Xbigy Game's Kamran Draeger writes:
Only hours after the first announcement of the Elder Scrolls Online coming from Gameinformer, the full feature has been leaked to the internet, in which Zenimax Online speaks of the “bold new direction” they plan to take the franchise.
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I hope they upgrade the graphics because they look a little dated.
*sigh* oh well.
Guild Wars 2, here i come!
On the other hand it seems they too are breaking away from the mold of traditional mmos just like GW 2 is. I honestly don't want to write an essay here so try to stay a little positive an if you can lol read the little article pages out of the mag. Just a few examples are that they too(like gw2) are breaking out of the holy trinity of mmos (tank, healer, dps) and the leveling experience is much closer to that of an ES game rather than wow or other mmos.
Here just read this atleast, it should shed some light.
http://xbigygames.com/wp-co...
Its like their first decision is well this is a MMO we can't have first person view. Takes a big chunk of the Elder Scrolls feeling away right there.
Well, since it has a hotbar, no first person combat is seen yet and it's probably an MMO clone since it's unfortunately made by "MMO veterans" who make tedious tiresome grind experiences (which I'm sick and tired of seeing) instead of people who know how to make games with actual content.
I don't like it yet.
Nobody wants to play an MMO the way MMOs are played since they're practical rehash with a lot of boring elements. If you want to enjoy the time you spend doing something you're better off getting a Gamefly membership and paying $15/mo to play a new game once a week instead of paying $15/mo for annoying bullshit you've seen and done before ten years ago in WoW.
They have two years to make this the unbalanced piece of awesome like TES is known for. And if they can't do that they should at least make a TES game with co-op since that's all I really want if they can't get the damn MMO right.
I might sound angry and irrational, but come on--this is ludicrous. They have the perfect game to make into an MMO, and they couldn't do it right. Come on Bethesda. It better be awesome or Imma be pissed...
That doesn't quite make sense to me. It doesn't have to be in third person to have a real combat system. A real combat system would be in first person point of view; just like how we see with our eyes. We don't have eyes twenty feet behind us, looking down at us from an angle you know lol. The only good thing about third person is that you can see a lot more of the environment.
There's always room for pioneers, and I don't want ZeniMax to fall back on MMO conventions for one of the most important games ever.
3rd person, hotkeys?, limited skillsets?, what about this game makes it Elders scrolls?
This whole thing seems so redundant, TES games are supposed to already simulate a real living breathing world, filled with characters that have their own "lives" so to speak. We dont need an MMO that attempts(AND FAILS) to fulfill that aspect.
This game goes against key concepts and mechanics established in all TES games. I expect massive lore rape. Imagine for a second running into the Imperial City and seeing 12 year olds spamming ARROW TO THE KNEE, this shit happens in MMOs and TES Online wont be any different.
i pass...
They really had an opportunity to create something fresh and amazing, but instead they opted to go the lazy, safe route and do everything we've already seen before.
Very very disappointed.
With what I hear about Guild Wars 2, when this TES online game releases it's going to be dead in the water; nobody is even going to think about playing it when GW2 does everything far better.
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Oh it would have to go the Guild Wars route too! No P2P and item shops!