Trailers: The Elder Scrolls Online - Teaser
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Generic Dwarf warrior, generic elf wizard, generic human ranger. Battering ram logo entrance.
I feel like I'm watching their whole marketing department run around, screaming "BUY OUR GAME, WE ARE HORRIBLY OUT OF IDEAS BUT WE HEAR LOTR WAS KINDA COOL AND THIS IS THE SORT OF SHIT THAT GETS CALLED EPIC THESE DAYS SO PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WE HAVE HUSBANDS WIVES AND KIDS JUST BUY OUR DAMN WHATEVERTHEHELL WE'RE MAKING".
I feel like I'm watching their whole marketing department run around, screaming "BUY OUR GAME, WE ARE HORRIBLY OUT OF IDEAS BUT WE HEAR LOTR WAS KINDA COOL AND THIS IS THE SORT OF SHIT THAT GETS CALLED EPIC THESE DAYS SO PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD WE HAVE HUSBANDS WIVES AND KIDS JUST BUY OUR DAMN WHATEVERTHEHELL WE'RE MAKING".
I dusted off the hate machine, just to prepare myself. I didn't really want to use it.
But it's getting revved up now, full force.
I'll take a co-op Skyrim over another hotkey mashing, generic fantasy MMO.
If it's an MMO, I want no part of it. Period. I've played them, I've had my time with them, and it's over. MMO's are DEAD. Stop trying to recreate the colossal cash cow that WoW started. The tit's run dry, it's time to let it go.
But it's getting revved up now, full force.
I'll take a co-op Skyrim over another hotkey mashing, generic fantasy MMO.
If it's an MMO, I want no part of it. Period. I've played them, I've had my time with them, and it's over. MMO's are DEAD. Stop trying to recreate the colossal cash cow that WoW started. The tit's run dry, it's time to let it go.
THIS. ONE THOUSAND TIMES, THIS. ^^^Lord_Jaroh said:
I would not count on this game being any good because 1) the people who made the Elder Scrolls great aren't behind it, and 2) it, by its very nature, must depart from what makes the TES series great.
Think about it, people. What is the point of TES? An immersive single-player experience centered around storytelling. You know what genre is pretty much incapable of that? An MMO. (Yeah, a bunch of random people bunny hopping around DEFINITELY isn't going to destroy my sense of immersion [/sarcasm].)
Oh, and the reason why the trailer was entirely CGI instead of the usual stunning gameplay footage used to market TES games is that the engine will have to take massive graphical sacrifices to be an MMO. I wouldn't even count on it being open-world.
That's why Todd Howard said that he'd never do it. In fact, I bet this REALLY pissed off Howard.
Allow me to explain. Notice that below the video it says that Bethesda is the publisher and that Zenimax Online Studios is the developer. For those of you who aren't aware, the developer is actually the one who makes the game. If you look closely at your Skyrim box, you will notice that it says "Bethesda Game Studios" (it's the one with the silver gear symbol), and right next to that is another sign that Says "Bethesda Softworks" with the clause "a Zenimax Media company" right under it (it's the one with white font and a little box in the top left before the 'B' in Bethesda).
Bethesda Game Studios is the actual development team that made the game, whereas Bethesda Softworks is a larger publishing company that works with several studios and is owned by Zenimax. The former is what Todd Howard heads: (via Howard's Wikipedia page: "He [Howard] currently serves as Game Director and Executive Producer at Bethesda Game Studios, where he has led the creation of Fallout 3 and The Elder Scrolls video game series" (my italics).
In other words, Howard and the people who made the other Elder Scrolls games don't seem to have anything to do with this new game. What I'm guessing happened is that Zenimax got greedy and decided to capitalize on the franchise and they built their own development team to do so because the devs at Bethesda Game Studios was having none of it. Of course Howard is way too savy to complain or tell people not to buy the game, he won't bite the hand that feeds.
Of course, none of this guarantees that the game will be bad. It could be that Zenimax hired a bunch of really top-notch devs who know how to build MMOs and that they didn't want to burden Howard's team with something that they are unfamiliar. But one can hardly be blamed for being cynical if they have suspicions that Zenimax is just trying to make a quick buck off of name recognition.