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Few questions about the game
Lobotomist
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I am reading a lot : Its like Skyrim, Its like Neverwinter, GW2
I feel its bit confused - so lets set things straight , lets compare it to Skyrim (or Neverwinter)
1. Is the world seamless ? Can you go where ever you want without invisible walls ? Can you climb that mountain you see miles in distance ? Or are you walled in limited zone , by impossible to climb obstacles ( Like GW2, NWN)
1a.How long can you run in one direction before hitting loading screen ?
2. Can you learn any skill or trade without limitation and is it improving with exp or by doing ? (TES, or or not) ?
3. Can you loot any container in room for everyday items (apples , hankerchef...etc) , drop items on the floor , use everything in crafting (TES or not)
4. Are you lead by the nose with quest on clear Themepark path (GW2, NWN) or are you free to do any quest whenever you want ? (TES)
5. Are there factions that you have influence with ? (TES)
6. Can you steal , kill NPC , be send to prison (TES)
Comments
Pretty much no no no. It is not a single- player ES game. It is a massively multiplayer game, and as such, many of the design elements that Bethesda venerate (and have kept Bethesda-developed ES games single player for years despite fan daydreaming until now) cannot realistically be implemented in a mmo because a single-player game entirely devoted to providing a single-player experience will always be possessed of more player-centric design in a narrative and situational sense because there is only one player to design the narrative and situations around, whether they are reactive or hard-scripted. Much has been made of the fact that ESO aims to provide a multiplayer experience of Tamriel but does not provide all the elements that the ES is famous for, yet detractors seem to ignore the fact that Bethesda kept the ES series single-player for so long for a reason: providing the SPECIFIC kind of dynamic depth that ES games offer in a persistent online world is not as easy as would-be-experts believe.
Edit - That said, they seem to have translated the realms of Tamriel servicably into a mmorpg format that, by most accounts, doesn't revolutionize mmo gameplay but instead adopts parts of other mmo mechanics to facilitate online gameplay where the traditional ES mechanics don't work. Like most mmorpgs, it is the whole rather than the sum of its parts that makes the magic, so I would wait and see. It won't be long.
And there will always be the purely Bethesda-developed non-mmo rpg surely planned for 2015 for those that don't want their ES all mmo-ified.
http://www.mmorpg.com/blogs/PerfArt
All I can say for certain is that for 4. This is very much a Themepark it wont be like Morrowind where you steal a bunch of stuff, levitate over a mountain and kill barbarian camps halfway across the map while looking for vampire caves. No this map is basically one big dartboard cut into pie shapes with no interaction between the slices and when you are done with the bottom half of your wedge you either go do RVR ( See DAOC, see GW2) in the center of the map, But only in the center of the map if you to opposite factions territory you dont see them, you can only see the wildlife and npcs.Or you go kill some more critters in the starting zone.
As for stealth.
Wil lack the fun factor from the single player games to say tyhe least.
Prsion is a no go in Themeparks.