And in other (belated) news... have you checked your e-mail lately? The second batch of beta invitations for ESO was sent out yesterday and today (unless today is not yet today, and they still haven't sent them out..! please please please!)
Oh, and while we're at it, if you haven't checked out the latest "Ask Us Anything", you might want to read it - it has some interesting info.
I realize some of you may not know what an Ogrim really is, and why it is in ESO (Shame on you!), so here is one from Morrowind:
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A moderator has closed this comment topic for the time being-EDIT- I play a lot of MMOs. I just don't play cartoony MMOs.
And still isnt, absolutely. But its not just about the design, it is everything in general. This is not Elder scrolls. Its a random Mmo with the lore of it.
Zenimax, go to hell. Im sorry.
it might be but what we already know is for alot of the fans very dissapointing
Do we still remember the sceptism the industry had when they first anounced ESO , well that didn't go away contrary even became more sceptical as more information came available
If people want to assume that the game will be awesome because it has The elder scrolls stamped on it than let them dream on , ESO will bring nothing new on the MMO market since everything they are using already exsisted and they only bought the licence for it , the game developers calling it open ended even tho you have to ask yourself what open end if you are restricting the players to one faction only depending on your race and when 2/3 of the map is actually off limit to you not even a End game so you basicly stuck endlessly grinding dungons after dungons , with no storyline or purpose what so ever , , wait you said to become emperor ,or atleast to make someone emperor , ok and what is in it for me ?? nothing and lets be honest i have no onterest what so ever to make some metagamer who is most likely a 30 year old dude who is living in his mother basement and divides his time vetween playing games and watching porn
and when you are stucked with predetermined classes , yes they said they might change it but obvious they didn't , and now we going to get stuck with 4 predictable classes , the tank the mage, the healer and the rogue each with their own very predictable playstyles
probably fall flat on its face in 6 months and go into maintance mode in a year ,
the fans asked for years to develop TES in a multiplayer game were they and a few friends could enjoy tamriel they certainly never asked that they turned a failed MMO concept into TES
The Race and Faction thing I agree and is nothing new and a bit too reminiscent of World of Warcraft to me and a lot of other things, cant there be an MMO where players are all on the same side fighting for the same cause? (I am sure there are, but I am not really into MMO games so I don't know that many).
End game stuff well its still in development so we don't know what they have planned, but honestly though even in the single player one like Oblivion and Skyrim, there really is not much left do once you complete all the quests, become the lord of every faction, master every skill, etc. there really is nothing left to do but kill more stuff or in the case of Skyrim keep repeating radiant quests.
The Emperor thing, yeah I am not cool with that, I don't trust putting a player on the Throne things are going to get real screwed up (I am sure there will be an aspiring Emperor whose 1st decree would be Lusty Argonian Maids for everybody). I am also not sure if I like the time traveling part where you get to see past event.
Classes well the previous games also had character classes which had predetermined skills which you would be good at, sure you could work on those skills your class is not good at, but working on some like Destruction, Armor type or Weapon Type could be a hassle if you try it late game.
Overall I think its still too early to say if it sucks or Best Game Ever.
OMG how did you know what i spend my time doing? But, I am not 30, and I still live in my room uptairs chief.
What about Buy to play like Guild Wars 2?
Yeah, I looked at it. My first thought was: "Bah! The design in ESO is nothing like an Elder Scrolls game should have!"
Baby-Ogres and WoW-Orcs won't do it for me, sorry. But you have fun with it. I'll give ESO a try when it goes free to play three months before it descents into the void of complete irrelevance.
ps: here's said video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD-t_GvYBv4
If you don't like my opinion, that's fine with me. If you are confident enough, it won't have any effect on your gaming experience anyway.
After watching your linked video, I still don't like the art / design choice of the game (especially the generic elves), nor the whole concept. U mad now?
That was why I responded. Principle. Even on the internetz, there should be some common courtesy. And one aspect is doing your due diligence before slamming something (equating something with a stigma-tainted game and then declaring it will fade into the void of obscurity is a slam)
As for the baby ogrim.. - well, I seem to be not the only one who sees this. So it's more of an observation, either.
We'll eventually see who's right about the "void of irrelevance" part, once it gets free to play. Oh, sorry - once that remarkably different game will rule the market big time of course!
But in the end, you are just really defending a game and it's still pathetic.
On a side note.
How is it, that everytime I read the attempts of an internet warrior to come along as eloquent, the term "strawman" is at least mentioned once as an accusation of falsely used dialogic logic?
Where did I use anything as a strawman in my "argument"? Wait, where did I anything else than defending my opinion? Are we arguing about rhetorics right now or are you just picking up things because you don't like what I said?