The Elder Scrolls Online
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Utnayan
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Harshaw
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I have a bunch of friends that are in total fanboy mode for this. I'm very much wary of the game so far. It's really got nothing super appealing compared to Wildstar, which I had blown off at first glance, which looks better and better the more I look into it.
Stave
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Got this video in my email. The world looks so much different than those 2 shoddy gameplay videos that came out. Not to defend this game because I think it will be a failure, but I have to wonder if those 2 leaked videos weren't super old, or lowest settings or whatnot.
spronk
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how the fuck do you decide to make an MMO that seems to be designed as a single player game, in 2013. "MoreBalls steals your soul and you spend the game trying to get it back. You go to Oblivion trying to figure out what makes your soul so special." Oh, and the 5400 guys in a line behind you, who are also all special with names like HairlessKunt and SwagYoloPrince.
Every MMO the last few years has been trying hard to get out of that mode of "you ARE the dragonborn legendary hero prophesied to save the universe!", because it makes no fucking sense in a themepark with thousands of other players and having to go do "please deliver these ash yams to Bitchy McTits, and I'll give you 1 gold!" hundreds of times in between saving the universe. While I'm not sure GW2s way of making you a sidekick is the best, TESO's fundamental player design just seems so incredibly short sighted and silly.
Every MMO the last few years has been trying hard to get out of that mode of "you ARE the dragonborn legendary hero prophesied to save the universe!", because it makes no fucking sense in a themepark with thousands of other players and having to go do "please deliver these ash yams to Bitchy McTits, and I'll give you 1 gold!" hundreds of times in between saving the universe. While I'm not sure GW2s way of making you a sidekick is the best, TESO's fundamental player design just seems so incredibly short sighted and silly.
Stave
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I may *possibly* try it if there is a trial, or if it comes back with absolutely glowing reviews, but otherwise I am going to be in FFXIV ARR for hopefully the next few years.
I liked the part where it said "There is an ancient prophesy in the Elder Scrolls that says thatTheSoulless One will thwart Molag Bals' plans. And in fact,the playeris The Soulless One." Yeah, along with thousands of other players... How do they think this is even remotely not utter garbage? In a single player game you can be The Soulless One. In a MMORPG you can not. Its old, its tired, it was never any good to begin with.
Just... /facepalm
Just... /facepalm
Dandai
<WoW Guild Officer>
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Be careful or Molag Bal will secrete your soul in his other realm. Wouldn't want you to reacquire your soul with whatever else he secretes.
Edit: Bleh, time stamp didn't work. It's at 1:35.
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Ukerric
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Azrayne
Irenicus did nothing wrong
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I'm honestly kind of sick of MMO's trying to integrate some kind of overarching plotline for the player character. If I want to play a character who's the center of the universe with everything revolving around them, I'll play a single player RPG where they can actually be the center of the universe, where that experience can be pulled off properly. In MMO's it just feels tacked on and superfluous, not to mention unrealistic for obvious reasons, and adds nothing to the overall gameplay experience. They should focus on making the stories for individual quest lines/zones and the setting as a whole more interesting instead, not to mention improving the gameplay.
Caeden
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I think WoW takes the special snowflake syndrome about as far as it needs to go and even the will leap right over the fucking line. Still, that at least feels like you're part of a nameless hero strike force instead of the ONE SAVIOR TO SAVE THEM ALL! I remember walking around fleet in ToR one night realizing that "God damn the Emperor has a fuckton of Wraths!!" But naw man, I'm the one true Wrath.
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Fuck story right in the ass. I hate stories, I hate reading them and I hate npcs telling them to me. Especially in these fantasy games where the stories are lame cliche and just laughable anyway. I understand that there needs to be some "overall story arc" of why you are there and what the "evil" is you are about to fight. But let it end right there, in the background if you want to learn more about it.
Instead of spending thousands of man hours doing all this story bullshit, where 80% of the people playing just skip anyway, how bout they spend that time designing a better game, more encounters, more scripted events, more end game, more dungeons.... And let us make our own story.
Instead of spending thousands of man hours doing all this story bullshit, where 80% of the people playing just skip anyway, how bout they spend that time designing a better game, more encounters, more scripted events, more end game, more dungeons.... And let us make our own story.
I'm an avid reader, but I've morphed into preferring games having the depth of story and presentation of Dark Souls. Let me research it if I want, but throw me in the fucking world and make me the story.