The Elder Scrolls Online

[Bubbles]

It's not a 21 GB game, it's a 29.4 GB game. It downloads in multiple chunks. You also need double the amount of space (installation files plus installed game), so you need 60 GB free. If you don't, the install will stop and corrupt the install files, forcing you to start all over again.

Do not download the game on a drive with less than 60 GB free unless you're prepared for massive rage.

 

[7/10]

Sixty fucking gigs? So that's where all that money went...

 

[Caim]

60 GB to install that game? Sweet merciful GabeN, haven't these people heard of optimalization?

 

[Avellion]

I am contemplating whether I should witness the horror with my own eyes or if I should spend my time doing something more worthwhile... like replaying Fallout 1 or brushing up my programming skills.

60 GB to install that game? Sweet merciful GabeN, haven't these people heard of optimalization?

I guess it is easier to hire a few hundred code monkeys than a dozen proper software engineers. Also, the game is fully voiced (sigh when will mmo devs ever learn?).

 

[DramaticPopcorn]

Tomorrow's beta invite code:

Spoiler

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[Kem0sabe]

I got the beta code on email as well, but 60GB? even with unlimited bandwidth thats a waste of internet.

 

[subotaiy]

You download only 30GB, not that much for a MMO.

 

[balmorar]

Is there a beta forum?

 

[Xenich]

i have never spent a single fucking cent on tor/rift/tera/neverwinter. probably because all of them are shit and i got bored rather quickly.only mmo i ever paid for was guild wars 1+nightfall. i can pay for the game 60bucks and than have paid shit like additional skins/colours but fucking 15 bucks a month for that broken pos?

Well, I am not saying any of the games today are worth it. Frankly, all the MMOs today currently are designed for the lowest common denominator. Any of them that initially had difficulty or complexity have had it stripped out so the dumb and the lazy can enjoy them. /shrug

As for GW1, I hope you are using that as a justifiable product? I mean, to each their own, but I thought that game to be poorly thought out trash trying to ride a gimmick of the time and the thought of paying money for cosmetics, well... it kind of invalidates the whole bitching about a monthly sub. /shrug

 

[Whiran]

Is there a beta forum?

Yes, there is.

You should have gotten instructions on how to access it with your beta invite.

The URL:

http://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/

 

[Bubbles]

Last beta they put the servers online 6 hours early, today they put them up 3 hours early. So go play if you really want to.

Remember that the Dominion has the best area and quest design.

 

[Lemming42]

Oh, it's up already? Cool. I'm planning to play as an Altmer mage, although my rampant prejudice against the game is making me think that race and class probably won't have much/any effect on the game. I hope to be proven wrong.

 

[Xenich]

Oh, it's up already? Cool. I'm planning to play as an Altmer mage, although my rampant prejudice against the game is making me think that race and class probably won't have much/any effect on the game. I hope to be proven wrong.

Where have you been? Race/Class hasn't had any effect on the MMO games since early EQ. Can't have the witless fucktards picking race/class pros/cons then throwing tantrums that someone else has another race/class with pros/cons they don't, why... that just wouldn't be fair!

 

[Lemming42]

First observation: character creation is weird. Might as well be playing the Sims. "Foot Size"? "Ear size"? Why would I need to determine these?

Anyway, I've made my character look like he has x-treme downs' syndrome.

Oh, it's up already? Cool. I'm planning to play as an Altmer mage, although my rampant prejudice against the game is making me think that race and class probably won't have much/any effect on the game. I hope to be proven wrong.

Where have you been? Race/Class hasn't had any effect on the MMO games since early EQ.

True, but I had hope nonetheless. I take it I'm wrong.

 

[Bubbles]

Quest: Enter the castle.
Hint: Use door.

 

[Lemming42]

So I escape from Coldharbour (this recreation of Coldharbour sucks, it's about as accurate to Coldharbour as Oblivion was to Cyrodiil) because a dude with a triceratops head (I guess he was an argonian?) opens my door for me.

Anyway now I'm fighting skeletons with a warhammer even though I'm an Altmer mage, I dunno what's even happening.

 

[Cyberarmy]

Quest: Enter the castle.
Hint: Use door.

Quest compass leveled up!



Edit:
Love is already in da air btw.

 

[Bubbles]

WvW feels like a copy of Guild Wars 2, only with no squad leader indicators, so you need to guess where exactly your main force might be. Noteworthy feature: faction buffs are gained by holding Elder Scrolls, you can steal them from the temples of other factions.

 

[7/10]

As much as I love to hate this game, MMOs tend to be way more boring if you play them during a beta event, so the first impressions are pretty worthless. The reason is simple... MMOs ARE boring. The enjoyment derived from a generic theme park MMO is almost solely based on a fake sense of progress, not on the gameplay itself.

In order for a skinner box to work, the player needs to be invested in his character, which won't happen during a beta, since the character is not permamanent.

 

[Zed]

Requesting character load....


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Cool stress test, guys.

 

[Mangoose]

A class system, wtf is this.

 

[Lemming42]

First impressions so far:
The quests are all fairly boring, but most quests in Elder Scrolls games tend to be boring.
The voice acting, a few blips aside, is actually quite good.
I'm in Elsweyr, but it doesn't really feel like Elsweyr. Remove the palm trees and this could be anywhere in Tamriel. In other words, the locations could do with a lot more character.
The combat is shit, but that's no surprise considering this is the Elder Scrolls. At least combat ends fairly quickly if you spam spells (or "abilities" as they're called here).
The Maomer are weird. I haven't seen anything that goes against established lore in regards to the Maomer, but man they're weird.

Overall, it's actually not as outright awful as expected, but it's really really boring so far. Depending on how you look at it, that's actually worse than if it was a purely awful joke.

 

[Caim]

So instead of feeling like you're Elsweyr, you feel like you're Oveheyr?

 

[Zed]

Character generation is superfluous.
Loading times are abysmal.
Character system is boring and too simple.
Combat is boring and too simple.
UI is copy-pasta of Skyrim, including quest compass which in this game is also buggy and terrible.
Dialogue is horrible: a) continue linear conversation progression, b) goodbye!
Graphics are worse than Skyrim. Jumping animation not better than Morrowind.
Hero engine is horrible.

In short: learned nothing from TORtanic. This will be TESOtonia.

 

[Lemming42]

At the risk of sounding like an absolute retard, how the hell do I get off Shitfucker's Island or whatever the Dominion starting place is called? Literally the first thing I wanted to do was leave and check out the rest of Tamriel, especially Vardenfell, before uninstalling forever. But I can't get off the island. There's no ships or other travel systems that I can see, so I tried to do the quests and I have no idea what's even going on. Like, there's Maormer and the Dominion are protecting the town that looks like Monkey Island, and I'm inexplicably part of the fighting force but it doesn't matter because 500 other players have already killed the Maormer invasion force.

In other words, I have no idea what's going on, this place sucks and how do I reach the mainland.

EDIT: Ah, you get to leave at the end of a quest. So much for "FREEDOM TO DO WHATEVER YOU WANT".

EDIT 2: What the hell is up with the loading times. It's been literally over 5 minutes, and it's still not loading "Auridon".