Elder Scrolls Online - Page 14

citizen1080 · #1 01-13-2014, 01:39 AM

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dunno what game some of u are playing. but one of my fav things about ESO is that its not like wow

Right?

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Tradesonred · #2 01-13-2014, 12:29 AM

Elder scrolls one of my fave RPG series of all time, been gaming since 1980, and i didnt last long with ESO one 2 hour session friday and 30mins saturday. Its not what we expect from ES games, it just feels dated as fuck to do these retro quest on rails hubs. Its immersion breaking to ask characters to do good actions when you had settled on being an evil toon, and your option to be evil is to be stuck in that quest hub and not advancing in the game. MAAAAAYYBE if it was well done and you had many options to be evil or good, but it just feels cookie cutter.

Tradesonred · #3 01-13-2014, 12:31 AM

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Grubbz · #4 01-13-2014, 12:49 AM

Warning gonna break the NDA because i am tired of noobs who played 1 hr and logged out and think they get an opinion on the matter.

Sorry but no.......... Even the elder scrolls game had a main quest line. There is a TON and i literally mean a ton of stuff to do. Don't feel like questing? No problem just go explore the world, collect gathering materials, work on tradeskills, if that doesn't interest you explore some dungeons and yes there are PLUNTY of optional dungeons and PLUNTY of optional side quests.

The first dungeon on the ebenheart side is called fire grotto and its not easy. The boss actually reqs teamwork, The loot is fair and the atmosphere is amazing.

You're never gonna talk us out of buying the game, its amazing and we will support it.

Haters gonna hate.

MrSparkle001 · #5 01-13-2014, 01:33 AM

They closed the beta forums the same time they shut down the server. No feedback from me now. They left them open for a few days after the last session. I was ready to write another lengthy post containing all of my feedback from this weekend.

I summarize and go into detail after a beta session is over, after I've collected and organized my notes and thoughts (I keep notes as I test). It's not my style to constantly use /feedback ingame, giving short quips here and there and never really going into detail. I'd rather give my feedback in a forum post after the beta session is over. It lets me go into detail and it opens up my feedback to discussion and brainstorming which I find a lot more valuable than a bunch of very short /feedback submissions.

Grimfan · #6 01-13-2014, 01:39 AM

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They closed the beta forums the same time they shut down the server. No feedback from me now. They left them open for a few days after the last session. I was ready to write another lengthy post containing all of my feedback from this weekend.

I summarize and go into detail after a beta session is over, after I've collected and organized my notes and thoughts (I keep notes as I test). It's not my style to constantly use /feedback ingame, giving short quips here and there and never really going into detail. I'd rather give my feedback in a forum post after the beta session is over. It lets me go into detail and it opens up my feedback to discussion and brainstorming which I find a lot more valuable than a bunch of very short /feedback submissions.

They send you a survey that has a couple boxes for you to fill out some feedback, don't worry.

Tradesonred · #7 01-13-2014, 01:58 AM

So youre saying theres actually a point in the game where you get to a large open ended world like we are expecting from an ES game?

Because thats the core of the main criticism about the game

citizen1080 · #8 01-13-2014, 02:04 AM

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So youre saying theres actually a point in the game where you get to a large open ended world like we are expecting from an ES game?

Because thats the core of the main criticism about the game

And that is the criticism I don't understand. You wander around and find random quests everywhere. Seems pretty open to me.

Yes the main quest line points you to main cities...happened in skyrim too. And yes, there are more quests in cities because guess what...there are more fucking NPCs there. Also happened in skyrim.

I dunno I don't get it...and I realize nothing I say is gonna change certain peoples minds. They had them made up before they even saw beta and are going to stick to their guns. More game for me I suppose.

Tradesonred · #9 01-13-2014, 02:18 AM

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And that is the criticism I don't understand. You wander around and find random quests everywhere. Seems pretty open to me.

Yes the main quest line points you to main cities...happened in skyrim too. And yes, there are more quests in cities because guess what...there are more fucking NPCs there. Also happened in skyrim.

I dunno I don't get it...and I realize nothing I say is gonna change certain peoples minds. They had them made up before they even saw beta and are going to stick to their guns. More game for me I suppose.

Thats not what im asking. My grudge isnt that theres quests, its that its all fractured into small quest zones. The openness im talking about is not if you wander around, do you find quests? Its in relation to a large sandboxy open world.

Ill repeat my question, Is there a point in the game where you stop being in these hermetically sealed PVE bubbles to enter a section of the game, lets call it the true game, where its a large open ended world where you can encounter players from other factions while questing, exploring, etc... Did i miss this true game or it doesnt exist. If by level 10 or something you enter this large open world map i guess some of it can be forgiven, but it turned me off to such an extent that i didnt even push forward to see what else there was. I purchased Dragonborn over the holidays, its not like im a hardcore ES hater, ESO just doesnt feel like an ES game (The sandbox). Maybe later on, but not the first few couple of hours.

Grimfan · #10 01-13-2014, 02:24 AM

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Thats not what im asking. My grudge isnt that theres quests, its that its all fractured into small quest zones.

Ill repeat my question, Is there a point in the game where you stop being in these hermetically sealed PVE bubbles to enter a section of the game, lets call it the true game, where its a large open ended world where you can encounter players from other factions while questing, exploring, etc... Did i miss this true game or it doesnt exist. If by level 10 or something you enter this large open world map i guess some of it can be forgiven, but it turned me off to such an extent that i didnt even push forward to see what else there was. I purchased Dragonborn over the holidays, its not like im a hardcore ES hater, ESO just doesnt feel like an ES game (The sandbox). Maybe later on, but not the first few couple of hours.

As far as I saw there isn't an area where you can mingle with others from different factions, but that might come in end game. For now all I saw were people in my own faction. It does have normal mmo zone progression though where you cannot get to places you're not supposed to go, in that way it is probably a bubble, but the bubble expands to about 10x the size of the other bubbles you were on if that makes any sense. And there are what looks like a good 5-6 bubbles for you to explore, and then you can go through other factions story lines as well from what they've said, but I don't have end game experience.

Honestly you might want to wait until it has been out a month to see/experience it, but I am going to get it right away. I want to get into the PVP and get really deep into the game.