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New to ESO
ESO was on sale recently, so I decided to take the plunge and give it a try. I wasn't expecting much since I feel like I've heard nothing but complaining about it since it was launched. I'm a Morrowind #1 superfan, but I didn't care much for Oblivion and thought Skyrim was just okay.
Well, I'm about 30 hours in and much to my surprise I think this is the greatest Elder Scrolls experience since Morrowind. In fact, in many ways I think it represents what the ES series has always wanted to be ever since Daggerfall: a massive, engrossing world that gives you an extraordinary amount of freedom to do and be what you want.
ESO's atmosphere is perfect and the incredible care taken with regards to dialog, voice acting, and lore is truly impressive. Visuals, music, combat... it's all wonderful. For all its greatness Morrowind is pretty dated now, so I find that ESO modernizes things nicely while maintaining the same overall feel.
I'm not a huge MMO guy, but for me ESO works perfectly well as a single player RPG. The occasional interactions with others give the world a nice sense of life and make for fun impromptu group battles. I've only done one dungeon so far and the experience was underwhelming compared to The Secret World and Guild Wars 2, but I'll try a few more before I form a final opinion.
Who knows, I may even subscribe when my 30 days are up!
Well, I'm about 30 hours in and much to my surprise I think this is the greatest Elder Scrolls experience since Morrowind. In fact, in many ways I think it represents what the ES series has always wanted to be ever since Daggerfall: a massive, engrossing world that gives you an extraordinary amount of freedom to do and be what you want.
ESO's atmosphere is perfect and the incredible care taken with regards to dialog, voice acting, and lore is truly impressive. Visuals, music, combat... it's all wonderful. For all its greatness Morrowind is pretty dated now, so I find that ESO modernizes things nicely while maintaining the same overall feel.
I'm not a huge MMO guy, but for me ESO works perfectly well as a single player RPG. The occasional interactions with others give the world a nice sense of life and make for fun impromptu group battles. I've only done one dungeon so far and the experience was underwhelming compared to The Secret World and Guild Wars 2, but I'll try a few more before I form a final opinion.
Who knows, I may even subscribe when my 30 days are up!
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Mablung✭✭✭✭✭Well welcome to the game and you are a rare breed to find Skyrim simply ok. I hope that you enjoy your brief stay.
Edited by Mablung on June 13, 2014 2:42AM1 -
kaosodin✭✭✭✭30 hours in..... and maybe youll resub? Hehe
If you did not quit after 4 hours..... your going to resub.
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Worstluck✭✭✭✭✭Welcome! The 1-50 experience is awesome and the story is a good one.
I would advise that you stop at 50 though if you continue to play, and just roll an alt if you would like to experience the other factions stories.Worstluck - Breton Nightblade "Some of us refused to bow. We knew the old ways would lead us back to having a kingdom of our own."
―Madanach
Elfluck - Dunmer Dragonknight "When I will walk the earth again, the Faithful among you shall receive your reward: to be set above all other mortals forever. As for the rest: the weak shall be winnowed: the timid shall be cast down: the mighty shall tremble at my feet and pray for pardon."
―Mehrunes Dagon
Deadluck -Imperial Templar "Men are but flesh and blood. They know their doom, but not the hour"
―Uriel Septim
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Haha30 hours in..... and maybe youll resub? Hehe
If you did not quit after 4 hours..... your going to resub.
Muhahaha
Cool, I'll keep that in mind!Welcome! The 1-50 experience is awesome and the story is a good one.
I would advise that you stop at 50 though if you continue to play, and just roll an alt if you would like to experience the other factions stories.
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Carnagan✭✭✭eternalsnows wrote: »In fact, in many ways I think it represents what the ES series has always wanted to be ever since Daggerfall: a massive, engrossing world that gives you an extraordinary amount of freedom to do and be what you want.
This!
"You dream of the Moon and a man who is less than a man."
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✭Hiya and nice to see you post!
Take your time playing. Explore everything. Also from your post I sense you may be interested in lore, history and events/NPCs/quests/talk, makes sense.
Everything is connected in Tamriel. You find lorebooks where you can read everything from songs, to where dark elves comes from, why the war is on and wifes getting mad at their husbands. Your lorebooks saves in your journal (j), so you can read when you wish.
Quests makes sense, in smaller or bigger ways, they connect in Tamriel. Remember Tamriel is in a greater fight for power among the 3 alliances, which also got a story how they come to be and why each race are there.
Quests and NPCs also makes sense from the smallest scale to big politics.
People remember your deeds, and it mentions sometimes when you speak to NPCs (you can talk to a lot of NPCs...not just quest ones), and you get comments about your deeds, depending where you are. Picking an "evil" choice is not wrong either, but has its effects.
If you have not already, I suggest you find the mage guild and fighter guild, and do their quests. They are a long questline, just like the main questline and are utterly amazing. Though....at times not very easy.
Something new, not sure, if you come across yet, is there are quests where there are multiple choices, all with different effects and ways. These effects stays on you. No choice is "wrong", just different. And some have a quite big impact in your game.
Zenimax who manages the game are constantly balancing and adding features, etc. So building your character really is what you think is best. There is no "best class/build", no matter what people tell you.
Zenimax allows addons, but dont support them (they dont care if you use em, but not their fault if an addon breaks your game).
There are addons for everything, very good and well liked. However, I am in a small minority that do not use addons to point out exactly where the good things are like skyshards, lorebooks, best exp, etc are. Using these will make you level faster, have more skillpoints and access lore faster, but I played since launch, and still, every single skyshard or lorebook I find, I feel like a kid at christmas.
I understand your wish to play RP solo and the world around you simply are more lively, but I suggest you try "instances", for your level. 4 players, 1 Dungeon for yourself. And the mobs in there are sometimes smarter then the group. You need teamwork and cooperation to succeed. Even at lower lvls.
Bosses also have different tactics which is one of the most enjoyable features for me, since you have to adapt pretty much every fight.
Good luck!Edited by Cogo on June 13, 2014 3:20AMOghur Hatemachine, Guild leader of The Nephilim - EU Megaserver
Orc Weapon Specialist and Warchief of the Ebonheart Pact - Trueflame Cyrodiil War Campaign
Guildsite: The Nephilim
"I don't agree with what you are saying, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it"
-Voltaire
"My build? Improvise, overcome and adapt!"5 -
Ser Lobo✭✭✭✭✭
✭IF you are having fun? Leaves these forums, and never come back.Ruze Aulus. Mayor of Dhalmora. Archer, hunter, assassin. Nightblade.
Gral. Mountain Terror. Barbarian, marauder, murderer. Nightblade.
Na'Djin. Knight-Blade. Knight, vanguard, defender. Nightblade.
XBOX NARuze is a veteran of the PC Beta, lived through the year one drought, survived the buy-to-play conversion, and has stepped foot in the hells known as Craglorn. He mained a nightlbade when nightblades weren't good, and has never worn a robe. He converted from PC during the console betas, and hasn't regretted it a moment since.
He'd rank ESO:TU (in it's current state) a 4.8 out of 5, loving the game almost entirely.
This is an multiplayer game. I should be able to log in, join a dungeon, join a battleground, queue for a dolmen or world boss or delve, teleport in, play for 20 minutes, and not worry about getting kicked, failing to join, having perfect voice coms, or being unable to complete content because someone's lagging behind. Group Finder and matchmaking is broken. Take a note from Destiny and build a system that allows from drop-in/drop-out functionality and quick play.3 -
Dayel✭✭✭ruze84b14_ESO wrote: »IF you are having fun? Leaves these forums, and never come back.
This may be the best advice you will get in this game. If you love the game as I do the forums are pretty much only good for laughs about all the special snowflakes who are also playing it.
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