I want this game to be good so I have to stay away from all the hype and news. I can't let my expectations get too high. The best games I've ever played were the ones that take me by surprise because I didn't know anything about them. It always seems that the people who are most disappointed are the raving fanboys that hype the game and defend its honor well before release.

eviltomahawk

United States11133 Posts

May 04 2012 20:01 GMT

#105

On May 05 2012 03:47 demonik187 wrote:
So everyone asked for a mod to make Skyrim multiplayer, and now everyone bitches that they are making a multiplayer title... lol you guys kill me.

Well, people wanted Elder Scrolls gameplay with multiplayer, but we are instead getting MMO gameplay in the Elder Scrolls universe. The setting will be the only thing that is the same whereas the gameplay will be significantly different and more generic.

On May 05 2012 04:31 Kznn wrote:
when is the 1st screenshot going to be released?

There are already scans of the Game Informer preview floating around, and I've seen those same screenshots on major websites that are previewing the game.

DrainX

Sweden3187 Posts

May 04 2012 23:47 GMT

#106

I wish every hotkey based, theme park, instanced, wow-clone out there just died. There is so much potential in the MMO genre and everyone is just releasing a copy of a copy of a copy. And most of them don't even make the server or world the focus of the game. The players have almost no real effect on their surroundings or on each other. Everyone is just PvE grinding in their own instance. Might as well not even be an MMO at that point.

There are some exceptions like EVE, Darkfall and Salem that try to do new stuff and succeed to some degree. At least help push the boundry of what is possible in an MMO. The general mainstream MMOs of today just make me want to puke though. I'm not suspecting this game to be any different from what I have seen.

mastergriggy

United States1312 Posts

May 04 2012 23:59 GMT

#107

Is this gonna be one of those horrible flash rpgs? I really hope not but after looking at the guys resume for what he has worked on.

StarStruck

25339 Posts

May 05 2012 00:15 GMT

#108

What the hell did you guys expect and check your WoW reskins in at the door. Some of you honestly compare everything to it.

Quotidian

Norway1937 Posts

May 05 2012 00:27 GMT

#109

it better play like a fucking TES game

edit: after reading some of the Game Informer stuff, it seems like the people making the game just don't "get it." They're going to be catering to MMO players who expect MMO styled controls. It's not even going to have TES styled skill leveling, proving that it in essence has nothing to do with TES from a gameplay point of view. It's probably going to be another 3rd person fantasy game with a button bar at the bottom of the screen and skill rotations. Morons... The sales of Skyrim shows that there are millions of people out there who want to play a deep, first person RPG that doesn't control like were many other games. How about going after those people, instead of an audience that will just go back to WOW or LOTRO once they novelty wears off..?
I'm hoping for a TES online game, it could honestly be very cool. But I'm expecting a generic MMO game

OK summery here

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3482784&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

this is as far from a TES-looking art style as I could ever imagine. It even has WOW shoulder pads.. I'm upset :\

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edit #2: turns out the game director was a central figure on the development of Tabula Rasa? Did anybody else play that steaming pile of shit? Sigh.. TES Online looks like it's going to be a gigantic waste of a lot of potential

fabiano

Brazil4644 Posts

May 05 2012 00:37 GMT

#110

MMO sucks anyway. Never understood why people like it, and unfortunately it seems I'm part of the minority.

Now having LAN on Skyrim would be freaking awesome

edit: ^ WTF

AnachronisticAnarchy

United States2957 Posts

May 05 2012 00:56 GMT

#111

Anyone think MMO fatigue will kill, or at least hurt this project significantly?
Furthermore, they don't have a good timing window to work with, release-wise. GW2 is going to be good, really good, and they're going to need to either A: release this MMO with better technology and gameplay than GW2 (not easy) or B: release this MMO after people start getting fatigued of GW2.

Healasouhait

France28 Posts

May 05 2012 01:03 GMT

#112

Thought it was a joke at first but it really is in development...I'm afraid it's going to be terrible. And dunmers with argonians ?? Come on, wtf, if you've ever played Morrowind, you must have seen the majority of the dunmers consider argonians as freaking beasts.

Don't know why Bethesda approves that project.

UniversalSnip

9871 Posts

May 05 2012 01:33 GMT

#113

Man this looks absolutely awful. That art style is so... wrong for the franchise, and I don't see ANYTHING that differentiates it from wow. The article is, unsurprisingly for gaming 'journalism', fawning garbage, and yet even they can't help making it look like a pile of shit.

synapse

China13814 Posts

May 05 2012 02:03 GMT

#114

I think a coop mode for Skyrim (or whichever ES game you like) would have been amazing, but the world of ES just doesn't fit an MMO imo...

Pobearo

United States351 Posts

May 05 2012 02:33 GMT

#115

I hope it's at least first person....

This could be the second coming of the old republic.

drumsetjunky

United States136 Posts

May 05 2012 03:04 GMT

#116

I'm looking forward to this game! ZeniMax being founded by a former Mythic guy(who made DAOC) has me excited at the prospect!

heliusx

United States2306 Posts

May 05 2012 03:34 GMT

#117

Never seen so much unwarranted hate. Although that art is very wow. (as much as i hate to say that).

empty.bottle

685 Posts

May 05 2012 04:12 GMT

#118

On May 05 2012 12:34 heliusx wrote:
Never seen so much unwarranted hate. Although that art is very wow. (as much as i hate to say that).

I think it looks like Kingdoms of Amalur, and maybe a little like Warhammer Online.

LaughingTulkas

United States1107 Posts

May 05 2012 04:52 GMT

#119

On May 05 2012 04:45 Rainbow Cuddles wrote:
I think this is a good thing. I like the direction games are going where everything is an MMO. I'm waiting for the Amnesia MMO.

Eff that! I'm rolling a monster then!

Synwave

United States2803 Posts

May 05 2012 05:14 GMT

#120

I thought the whole point of TES games is so I can feel like Im in an MMO without any of the actual stupid people being there?

I can only imagine the bugs that would see release for this as well. I mean MMO's are infamous for being buggy on initial release but you combine that with how buggy TES games usually are and I am picturing horses on castle tops dropping houses on dragons in the market square while people run around willy-nilly.

Actually that sounds a bit fun >.>