh, the big hallmarks.

 

[Angthoron]

Yeah, that was brain-poppingly retarded. If you can't pitch then for fuck's sake at least hire someone that can.

 

[Sul]

Yeah, that was brain-poppingly retarded. If you can't pitch then for fuck's sake at least hire someone that can.

Agreed. But I was surprised when he answered the lore question about the Redguards correctly at the end of the "interview". Obviously he is just a developer without any experience on big events and things like that but Zenimax couldn't be arsed to hire a proper PR guy.

 

[Jashiin]

Yeah, that was brain-poppingly retarded. If you can't pitch then for fuck's sake at least hire someone that can.

Agreed. But I was surprised when he answered the lore question about the Redguards correctly at the end of the "interview". Obviously he is just a developer without any experience on big events and things like that but Zenimax couldn't be arsed to hire a proper PR guy.

It just doesn't make sense, surely they've seen the bored and negative response this has gotten? From very mainstream sites no less...

His answers sound like he has to explain the game for the first time to someone. The suits have probably told him he has to emphasize the social aspect of it because that's the magic word nowadays but surely this wasn't what they had in mind. They should be showering this project with money and pr expertise if they are going to want even a chance at this becoming anything but a huge commercial faillure. But if they keep delivering entertainment like this I hope they've given up already.

 

[Stabwound]

It's great that he talks about "the compass from the single player games" as being one of the great unique additions to the game.
"That's one of the things that isn't really out there in terms of MMOs."

 

[Data4]

I didn't see where Morrowind was indicated in the video. Daggerfall looked decent enough, from what we could see. It's a generic medieval city anyway, so declaring it generic as a form of criticism is a non-starter. Clearly it'll suffer in the scale department however, likely being no bigger than Stormwind. That'll be reason enough to bitch, unless it's rationalized that a thousand years ago, Daggerfall was much smaller.

 

[Commissar Draco]

I want to fuck mount the Dragon. Is this 2nd era? Before the Tiber Septim?

 

[Angthoron]

I didn't see where Morrowind was indicated in the video.

It's fairly close to the start of the video. "We're now looking at Morrowind..." Purple Ashenvale footage starts rolling.

 

[Data4]

Huh. Are we watching the same video? The one with the Weird Al looking guy interviewing the developer? Because the only mention I caught of Morrowind was that you could start there, while something looking like Ayleid ruins on a mountainside played on the screen. Not trying to be argumentative or anything. I just recall seeing screenshots of stuff that looked "Morrowindy" and if there's a disparity there, it's worth making a fuss over.

Here's a shot that resembles those stronghold structures from Morrowind that looks like it's in a higher poly/resolution West Gash area, for example:

 

[Angthoron]

I'll check it out once I get off from work but I saw that in this video I think, yeah.

 

[villain of the story]

It looks to me like they have reused a lot of assets from Oblivion + Skyrim.

 

[villain of the story]

Also, where the hell is Daggerfall in that video? How did I miss that?

 

[DraQ]

Dunmer, Argonians and Nords in an alliance.

They have picked races from three adjacent provinces with easily the most animosity in Tamriel (which is no small feat as almost everyone hates almost everyone else in Tamriel) to form an alliance?


i dont even

 

[villain of the story]

Not to mention the xenophobia and rampant racism among Nords.

 

[Jashiin]

And Dunmer having Argonians as slaves. We'll fix it in editing.

 

[Sul]

Can I be a Telvanni wizard?

Huh. Are we watching the same video? The one with the Weird Al looking guy interviewing the developer? Because the only mention I caught of Morrowind was that you could start there, while something looking like Ayleid ruins on a mountainside played on the screen. Not trying to be argumentative or anything. I just recall seeing screenshots of stuff that looked "Morrowindy" and if there's a disparity there, it's worth making a fuss over.

Here's a shot that resembles those stronghold structures from Morrowind that looks like it's in a higher poly/resolution West Gash area, for example:

Considering the level of derpness we saw until now I think it's a retarded attempt of doing Black Marsh in a Maya-like way.

 

[groke]

Can I be a Telvanni wizard?

Huh. Are we watching the same video? The one with the Weird Al looking guy interviewing the developer? Because the only mention I caught of Morrowind was that you could start there, while something looking like Ayleid ruins on a mountainside played on the screen. Not trying to be argumentative or anything. I just recall seeing screenshots of stuff that looked "Morrowindy" and if there's a disparity there, it's worth making a fuss over.

Here's a shot that resembles those stronghold structures from Morrowind that looks like it's in a higher poly/resolution West Gash area, for example:

Considering the level of derpness we saw until now I think it's a retarded attempt of doing Black Marsh in a Maya-like way.

Looks like Tiber Septim felt the Argonians would be better off without their jungle, too.

 

[Data4]

Also, where the hell is Daggerfall in that video? How did I miss that?

He mentions it at around 58 sec, but I think the shots leading up that are also of Daggerfall.

 

[TheCatsofSanktPetersburg]

So it looks like we might finally get to meet Sotha Sil. (I still feel sick about this game, but I'm battling my inner demons as we speak)

Dunmer, Argonians and Nords in an alliance.

They have picked races from three adjacent provinces with easily the most animosity in Tamriel (which is no small feat as almost everyone hates almost everyone else in Tamriel) to form an alliance?


i dont even

It was... a different time.

 

[DraQ]

So it looks like we might finally get to meet Sotha Sil. (I still feel sick about this game, but I'm battling my inner demons as we speak)

Dunmer, Argonians and Nords in an alliance.

They have picked races from three adjacent provinces with easily the most animosity in Tamriel (which is no small feat as almost everyone hates almost everyone else in Tamriel) to form an alliance?


i dont even

It was... a different time.

You mean the time when Dunmer traditions of slavery and generally being dicks was thriving?