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The Elder Scrolls Online
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Probably has to do with the fact it's in Early Access period. Game proper hasn't launched yet.
World PvP would indeed be glorious. There's no game on the market with good open PvP at the moment. Farming roleplayers on the megaserver and enjoying their tears afterwards would be my number one priority.
John_Blazze
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So I've bought this restrictive online hiking simulator. I have too much free time on my hands and am tired of replaying my favourite or KKKodex Approved™ games at the moment.
I get that the lore rape is in full effect here, but I hoped to see something that at least resembles the landscape of Morrowind (main reason I bought this actually) and so far only thing I see are the fucking oversized mushrooms.
Im in Stonefalls and have yet to see any Dunmer looking architecture. Everything looks Imperial.
I never read up on any lore outside the games, since it's piss poor and barely holds up in the series, but shouldn't Stonefalls look more like Vvanderfell in terms of architecure?
I get that the lore rape is in full effect here, but I hoped to see something that at least resembles the landscape of Morrowind (main reason I bought this actually) and so far only thing I see are the fucking oversized mushrooms.
Im in Stonefalls and have yet to see any Dunmer looking architecture. Everything looks Imperial.
I never read up on any lore outside the games, since it's piss poor and barely holds up in the series, but shouldn't Stonefalls look more like Vvanderfell in terms of architecure?
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Kem0sabe
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The Secret World
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Brayko
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The Secret World. Now there was a game that should've been a more focused single player game instead of an MMO. 
The truth. You speak it.The Secret World. Now there was a game that should've been a more focused single player game instead of an MMO.
The looks of the game isn't its problem. It's actually quite pretty so far.
It's the amazingly dull gameplay. The quests are OMG boring, worse than your typical step-and-fetchit MMO timewasters, and the combat is so far detached you might as well be playing Nerfbat to the cottonball derby.
But, it's a new MMO and what the fuck else am I going to do with my time?
It's the amazingly dull gameplay. The quests are OMG boring, worse than your typical step-and-fetchit MMO timewasters, and the combat is so far detached you might as well be playing Nerfbat to the cottonball derby.
But, it's a new MMO and what the fuck else am I going to do with my time?
Don't discourage me from finishing this tutorial! I'll get my entertainment out of this, even I have to make this game bleed!
Mortmal
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Wont see much difference in 5 days, now my friend is pissed off, logging out of disgusts after too many bugged quests.I understand why their official forums are so minimalist, they absolutely dont want people to use them and report the state of the game.
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I honestly never understood the appeal of big cities, fuck, cities in general. There should just be one city for each faction; you need to get people to congregate to make MMO magic happen. If everyone fucks off to their own little corners/instances all you've done is create a massive... and pointless lobby for a dungeon crawler.
Players should be the ones to give life to cities, and the developers should be there to help them do it; but naturally, TESO is like any other themepark MMO - the world is static and flat and the most interaction you're going to get is "NPC here with ! over their head" or "chair you can sit down in" and if you're lucky "NPC shouting something in local chat", but even that was a rarity in WoW.
Of course, in a themepark MMO, smaller towns have no purpose beyond being questing hubs for the leveling up process (and who cares about that if all it takes is 24~ hours of gametime to reach max level). In more true-to-form MMOs, each cityscape/town has its own purpose, be it for trading, storing your items, pvp, or restocking during travel...
But I'm just rambling for no reason; we expected this. Zenimax made TESO under the idea that, "Hey, Skyrim sold like fresh cheap hookers. And hey, you know, WoW makes lots of money every year on subs?" I guess they thought they could merge the two, or something... who knows what they were thinking, but it certainly had nothing to do with making a genuinely good title.
I feel like such an idiot for even wasting my words on this game. Who cares? Nobody in the industry, that's for sure; and the common gamer? What do they care? As long as they get their instant gratification they'll settle for $100+ to play a crappy MMO for a few months, perhaps in the vain hope of capturing some nostalgic tingle in their groin. And so the cycle continues.
Players should be the ones to give life to cities, and the developers should be there to help them do it; but naturally, TESO is like any other themepark MMO - the world is static and flat and the most interaction you're going to get is "NPC here with ! over their head" or "chair you can sit down in" and if you're lucky "NPC shouting something in local chat", but even that was a rarity in WoW.
Of course, in a themepark MMO, smaller towns have no purpose beyond being questing hubs for the leveling up process (and who cares about that if all it takes is 24~ hours of gametime to reach max level). In more true-to-form MMOs, each cityscape/town has its own purpose, be it for trading, storing your items, pvp, or restocking during travel...
But I'm just rambling for no reason; we expected this. Zenimax made TESO under the idea that, "Hey, Skyrim sold like fresh cheap hookers. And hey, you know, WoW makes lots of money every year on subs?" I guess they thought they could merge the two, or something... who knows what they were thinking, but it certainly had nothing to do with making a genuinely good title.
I feel like such an idiot for even wasting my words on this game. Who cares? Nobody in the industry, that's for sure; and the common gamer? What do they care? As long as they get their instant gratification they'll settle for $100+ to play a crappy MMO for a few months, perhaps in the vain hope of capturing some nostalgic tingle in their groin. And so the cycle continues.
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