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Another TES video Alpha preview
ThomasN7
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It's reminding me a lot of Guild Wars2. And I am not liking that.
seem like its gaining hype for all the wrong reasons. If it is like Guild Wars 2, that could mean the gameplay would get boring after a few weeks, or once a player hits endgame and leveling ends.
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yep so much hype so early is just not good.
nothing pisses me off more then a video labled "TESO preview" where there is no actual gamplay video, just a guy talking while showing still screen shots.
ffs, just lable it "guy talking about TESO screen shots"!
The guy seem like a Paid YouTube previewer.
Like... What's the guy name that was popular for his WoW YouTube videos
who later own said he wasn't interested in MoP, but said SWTOR was the greatest MMO ever?
Anybody remember the guy?
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Oh it's Jesse Cox.
/Shrug.
No disrespect but he also said WoW is amazing, Swtor is amazing, GW2 is amazing.
He is hardly qualify to "review/preview" a MMO.
He is not talking about TES screenshots. Zenimax had a press preview in their studio and it appears Jesse was invited, he is talking about his experience.
If in 1982 we played with the current mentality, we would have burned down all the pac man games since the red ghost was clearly OP. Instead we just got better at the game.
Yeah the dude licks on anything with pretty colors basically. Not exactly a discerning, educated individual.
Also keep in mind, that even though he pretends to be fully open to talking about info, he is still under a NDA, that limits him to saying only things the developers want him to talk about. Clever. GW2 did this same tactic. Clever.
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Well it does have a few features similar to GW2, but I think youre taking the comparisons to GW2 the wrong way.
Whats similar to GW2 is aspects of combat itself, not the content & progression.
Stuff similar to GW2 is:
- Synergy system, which works like the Combo Fields in GW2
- Mobility in combat (mobile spellcasting, dodging, etc)
- Small number of skills in hotbar with the ability to swap to different skills
- Ability to join multiple guilds
Things unlike GW2:
- Leveling of individual skills by usage. This also includes continuing to level your skills after hitting level cap. Level cap only stops you from gaining more base stats (health, stamina, magicka) but all of your skills continue growing and you can eventually max out every skill
- Ability to mix types of armor instead of being locked into 1 armor type based on class
- More of a standard quest system instead of DEs
- Everyone on a mega server instead of seperate servers, though they will be split up between channels
- Public dungeons instead of instanced dungeons
- Open world PvP with objectives, no instanced PvP (battlegrounds / scenarios / sPvP / WvWvW)
- Forts in PvP do not auto-repair when captured, they have to be rebuilt manually after capture allowing enemies to easily get inside and take it back from you if you dont rebuild quickly enough
lol, a video of screenshots.
god how i hate these.
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
*raises hand*
Where are the videos of gameplay?
Are there ANY?
If not, listening to people talk is pointless.
The Deep Web is sca-ry.
Things unlike GW2:
- Everyone on a mega server instead of seperate servers, though they will be split up between channels
- Open world PvP with objectives, no instanced PvP (battlegrounds / scenarios / sPvP / WvWvW)
Phasing, but also:
Linky.
I was expected to see footage of TESO not screenshots that everyone allready have seen.
OP CHANGE THE NAME OF THE THREAD.
If it's not broken, you are not innovating.
There was a press event recently. They weren't allowed video, but they were able to play the Ebonheart alliance for about 5 hours. You don't NEED video to back up what you're talking about, but it does help visually aid. Some of what is being said is interesting enough. The game seems a good ways along, but it's still missing systems such as crafting, and the current targetting system may or may not be a placeholder.
I wouldn't agree that creating talking points and allowing press members to relate anecdotes from their personal experience is pointless. It's just the first steps of us getting information from non-official sources.
A game that gains hype means gameplay would get boring...cynical one, I see.
It's not THAT all similar to GW2. From what is revealed, just the combat have similarities, also the "find quests happen around you" part iirc.
This is because they're still way more of a themepark than a sandbox game. They should delay the game and put more sandbox features in it, but real chances of such an event are non-existent.
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