Zero Punctuation: The Elder Scrolls Online - We Can MMO Too
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Yeah that's silly, but I don't jump to the WC3 defence. I didn't find it funny when I first heard it, and to hear it constantly during the hype, constantly when it came out, and then occasionally throughout 2013 it's just honestly drained me. Yahtzee's just reminded me of how much I find it boring. It's much like how everyone got sick of the Cake being a Lie.CriticKitten said:
I can hardly think that Mists of Pandaria was trying to capitalise on that trend when the series has already had Cows, Space Goats and Werewolves before this, not even including the Druid forms.
So, same shit different brand?
That's a rhetorical question: I knew TES Online would be mediocre rubbish at best, years before it ever came to be.
Because the whims of MMO design demands some method of monopolizing the player's time, and not in a fun way.
So out with all the single player liberties, in with the epic grind for Bigger Numbers.
That's a rhetorical question: I knew TES Online would be mediocre rubbish at best, years before it ever came to be.
Because the whims of MMO design demands some method of monopolizing the player's time, and not in a fun way.
So out with all the single player liberties, in with the epic grind for Bigger Numbers.
Can't 'go back to the game I've spent the most time on' those [**********string of expletives deleted***********] at NCsoft killed it for no god damn reason other they 'they didn't want to deal with it any more'.
No I'm not still, positively livid, about CoH's death, why do you ask?
As for ESO, not really interested, and I find it unsurprising its only 'meh', I'll wait for it to go F2P like the almost all do before trying it.
No I'm not still, positively livid, about CoH's death, why do you ask?
As for ESO, not really interested, and I find it unsurprising its only 'meh', I'll wait for it to go F2P like the almost all do before trying it.
IMO, it should have been built from the ground up with an interest in the world's lore and how a whole bunch of players could enmesh themselves in Tamriel. Maybe the developers assumed it would go without saying that the players were free to run about knocking over skeletons without regards to the story? Whatever the reason, ESO doesn't seem like a game that pulls off the player-centric feel of the single-player titles. The transition would have been much more fluid if they hadn't altered different mechanics for the sake of the MMO formula, too, like the arbitrary faction arrangement.
Pandaren Brewmaster disproves your claims of Pandaria being a movie knock off. He was in Warcraft since Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne (2003). Kung Fu Panda (2008). SEE! Kung Fu Panda is a Warcraft 3 knock off.
Anyway, didn't a ton of TES players asked for this? At least thats what I remember when it was announced.
Try Just Cause 2's MMO mod thing. Way more FUN!
Anyway, didn't a ton of TES players asked for this? At least thats what I remember when it was announced.
Try Just Cause 2's MMO mod thing. Way more FUN!
Yeah... the Pandaren = Kung Fu Panda joke? That was such a low hanging fruit that it doesn't even qualify as fruit - it's more like a potato, the kind that's plagued with fungus and prompts the mass exodus of Ireland to the opposite hemisphere. It doesn't matter so much that it was entirely wrong, what's wrong was that it was entirely lame. Sure, not every joke can be a hit, but that was so devoid of wit it made the rest of the review seem dimmer just for containing it.
I don't ask that you have an encyclopedic knowledge on the games you review - I don't come for that. I come for the fast talking speedboat of hilarious entertainment. That, however, was more like dipping your arse in off the side of a dingy and farting like the fate of the world rested in it hearing the vast wisdom of your colon.
I don't ask that you have an encyclopedic knowledge on the games you review - I don't come for that. I come for the fast talking speedboat of hilarious entertainment. That, however, was more like dipping your arse in off the side of a dingy and farting like the fate of the world rested in it hearing the vast wisdom of your colon.
Let's face it the ES world is a pretty generic medieval fantasy setting, and in a genre full of generic medieval fantasy games it just raises the question of "why mmo" even more. It doesn't bring anything new in terms of gameplay so it's just another bland mmo experience that most gamers will get bored of pretty quickly.
and to add insult, the game costs a fortune to buy, and the subscription too. its not really the elder scrolls anymore, couldnt they have just put co op in a normal elder scrolls?
They made an MMO because two or three years ago, their market researchers said MMOs were really popular.
See that is how I felt when I heard they going to make it into an MMO....why? Why not just make an elder scrolls game?
I want to see what Elsweyr and Black Marsh looked like or Hammerfell
I want to see what Elsweyr and Black Marsh looked like or Hammerfell
You have no idea. With overseas servers and Australia's already crappy internet...Antsh said:
It's been a problem since WOW where you'd need to pre-act to an aoe/debuff/damage and hope you were right.
So while in Skyrim I could easily take on multiple enemies and come out on top, in ESO beta stress test I struggled to dodge basic aoe's due to the latency. Since it was getting me near killed at such low levels (up to 10) I was pretty confident that it would be unplayable at higher levels.
And what exactly was remotely 'Kung Fu' about the Pandaren Brewmaster? The coat, hat and the staff are all that come to mind.IrisNetwork said:
His abilities were "Drunken Brawler", "Drunken Haze", "Breath of Fire" and "Storm, Earth and Fire". Not much of that suggests 'Kung Fu', more like 'vague smattering of Asian stereotypes inexplicably blended with alcohol', which really just goes to show that it was one of Blizzard's more poorly executed April Fool's Jokes.
OT: Consider me entirely un-surprised that it suffers from all the usual MMO bugbears. I think the last line sums it up perfectly.