....and unfortunatly it sounds completely generic and boring. According to the latest Game Informer (you know, that crappy magazine that GameStop bothers you about all the time) it plays from a third person perspective (you know, like none of the other Elder Scrolls games) and has World of Warcraft style hotbar commands and traditional (i.e. boring) MMO style combat (like the kind you can already get in literally every MMO ever made besides Tera) They've also confirmed no player housing or marriage (Elder Scrolls staples at this point), so it literally sounds like World of Warcraft with an Elder Scrolls coat of paint. In a series that would be an awesome MMO just by dropping other players into the already existing game, this seems like both a waste AND a disappointment. Perhaps things could turn around by the time of the game's release-- but I'll be surprised if we get anything other than a bland WoW knockoff that floats by on the fact that it belongs to the Elder Scrolls franchise alone. There's a gameplay-less video after the jump, if you haven't already been turned away by Zenimax Online Studios' (the game's developer) lack of originality and ambition,
Friday, May 4, 2012
The Elder Scrolls is Getting an MMO! [UPDATE!] (Now With Screens!)
....and unfortunatly it sounds completely generic and boring. According to the latest Game Informer (you know, that crappy magazine that GameStop bothers you about all the time) it plays from a third person perspective (you know, like none of the other Elder Scrolls games) and has World of Warcraft style hotbar commands and traditional (i.e. boring) MMO style combat (like the kind you can already get in literally every MMO ever made besides Tera) They've also confirmed no player housing or marriage (Elder Scrolls staples at this point), so it literally sounds like World of Warcraft with an Elder Scrolls coat of paint. In a series that would be an awesome MMO just by dropping other players into the already existing game, this seems like both a waste AND a disappointment. Perhaps things could turn around by the time of the game's release-- but I'll be surprised if we get anything other than a bland WoW knockoff that floats by on the fact that it belongs to the Elder Scrolls franchise alone. There's a gameplay-less video after the jump, if you haven't already been turned away by Zenimax Online Studios' (the game's developer) lack of originality and ambition,
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