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Nope, I still don't find this game fun
tixylix
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It is just so bland and boring, you're doing the same things you do in every other MMO and it just feels like an MMO in that the engine is dated and physics aren't there. What I mean is to do anything you just click e and wait until it says complete and this is something all MMOs do. There is a massive disconnect between you and the world, I mean I had to put out houses that were on fire and to do so I ran over to a load of buckets, pressed E and waiting until it said I picked one up, then I ran over to a few houses and put them all out by pressing E and with only one bucket! Then I went inside and pressed E to speak to someone and they ran out all by themselves and vanished... typical WoW like MMO quest tbh.
Most of the quests I've come across are bugged, I'm currently stuck on an Island (which I'm guessing was the starter island?) and I cannot get off, I've logged, restarted my PC and tried everything, but I'm still stuck here. http://s27.postimg.org/oiljxenoj/Screenshot_20140404_083757.jpg
Most of the quests are boring too, all I'm doing is running from person to person pressing E, running to dungeons, killing a few NPCs to get some loot to run back and give it tot hat NPC. Then there are quests all around which are chain like and meant to be story based, yet all you're doing is running to loot with NPCs in the way that you have to kill Or having to run to several key locations, pressing E and running back to speak to the NPC.
Typical WoW like MMO stuff that I got bored of many years ago and the world is just as linear, the character progression is just as linear, I just feel like I'm being funnelled through like some themepark MMO. The Elder Scrolls has always been a sandbox, it has always had far more interesting quests, had freedom with character progression and it has had a world. The Elder Scrolls Online lacks that world feeling, I just feel like I'm on a series of maps and the biggest problem with that is zone transitions and how it is always talk to an NPC and get warped there. Why isn't there a boat I can ride on to make it feel like a world? Why isn't the land just one big mass that I can travel around seamlessly if I want? The other thing that annoys me which I give the Single Player game a free pass on is the loading screens, I dunno why but in MMOs I just hate them. So many of them are pointless too like the very first one in the jail cell.... just open the door and let me run out, why did we need a loading screen for that?
The combat is really awkward too, I mean more so than The Elder Scrolls games usually are and I'm surprised that they didn't try to make it more PVP friendly like Mount and Blade or something. I have no idea why they bothered to add PVP really with the state it is in, basically unplayable in third person and first person just feels too cumbersome. Usually it just comes down to standing there and hitting them over and over, just feel like I cannot be bothered with dodging and all that as it is all so clumsy. You can tell it has the MMO still in the combat because it isn't truely one to one, just feels off or the hitboxes are just very bad. What is up with the frigging animations? The character models as well, just see the polygons the poly count is so low, made even worse with how my character runs in third person... looks very odd.
Just a very bland game that didn't need to exist, in no way do I feel like I'm in Tamriel, this living breathing world with thousands of other people. So I have to question what the point of it is, because that is why this MMO should exist, to give us this online world to live in with friends. Otherwise we can just play the SIngle Player games, but sadly this does feel like a Single Player game with the worst parts of MMOs thrown in... I've not been encouraged to group once, I've not see any one else group....
It is a themepark and not a Sandbox like it should have been, the exactly reason why LOTRO failed too, it should have been Middle Earth Online, not a linear path through the game.
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Low polys? Try going to elderscrollsonline.com for your download, you seem to have gotten the wrong game..
Couldn't agree more, rubbish game, one of the most boring mmo's I've played personally. In a bland and boring world with Elder Scrolls theme slapped on as an excuse.
I knew it would be this bad from the day it was announced, and have been laughing right up to launch at the way they're marketing this game, I thought it would get a lot more hate than the praise it's getting. They literally played on words and empty promises the entire time. We all knew that though, didn't we?
Who wasn't surprised to see something like this at the end of that post....
I think that if you want good writing and role-play potential, ESO can be a decent game, but I definitely feel that it seems like a mediocre-average MMORPG at best. I agree in not enjoying the combat, but I understand the 'feeling' they were going for. I just don't think it's responsive or fast enough for serious PVPers. I'm a PVPer primarily and I'm disappointed in what the game offers in this department.
Not even allowing people to simply duel is just infuriating, and when there is nothing going on in Cyrodiil, it's even more frustrating. At least if we have to run around with our thumb up our butts, let us duel and practice a bit. I could get into a whole thing, but long story short, it's just not my cup of tea and I'm glad I dodged the GW3 *ahem* ESO bullet. I'm still glad there are some enjoying it though.
I could substitute WoW for ESO and make this same thread.
Point is just because you don't like it doesn't mean others will feel the same or that it won't be a success.
Glad I'm not the only one that found it utterly boring.
I tried and tried to like it, felt like a chore!
Playing: Nothing
Played: EQ1, EQ2, VG:SoH, WoW, AoC, LoTRO, Aion, L2, DF, WAR.
Favourites: EQ1, VG:SoH, Original WoW.
Waiting: Pantheon: ROTF
I guess it´s all about tastes since i´m having a blast playing the game.
I haven´t felt this inmersed in a MMO world ever before!
Think that's the core of the problem many MMOs lately do have. Not just ESO. If one can substitute WoW for it, a game that while dated at least is pretty stable with tons of content (even if 90% of it is obselete with all the expacs), then why would I spend money a new game that may or may not flop in few months? For slightly fancier graphics?
The sad thing for me is that over last several years i've seen more innovation/risk in terms of gameplay mechanics in asian f2p titles than any of the western productions. If i'm to play WoW but with different skin on it...then I can just play WoW.
I agree with you, but i just cant stand WoW anymore after playing almost 10 years.
Its a quality and polished game and will always be, but i cant stand it anymore. I cant stand even be in Orgrimmar or Ironforge. I don't even have the mood to ride my Zulian Tiger anymore
I could easily play and love a game almost similar to WoW, but not WoW itself. That's why i prefer to quit and play Wildstar.
As for TESO? Well, at least a mediocre game in my eyes. A blast for others, boring to death for me
Lotro failed ????? what planet have you been living on dude ... Lotro has been and still is one of the most successful Mmo's ever .... like trolling much ? sheesh
Of course it must be great its Elder Scrolls !!! it dosnt matter it is copy&paste from other mmos. Swtor had same opinions. ..
Hype is also high for this game but lets wait few weeks... and then we will talk..
I'm with you, but I've felt this way before. In FFXI. Just nice to have it back. Those who find it boring, I guarantee you aren't listening to the dialog or just wandering off into stuff that looks interesting. I've done both of these things and have lost track of time, level and heck even my inventory as I find new nooks and crannies and areas quests didn't take me that led to quests, like this cave outside of Daggerfall.
I usually don't like the single player Elder Scrolls games either, as without other people I always felt really lonely playing them, well finally, I get the best of both worlds, great adventure and shared with tons of other people.
Would you care to explain that part?
I have never heard of LOTRO being a great success.
It was not my taste, so I do not play it. I'm sure there's enough paying since the game hasn't been shut down yet.
But I don't see LOTRO to be a really successfull game.
But maybe I am blinded about the successor of all MMO's - WoW. No one are still near their subscriptions.
Though ESO might be, for the only reason that it also comes out for PS4 and XO.
I can understand whiners to be in the forums whining about a game they don't play or don't play anymore. But fanboys shouldn't be in game and play already? What are they doing here?
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I was lucky and got to test the game in beta and realised the game was not for me.. got bored of wow style themepark games a long time ago.. I fonud ESO to be just a massive quest grind and got bored..
I just cant get into those type of games anymore.. still I am sure some people will enjoy it..
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Hey OP! Two days ago you already claimed the game was crap and bragged about getting a full refund.
"I used the Early Access Key, realised it was still shit like the beta and got a full refund."
Was this post necessary? You did not pay for it, it is not EVE, just move on.
About WoW, sub numbers are not a indication that the product is good, just a financial success, something a player does not benefit from, only the suits. It says more about the weak minds that get addicted on a product. WoW just has a high addiction rate and goo dmarketing.
It's like the J. Bieber phenomenon. Unless you think he's really good, but then you have a problem.
"going into arguments with idiots is a lost cause, it requires you to stoop down to their level and you can't win"
...there is a person blatantly standing just right off screen of that screen shot. The one that took you to that island. 2/10, nice try though.