Post by Rankkor
Are game vs game threads even allowed? o_O
Is it even out yet?
Nope. There has been a release date set of "sometime" in 2013, and a cinematic trailer has been released. They started signing up for Beta testing too, though there's been no date set for that (unless my sources are outdated) either.
You are correct, the game doesn't have a release date yet, nor has it even started its beta phase. Supposedly at the end of this month they'll email those who subbmitted their applications for the beta, but that's all they've said about that.
I am personally not all that hopeful. The things that I love about Skyrim (which I have probably logged 200 hours in) are all things that just won't translate to an MMO. The setting is fine, but it's not what's compelling to me about Elder Scrolls games. It's the actual game design, the amount of reactivity in the NPC's and the world around you, the sandbox-level freedom, seeing your actions change the course of the storyline, finding all of the hidden caches of interest and hidden tricks to getting around the way a quest appears to be laid out to get a better result from an RP standpoint. I don't think any of that can translate to an MMO, because by its nature an MMO needs to have a somewhat static world available to the whole playerbase, even if it's in phases. The physical reactivity in the world will have to be reduced, there won't be a modding community.
Yeah, by its very nature, MMOs can't be as immersible as single-player games, either because you can't kill bosses by yourself, or because the interactions of other people, for good or ill, will affect your immersion on the plot. Imagine if when playing skyrim, just as Paarthunax is talking to you and explaining your heritage some random dude starts jumping in front of you yelling "WAAAAAAASAAAAAAAAAAAAP HI HELP, GIEV ME GOLD! PLOX, I R NUB! HI HELP, THANKS WAASSAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!"
That would totally ruin the moment for me, and personally, I'd have to repeat the quest if that was the case, cuz i was just pulled away from the moment, due to another person. Then there's the permanent change your actions do in the world. On Oblivion, if I do the Dark Brotherhood quest to assassinate Adamus Philida, he stays dead, if on Skyrim, I go to sovngarde to kill alduin, he stays dead. If I support the stormcloaks and siege whiterun, replacing its jarl, he stays replaced, and the city is changed by your actions.
On an MMO? yeah, everything has to come back to its status quo, mobs have to reset, bosses have to respawn, any changes you did are undone for the sake of new players. This for me, would ruin the entire point of playing an elder scrolls game.
Elder Scrolls Online might surprise me, but when it was announced, I and every person I know who is an Elder Scolls fan had the same reaction: "
Oh no. I hope they don't stop making the real Elder Scrolls Games now."
My reaction was more along
these lines.
My only interest (and I really mean ONLY interest) in ESO is exploring tamriel. Be able to visit the jungles of Elsweyr, the deserts and dune cities of Hammerfell, revisit Skyrim, Cyrodiil, and Morrowind to reminisce, and stroll on the summerset isles, as well as visit Orsimar. When ESO is released, I'll play it, explore every zone, and once that's done, I think I'll retire from that game, I doubt its a game I'll want to play permanently.
Could end up being pleasantly surprised, but I doubt it.
Post by ElhonnaDS
Skyrim in a nutshell.Lol- basically. You have to pace how quickly you learn your non-combat skills or you get splatted.