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Comic: Mediocrity Scrolls Online
Siphaed
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The Escapist Magazine has featured TESO in it's latest Critical Miss comic. The comic itself might be a foreshadowing of the reviews to come for the game as well (at least for that website).
From experiences in the Beta of the game, I'd say that the strip is pretty much spot-on. It does seem more comical than it should considering the stain it'll leave on the genre as a whole.
Thoughts?
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What I don't understand is why everyone feels the need to openly hate on the game as aggressively as they do simply because they don't like it. I haven't enjoyed an MMO in years, this game changed that. I log on, hundreds of people saying they love it.
I never seen such a crowd that wants a game to fail simply because they don't like it. The comic was lame btw, I cracked a half smile at the mudcrabs though.
I guess to satisfy the same need you have to come here and support the game, instead of just playing it and having fun
The feel of combat in ESO is just like the regular Elder Scrolls. It's always been the weak point of the series. I don't see how pointing it out as a glaring flaw in the online version and glossing over it as not a big deal in the single player makes any sense. The quest writing is a lot better than most MMO's although the quality is all over the place. I've never fallen through the world, crashed, etc. but this may have happened to other folks.
All in all a good comic exagerrating the rather minor issues with the game.
ESO: Bad writing, floaty combat, errors with game causing C2D and falling through world = Mediocre
Skyrim: Bad writing, floaty combat, errors with game, etc. = OMG TAKE MY MONEY NOW!
just sayin'
Steam: Neph
I do play it and have fun, I'm playing right now. He asked for my thoughts on it and I gave them.
The combat feels a lot more like an MMO than elder scrolls. Maybe you can compare it to morrowind.
It's got morrowind's combat, oblivion's graphics (well not quite as good as oblivion's if we are being honest), skyrim's hand holding, and quest grind tedium I don't think I've ever experienced in a game. I'm still enjoying it because the quests are better than in other mmo's, but the writing is atrocious. How can anyone claim that the writing in elder scrolls games is bad? Go read a book and get away from pokemon.
I guess forums are more fun that you have to keep checking it even while playing.
You asked "why" and i answered you
Heh, have you played Morrowind lately (I'm playing it again now)? ESO combat isn't that great, but it certainly isn't that bad.
For every minute you are angry , you lose 60 seconds of happiness."-Emerson
The combat in all the ES games is exactly the same. Floaty crap.
You just said the writing is atrocious in ESO but then questioned how anyone can say the writing in an ES game is bad? Besides the fact that the sentence doesn't make any sense I'd have to say the writing is the same caliber. Maybe try reading a book instead of getting all your reading from video games?
To be clear I love the ES games online or off but they have well known and well defined flaws that haven't changed since the series' inception.
Steam: Neph
I must admit the combat was bad during beta have not purchased the game so may have improved now so no idea . I really am still on the fence with this game but the crafting interests me but the game bugs scare me.
Combat in an ES game, you can back up charge up a swing and step forward and land it no problem.
Combat in ESO, you miss a melee attack unless you're right up on your target and nearly standing still.
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I looked up crafting guides this morning (ten ton hammer has one for example) and it isn't worth it... it is deeper than wow but only so far as having you choose to be a dedicated crafter but without the spark that made SWG's crafting interesting (no real depth beyond progression, iron is always worse than steel,etc,etc)... you are better off waiting for Repop or looking into Gloria Victis which has, I've read on their site, multi-crafter items (that is to say you downright need other crafters to help you build items).
If I were talking shit about WS you'd do the same thing
Nope, just waiting for my friend to come online
ESO's writing is definitely not top notch, but it's better than your typical MMO. With that said, I'll only sit through the dialogue of the main story and guilds, which tend to be more interesting. As far as combat I don't find it's floaty after they added collision and some other tweaks, and at the very least the hotbar makes it more interesting/tactical than combat has ever been in Elder Scrolls.
Yup, in denial
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LMAO That's got to be about the lamest comic strip I've ever seen.
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I could have been clearer, obviously I didn't mean everyone. But for the most part I agree with you
I think you either need to buy a new computer or get glasses.......... or you're simply trolling.
As saying the game has the same Graphics as Oblivion. Just lol. You can't be serious.
You completely missed the point of the comic I believe. This comic is more about the "standard" that is Elder Scrolls games then the issues surrounding ESO. The only ES cliche left out in this comic is the fact you start our in jail... again.
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If you sincerely think this game's graphics equal Obivion's, you need to reinstall it and do a double take.
As for the writing, I have enjoyed it quite a bit. It's not perfect, but then again I never felt the dialogue in the TES games was stellar to begin with.
People in glass houses shouldn' throw stones...that comic was the definition of mediocrity. I love the critiques on combat in a genre where for a decade swinging a melee weapon from 30 feet away and having it register as a hit was perfectly acceptable. All the sudden mmos need to have god of war combat?
ESO is mediocre in the same way Titanfall is the next big thing....
Somebody, somewhere has better skills as you have, more experience as you have, is smarter than you, has more friends as you do and can stay online longer. Just pray he's not out to get you.
Game has a few bugs, the bugged starter dungeon and quests bothered me. But they fixed that yesterday. What other bugs does the game have that would cause you to quanitfy it as an "overall mess"? I remember the wow launch..now THAT was an overall mess.