How would you rate Elder Scrolls Online?

Billdor

CyberOnEso wrote: »

1. Visual Art/Graphics - 10 - This is a visually stunning game. Absolutely beautifully done. The artwork is amazing, and I can only imagine the fun ZOS had putting all of it together. Agree with you there. Looks amazing.

2. Story Line/Content - 9 - The summerset storyline is really well done, all DLC's have a really strong core story line to them.
If we are counting content as in Dungeons/ Trials as well then it would be a 10 just because in my experience of playing MMO's this game has the best dungeons by far and well though out and consistent trial releases.

3. Technical Details - 8 I don't play cyrodiil often, I do however play all PvE content 24/7 and although I may just be lucky I don't have as many issues as people claim to have. Gonna have to say the bandwagon effect has alot to do with peoples perception of bugs. But then I may just be biased due to the type of content I play.

On a side note, please someone try to find a multiplayer game that the community doesn't think is buggy or has server lag etc. It just doesn't happen. Even in DotA 2 (A game that I would claim has the best server performances and fewest bugs possible people still complain about lag and the amount of bugs)

4. Customer Service - N/A; never needed to contact them so cannot give an opinion

I do thing more categories should be added. As I almost feel I am doing a disservice here, this is by far the game in which I have played and enjoyed the most ever. Played > 5000 hours and don't intend on stopping soon.

I honeslty can't fault ZoS Support. They miss interpret stuff time to time but other than the obvious hickup here and there, ZoS is one of the CS' where they should be proud of.

Franieck

1. Visual Art/Graphics - 3 - While the game can be made to look beautiful in terms of shaders and post processing, the lack of proper physics and plastic look on armor (meshes) is really horrendous. Also, textures (specially diffuse maps) are very sloppy and specular maps on some armors are inconsistently done (e.g. front of armor having more shine than the back part or random spots on armor having too high specular map).

2. Story Line/Content - 9 - Story is awesome and for the most part well written. Also, the fact that npcs are voiced is awesome for a MMORPG. Moreover, this is the mmorpg where I have the most fun in dungeons and trials.

3. Technical Details - 3 - Again, just from the design standpoint it looks like a bunch of interns took over the department after their first semester in college and started crapping all over it. Also, some glitches and bugs plague the game (e.g. group finder, collision, lag, etc.)

4. Customer Service - 0 -Literally the worst I have ever seen.

5. Memories while playing: 9

Overall score: 6 ?

geonsocal

Violynne wrote: »

Bioshock set a bar so high, no game since its release has ever come close to its "Masterpiece" rating that I've played.

best animated attack skill EVER...


leaves nothin but bones...

TheCyberDruid

I don't like to give scores, but in general it's a really well written game with decent graphics and a beautiful soundtrack. The voice acting is professional. Sadly the game has pretty big technical issues in too many areas that make it hard for me to recommend it and on top of that the communication from the official side is lacking. So if I had to boil it down to a number it would be a '7' if you are looking for the (single player) content and a '5' for actual MMO parts.

noob in denial

1. Visual Art/Graphics - 7 - It's somewhere in the middle of "how a mmorpg should look in 2018"

2. Story Line/Content - 3 - Just a half decent story filler, not important at all in the grand scheme of things. Often you can forget who the main villain is because the most important content, trials, dungeons, don't have much to do with it, since they have little to nothing to do with the story.
Elder scrolls die hard fans might feel different about this, but for others this is probably the case.

3. Technical Details - 1 - Agreed with OP here.

4. Customer Service - 1 - Agreed with OP again.

Drakoleon

Visual Art/Graphics=8 (i would give 9-10 to black desert, EA Battlefield 1 etc.)

Story Line/Content=10!

Technical Details.....PVP Cyrolag?= 0, PVP BG= 3, PVE=5...lots of lag spikes , packet loss and huge lag most of the time in trials etc!

Customer Service=10! Whenever i had issues the service was excellent!!!

I would add,

Game play=5 ...10 for the total gameplay concept, but..... 0 for game balance, classes, skills and races

Valabrog

1. Visual Art/Graphics - 9 - too many soft colors and body models are too slim for my taste, I like bulkier male shapes and richer/deeper colors. Otherwise would be 10, because the world is close to perfect.

2. Story Line - 2 - meaningless main vanilla storylines in compare to other grand MMORPGs. Havent tried anything after Cadwells gold yet, high hopes it will be better there.

3. Content - 10 - players of many other AAA games in the market points out to ESO as an example how to fill the game with new things constantly. Every year new dungeons, bg maps, sets, motifs, quality of life inventions, expansions etc etc. Great job is being done here (I hope they will focus on PVP one day).

4. Technical Details - 3 - pvp lag, endless loading screens, visual glitches and many other things

4. Customer Service - 5 - great for standart issues, like account problems, login problems, deleted stuff and such. Useless for more serious things. Im happy that I do not encounter those too often.

Overall - 9 - if not about poorly implemented storylines, would be 10 - so many things to do and to enjoy at once.

Ratzkifal

A perfect 5/7.

ATomiX96

new PvP features, class balance and giving veteran players a reason to keep playing: 0 / 10

Nayawin14

ATomiX96 wrote: »

new PvP features, class balance and giving veteran players a reason to keep playing: 0 / 10

Very constructive! Congrats for even failing to make it on 4 points as requested... Genius Online

Bessa: Seriously guys... GROW UP!!

Ohtimbar

9/6/5/1

usmguy1234

Meh/10. Could have been the best mmo of the last decade but game balance really ruins the experience. Will rate higher if the rep program gets listened to and things get addressed in a timely and balanced manner. Zos needs to dial their nerf knob from 0 to 100 to 0 to 15 etc.

Gythral

Graphics: 9
Story: 9
Technical Details: 2
Customer Service: -1000

but the two areas where there are issues are the two that require both the right people and the right budget

xxthir13enxx

Graphics:8
Story: No clue...stopped reading years ago when I realized I just needed to go to next marker on my map
Tech Det: Needs Improvement
Customer Service: Crown Store at least is working as intended

Knootewoot

Visual Art/Graphics=8

It looks great for an mmo, but it's not the best graphics out there. Also the older zones look bad compared to Morrowind for example. Still an 8 is still pretty good.

Story Line/Content=8

I like the quests and storyline, but only for one time. Some storylines are very bad, like sun-in-shadow and the augr which i really don't like. But some are pretty good.

It is hard to do it a second time for me though. In comparison in SWTOR I had 4 imperial agent because that story was so darn good for that class. Sidequests where also meh though.

Technical Details = 4

Well i like PvP in this game the most and all went pretty well in the beginning. Now there are less people involved and i get lag and loading screens and disconnects to many times. Also PvE is affected as last time i did a PUG dungeon, everyone complained, so it was not just m.

Customer Service=N/A

Didn't need them yet, so no rating for this.

Overall it is a great mmo. Not my favorite though, because those don't exist anymore.
SWG, Vanguard and Warhammer online are still my favorite three. Sadly others didn't agree and those games are gone for good.

But currently i don't see any mmo for me that would beat ESO. (at least not one that is released to the public)

Doctordarkspawn

Visual art: 10. ESO has a distinct look. It doesn't need extreme graphics, it has it's style.

Storyline/Content: Two ratings, one for each. 9 and 4 respectively. This games strength is it's writing and the questing is one of the best I've ever seen. But the game surrounding it is barely serviceable. This is what happens when you design a PVP game first and foremost.

Technical: 4. This...game barely functions, it isn't neatly as bad as it was but to say it's in a good state is a downright lie.

Customer service: 1. Automated troubleshooting, largely ignored feedback to where the class rep program became necessary, and general lack of ability to -fix- the issues we bring to them.

Ilithyania

1. Visual Art/Graphics - 10 Max settings Looks amazing.

2. Story Line/Content - 9 Kinda miss a main story that expand every DLC / Chapter. now its a bit all over the place

3. Technical Details - 8 Max settings. not very botherd with lag or loadingscreens. plays both PC servers.

4. Customer Service - 9 Havnt had need to contact Support. The one time I did, problem solved after a few days.

Kagukan

1. Visual Art/Graphics - 9 Very good for a MMO.

2. Story Line/Content - 9 Love everything except the dungeon only DLC.

3. Technical Details - 7 Good for the most part. Consistent lag in PVP and a few other smaller things need some work.

4. Customer Service - ? Have never had to use customer service so no score here.

tunepunk

1. Visual Art/Graphics - 8 Playing on a pretty low spec machine, but It still looks pretty good.

2. Story Line/Content - 5 Average. Questing and Exploration is aimed at new players. No point to do on high level char. Too easy.

3. Technical Details - 6 - The only thing that bothers me is too much spell effects. Too much fireworks for my taste. Could be toned down.

4. Customer Service - No comment.

Catsmoke14

1. Visual/Graphics - 9 (I'm not that fussy)

2. Story Line/Content - 8 (I do like the humor, when I can find some)

3. Technical Details - 7 (I don't PVP)

4. Customer Service - 5 (uneven and somewhat inconvenient (or actually obtuse) and cold)

Overall - 8 What else am I going to play that's better? Nothing lately, but no more money to ZOS until those ESO+ improvements hit.

Ahnog

Would give it a 10 in all categories. All my contacts with customer service have been good, and since I don't PvP have very few issues with the game.

StormChaser3000

1. Visual Art/Graphics - 9 I'm too spoiled after playing Witcher 3.. (I know, I know that it's a singleplayer, but still maybe they could modernize it a bit). But as for a MMO it's quite good.

2. Story Line/Content - 9 While some quests are somewhat similar and dialogues can be too weird, a lot of stories are actually very interesting, some have not bad humor and some are even dramatic.

3. Technical Details - 7 There were issues in the past with Steam. Currently it lags sometimes. Haven't tested Cyrodil. Cliff climbing and moving by hills should be more "natural" or something.. since one wrong step and character slides, gets falling animation and flies deep into the canyon...

4. Customer Service - 9. The team is quite responsive when it comes to Help section requests and they do listen to players from time to time. Well, at least compared to BDO's employees ZOS guys are angels.

Radox0

Visual Art/Graphics - 8 - For most the part it looks very nice, more so for a MMORPG, however there are many better looking games out there. But I will say I play the game on 3440 x 1440 and it is immersive as anything and the graphics aside from a few basic looking textures, even cranked up to the max, look a but bland. On the other hand, there are some amazing spots in the game where I simply stand and stop looking at the landscape / building / vista's etc.

Story Line/Content - 8 - I will confess I do bypass the content / storyline proper to just move on. But recently with new Alts and summerset have listened to every line and am impressed with the voice acting and pretty great quests for most the part.

Technical Details - 7 - For most the part its not bad. FPS does plummet at times, even on a high end system, do get random dungeon loading bugs and every now and then in Cyrodil and BG the loading screen comes up very sporadically.

Customer Service - 9 - On the 2/3 times I contacted customer service, they could not resolve the issue (infact for high core count CPU's which initially broke with summerset, I submitted my work around), but they did respond relatively promptly, so can't complain.

max_only

10/10. No other MMO experience like it.

https://youtu.be/pjvQFtlNQ-M

iiYuki

7/10.
- Great for story and questing and playable completely solo.
- PvP is decent though seems to boil down to zerg mobs in Cyrodiil, I also dont like how many of the PvE quests there are impossible to do without being ganked or just plain not being able to get there since the battlefield is dead and you can't take the objective solo.
- Raids are pretty good and they seem to be making new ones at a decent rate as well as not holding their value as the ONLY end game content like many MMOs do since Dungeons are still relevant.
- The cosmetics and cash shop let the game down massively, there have been no new mounts to earn or buy for gold in game since day 1, outside of the free mount that was handed out between x and y date to anyone and everyone that just logged in there are no mounts to actually EARN, the same goes for costumes which at least have a few to earn but seem 90% of the time confined to being cash shop exclusive, and contradictory to many of the *** who comment things like "DoNt BuY ThEM ThEn" or "ItS JuSt CoSmEtIcS", cosmetics and customisation in its own respect IS end game in MMOs, the outfit station was a step in the right direction but I think its time to put some things to earn and show off, trial sets in the station, mounts from veteran trial bosses, pets, etc and I really hope to see an end to limited time, "only x hours left to buy this and then its gone forever" items and other bull-*** practices like it, cough cough heavily weighted gamble crates that have items with <1% drop rates.
- As well people seem to forget that ESO was marketed at having all of Tamriel to explore and we still have 50% of the game locked, its been 4 *** years how can you call a game Tamriel Unlimited when half the game is still locked off.

method__01

Visual Art/Graphics - 10 (amazing job,creative team must be very very proud for a masterpiece)

Story Line/Content - 10 (good stories,some sad,some funny,done almost 100% of content but im returning with my newest toon to replay the stories,good job)

Technical Details - 3 (they are trying but many issues unsolved)

Customer Service - 7 (i asked for a refund once,they replied,all happy but im reading horrifying stories from others)

Drachenfier

10 on just about everything except class design, which I give a 1, and in my opinion, that 1 is generous.

MaxwellC

Overall 6
Performance, Story, and End-game content weigh it down heavily. Graphics, Music & Lore are pretty up there around 8 overall.

Kalante

Nestor wrote: »

9 overall.

I dont do much PvP, so the game pretty much runs flawlessly for me. The times I have spent in PvP were not perfect, but I am only there for Caltrops...

I do wish they would fix the lag issues, but until they split the PvP skills and eliminate AoE, the calculations are going to be a huge load.

Nice bias there, just because you don't play pvp doesn't mean you get to exclude it and give the game a 9. This game is a 5 at best. The pvp in this game is in a horrible state with tons of frame rate issues, loading screens, unbalanced classes, broken skills due to poor netcode and TONS of lag. A 9, that's laughable.

qbit

I have not read the thread but saw mention of graphics quality. For those that haven’t already done so, and have video cards with at least 6 GB of vram, please google the manual settings change you must do to get like mega texture resolution. It’s all over the internet and will require editing a settings file. The setting mentions mipmap levels. Apologies for not providing a link.