Hope you weren't too excited about that Elder Scrolls MMO

[Your Fearless Captain]

To be entirely fair, real time combat is perfectly doable in an MMO. TERA actually managed to make it work really well.

OT: I was really hoping this was going to be essentially "Skyrim with more players", as that framework is quite possibly the best MMO base I've ever seen. Clearly Zenimax doesn't like money however and will attempt to copy WoW, fail to take any players from WoW because WoW does it better than they can, and then go F2P in very short order.

Skyrim with more players would be a terrible idea....... I don't see how anyone could suggest it.

Skyrim with more players would so fucking amazing I think my genitals would explode.

 

[alessandropercy]

I'm not fussed really. Its not like the main mechanic from The Elder Scrolls games is the combat anyway.
Bethesda is a fantastic studio and even if their using mainly WOW style mechanics I have faith that they can break the Mold and create a unique game.

 

[Korolev]

Well, it's an MMO. It would be incredibly difficult to make an MMO which was just "skyrim + multiplayer". You'd have to have an absolutely gigantic world to accommodate all the players, unless you limited it to about 100 people per server.

No MMO could ever re-create the Skyrim experience. Which is why I don't play MMOs. People play MMOs for loot, grinding and social reasons - the story and gameplay of most MMOs isn't exactly "compelling" stuff.

 

[minarri]

My shadiness radar began to trigger the moment they started talking about "also appealing to Skyrim players." That really should be "appeal to Elder Scrolls players" so it sounded like they don't know what they're talking about.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

To be perfectly honest I'd rather play a MMO with WoW mechanics than a MMO with Tes mechanics. Yes, standing angrily at another person in PvP waiting for them to attack first sounds so much like fun.

 

[Seventh Actuality]

OH MY GOD AN MMO IS GOING TO BE AN MMO.

 

[w00tage]

...money grab on the IP name. That's all this was. Hey, let's make a cheap MMO knockoff of the game for the initial box sales!

I cannot believe the @sshattedness of these people. MMOFPS can be a hella fun experience and make the kind of "Band of Brothers" experience that no other game can. There's plenty of precedent in the original Planetside and in how popular MW and ME multiplayer is.

That's what "the TES MMO" could bring to the fantasy MMO market, but they choose generic WoW clone instead? These people need to find some other industry to work in. Preferably one involving a paper hat and drive-through service.

 

[BLAHwhatever]

Fail Level: Tactical Facepalm

 

[Gitty101]

There it goes. All of my interest in this title just vanished. I'll still keep an eye on it, but now I'm really not expecting anything that great.

 

[SajuukKhar]

Skyrim with more players would so fucking amazing I think my genitals would explode.

Imagine running through a ruin in Skyrim with an AI companion....

A enemy shows up..

you cast a spell or shoot an arrow to attack it...

BUT SUDDENLY your AI companion gets in your way blocking your arrow or spell as they hack away at the enemy

now imagine that with 4 people blocking you

now 10

now 20

now 30

its a terrible idea

People who say it is a good idea are completely ignoring the fact it would turn the game into a unplayable cluster fuck of people dog piling enemies

 

[Your Fearless Captain]

Skyrim with more players would so fucking amazing I think my genitals would explode.

Imagine running through a ruin in Skyrim with an AI companion....

A enemy shows up..

you cast a spell or shoot an arrow to attack it...

BUT SUDDENLY your AI companion gets in your way blocking your arrow or spell as they hack away at the enemy

now imagine that with 4 people blocking you

now 10

now 20

now 30

its a terrible idea

People who say it is a good idea are completely ignoring the fact it would turn the game into a unplayable cluster fuck of people dog piling enemies

I meant Coop with a friend. Not some idiot. And how the hell would go into a ruin with 30 people?

 

[Something Amyss]

Well since the last Elder Scrolls game I played was Daggerfall I wasn't really exited, but this does leave me wondering, What is the point of making an MMO out of it, if it is nothing like it?
This is actually pretty stupid.

Trading on a major name. Not exactly the worst idea in the world, but I bet it'll fail.

 

[Kae]

Well since the last Elder Scrolls game I played was Daggerfall I wasn't really exited, but this does leave me wondering, What is the point of making an MMO out of it, if it is nothing like it?
This is actually pretty stupid.

Trading on a major name. Not exactly the worst idea in the world, but I bet it'll fail.

While trading on the name is not that bad an idea, it will make it fail since the reason people wanted an Elder Scrolls MMO was because they wanted an MMO with the mechanics and features of the Elder Scrolls games, sure the lore is good [small](I assume)[/small] but if the game is nothing like what people expect from it then it will most likely fail.
Well I assume, I could always be wrong.

 

[SajuukKhar]

I meant Coop with a friend. Not some idiot. And how the hell would go into a ruin with 30 people?

Considering we were talking about the MMO
Its mechanics
how its mechanics are not like that of skyrim
and you made no mention of Coop rather then the MMO

I assumed you were talking about the MMO.

I agree with you in a limited 4 player coop game it MIGHT work, but really the melee system in the game is so broken it would still become a clusterfuck even with friends.

 

[Keith Reedy]

Excellent, now I know that I don't have to care about this.

I find your avatar picture greatly appropriate. An elderscrolls mmo is a terrible idea I was outraged when tor became an mmo I wanted another old republic game not a crap ass wow clone and now there doin the same to tes I hope they aren't gonna stop makin tes games. I hope they aren't that stupid

 

[SajuukKhar]

I find your avatar picture greatly appropriate. An elderscrolls mmo is a terrible idea I was outraged when tor became an mmo I wanted another old republic game not a crap ass wow clone and now there doin the same to tes I hope they aren't gonna stop makin tes games. I hope they aren't that stupid

Pete Hines already confirmed that Zenimax Online's mmo will not affect Bethesda Game Studios production of games.