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The Elder Scrolls Online
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Creamy Muffin
Augur
gonna be fun when the clueless tes-fps fans buy the damn thing, realize it's not like skyrim and start raging
Zeriel
Arcane
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And I remember wincing at how painfully dumb it was. The only cinematic intro I've seen to an MMO that I thought was sort of cool was Rift's, and I think that's because the subject matter was a little less straight-forward.
Bahamut
Arcane
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Can't wait to see that
Data4
Arcane
And yet, every single one of you fuckers signed up for the beta.
Yeah, fuck you, I did too.
Yeah, fuck you, I did too.
But did you sign up as a person from the RPGCodex faction?
Data4
Arcane
I dunno... part of me wants to give it a fair run through, so I'm hesitant to paint a huge "BAN ME!" target on my back at the moment. I mean, if it's shit, let me find out definitively.
DraQ
Arcane
Ok, can someone please fucking explain to me the logistics of the whole rope-bridge action?
WTF is the ruin/outcrop with the elves, why is it not fortified/used by the defenders instead of being major security hole, how did elves manage to set up there without getting nailed, and what with all the fucking nonsense in general?
Xavier0889
Learned
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Ok, can someone please fucking explain to me the logistics of the whole rope-bridge action?
WTF is the ruin/outcrop with the elves, why is it not fortified/used by the defenders instead of being major security hole, how did elves manage to set up there without getting nailed, and what with all the fucking nonsense in general?
It's an MMO. Don't try to explain too many things, because they will be fucked up by the players. It has been like that since U:O's failed attempt to have a real ecosystem, with dragons eating wolves and wolves eating sheep, but the first thing made by the players was killing every animal in the world.
fizzelopeguss
Arcane
Even its marketing push is from 2008.
Clockwork Knight
Arcane
Nope. Skyrim players. Dual backstabbed by a guy in full enchanted daedric that teabags me while he shouts memes with his raspy just-entered-puberty voice. Nope. Nope. Nope.
Trammel killed Ultima Online.
Maiandros
Learned
DraQ
they started developing this concurrently with an ongoing trend in the MMO scene favouring the 'old time' eras of MMOs..namely more open settings, sandboxy feels, and richer, meaningful faction PvP;
that the case, again during the time they started developing this, someone decided they could hire members of the old DAoC (Dark Age of Camelot) MMO, as even today it is one of the 2 'best' MMOs ever, the other being Ultima Online. So the trend goes. Why the DAoC devs? It sported 3 faction warfare, pseudo world-wide consequences according to war status, an ongoing alteration of a shard's status according to what its own players had achieved in the PvP element..so they decided that making a spin off of that while maintaining the style and lore of Elder Scrolls would be what would allow them to succeed where SWTOR failed (see new trend i mentioned above, SWTOR failed for reasons -other- than most of us here like to think)..the decision to form TESO as a 3 faction game is what brought along the alliances eventually, and the necessary lore butchering, as they needed to try back up the split somehow
the rest, be it mechanics or gameplay, is either your standard MMO fare (client-package limitations, etc etc OR what the 'fans of the genre' have come to 'expect') + gimmicks so as to attract the single player TES demographic..example being soft-aim combat..being an MMO developed with tab target combat, it was too late to change it all..so in order to make sure no one got alienated, they altered it so as to appear that combat aiming is done as in Skyrim; am mentioning this as what we get to see overall will be the necessary mixture of the MMO blend with the TES elements
hence the assured fuck up
(am trying to keep it dense, but willing to answer in detail any questions you may happen to have)
they started developing this concurrently with an ongoing trend in the MMO scene favouring the 'old time' eras of MMOs..namely more open settings, sandboxy feels, and richer, meaningful faction PvP;
that the case, again during the time they started developing this, someone decided they could hire members of the old DAoC (Dark Age of Camelot) MMO, as even today it is one of the 2 'best' MMOs ever, the other being Ultima Online. So the trend goes. Why the DAoC devs? It sported 3 faction warfare, pseudo world-wide consequences according to war status, an ongoing alteration of a shard's status according to what its own players had achieved in the PvP element..so they decided that making a spin off of that while maintaining the style and lore of Elder Scrolls would be what would allow them to succeed where SWTOR failed (see new trend i mentioned above, SWTOR failed for reasons -other- than most of us here like to think)..the decision to form TESO as a 3 faction game is what brought along the alliances eventually, and the necessary lore butchering, as they needed to try back up the split somehow
the rest, be it mechanics or gameplay, is either your standard MMO fare (client-package limitations, etc etc OR what the 'fans of the genre' have come to 'expect') + gimmicks so as to attract the single player TES demographic..example being soft-aim combat..being an MMO developed with tab target combat, it was too late to change it all..so in order to make sure no one got alienated, they altered it so as to appear that combat aiming is done as in Skyrim; am mentioning this as what we get to see overall will be the necessary mixture of the MMO blend with the TES elements
hence the assured fuck up
(am trying to keep it dense, but willing to answer in detail any questions you may happen to have)
Maiandros
Learned
Data4 personally no, i am not signed up for its beta. I can get my journalist pass any old day i wish to, but i flat out refuse to touch this shit. I say no to derp everyday. If i flame something, i have my reasons, and i stick to them. Until proven otherwise. Have there been times where i had to button up and make a post saying i was wrong? Plenty.. happens
Creamy Muffin
Augur
lol no. i have principles.
Data4
Arcane
Alright, Drizzt.
Creamy Muffin
Augur
Drizzt?
Data4
Arcane
I just got a mental image of Drizzt wearing a monocle and fondling Twinkle, whilst declaring "I have principles". If you suffered through Salvatore's Dark Elf novels (which, if you have principles, you probably didn't), you'd understand.
Creamy Muffin
Augur
I haven't (suffered through them
) I also had to google Twinkle.Thank you for the clarification.
deuxhero
Arcane
Have we gotten any newer numbers on the budget? I eagerly await Bethesda going out on ToRtanic's sister ship.
Skyrim can easily fund two sequels.
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I was going to sign up for the beta...but then I took an arrow to the knee
Gurkog
Erudite
That reminds me that the other day I was playing DAoC with some guildmates. One of them was relating his story of how he left the military to become a security guard and I could not stop myself from laughing hysterically. He took a bullet to the knee.
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