cardiackod75 wrote: »This has been getting poor reviews well before this cluster of a launch. Just curious why? When I can get on its just like oblivion/skyrim as far as game play guild etc and I love it. Is the MMOP aspect getting most of it or just the game in general getting crappy reviews?
Also, the game is painfully stale
Rescue king
New zone...
Rescue king again
New zone...
Rescue queen again
New zone...
Rescue this new person
New zone...
Rescue
Rescue rescue rescue
Static mobs
Static things
Too much spent on voice acting, yet, its pretty poor quality if you ask me.
NPCs just scream the same stuff over and over again.
Not worth $200,000,000+ investment on voice acting
Game is just painfully average, no different than any other MMORPG.
Everything in Francis review is... Spot on.
That's why this game is listed as...
Just another average MMO.
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Game would be something if that $200,000,000 on voice acting was good enough to the point that NPCs were sophisticated enough to try and carry a conversation with you. Game acknowledges what you do and the NPCs try and motivate you to do better and what not and actually try and talk to you...
NPCs run over to you and cheer and do all sorts of crazy things..
There is software out there that AI will try and carry a conversation with you... Yet nobody uses it. Nobody taken advantage of it.
Sadly, NPCs in this game are a bunch of dumb rocks.
They don't even acknowledge you, they don't even turn there heads toward you and run over to you. They just shout whatever lore there programed to shout. Very dull, how they do that yet they don't turn there head, they don't run over to you, they just stand there like they don't even care.
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ESO went the no risk route..
Mimic other MMORPGs
Just be average route.
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No risk, comes no reward.
Hence you get a bad review.
Because we already have enough "average games"
We need more innovative games.
AlienDiplomat wrote: »As others have said, video game review media "professionals" have no integrity and actually review a game poorly not based on the actual content but on the smoothness of a rollout. *** poor journalists IMO.
Also, in my experience no game has been trolled by as many jealous rival game companies as much as ESO. The level of slander and PR sabotage in this game has been staggering, even after Wildstar reps were caught red-handed trolling the forums and banned.
I think it all comes down to money. Obviously rival companies want new competition to fail, and will do anything they can to see it happen. If that means actually buying copies of the game and creating dozens of forum accounts to troll the community ala the Facebook study on viral negativity, then so be it.
Also, games like Witcher 3 get great reviews mostly based on graphics, which I admit are nice (though so are ESO's), yet I couldn't play that game for more than a few days before the pettiness of it's persistent world saw me bored and uninterested.
Seriously, a AAA title relying on "*Fart noise* Huh huh huh huh" as it's "immersive" world dialogue?
I feel like gaming has devolved somehow.