The Elder Scrolls Online

GuardianX · Mar 19, 2015

bixxby_sl said:
So is this fun enough to buy and play through once when it's back down to 20 bucks?

It is a year after release and they still have addons being the only reason why the UI is marginal at best. If they suddenly decided they needed console parity and denied addons on all platforms I would recommend skipping it permanently.

They added in paragon levels...cool paragon levels in a game where combat is more bland than vanilla.

I had a group of people I was playing with before suggest that, "If you are bored with your current character, re-roll and try a new one!" Like the game doesn't revolve around moving your first character through EVERY faction by the time they hit VR1.

I dunno, the game was interesting-ish but not to any type of quality that the "TES" series was.

20 dollars, no more.

Rescorla_sl · Mar 20, 2015

Blackwulf_sl said:
Honestly, if the patcher is dominating you this much, you might wanna just skip this one.

You gotta admit the patcher does suck. Lot of complaints on the forums from people with SSD drives who can't patch the game because they have limited space left. I had to install it on my second hard drive to avoid running out of space on my SSD primary.

Rescorla_sl · Mar 20, 2015

GuardianX_sl said:
It is a year after release and they still have addons being the only reason why the UI is marginal at best. If they suddenly decided they needed console parity and denied addons on all platforms I would recommend skipping it permanently.

They added in paragon levels...cool paragon levels in a game where combat is more bland than vanilla.

I had a group of people I was playing with before suggest that, "If you are bored with your current character, re-roll and try a new one!" Like the game doesn't revolve around moving your first character through EVERY faction by the time they hit VR1.

I dunno, the game was interesting-ish but not to any type of quality that the "TES" series was.

20 dollars, no more.

The default UI is the worst of any MMO ever made. The PC version is only playable if you use the more popular player made addons. Wykkyds entire collection is a good starting point. Those addons resolve pretty much all the major shortcomings of the default UI.

Supposedly the console version UI has been completely revamped based on all the negative feedback from the PC players.

Flipmode · Mar 20, 2015

No nameplates, no purchase!

Blackwulf · Mar 20, 2015

Flipmode_sl said:
No nameplates, no purchase!

I love how having everyone riding around on tigers doesn't break immersion, but nameplates do. Paul Sage is a fucking retard.

Abefroman · Mar 20, 2015

Blackwulf_sl said:
I love how having everyone riding around on tigers doesn't break immersion, but nameplates do. Paul Sage is a fucking retard.

One of the dumbest design decisions ever. Just give people the ability to turn the shit off if they hate it. Can't have nameplates but can have health bars and fucking strawberries over your head in PVP.

Bondurant · Mar 20, 2015

bixxby_sl said:
So is this fun enough to buy and play through once when it's back down to 20 bucks?

If you're bored enough, mauled Skyrim + DLC + mods to the bone and don't care about PvP, probably. Otherwise I think it's a no go, PvP is a mindless, laggy gankfest with minimal incentive. You'd have more fun with SWTOR / Archeage right now.

GuardianX · Mar 22, 2015

Blackwulf_sl said:
I love how having everyone riding around on tigers doesn't break immersion, but nameplates do. Paul Sage is a fucking retard.

Was playing this back on original release, the group of people I was with were all pants on head retarded for this game. The guild / clan leader, who is a product designer for Facebook, was deep-throating this game for a long fucking time. Oddly enough they stayed subbed to the game for a long ass time only to really play (lose in) PvP which is a watered down version of GW2 (I don't even PvP in GW2).

I don't get it, I mean I know people on consoles will be jizzing on their Doritos over this game, but that is to be expected. Is the PC MMO market so bare that we need to pretend to like the shit thrown in front of us?

Krueger · Mar 22, 2015

GuardianX_sl said:
I don't get it, I mean I know people on consoles will be jizzing on their Doritos over this game, but that is to be expected. Is the PC MMO market so bare that we need to pretend to like the shit thrown in front of us?

A lot of my long-time MMO buddies just switch what game they're playing every month or two. Say they're enjoying each one for the grind to the top, but don't ever stick with anything long enough to see all of the deep issues in so many of the games.

Vitality · Mar 22, 2015

You guys are about 400 pages late to this conversation.

Vinyard_sl · Mar 22, 2015

bro dont say that. skyrim online is going to rock

GuardianX · Mar 22, 2015

Vitality_sl said:
You guys are about 400 pages late to this conversation.

Well I mean they did just hit it with a tazer hoping to shock it back to life. I mean tazer...defib...same thing right!

Muligan · Apr 8, 2015

Received a "ESO Has Grown - Play FREE and See What's New" email today. I gave up on this game during beta testing. Is it worth jumping in during their free weekend April 17-20?

Palum · Apr 8, 2015

Muligan_sl said:
Received a "ESO Has Grown ? Play FREE and See What?s New" email today. I gave up on this game during beta testing. Is it worth jumping in during their free weekend April 17-20?

Haha, no. Don't stoop to their level and vindicate their begging. Nameplates or bust.

Muligan · Apr 8, 2015

Palum_sl said:
Haha, no. Don't stoop to their level and vindicate their begging. Nameplates or bust.

About what I thought.... just curious. They are one of the few games I never really gave a chance out of beta. It usually takes a game 30 days post release to disappoint me.

Flipmode · Apr 8, 2015

Flipmode_sl said:
No nameplates, no purchase!

That part^

Grim1 · Apr 8, 2015

Just curious, is not having nameplates that game breaking? Never got around to playing this so I honestly don't know.

Also, if they did put them in, wouldn't that alienate the legions of fans from the single player game? Iirc, they were pretty upset about lack of viable first person before it was put in.

Derpa · Apr 8, 2015

Grim1_sl said:
alienate the legions of fans from the single player game?

They already did that

Letsinod · Apr 8, 2015

Just tried playing again for a few hours. Not even trying to be funny but the lack of nameplates if just a killer for me and the shitty UI is a close 2nd. Without the nameplates its so hard to tell who is who and what is going on. When I walk into an area who si the NPC, PC, and mobs blends in. Why can't it at least be toggleable?

Palum · Apr 8, 2015

Grim1_sl said:
Just curious, is not having nameplates that game breaking? Never got around to playing this so I honestly don't know.

Also, if they did put them in, wouldn't that alienate the legions of fans from the single player game? Iirc, they were pretty upset about lack of viable first person before it was put in.

Yes, it's mostly just endemic of more general and typical issue of developers being completely tone-deaf to the population.

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