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BenVTrigger on 22 April 2014
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Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
shikamaru317 said:

I have played Skyrim for nearly 200 hours, and have also played the ESO beta (waiting on the console release before I buy it). Have you played ESO or are you just listening to internet rumors? Some of what you listed is indeed in ESO, and most the things you listed that aren't in ESO are very minor immersion related things that aren't essential to a game. ESO has an Elder Scrolls story, it has Elder Scrolls artwork and characters, it has a different but fun combat system, it's an all around good game. I gave it a preliminary 8/10 based on my time in the beta, but some of the things that lowered my score have since been fixed (the linear starting zones are now optional for instance), so I suspect my final score will be at least an 8.5/10.

See my problem with the combat is that altough its free roam, its still basically grinding and not dynamic at all, the enemy ai has no strategy what so ever, not to mention you can block while dual-weilding, and all the weps have the same attack speed. Hit with normal attacks, enemy will telavise strong attack->block, they will get stunned, repeat spamming till die, loot, target another enemy -> hit them with skills and repeat. For all itents and purpose its basically SWTOR with worse looking assests.

They had so much potential, a simple radiant quest system would make the game instantly better. If your looking for WOW its basically it with slightly better graphics, slightly freer graphics, wrapped up in thin ESO lore.

Even as a ftp, i Doubt I would spend much time with it. Ground Zeroes is a better deal then ESO imo.

I've been playing MMOs for a decade and ESO looks like it couldv'e been done late 2009.


What on Earth am I reading here..........you........obviously have never touched ESO.

This game couldn't be ANY farther from WOW. FFARR is way closer to WOW than ESO. And the questing system is ESO is the best of any MMO I've ever seen. There's actually a metric ton of plot and lore.

I've never seen a game where so many people are complaining about it, without ever having played it. Seriously anyone whose playing this game right now and reads stuff like this has to be dumbfounded. There are problems with the game for sure but............wow the ones you list here are not them.