The Elder Scrolls: Online
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Sempiternusw
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I didn't understand why people didn't like it. I loved it. Wait for me Tamriel!
Character customization looks good. Starting in a ship is instantly reminiscent of Morrowind. Rats are a realistic size, that's a first for a TES game! 
Didn't watch much farther than that.
Didn't watch much farther than that.Ringwraith #5 said:Character customization looks good. Starting in a ship is instantly reminiscent of Morrowind. Rats are a realistic size, that's a first for a TES game!
Yeah, everyone mentions that Morrowind connection.
I for one like it.
What I'd like to see is how fleshed out the world is. Will it be like most other MMOs with one city per race, or will it be like a god damn TES game and have a bajillion cities?
It did have an ES feel to it. But it really wasn't that impressive. I really, really disliked the standard MMO map/quest thing up the top right, and besides a few things that reminded me of ES (the ship, the character faces, the attacking/sneaking) everything else looked generic or poor. 
Hopefully mages get more spells then only fireballs (and i mean a vast selection of spells and not bound to one spell at a time)
(and i mean a vast selection of spells and not bound to one spell at a time)
Austupaio
Duke
Interface is exactly the same, starting area progression is exactly the same, silly use of floating names above ambience (kind of counter-productive) is exactly the same.
You still select enemies, how are there not hotkeys if there are 6 spells, and just because the basic fireball attack required him to click each time didn't mean it wasn't a silly autoattack.
Questing is a staple but it would be nice if they wouldn't devolve into kill 5 mudcrabs.
You still select enemies, how are there not hotkeys if there are 6 spells, and just because the basic fireball attack required him to click each time didn't mean it wasn't a silly autoattack.
Questing is a staple but it would be nice if they wouldn't devolve into kill 5 mudcrabs.
Click each time, ergo not automatic = not autoattack.
Interface is the same? How so?
OTOH, ESO had the minimap, quest log and chat screen. The health, magicka and stamina bars only appear when relevant.
I didn't bother to actually look at what the quest contained, but the starting area quest isn't really a good indicator of what other quests there will be. They're there to get you used to the mechanics of the game.
Also, did he select enemies? It looked to me that he was aiming his fireballs from a crosshair. That's my bad then.
Being "like WoW" usually means the standard hotkey MMO style of combat, as in select enemy and you can only attack that one by clicking on an attack in a hotbar or clicking the hotkey for it, hence "hotkey combat". You can clearly see he has to aim his attacks and can also has access to all of it outside of combat and without a selected target.Austupaio said:
The floating names he activates in a menu at the start.
Questing, no idea. Looks like standard bull**** to me, so nothing too bad. "kill 20 X and 10 Y" is apparently something they swore they won't have, make of that what you will.
What I don't like from the video:
Animations and texture quality. Can be down to "still in development", but I still don't like it.
The combat looks like completely and utterly weightless.
The voice acting is hilarious. Now, let's hope they don't fall into the same trap as TOR in this regard, where you can pin the extreme lack of updates and new content down to the extreme cost and time requirements due to bloody voice acting for everything.
Ah well, I had no real interest in this from the start and I don't think this will take off. But it doesn't look as bad as the first announcements of the game made it out to be for me.
Still zero interest though.
Wellenbrecher said:Animations and texture quality. Can be down to "still in development", but I still don't like it.
The combat looks like completely and utterly weightless.
The voice acting is hilarious. Now, let's hope they don't fall into the same trap as TOR in this regard, where you can pin the extreme lack of updates and new content down to the extreme cost and time requirements due to bloody voice acting for everything.
Agree on all counts.
Austupaio
Duke
@Tuckes and Interface; Pretty sure you just described exactly how the interface was the same.
I'm not going to get into an extended discussion about it though, when people want to like an MMORPG because this one is relevant to their interests, it can't possibly be another clone.
Had the same discussion about SWTOR and Warhammer Fantasy were clones.
I'm not going to get into an extended discussion about it though, when people want to like an MMORPG because this one is relevant to their interests, it can't possibly be another clone.
Had the same discussion about SWTOR and Warhammer Fantasy were clones.
How is it the same?
Constant health bars, minimap with extra buttons, 3 stacks of hotbars, weird thing at the bottom versus disappearing health bars (a staple of the Elder Scrolls series), a minimalist chat box and a minimap. The minimap is the only really intrusive thing and WoW-esque in that screen.
How would YOU do the interface?
Constant health bars, minimap with extra buttons, 3 stacks of hotbars, weird thing at the bottom versus disappearing health bars (a staple of the Elder Scrolls series), a minimalist chat box and a minimap. The minimap is the only really intrusive thing and WoW-esque in that screen.
How would YOU do the interface?
I rather have WoW's interface with a ****load of unique abilitys then Gw2 inferface which only has like 8 spells depending on the weapon ur using.
