Do you like elder scrolls online more or skyrim?

KhajiitiLizard

Well, Skyrim is a better game than ESO. Though, I greatly prefer the character models and creation in ESO.

BigM

This isn't a fair poll on two different type of games. Plus you should of put both in there and put skyrim (single player) to ESOTU (MMO).

Some times I think some of you have no clue on what a single player game is and an MMO is.

Seems like a lost cause with some of you.

Avenias

Ur asking the wrong question. Many ppl in the elder scrolls community will spit at skyrim when given a chance becauae they prefer oblivion and morrowind more. U need to include those 2 also then watch the number of votes for elder scrolls online go down the toilet.

dudenamedchris

I do not need to include morrowwind or oblivion because I'm asking people which game they liked more eso or skyrim. I am not asking if you liked any other games more than them just skyrim or eso that is he comparison and I can compare them because they are both TES games. I'm asking if you like what made skyrim what it is, better thanwhatmade eso what it is.

CGPsaint

I really enjoyed Oblivion, so much so that I never finished playing so that I could move on to Skyrim. I have the Ultimate Edition of Skyrim which includes all of the DLC, and I'll probably get around to playing that after the fall update brings backwards compatibility to the Xbox One. As far as which is better, I'm not sure that you can really compare a single player game to a multiplayer game, especially a MMO. I got my start with online games back in the days of Ultima Online, and after kicking that habit, played online FPS for years right up to Battlefield: Hardline. I was a huge Battlefield junky who found Hardline to be a complete divergence from the core franchise that I had grown to love and hate. I tried over and over again to get into it, and found that I simply couldn't enjoy the game. I put it down and picked up Diablo III, which in it's own right is a great game. I enjoy building my character and grinding for loot, but it still wasn't what I was looking for. And then came ESO for Xbox One. I researched it online, watched videos, read reviews, and gave it a lot of thought. Did I want to get invested in another MMO? Then the game went on sale and I picked it up for $34. Over a month later, and I have a level 30 Stamina DK, and now a level 10 Sorcerer/Pet Build. Only level 30 you say? What a noob. Right? Nope. I have found more enjoyment out of exploring and the crafting system that I can even begin to describe. Every time I think that I know what I'm doing, I hit a roadblock or come to the forums and learn something new. The game has it's flaws, but damned if I'm not enjoying my game time again. It's not one of my beloved FPS, but I'm having fun, and I can't ask for anything more.

TLDR: You just can't compare the two. ESO is a fun game. Enough said.

BlackguardBob

The perfect game for me would have been Elder Scrolls Offline!

mrskinskull

Oberon45 wrote: »

I really loved Skyrim, but I am also liking ESO a lot as well. While they share the same universe, they are such different games. I miss some of the game play mechanics and graphics that I got used to in Skyrim, but I love that ESO isn't as "lonely." It is like comparing apples and oranges to me.

I agree with your sentiment.

ESO is like a super social skyrim.

Iluvrien

BigM wrote: »

This isn't a fair poll on two different type of games. Plus you should of put both in there and put skyrim (single player) to ESOTU (MMO).

Some times I think some of you have no clue on what a single player game is and an MMO is.

Seems like a lost cause with some of you.

And sometimes I think that people have decided what an MMO is beyond that it is "Massively Multiplayer" and "Online". There are a group of established tropes that people seem to think comprise an MMO. They don't, and to proscribe something from being considered an MMO based on these same things every time just seems so limiting... so hopelessly mundane.

Seems like a lost cause with some of them.

I came to ESO hoping that it wouldn't follow the same tropes. That it would find a way to make an MMO experience that contained all of the joy of exploration and environmental interaction that might be found in a single player game. Not because of Skyrim (or my personal favourite, Morrowind) but because in spite of the limitations placed on some activities due to them being globally impactful (rather than just on your view of the world) I had hope that they could integrate the best of both.

In some ways they succeeded triumphantly. In others... not so much.

MasterFUNG_ESO

Rioghnan wrote: »

I realize Morrowind has old graphics and the character creation is horrible. But the lore and the way it's so alien and different are what makes it awesome. I'm not going off of a glorified memory. I have it on my laptop and still play it.

Im still waiting for skywind, I hope they complete that, then i will have a reason to install skyrim again.

dudenamedchris

Sky wind?

eternalsnows

ESO all the way! Morrowind is one of my favorite games of all time and I found Oblivion and Skyrim to be very poor follow-ups. ESO finally gets back to the heart of what makes a great Elder Scrolls game. I love it.

Gidorick

dudenamedchris wrote: »

Sky wind?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Bnrr0WAiRM

sagitter

BigM wrote: »

This isn't a fair poll on two different type of games. Plus you should of put both in there and put skyrim (single player) to ESOTU (MMO).

Some times I think some of you have no clue on what a single player game is and an MMO is.

Seems like a lost cause with some of you.

You are right, for many , including many guildmates, this is their first mmo, that's why they tend doing wrong comparison , single player vs mmo, they don't know a buck what net code is or things like that, just ignorance and bad judjing.

Mitchblue

Do you like baseball or Math?

pepperybrine

I like both

RAGUNAnoOne

Is this poll for vanilla Skyrim only? A modded skyrim is fun, sometimes the modding itself can be more fun than the game. but the best experience is Oblivion with MOO and OOO second Morrowind with MGSO new creature mods and a lot of scripts.

Avonna

i love skyrim , still play it .

but i like the combat control here better , it feels a little loose in skyrim. but over all i prefer the skill selection, and spell lines MUCH better there. so much more interesting.

what doesnt make sense to me is, sorc in eso is strictly lighting....they are a sorc! i would have thought that a sorcs first spell is to make fire?....could be me.
lighting is boring all the time there should have been a selection you had to make about which element at LEAST you wanted to follow.

dragons were cool, there was a edge about running around and having something BIG fly over you....fun times.

eso....bugs....boring...not many choices ...( because only certain skills REALLY work well ) cookie cutters online.

anyways thats my vote. i haent played in a week now...playing another game and having more fun.

Iluvrien

sagitter wrote: »

BigM wrote: »

This isn't a fair poll on two different type of games. Plus you should of put both in there and put skyrim (single player) to ESOTU (MMO).

Some times I think some of you have no clue on what a single player game is and an MMO is.

Seems like a lost cause with some of you.

You are right, for many , including many guildmates, this is their first mmo, that's why they tend doing wrong comparison , single player vs mmo, they don't know a buck what net code is or things like that, just ignorance and bad judjing.

And for those of us who have played various MMOs and have been doing so for a while?

Condescending much?

Elektrakosh

lordrichter wrote: »

Elektrakosh wrote: »

Snip!

This list contains a few things that I just wanted to comment on.

I think that the dual hand spell and weapon system in Skyrim is the basis of what TES should have across the board. It is what ESO should have gone with instead of what they have now. It is not the "MMO's must have bars" solution, but it is simple, it works and it would have scaled up to an MMO. I look forward to the next iteration of this in TES 6 because I think that they have found a mechanic that works.

There are things about a dual hand system that would send a lot of MMO players to Trembling Hills to recover. Still, I vastly prefer the two hand system over the bar system, and it would have put Spell Crafting front and center as a major part of the offensive and defensive part of the game. I think the result would have been awesome.

As for the crafting comments, I have to disagree. I think that crafting concept in ESO is well ahead of Skyrim and hope that TES 6 picks up this and moves forward from ESO instead of Skyrim. The idea of styles and traits is an improvement. Finding motifs to learn styles is good, and having to find and learn traits before they can be used is also good. The choice of trait and style material was odd, and could have been done better, but it is a good start. Sadly, now that ZOS needs to monetize the game, this stuff is ripe for the picking and has become grindy to a crazy extreme.

Yeah In a way I liked the crafting options but the even the most common motifs are too rare (for my character to find looked everywhere and I mean everywhere)
I hate grinding so I'll be back to playing Skyrim soon. I'm not liking the way this game is going.

I'll wait for TES Vl. This game had some good things but now...

Epona222

Why does it have to be between ESO and Skyrim? Skyrim was TES V - ie. there were 4 other TES games before it (not counting spin-offs).

Between ESO and Skyrim, I prefer ESO, but between ESO and TES as a whole, I prefer Morrowind.

dudenamedchris

The poll is on skyrim and eso because I wanted to know which can game you preferred of the two. I'm not asking about the other games because I don't want to know. Please stop saying to a bad poll because I didnt include the other tes games. The poll is about which game between the two that you liked more. Personally I liked skyrim more. It had a constant feel of epic was to it and I personally don't like the hot bar skill assigning to certain buttons things in eso. I much prefer the dual wielding thing in skyrim. I also don't like how in eso sorcerers are stuck using lightning instead of fire and ice.

In my opinion eso has you stuck and confined to classes which I don't like as it limits customization. I much prefer skyrim because it is fully customizable. Furthermore, in eso you can't really quest in groups and have fun still because the boss dies too fast if you're grouped. Furthermore in pvp unless you find a massive group you can't do much about capturing forts/keeps. Finding a group on cyrodil CAN, at times, be challenging

Pallmor

I liked Skyrim, great game. But it's lonely compared to ESO. And there isn't nearly as much to do or even a fraction as much content. I've been playing ESO for over a year and still have plenty of content I've not done. I burned through all the main and side missions in Skyrim in about 3 months.

josh5813

Story wise they are both weak but I prefer ESO main story over Skyrim's. Skyrim's story was way to generic, "Dragons return and you must stop them", a main story that involves a Daedric Prince is much more interesting.

I also like how the main story in ESO and the main quest for your faction tie into each other much better than Skyrim's main story and the civil war story that never got fully resolved.

Graphics, I like ESO better, Skyrim was shooting for a to much realistic look that I didn't really enjoy.

Skyrim's side quests were painfully boring and short, "go here, kill everything at this location, 2 to 5 mins later you win". ESO side quests can branch out which makes them more enjoyable.

All in all I think Morrowind is the best game by far despite the horrible combat and magic mechanics. That game didn't hold your hand which made finding a location, finding a powerful weapon and/or artifact or defeating a boss feel like you accomplish something and it made actually exploring the game world enjoyable since it didn't give you any map markers which allowed you to bypass everything that's between you and the location you are heading to.

jkemmery

If you had added a third option, something along the lines of "I like them both the same for different reasons" then I would have voted. As it stands, I can't say I have a preference between them. They are both fun games, but for completely different reasons.

Krombie

At first I was in love with Skyrim, then when elder scrolls online came out I bought it but it was not the best so I kept playing skyrim, when I lost interest for skyrim I came back to ESO and realized how amazing it is and how much they had improved since beta.

I think ESO is better than skyrim for the social aspect of the game, remember when we wanted multiplayer Skyrim, show off our character builds, our shouts, armors, spells, weapons, race? now we have it and its awesome, true ESO can be improved in many ways and it has many bugs but apart from all of that the devs work hard everyday to make our geeky dreams come true...

Krombie

Puddycat wrote: »

Frozstee wrote: »

However .....

Morrowind > Skyrim

Oooo i have to go Morrowind, god i loved that game!
First truely open world game i'd played and was blown away

Anyway, sorry what was the original question...oh yeh....i don't care....Morrowind ftw

On a seriousl note though, i really hope they don't stop releasing single player TES games and only release content for ESO. That'll be pretty shite. I'm about done with ESO and i've only been playing about a month! Well i've just talked myself into a vote

Trust me, you are never really done with The Elder Scrolls Online...

Selique

What if you like them both equally?

Jimboo84

dudenamedchris wrote: »

Those 2 can't be compared. But as I'm a huge fan from the very beginning of The Elder Scrolls the answer is pretty clear.

Arreyanne

Skyrim was my first ES game loved it modded it played it, modded it some more played it more

Eso 90 days wave bye bye. come back for IC meh, still the same broken mess

KanedaSyndrome

Voted Skyrim, and not because it's single player, but because the world actually reacts to what you do. I really don't like MMOs where what you do have no real effect on the world or other players.

I basically wanted Skyrim with friends, not a themepark MMO in ESO gift wrap.