For me ESO is the best yet of the elder scrolls games.

tawnyb

Over the years I have played all the Elder Scroll games starting with Arena. As I mentioned in a recent post here, I like to play games my way. And so I did with
Arena up through Skyrim. Over those same years I also played MMORPG's starting with "Island of Kesmai" on Compuserve (although you could drop the first M on that one). When you play a stand alone game on you computer you are alone. If you accomplish something, all you have is the four walls to witness it: "Hey, four walls, did you see what I did? Wasn't that neat?" They don't answer. They are just walls. In MMO's you have real people around you. Oh sure, they aren't all friendly. But many of them are really fun to be around. I still remember some of the players in Kesmai, like Porphory...Cure, Kaltorax...wind (my guild leader) and neighborhood friends like Kruhljak...wind.
Regardless of how I feel about how the gameplay in ESO stacks up vs Skyrim & etc., the addition of other players with the retention of the ability for me to play my own style of play makes ESO much better (in my humble opinion) than its predecessors.

Archaole

Eh, Morrowind was more in depth and in Skyrim the action was better. But not doing alone is very much more enjoyable, that much is for sure.

jamie.goddenrwb17_ESO

Archaole wrote: »

Eh, Morrowind was more in depth and in Skyrim the action was better. But not doing alone is very much more enjoyable, that much is for sure.

Hopefully the Skywind mod finds the right balance and makes the ultimate single player experience!

Dcaliber

Oblivion was the best TES game. I personally think it is the best game I have ever played. Nostalgia though.

Nox_Aeterna

Mate , it is your opinion, i respect that.

But in mine , it is the worse by far of all 4 i played.

This game will never be able to offer what the mods offer. Because of the HUGE modding community in TES games , you can pretty create the perfect experience for yourself to play , it fits what you want to the extreme if you put the effort to get the mods and make them work.

tawnyb

I do wish they would bring back the silt striders. It would be neat to watch the countryside pass by you as you rode them. And, Oblivion was such an advancement in graphics I never got tire of looking at the grass.

CheesyDaedra

Nox_Aeterna wrote: »

Mate , it is your opinion, i respect that.

But in mine , it is the worse by far of all 4 i played.

This game will never be able to offer what the mods offer. Because of the HUGE modding community in TES games , you can pretty create the perfect experience for yourself to play , it fits what you want to the extreme if you put the effort to get the mods and make them work.

That is not a valid point to bash the game, since the moment they said "ES MMO" i thought instantly there would be no mods and I totally understood the need to avoid them.

They did create a neat API that lets you modify the UI as you want, so there's that.

kijima

As a player of all of the previous ES games, I have to say I'm not let down with ESO at all. I always wanted an ESO game where you could fight another player in a PvP landscape and now I have it.

I love nothing more than to sneak around Cyrodiil assassinating other players from the shadows. The siege mechanics were something I'd never thought of, but now being a part of that I love it. Nothing better than pouring hot oil all over other factions in an outpost when they think it's un-maned only to find it's well protected. kekeke

ers101284b14_ESO

I still say Morrowind. I liked Skyrim but it was incredibly dumbed down. I'm still afraid they are going to dumb down ESO too much but for now I'm still happy with it.

Nox_Aeterna

DaedricCheese wrote: »

Nox_Aeterna wrote: »

Mate , it is your opinion, i respect that.

But in mine , it is the worse by far of all 4 i played.

This game will never be able to offer what the mods offer. Because of the HUGE modding community in TES games , you can pretty create the perfect experience for yourself to play , it fits what you want to the extreme if you put the effort to get the mods and make them work.

That is not a valid point to bash the game, since the moment they said "ES MMO" i thought instantly there would be no mods and I totally understood the need to avoid that.

They did create a neat UI API that lets you modify the UI as you want, so there's that.

Did i bash the game for this? No.

I said it is not as good as the others and it never will be probably in my opinion.

That simple.

I bash ESO for many things , not for the lack of mods in a MMO :P.

amm7sb14_ESO

Well personally ESO is NOT the best TES game, in fact it's easily the worst. Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim are my top 3 games of all time, whereas ESO probably isn't even a top 3 MMO of all time.

I am enjoying the game, there's certainly things I like about it.

But it doesn't do what I love about Elder Scrolls in the first place, and as such, is hardly a fraction as memorable as a main line TES game.

-No open world exploration, instead is separated into zones, as you are funneled through areas as you progress, giving the feeling of a linear "level 1, level 2, level 3" experience ala Super Mario Bros.

-No open character development, replaced instead by defined classes. However, credit to ESO for a character system that does still allow unique customization - ala a Sorcerer can still be a tank, or a Nightblade can me magic centric, etc.

Luckily, however, this is more of a spinoff title, developed by an entirely different team, so I don't have to have concern that ESO is an indication of the direction the main line series is headed.

For what it is, I feel that this is overall a rather basic MMO, with little in innovation, however a few strong features that give some enjoyability.

tawnyb

As I described in my first thread (Play it your way). I have a very unusual way of playing these games and do not expect many others to have the same view of them as I do. I have a very good friend who considers Morrowind the end all be all of games. And one of my favorite games of all time (only because of the unique way I play it) is Sid Meiers Alien Crossfire... which pretty much disqualifies me as being worthy of judging games. I also still play Minecraft (my way of course) .

hk11

I liked them all, but I consider ESO to be a game in the universe instead of a true Elder Scrolls game. Sort of like "Elderscrolls Adventures: Redguard".

Orchish

I cannot compare them. Yes they are TES games, but ESO is nothing like the single player games. That's not a bad thing, it's different. I like both.

rynth

This is a great MMO and that is exactly what it is...an MMO. If you go into this game thinking that its going to be a lot or exactly like a TES well you only have yourself to blame. TES is a single player game so it has room to go in-depth in a single line story.

ESO is like a really great movie based off a book, as much as possible they have tried to stay true (which imo they have). But, they also have to make it into a MMO so some things you will lose as well as ESO has to target a larger audience in just a TES does.

ESO classes are wide open as well as skills, you have a lot of room to make "your" character way you want to (aside from those who do the number crunching type toons). Each area environment is a live colorful and full of life a lot of love went into creating environment and game imo. Not to mention the different races you can play and that they look really good and have armor that fits them without any armor clipping problems (that I know of). Not to mention the great crafting system.

CheesyDaedra

Nox_Aeterna wrote: »

DaedricCheese wrote: »

Nox_Aeterna wrote: »

Mate , it is your opinion, i respect that.

But in mine , it is the worse by far of all 4 i played.

This game will never be able to offer what the mods offer. Because of the HUGE modding community in TES games , you can pretty create the perfect experience for yourself to play , it fits what you want to the extreme if you put the effort to get the mods and make them work.

That is not a valid point to bash the game, since the moment they said "ES MMO" i thought instantly there would be no mods and I totally understood the need to avoid that.

They did create a neat UI API that lets you modify the UI as you want, so there's that.

Did i bash the game for this? No.

I said it is not as good as the others and it never will be probably in my opinion.

That simple.

I bash ESO for many things , not for the lack of mods in a MMO :P.

By saying

the worse by far

And then most probably argumenting:

This game will never be able to offer what the mods offer.

I can be totally sure that you were indeed bashing the game for such a thing. Just wanted to point it out.

I mean, there are some things to bash this game with, but your argument was invalid, just sayin'.