does anyone ACTUALLY listens\reads all the content?

amirgelman

hi there,

this question is just for fun.

i see A LOT of content and wayyyy too much to read ans listen!
but is there someone who actually reads all those books and written content and listens to all the NPCs?? sounds like a lot of time to waste in-game wouldn't you agree?

ers101284b14_ESO

A lot of it but not always all of it.

AlnilamE

Not all of it, but quite a bit. There are some serious gems hidden in some of those notes/books.

Jroc

Not a waste if you're having fun.

BBSooner

I listen to it all at least once. When I play through on alts/overlapping VR characters i generally only listen to the interesting/plot important characters (Naryu, Darien, Jorunn, Raz, etc.)

Darlgon

Yep.. and books laying around, not glowing purple.. often tell you a more in-depth story about the quest you are doing or the town you are in. Sometimes, I stop quests to read the notes and end up in combat because a hostile NPC walked by... OOOPs.

Runefell

I like reading books, and if I have the time, I'll sometimes stop and read them. I also love reading the notes lying around, and make a point to try and find them all. I always have, through Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim. Some of those books have great stories in them! They should really collect them all together and sell them in a bound book.

Gidorick

With the exception of books, yes. I just don't have time to read books in game. I would love a mobile app so I can read books when I'm not able to play ESO.

Darlgon

I am guessing everyone knows about http://www.imperial-library.info/ ? No idea if they are updating for ESO, but from what all I read there in the Skyrim days, I bet they are.

Speaking of which:

Runefell wrote: »

I like reading books, and if I have the time, I'll sometimes stop and read them. I also love reading the notes lying around, and make a point to try and find them all. I always have, through Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim. Some of those books have great stories in them! They should really collect them all together and sell them in a bound book.

Check this out on that site:

Imperial Library wrote:

Starting next year, you'll be able to read the wonderful books of Skyrim and Elder Scrolls Online from the comfort of your fancy red leather library chair. Bethesda announced a partnership with Titan Books to bring you a two-volume set of ESO lore books and a three volume set collecting the literature of Skyrim. Each book will, of course, be lavishly illustrated, with the ESO tomes featuring nearly a hundred totally new art pieces.

Find out more about this exciting development over on Bethblog. .

Hmm.. news to me too. Sounds cool.

Gidorick

Darlgon wrote: »

I am guessing everyone knows about http://www.imperial-library.info/ ? No idea if they are updating for ESO, but from what all I read there in the Skyrim days, I bet they are.

Speaking of which:

Runefell wrote: »

I like reading books, and if I have the time, I'll sometimes stop and read them. I also love reading the notes lying around, and make a point to try and find them all. I always have, through Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim. Some of those books have great stories in them! They should really collect them all together and sell them in a bound book.

Check this out on that site:

Imperial Library wrote:

Starting next year, you'll be able to read the wonderful books of Skyrim and Elder Scrolls Online from the comfort of your fancy red leather library chair. Bethesda announced a partnership with Titan Books to bring you a two-volume set of ESO lore books and a three volume set collecting the literature of Skyrim. Each book will, of course, be lavishly illustrated, with the ESO tomes featuring nearly a hundred totally new art pieces.

Find out more about this exciting development over on Bethblog. .

Hmm.. news to me too. Sounds cool.

Yea but this can't show me only the books I have found... but it is a good solution.

Lord_Kreegan

Never on alts going through the same zones I've been in before, doing the same linear quest chains... always the first time through, although only those books that interest me, and never the bad poetry...

Some of the books/letters/scrolls offer interesting back story.

Audigy

I read of course all the quest lore and also chat to random NPCs, they often have hidden quests and treasures.

As for the lore books, I do collect them and once I have all of one type I read them.

Its a bit annoying to find book 4, 7 and 2 but not having 1 for example. So I wait with reading until I found the others as well.

ZeroInspiration

I listen everything, and try to read notes and such related to the quests. Sometimes I read the books found on the world, but not all the time since I only play up to two hours and that would be wasting play time.

Rosveen

Yes. I pay attention to every dialogue the first time I hear it (but not always when I'm redoing it with an alt, unless it's a character I like or moral choices are involved). I'm also an avid reader in real life, so I happily devour all lorebooks I can find - in fact, lore is one of the main reasons I bought ESO in the first place, so how could I ever call it a waste of time? However, I partially agree with that "in-game time" part. I don't always have time or am in the mood to read every book as I find it; in this situation I look them up on the internet later or bookmark and leave them for one of my lazy days when I don't do much at all and just hang around, talk to people and work on my book backlog.

Rezzy64

I just recently acquired "Eidetic Memory" and it's a god send for me.
I like to read in game books and listen to NPC's ramble on.

Sometimes I will do a quest that isn't very fascinating (go retrieve "X" so I can do "Y" because of "Z"), and those are generally the quests that I nod my head roll my eyes and click away just to progress the boring quest. However, there are a large portion of quests that have a plot that is so fascinating I can't help but get sucked into it.
I especially love the quests that start out by making you think they're lame and boring, (i.e. Go find so and so, for some reason they are missing.") and then as you slowly get deeper into the quest you start to realize there's a bunch of things going on that make the quest deeper than how it started. (The missing person turns out to be a victim within a strange conspiracy where an entire town is missing and the only evidence left behind is a mysterious, closed Oblivion Gate.) The quest would start boring so I'd skip the dialogue but the moment that I realize the simple search quest has transformed into a huge mystery of a quest line, consider me absorbed and checking every detail I can find.

I read books in game. Best way to be bored in an Elder Scrolls game ever. When I played "Oblivion" and "Skyrim", my collection of books that I kept in the game was ridiculous. I would hop on Skyrim with my character who has conquered just about every quest I can get my hands on, so what is there to do? Well... I have a fully stocked in game library... I guess it's time to sit down and finally find out what really happened to all the "Snow Elves".

I don't look at it as wasting in game time. If anything, paying attention to quests and books extends the amount of time for useful game play. As someone else said above, the books and dialogue help explain in greater detail the lore behind many of the quests and even will help you progress in the quest. On top of that being a lore and information hunter within the game gives a whole new dimension to playing the game. With a game that is subscription based and never ends, eventually your character is going to hit V14. When you've finished questing and collecting, what is there to do? For me, listening to dialogue, hunting down books, taking the time to read them, and then using the information within them to understand lore that was otherwise not clear can often take a lot of time in the game, almost like as if it was an unmarked quest waiting for you to take initiative to investigate without any quest markers telling you where to go.

It's all completely optional and even unnecessary to playing the game, but when I choose to go book hunting/reading or just listening to NPC's explain their point of view of what is happening within a quest line. It helps me drag out the content of playing the game, allowing me to enjoy an immersible gaming experience while simultaneously making my subscription to the game more worthwhile. I could breeze through everything in ESO and finish a character without knowledge of lore within 2 months, but If I build a character and read and pay attention to everything, my game play is easily extended much farther than just two measly months of grinded game play. Paying attention to dialogue and reading isn't wasted game play, if anything, it makes game play much more valuable and gives you a whole spectrum of new things to do.

Sorry about the essay, I just really do enjoy the game's dialogue and books and think they make the game much deeper than some people are willing to believe.

WhiskyBob

I wish I could read while fishing.

bedlom

Its the details like this, that are the reason I love the TES series so much.

So to sum up, yes! I do read everything, and listen to everyone. If I don’t, I feel like I'm missing out.

Sallington

I listened to everything 1-50, and took my sweet, sweet time. Very enjoyable leveling experience.

Alts and VR content? lol no.

Darkrogue671

I started reading your post but....

(Single choice response)
Goodbye.

IrishGirlGamer

Over here! I do.

A few years back, when I was playing Oblivion, I used to run through the game without reading the books. Then someone introduced me to RPing, including spending time in mage's guild libraries. I began reading the books and found some of them quite good. The Black Arrow and Immortal Blood, just to name two.

I read all the books in Skyrim and now I read all the books in TESO - or I try to. Some of them are really funny - either in substantive content or the depth they add to the game.

LadyNerevar

Darlgon wrote: »

I am guessing everyone knows about http://www.imperial-library.info/ ? No idea if they are updating for ESO, but from what all I read there in the Skyrim days, I bet they are.

We are! We've got all book content up to and including parts of Update 4, plus anything that appeared on the website.

As part of uploading all those books (there are over 2,000 of them), I've read every single book in ESO. I do usually read notes and stuff in game, and of course the dialog, as well. But I'm a lore nerd :P

Zorrashi

I listen and read all of the quest dialogue when I come upon a quest, and I may or may not listen/read them again when I level an alt in the same areas. Thankfully I have a very good idea of which quests I personally like and can just sit back and chill when I come upon them.

I usually tend to ignore books/journals/notes lying around, but there are a few times where a few words catch my eye and I may look back upon it to find a really good story for me to indulge in.

And I enjoy every second of it.

kewl

Listen, yes. Read books, sometimes.

AaronMB

Yes - the first time around.

Iluvrien

I read/listen to all of the dialogues as I encounter them.

I collect books in the field and if I cannot read them there and then, usually because some oaf is attempting to rearrange my facial features with a mace, I retire to a library somewhere, or occasionally a spot on Eyevea, and leaf through them at my leisure. I am in no hurry and the world is entirely too rich in lore and detail to just dash through.

Gyudan

It's true because it's written in a book.

Gilvoth

Jroc wrote: »

Not a waste if you're having fun.

i agree with this mans answer ^

spoqster

90%.

Do a poll.

ariseraw

Sometimes. I listened to all the NPCs at first, up until I got up to around level 20, but then I found myself frequently skipping through the dialogue, to hurry up and get the quests done. I know I'm missing out on the stories. But I honestly find many of the quests to be tedious. Go to this cave, collect that item, take out enemy npcs along the way, bring item to this character, etc.

In the single player TES games like Oblivion and Skyrim I listened to everything and got into the lore. Those games just feel way more immersive and captivating. ESO just feels like a typical MMOrpg with elder scrolls skin. Sorry, it's just not the same feeling. I just level up my character in ESO, so I can be more powerful in pvp.

Aoife32001

Yes, I do listen to and read everything.

MissBizz

I don't read most of the books. For dialogue/quests I listen to it all on one character (my main).