Think its more covering old ground/getting people to buy content they feel connected to, so they stick around for more. And spend more money, this game is a product at the end of the day. Gotta make the £££ $$$.
Don't think they are just going to go down the nostalgia route for all future content, but its clever to get people into the game if content is a gateway to some reminder of good gaming days for some people. When they add the middle of Skyrim in gunna loose it!!! hehe
But they are running out of places that are like this. Very much looking forward to future content to places we havent been to. (looking at you Hammerfell for next year) Also cannot wait to see where we are heading once Tamriel is all filled up.
hcbigdogdoghc wrote: »Something I've read before is that the reason behind ZOS going full on nostalgia trips the past few years is because Summerset (their only "original" chapter) bombed.
So now ZOS won't explore any new regions anymore and only revisit explored areas in TES to the point of rehash the same storylines.
Is this true?
hcbigdogdoghc wrote: »SeaGtGruff wrote: »hcbigdogdoghc wrote: »
Which does not mean that Elsweyr was not an "original" chapter. If you'e going to argue that "original chapter" means totally original, with no type of content that's been seen before in other games, then nothing in ESO is original given that the base game, every DLC, and every chapter contains races, creatures, and places which have appeared in other ES games.
Every single mainline TES game transformed the series into something new, every game introduced something totally new and overhauled the universe, except ESO.
Yeah there are some nostalgia in the mainline games too, but these are easter eggs at most (like serious how much oblivion do you see in skyrim's marketing?) unlike ESO where nostalgia is literally at the forefront and the no.1 marketing attraction
ESO is the biggest game this far, yet with 7+ years they are still in the single player game's shadow.
In my view the way to create a multiplayer Elder Scrolls game is to create a CRPG based in Tamriel with full regard to the lore of TES and run it online with multiple people who can play on the same server but with total freedom as to how, or even if, they interact with those around them.
Neither playing it alone while soaking up the atmosphere of having others around you, nor playing it directly with others in groups and guilds detracts from the fact that ESO is a multiplayer Elder Scrolls game.
What it isn't is Skyrim Online, but then it's not Arena Online, Daggerfall Online, Morrowind Online or Oblivion Online either, and those TES games were all significantly different from each other so you can't take the game system from any one of them and say "that's the TES game system and ESO should be like it".
hcbigdogdoghc wrote: »Something I've read before is that the reason behind ZOS going full on nostalgia trips the past few years is because Summerset (their only "original" chapter) bombed.
So now ZOS won't explore any new regions anymore and only revisit explored areas in TES to the point of rehash the same storylines.
Is this true?
its like hollywood and the redos of old movies. equally bombing.
If Summerset sold badly I think its more because of other games or that Morrowind was more of an event as the first chapter with Morrowind and warden.Just because summer set failed doesn't mean that all original zones will all fail! Look at north and south elsweyr! They are 100% original! And they were huge successes
tsaescishoeshiner wrote: »Western Skyrim and The Reach didn't give me any nostalgia at all. Despite having the same map and terrain from TES:V, the visuals and gameplay are totally different, and the characters & plots weren't similar—even comparing the Rada al-Saran fight to the Lord Harkon one.
Obviously, Morrowind and Greymoor piqued the interest of a lot of people who played other TES games or are nostalgic, and I'm happy more people started playing to check it out—it almost helped me convince some friends to check out ESO because of the familiarity. But critiquing ESO content as "milking nostlagia" falls flat because that says little about the actual content or quality of the game content. Also ... Skyrim and Morrowind are in Tamriel, so it's fairly inevitable that we'd revisit them.
because Summerset (their only "original" chapter) bombed.
hcbigdogdoghc wrote: »Something I've read before is that the reason behind ZOS going full on nostalgia trips the past few years is because Summerset (their only "original" chapter) bombed.
So now ZOS won't explore any new regions anymore and only revisit explored areas in TES to the point of rehash the same storylines.
Is this true?
TelvanniWizard wrote: »It is the only chapter I didn't buy, mainly because my opinions on the architecture.
hcbigdogdoghc wrote: »Something I've read before is that the reason behind ZOS going full on nostalgia trips the past few years is because Summerset (their only "original" chapter) bombed.
So now ZOS won't explore any new regions anymore and only revisit explored areas in TES to the point of rehash the same storylines.
Is this true?
hcbigdogdoghc wrote: »Something I've read before is that the reason behind ZOS going full on nostalgia trips the past few years is because Summerset (their only "original" chapter) bombed.
So now ZOS won't explore any new regions anymore and only revisit explored areas in TES to the point of rehash the same storylines.
Is this true?