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The mentality required
eGumball
Member Posts: 151
Hello everyone. I don't wanna to talk too much in this thread making the whole subject boring, all I am gonna do is to introduce my own view of the mentality people should have when playing ESO. Personally, I believe it is a huge issue in the market nowadays creating some kind of a barrier stopping people from trying some very nice titles becuse of how they think all games should be while the reality is usually something else.
I am an Elder Scroll fan and I have to say that I am enjoying the game. The lore, the world and feeling you get while playing is really great, offering you a great experience while exploring a world, already introduced in the Elder Scroll series. This is not a Skyrim yet it is not really an MMO either. It feels and plays like an Elder Scroll game with rpg elements making the experience really enjoyable though it may end up disappointing both hard-core Elder Scroll fans who are awaiting Skyrim2 or hard-core MMO fans who are awaiting an evolution in the genre.
In my personal opinion, you have to understand that this game is gonna offer you some but not everything. There is no point of hyping youself to the extent of getting disappointed later on, you are just gonna miss out on a nice title out there, a title that is worth checking out and exploring in according to my taste.
ESO doesn't live up to the biggies of the western MMO market as of now being GW2 and WoW, neither I believe it will get the same commercial success as those two however, since when did we play MMOs that only had the 1st spot in the industry? Games are all about preferences and sometimes you gonna enjoy something that others don't find interesting and vice versa. If you are an Elder scroll fan interested of more plot, this is your game and if you are a gamer interested of an rpg introducing an interesting world and great pvp, this is yours too. If you are someone who only plays the biggest titles in the industry, I don't see this being yours.
ESO is pre-ordered from my side and while I kinda got sad not seeing it living up to the experiences I got from WoW and GW2, I enjoyed it in the beta and will happily enjoy it during launch.
Thanks.
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disagree with your comparisons to GW2 in terms of commercial success, this game will have more success than GW2 IMO
i also think it has a lot more going for it than GW2 did, that is just my opinion though.
maybe i am just biased because i am not a fan of GW2 even though i own it and have given it a couple chances.
to each their own.
as far as the rest of your post, i pretty much agree. lofty expectations are a problem with this genre (more like the players themselves).
i don't go in expecting the next great mmo, i don't expect skyrim online and if i did i would be disappointed for sure.
but compared to other mmo's i think it's pretty good so far, bugs aside.
Hmm not quite sure I agree that it wont be as successful as GW2.
I feel like GW2 is well done and is the premium of buy to play games. It is similar but superior to a free to play ( you only need the box ) so it is something you own for life.
Since this will be out on consoles and PC I could see it outselling GW2 will ease. Seriously. For me the scale of the maps feel bigger, there is clutter and treasure to be found like a standard RPG and it can be played single player easily with no UI at all present. The large scale PVP is well executed imo and will be one of the things I go for at endgame.
I wouldnt say this game is the best game ever made but is it something that could maybe keep me for a year or two? Then yes.
"3" starting zones in TESO after the same tutorial prison zone for every race ; GW2 has 5 starting zones after 5 separate tutorial zones, one per each race.
GW2 has 4 original World-vs-World maps and the recently added Edge of Mists map to make a total of 5 PvP maps to play on ; TESO has a singular map known at Cyrodille ...that's it, one map.
Of arena style PvP, GW2 has 5+ maps for that for balanced 8vs8 fights ; TESO has... 0, Cyrodille is it's only PvP source.
Questing in TESO is phased and can make party member vanish if they're not on the same step ; in GW2, questing is through Dynamic Events that anyone in the area can partake in for credit, without worry of "being on the same step"
Main story line quests in TESO cannot be done by friends and MUST be done solo ; the Personal Story in GW2 can be done with friends for helping assistance.
That I know of, there are no mini-games in TESO ; in GW2, there are multiple mini-game options for players to participate in to break up other tasks.
I'm sorry to say, but GW2 has far more going for it as a group oriented MassiveMultiplayerOnlineRPG. The one noticeable 1up that TESO has over GW2 is that it has a better crafting system.
P.S. A personal taste, but even the aesthetic look of GW2 is better than TESO. There's a certain brush stroke look about GW2 that makes it like a living painting. Opposite to that, TESO tries to go "realistic", but is numbed down to a point where everything looks muddy and dull.
You forgot to mention they don't have jumping puzzles.
Life IS Feudal
Eh some of them comparisons are a bit off.
"GW2 has 4 original World-vs-World maps and the recently added Edge of Mists map to make a total of 5 PvP maps to play on ; TESO has a singular map known at Cyrodille ...that's it, one map."
Cyrodill is actually the same size as EB and the 3 borderlands combined. There was also a video showing you could cross the entire EB map from SW to NE in 3 minutes... the same time as from 1 keep to another on horseback ESO.
Theres also no towns or villages on GW2 WvW just a few small npc camps that have 1 interactable npc each.
She did. Mini-Games. I agree with saxxon gw2 did overplay what they really meant about it all but they did some amazing stuff that felt new and fresh.