Earlier this year it was announced that Bethesda had finally summoned the balls to take on Blizzard’s World of Warcraft juggernaut with The Elder Scrolls Online. The most popular RPG series in the world going MMO while the battered and very tired Warcraft releases ridiculous panda expansions? Big news to say the least, and yet we haven’t seen or heard much about the game since its announcement.
That changes now! Hit the jump for a meaty, nearly 10-minute introduction to The Elder Scrolls Online…
Well, it certainly looks nicer than your average MMO. That fire-skeleton near the end was fairly badass. As for gameplay, I dunno. I don’t do MMOs. Looks pretty standard to me. MMO players — does this actually look fun? Does talk of “shards” and “mega servers” and whatnot mean anything to you?
Fans of the single player Elder Scrolls games — are you going to give this a shot? Does it seem like this game is carrying on the spirit of Skyrim and the rest? Let your opinion be heard in the comments.
via Kotaku
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I loved Skyrim but I’m not down with MMO’s.
Still, this looks pretty cool.
Will it be typical MMO, like how The Old Republic was basically World of Warcraft from 2007 or will they actually try and innovate MMO traditions. Like Guild Wars 2 and its no trinity, no end game model.
And to pass off Mists of Pandaria as “ridiculous” for including a long standing Panda race is a bit tired and battered at this point.
^^ What he said, stop bashing things you know nothing about because “pandas.”
That said, going to need a lot more than a trailer to even begin the whole “wow killer” discussion.
I admitted I’m an outsider when it comes to MMOs and WoW, and to an outsider the vaguely racist cartoon pandas look ridiculous. Maybe they’re great, but if Blizzard wants the money train to keep rolling they need to attract some new blood and the pandas aren’t going to do it.
I’ve not actually heard many (any) claims of racism regarding it since release and beta and most of the past ones I’ve found are from pre-release and people who are worried it might be racist. Most of the cultural aspects are benignly handled in game with slight modification to fit the “no religion” aspects.
In fact the only vaguely outright racist thing I’ve encountered has been Mudmug with his redneck hillbilly accent.
The primary topic of interest is sexism and rape culture.
Looks cool, I don’t know if it is going to be a carbon copy of every other MMO recently, namely Rift and Guild Wars 2. That is what it sounded like though.
I have played Wow since its release and must say that over the years the game has not improved upon anything. New content doesn’t last long enough, with the introduction of their justice and valor pts system they removed the aspect of putting forth any real effort to get items. The only reason I still play the game when I do is because a suitable alternative has not come out yet. For a MMO RPG to be successful, its “world” needs to be immense. If you can explore the entire world in a matter of hours, the thrill of the game will be over almost as fast. WOW felt huge when it was first released because you had 40 levels before you got your first mount. Walking every where took time. Now because of portals, flying mounts etc etc, there’s nothing to moving acros the entire map in a matter of moments. I think most people that play these types of games could sit down for hours and discuss what a game should and shouldn’t have, yet game developers never seem to hit the mark.
Skyrim was my introduction into the Elder Scrolls. The story line seemed cool and the depth of the Lore was appealing as well. Personally I am looking forward to the release of an Elder Scrolls MMO, I just hope it doesn’t follow in the foot steps of Blizzard.
You nailed it with regard to the size of the game world. When I started playing WoW I was blown away by the size of the game world. Later on, you just end up zipping around the place and it makes it seem like it’s only a fraction of the size it actually is.
meh. I love the Elder Scrolls games, but I’m not even slightly interested in this.
I think part of the draw (and the magic) to the Elder Scrolls games is that they AREN’T multiplayer, and that they are 1st person, which really immerses the player in these brilliant gorgeous worlds. This MMO seems to reverse both of those.
Not one person I know who plays Skyrim and played Oblivion ever said “gee I wish this was more 3rd person and i wish I could play this with a group of idiots getting in my way.”
The first time I played Elder Scrolls I immediately noticed how empty the game world feels. Yes, it’s massive. Yes, it’s detailed. Yes, it’s pretty awesome. But one of the things I loved about Wow (and this is, admittedly, a minor detail) is that there was something nice about knowing that no matter how remote the area of the game world you happen to be in, you could always have a chance encounter with another player who just happened to be riding through. It certainly made the world come alive in a way that no single-player game ever could.
I’ll play this, because I play almost every fantasy MMO for a while, but if you didn’t tell me this was an Elder Scrolls property, it would be very difficult to tell except from the names that are used for some places and those dwarven robots. It looks very much like Rift to me, which is not a bad game by any stretch. But Rift wasn’t all that different from WoW to begin with.