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Elder Scrolls Online Game Informer Details
- Thread starter Nirolak
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"Elder Scrolls" MMO.
The first picture is NSFW.
Should launch as F2P. I have nothing against stylized graphics but these look just lame...
Unless it is F2P, i won't be playing. Who's with me?
This...
GenericUser
Member
when they started the development of this game in 2007, the concept might seemed reasonable. 2012, not so much.
It does look very generic. With so many games going F2P there is no excuse for monthly fees in this day and age. 'Server costs' and 'paying New content' is not a excuse for P2P MMO's.
Doesn't look like a cock or pussy to me lol. Some mind you have haha.
Doesn't look like a cock or pussy to me lol. Some mind you have haha.
mysteriousmage09
Member
That 4th pic....Dear fucking God Hero Engine sucks so bad at rendering hair. Look at that shit!
It's heavily stylized, but I can still make out Spider Daedra, Storm Atronachs, Clanfear and an Ayleid Ruin. Though I doubt other people will
They all look 'cartoonish'. A side effect of the hero engine i assume.
HuntTheMusic
Neo Member
Screenshot six of the CVG shots appears to have a guy in a Daedric helmet and thats the only Elder Scrolls related item I could see. At first I thought they were a really early leak but reading they started this in 2007 makes me think this is it.
Bad times.
Bad times.
My girlfriend said it looks like final fantasy. Real story.
mysteriousmage09
Member
Scans did show what appeared to be Ordinator armor. But still way too few good things to counter to the mountain of shit.
Guerrillas in the Mist
Member
It's heavily stylized, but I can still make out Spider Daedra, Storm Atronachs, Clanfear and an Ayleid Ruin. Though I doubt other people will
Good to see I wasn't the only one to recognise the clanfear.
Psychoward
Banned
Honestly, it doesn't look terrible, it just doesn't remind me of ES. However, Swtor ran like shit for me, even at default settings. So yeah, Hero Engine sucks.
ScreenSplitter
Member
Wow, someone turned the saturation up to max...
RPGCrazied
Member
Why does everyone want this to be first person? Even in offline elderscrolls games I like 3rd person, hell all of my games that I play I want them in 3rd person. First person games give me a headache.
I'm not defending the game, cause it looks so average, but just saying.
I'm not defending the game, cause it looks so average, but just saying.
The_Squirrel_Menace
Member
Whaa... tt.? Why all the good RPG franchises gets the "MMO" treatment? last week S.T.A.L.K.E.R. now this. Make it stop. Please!
*pissed off*
*pissed off*
Doesn't really capture the look of Elder Scrolls; Then again, I'm not certain if ES even has a certain look
Your assuming this piece of crap engine can manage pvp of the scope of DAOC.
The old republic couldnt manage 20 vs 20 in the same area without slowing down to a crawl. The engine is limited and there´s little they can do about it.
To be fair, that didn't *craft* the entire continent, it just randomly generated areas around your current location themed to your current region.
I think the only crafted regions were the 18 main dungeons and Imperial City?
fluffydelusions
Member
Probably because they can get more money off an MMO. With a regular SP game, you just pay once and done. With MMO you can get money from subscription, in game purchases, all kinds of stuff. Well that is the why I see it anyway.
No, it means it will be just like WoW, ToR and every MMO ever created: you get your target, press a button and the skill hits or misses based on your stats.
That assumes that people will buy this POS and keep paying for it. We can see how well that worked out for EA's 200 million project.
It's just sad how none of these MMOs tries to be the least bit different. With the Elder Scrolls lineage, they could have gone for first person, an UO like skill progression system and Skyrim-like (subdued, with realistic lighting) graphics. Instead we get WoW clone #182.
AdmiralSnackbar
Member
Why would you describe your game like that. The next big MMO is going to be the one that reinvents the genre, not the one that does it almost as well.
Also if you showed me those screen shots I would have guessed Kingdom of Amalur, and hero engine means that it will also remind people of SWtOR. Nothing about this so far seems like elder scrolls.
It didn't sound like an ES game from the description, and that sure as hell doesn't look like one. Awful, very bland style.
Tesseract
Banned
what the fuck is this shit. ugh.
Well, it's random since that's the only way to build the entire continent. It can't be done by hand.
Seriously. I enjoyed Skyrim a lot in the end. I'm even thinking of going back and giving Oblivion a real try now that I know what to really expect and how to play these type of games (playing Fallout 3 and New Vegas also helped). However, as a fan of MMORPGs, I just have no desire at all to play an Elder Scrolls game online. It always seemed to me the strength of the games was the strong single player aspect of the worlds. You as a lone hero against the world. Sometimes with a companion.
I get the feeling this could end up like The Old Republic. Chase the MMO money and lose what made the past games popular in the first place.
Yes, I feel exactly the same, The Old Republic is a bad version of Mass Effect and KoTOR, an online game will never be as good as a single player one, cause you have to compromise quality for quantity.
What no Hammerfell? =(
"The game features three faction PvP where you fight to take over keeps and use trebuchets and other siege weapons to help do it. At the high end, you can have 100 v 100 battles. There are also farms and mines you can try to take over. Mots of this happens in Cyrodiil where your goal is to take over and hold the Imperial City to get faction wide bonuses for it. If you have played Dark Age of Camelot, this probably sounds familiar. For those who haven't, essentially the entire zone is a giant PvP area will all sorts of points of interest."
I loved the PVP in DAOC! *happy dance*
"The game features three faction PvP where you fight to take over keeps and use trebuchets and other siege weapons to help do it. At the high end, you can have 100 v 100 battles. There are also farms and mines you can try to take over. Mots of this happens in Cyrodiil where your goal is to take over and hold the Imperial City to get faction wide bonuses for it. If you have played Dark Age of Camelot, this probably sounds familiar. For those who haven't, essentially the entire zone is a giant PvP area will all sorts of points of interest."
I loved the PVP in DAOC! *happy dance*