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Do you care about lore?
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MercyKilling✭✭✭✭✭Yes, Not a lore stickler though.I care for the most part, but I'm not about to go all "lore hound" on anyone for a tiny inconsistency with their character.
Tiny. Not glaring, like some sexual innuendo for a name or things like that.I am not spending a single penny on the game until changes are made to the game that I want to see.
1) Remove having to be in a guild to sell items to other players at a kiosk.
2) Cosmetic modding for armor and clothing.
3) Difficulty slider.
4) Fully customizable player housing that isn't tied to anything in the game other than having the correct resources and enough gold to build. Don't tie it to PvP, guild membership, or anything at all. Oh, make it instanced so as not to take up world map space, too. Zeni screwed this one up already.
Any /one/ of these things implemented would get me spending again, maybe even subbing.0 -
isengrimb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭Yes, it is one of my favorite things in ESOKafolarbear wrote: »
I just remember High Elves and Nords being pretty racist, but the Khajiit were never really like that. They always seemed very relaxed like sort of a Bob Marley kind of perspective. Weren't they also into Skooma, or was that just the Argonians?
Yeah, Skooma comes from Khajit.
But peoples can change over hundreds of years, and lots of abuse. If you play a Khajit in Skyrim, you're the ONLY race that gets personal insults - "You'll make a nice rug, cat", etc. Even the Argonians don't get that smack-talk.
So if Khajit want to be (retroactively? Pre-actively?) racist here, let 'em be.
Honestly, Skyrim and ESO make questing fun, rather than a chore.
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WoW lore is pretty messed up (I know things have been retconned and such in TES, too). Didn't anyone notice that Pandaren are closer in culture to Irish Americans than they are to Chinese? They eat a lot, and like to fight drunk. Doesn't sound Chinese to me.
The history is kinda chinesey, I guess (being ruled by warlords and such, and monks needing to learn unarmed combat in order to protect themselves) but the people themselves, not so much.
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✭✭✭Yes, it is one of my favorite things in ESOI hardly ever payed attention to WoW lore when I was playing the game. It just wasn't all up in your face like ESO lore is. You could play that entire game without paying any attention to the lore at all cause it really doesn't matter in WoW.Founder and Co-GM of The Psijic Order Guild (NA)
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isengrimb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭Yes, it is one of my favorite things in ESOI hardly ever payed attention to WoW lore when I was playing the game. It just wasn't all up in your face like ESO lore is. You could play that entire game without paying any attention to the lore at all cause it really doesn't matter in WoW.
Tee, hee. If you want to be really nitpicky (and there's really no real point in being so, but this is just for fun) - they never did give any kind of explanation for how we were able to understand Taran Zhu, when he's the first Pandaren anyone has met for 10K years (except for Stormstout, who comes from the Turtle; but even then, his language would have diverged from the mainland language as well, so even player Pandaren shouldn't be able to understand their mainland cousins very well, if at all.)
But the rest of it is SO messed up, it's not even worth starting, is it?
Khajiit breeding seems to be a really messed-up piece of lore in TES, but I guess they did that to explain why they looked like kids on their way to an anime con rather than cats in Arena. Of course, the Argonians looked like ... I dunno how the heck to describe those weird things. Way too Star Dreck for me.
Though the best thing I like would have to be the creation myth (as far as I understand it, anyway), and the idea that, well, Aedra and Daedra are just categories, depending on who had a hand in making Nirn and who didn't? There are two Daedra that are pretty good (Meridia and Azura, of course), and a couple that seem mostly just neutral/amoral rather than "devil-evil" (Mora and Vile come to mind - and Sheo; he seems to bluster a lot more than anything.) Are there any unpleasant Aedra?
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Falmer✭✭✭✭Yes, it is one of my favorite things in ESOIts probably the #1 reason why I even play ESO. The lore and stories. Getting to see areas and learn more about the past and cultures of different areas. That is the whole reason I am bothering to play an MMO.
Most MMOs that are not based on a pretty vivid existing 'universe' are not worth my time.4 -
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✭✭✭Yes, it is one of my favorite things in ESOisengrimb16_ESO wrote: »I hardly ever payed attention to WoW lore when I was playing the game. It just wasn't all up in your face like ESO lore is. You could play that entire game without paying any attention to the lore at all cause it really doesn't matter in WoW.
Tee, hee. If you want to be really nitpicky (and there's really no real point in being so, but this is just for fun) - they never did give any kind of explanation for how we were able to understand Taran Zhu, when he's the first Pandaren anyone has met for 10K years (except for Stormstout, who comes from the Turtle; but even then, his language would have diverged from the mainland language as well, so even player Pandaren shouldn't be able to understand their mainland cousins very well, if at all.)
But the rest of it is SO messed up, it's not even worth starting, is it?
Khajiit breeding seems to be a really messed-up piece of lore in TES, but I guess they did that to explain why they looked like kids on their way to an anime con rather than cats in Arena. Of course, the Argonians looked like ... I dunno how the heck to describe those weird things. Way too Star Dreck for me.
Though the best thing I like would have to be the creation myth (as far as I understand it, anyway), and the idea that, well, Aedra and Daedra are just categories, depending on who had a hand in making Nirn and who didn't? There are two Daedra that are pretty good (Meridia and Azura, of course), and a couple that seem mostly just neutral/amoral rather than "devil-evil" (Mora and Vile come to mind - and Sheo; he seems to bluster a lot more than anything.) Are there any unpleasant Aedra?
The best way to keep Aedra and Daedra straight is to remember that Aedra roughly means "our ancestors" and Daedra means "not our ancestors".
While this link includes the 9 divines and we don't have Talos in ESO because he wasn't born yet, more info on them can be found here: http://www.imperial-library.info/content/nine-divines
These other links might be useful as well: http://www.imperial-library.info/content/genesis and http://www.imperial-library.info/content/guide-daedraEdited by Tabbycat on July 23, 2014 12:58PMFounder and Co-GM of The Psijic Order Guild (NA)
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Dcaliber✭✭✭Yes, it is one of my favorite things in ESO
Could not have said it better myself.Its probably the #1 reason why I even play ESO. The lore and stories. Getting to see areas and learn more about the past and cultures of different areas. That is the whole reason I am bothering to play an MMO.
Most MMOs that are not based on a pretty vivid existing 'universe' are not worth my time.
"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination"
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Eirikur✭✭✭Yes, it is one of my favorite things in ESOIts probably the #1 reason why I even play ESO. The lore and stories. Getting to see areas and learn more about the past and cultures of different areas. That is the whole reason I am bothering to play an MMO.
Most MMOs that are not based on a pretty vivid existing 'universe' are not worth my time.
Likewise. Without good lore, an MMO is soulless and mechanical.Edited by Eirikur on July 23, 2014 3:54PM0
