Sounds like it could be worth playing if it were Free To Play, but a base buy of $40-$50.
The combat sounds sketchy at best, the rest seems -alright-.
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[QUOTE=Adsone;44478471]Does Balmora appear in this game?[/QUOTE]
That' would imply that Schick and all the writers for TES:O cared about the lore.
I really really wish this wasn't subscription based, otherwise I'd probably have it right now.
[QUOTE=Covalency;44478562]Sounds like it could be worth playing if it were Free To Play, but a base buy of $40-$50.
The combat sounds sketchy at best, the rest seems -alright-.[/QUOTE]
Thats the general problem with this MMO, and others like it, trying to squeeze out a sub fee and a fee to buy the game itself.
WoW can do it (they don't really even charge for the base client anymore either) because its a big hitter in the field and is TRUSTED to deliver a great experience, it has pedigree for lack of a better word.
But this? How anyone could justify paying THAT MUCH for an MMO that is admittedly just 'average' is beyond me.
It's a decently done MMO, you'll have fun if you enjoy these kinds of games and want an Elder Scrolls theme. Sadly, I'm not at all an MMO fan, and don't enjoy the mechanics of MMOs. Even then, if I did, it's not justifiable for the cost. It's subjectively not a terrible game, it had some enjoyable things that I liked even with my bias towards MMOs. That's just my two cents about it, which isn't at all enough to afford the game because I'm a poor peasant.
If the base game was free and you just paid for a subscription i would play this in a heartbeat but expecting me to pay 50$ on top just feels like too much
[QUOTE]The map of Tamriel is huge – but you cannot go wherever you want right from the start. My time has so far been confined to a series of increasingly large islands. There is a connecting ferry to the mainland, but it takes reaching level 12 (which took me till somewhere around the 20-hour mark) to be shown where this is. It is a frustrating reversal of what makes the single-player games so wonderful.[/QUOTE]
Not really a valid complaint either way, I mean you even explained away why having all areas available at every level would be a bad idea. Still, it's technically wrong either way as you now start in daggerfall in the release version and you only go to the "tutorial islands" if you want to.
[QUOTE]Teamwork meant that my pal could take the heat off me as the tank but – beyond some buffing, dodging and basic counter-attacks – I found the combat to be a soulless barrage of button-tapping.[/QUOTE]
Most MMOs have 1/3 of those things, how is that a complaint?
[QUOTE]I actually started to avoid fights, not because the enemies were too powerful or too numerous. Simply because it was so tedious. In a game were large chunks of your XP is supposed to come from slashing up millions of enemy mobs, this is not a good sign.[/QUOTE]
In a genre where games are by and large just ESO minus dodging and control over your melee attacks, how you find ESO [i]more[/i] boring is a confusing thought
[QUOTE]On and on these plots reappear, seemingly without end. There are only so many times you can end up in a jail cell before you begin to gnash your teeth with as much madness as an actual prisoner. This (along with the deeply uninspired puzzle elements often included) makes a lot of the missions just as shallow as any fetch quest. The whole experience is drier than a bowl of un-milked muesli.[/QUOTE]
Once again, it's an odd case of them finding something with [i]some[/i] depth worse than something with [i]no[/i] depth.
[QUOTE=ClarkWasHere;44478594]That' would imply that Schick and all the writers for TES:O cared about the lore.[/QUOTE]
Are you sure it's even supposed to be there? I mean ESO is long before any other TES game, the city might not have been built, I can't seem to find its age anywhere. I think ESO is ~800 years before morrowind
[QUOTE=Adsone;44478471]Does Balmora appear in this game?[/QUOTE]
It's only mainland Morrowind. So you don't get to go on Vvardenfell. I'm pretty sure the city exists in lore because places like Vivec are mentioned. It's still interesting to see some more of the land though.
[QUOTE=Jack_Ghetto;44481532]It's only mainland Morrowind. So you don't get to go on Vvardenfell. I'm pretty sure the city exists in lore because places like Vivec are mentioned. It's still interesting to see some more of the land though.[/QUOTE]
Vivec does exist during ESO's timeline, but balmora may not.
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