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Is this game Morrowind Online?
Veiled_light
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The last Elder Scrolls I played was Morrowind, is this that game online? Or is it another boring Themepark MMO? Thanks.
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When ESO launched it had a lot of Oblivion about it. Anchors, character races, the flowers, the mobs, even some of the quests and more - everything had a very familiar feel. As time has passed other ES games have been incorporated e.g. Daggerfall. Along with some new stuff.
And in 2017 Morrowind was added. The link is to the sites "Review in Progress" at the time. There were other threads. For all intents and purposes the geography and look of Morrowind was captured - and correctly scaled - by the expansion.
Edit: from the review: "What’s perhaps most impressive about Morrowind is, well, Morrowind. It’s damned near mystifying just how good it looks in ESO and yet how much it remains like the original game’s map. It’s been ages since I traipsed about Morrowind, but it felt like coming home. Like many, TES3 was my gateway to the series, and to see it revived in ESO, one of the best MMORPGs available, it pretty danged auspicious."
@Iselin @Torval @Sovrath ;
Aside from the lore, no. It's a watered down Morrowind with other people playing in the world with you. It's story based more than anything, themepark-ish but you can go anywhere at any level and the content scales with you. Play it like a single player game, because it pretty much is that with optional group content and chat.
/Cheers,
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
quest quest quest quest quest Levels do not matter, Nothing really matters
i hate how all the enemies change there levels to what level you Are currently
All the classes feel the exact same pretty much hahah it is just a Very weird version of Elder scrolls
you can Equip anything you want and thats how you get Some of your skills , (Sounds like a good idea, But it is Horrible in my experience with this game)
i Really wanted to love this game , but after trying it 5-10 times i just cannot enjoy it
The level of the mobs doesn't change; its set at cp160. (some are easy cp160, some are hard).
New characters get a boost to cp160. This boost declines as you level becoming zero at cp160. For the potential c.80% of your adventuring you will be more powerful than the mobs.
ESO wasn't like this when it launched. A level 20-ish fought 20-ish mobs etc. People wanted to go anywhere though. This was ZoS's solution, released as part of One Tamriel, that lets newbies go anywhere. You may not like it but the reception to One Tamriel has been very positive.
I know there are modders out there that have been working their lives away on Skyblivion & Skywind, and I hope those get completed and I'll pay and play them. That just leaves ES1-2 then.
You can play ESO pretty close to the solo games by going first person and getting rid of some UI stuff if you want.
The mechanic of skill cancelling I don't like, but I won't worry about that until/if I start PvP'ing. You def don't have to do that while you play the regular game, unless l33t's require it in some of the harder group content.
I'm enjoying the game so far. It could be better, but it's def improved over the vanilla release.
Gut Out!
What, me worry?
All they have in common really is the world/setting and, at least for the single player ones (although ESO also has that as an option... weird as it may be for a MMORPG,) first person view.
ESO feels very much like a TES game. It definitely does not feel like Morrowind, nor Oblivion, nor Skyrim. You can like any of those other games and not ESO. The opposite is also true.
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If it wasn't trying to be an Elder Scrolls game I could give them a pass. You know that magical feeling you get when you log into Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion or Skyrim and start poking around? Ya, its not there. Its generic and bland feeling. And it hurts that they missed the mark so bad.