What makes eso special to you?

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A fun conversation to honor the anniversary event.

DreamyLu

ESO is - for me - a good MMORPG for a player who wants to chill solo with lot of freedom regarding what to do - or not - of the game content.
This is supported by the trading activity, that provides enough gold, not to be forced to participate in activities we don't necessarily like.
The nice and varied landscapes, with the animals too, ensure a fully enjoyable free exploring.

Kendaric

The setting, I've been a TES fan since TES: Arena.

The fact that ESO allows players to solo much of the game, the amount of activities that players can do.

LukosCreyden

ESO is the definitive Elder Scrolls experience for me. It does almost everything I love about the single player games, but bigger and more. Sure, it has SOME restrictions due to it being an MMO, but honestly I don't really care about things like killing quest NPCs and breaking questlines etc.

Also, ESO has done wonders for the lore of underrepresented races and cultures. Bosmer are no longer "smaller Altmer" and Reachmen are no longer "bandits but with different armor".

Also, due to the game being online, the world feels much more alive, making it more immersive.


This doesn't mean that the single player games have no place for me; there will always be something special and untouchable about exploring in Skyrim with that beautiful music playing. But, ESO does almost everything I love about the series bigger and better.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I must return to complaining about ESO in other threads without delay.

Blood_again

As a fan of Scrolls from TESIII: Morrowind, I anticipated TESO so I could keep the journey in TES universe. If you remember "Back to Tamriel" clip, that's totally what I felt.
From start it was a great extension of Scrolls space and story for me.

On beta test I was delighted with a drop/exp model (in difference from korean mob-stealing hell).
Open world, gathering and crafting were huge advantages.

After some time I also appreciated very comfortable PVP model, veteran content challenges and group activities fun.

One Tamriel made the whole continent replayable and full of life. Despite some strange effects on leveling it was just amazing. It has pushed ESO up so high that I'm looking strange at other MMORPG now... "This is a 20 level set because it drops from 20lvl mobs in newby location"... ew...

Anyway the main aspect is still a nice and attracting universe with a deep lore that makes quests and stories a bit more than just pixels.

Snamyap

ESO is the worst form off MMORPG, except for all the others I tried.

emilyhyoyeon

TES game with great character customization with outfits, housing, etc

AcadianPaladin

ESO is massive, beautiful and single player friendly.

Tensar

Elder Scrolls universe

that's all

colossalvoids

That's the first game that made me appreciate pre-crafted balance and shifted the way I generally play, allowing for enjoyment of group content and pvp. Funny enough it was my way into fromsoftware games bit later and made me replay previous scrolls titles quite differently after.

FeedbackOnly

Tensar wrote: »

Elder Scrolls universe

that's all

What do you like about the universe?

TaSheen

Kendaric wrote: »

The setting, I've been a TES fan since TES: Arena.

The fact that ESO allows players to solo much of the game, the amount of activities that players can do.

Exactly this. I've been playing TES since Arena, ESO was a natural progression since it looks as if TES VI may never happen (or I'll be too old to play it if it does) and ESO has so much stuff to solo for fun that I'm never short of things to do!

isadoraisacat

I never played an mmo before.
I’ve been playing the tes series since high school in the 90s with Daggerfall. I got into the souls games with dark souls 1 and that was my first entry into multiplayer. I was reluctant to play because I have anxiety and I’m not really sure how to act socially. But I decided to give the game a try around when summerset came out. I enjoyed playing solo quests and taking in the lore and world being a tes fan. But since the last year I started playing with others sort of like dark souls playing with people in passing in the zones. Recently I joined guilds and actually play with people in the guilds and it’s a lot of fun.

I like that I can quest solo or play with others.
Overall everyone has been pretty helpful and nice.

I see toxic comments the usual “git gud” type of mindsets in forums but I’m yet to actually see one in game.

I think it’s a great addition to the elder scrolls universe. Once tes 6 comes out it’s going to feel weird going back into a world where living people
Do not exist.

isadoraisacat

TaSheen wrote: »

Kendaric wrote: »

The setting, I've been a TES fan since TES: Arena.

The fact that ESO allows players to solo much of the game, the amount of activities that players can do.

Exactly this. I've been playing TES since Arena, ESO was a natural progression since it looks as if TES VI may never happen (or I'll be too old to play it if it does) and ESO has so much stuff to solo for fun that I'm never short of things to do!

To be honest to be eso feels like a modern day Daggerfall. I think eso is what the team tried to make with Daggerfall but they didn’t have the tech.

A giant map / freedom/ banking / dungeon crawling / min maxing gear / managing stats / tons of lore and stories and now we got a ship for a home . Yeah this is basically modern Daggerfall

Tesman85

Kendaric wrote: »

The setting, I've been a TES fan since TES: Arena.

The fact that ESO allows players to solo much of the game, the amount of activities that players can do.

Pretty much this, except that I started with Daggerfall. It feels like a semi-single player game, which a definite boon for me.

Also: The game is faithful enough to Elder Scrolls lore that it feels like "home", and expands on the lore in ways I like.
The music is lovely, too. I enjoy immensely wandering in the zones, listening to the beautiful tunes.

Most of the stories are at least tolerably well written, some are even very high quality. In fact, some of ESO's writing beats that of Oblivion and Skyrim handily quality-wise.

There are loads of goofy or just generally interesting NPCs in a true Elder Scrolls fashion. The voice acting is also mostly top notch, which adds to the enjoyment. I often just chat with random NPCs if I'm bored with other things.

isadoraisacat

Tesman85 wrote: »

Kendaric wrote: »

The setting, I've been a TES fan since TES: Arena.

The fact that ESO allows players to solo much of the game, the amount of activities that players can do.

Pretty much this, except that I started with Daggerfall. It feels like a semi-single player game, which a definite boon for me.

Also: The game is faithful enough to Elder Scrolls lore that it feels like "home", and expands on the lore in ways I like.
The music is lovely, too. I enjoy immensely wandering in the zones, listening to the beautiful tunes.

Most of the stories are at least tolerably well written, some are even very high quality. In fact, some of ESO's writing beats that of Oblivion and Skyrim handily quality-wise.

There are loads of goofy or just generally interesting NPCs in a true Elder Scrolls fashion. The voice acting is also mostly top notch, which adds to the enjoyment. I often just chat with random NPCs if I'm bored with other things.

The voice acting is so much better than oblivion and Skyrim. Skyrim had like 10 voice actors all doing the same npcs same for oblivion.

I think the clock work city dlc alone writing wise trumps the entire game of Skyrim.

Don’t get me wrong Skyrim is a great sandbox amazing atmosphere and amazing game to play. I’m not a huge oblivion fan tbh it’s my least favorite.

But I’ve been playing since Daggerfall as well and I feel eso is the closest thing we will get to a modern day Daggerfall.

ArchMikem

I found ESO during my Chemotherapy treatments. This game helped save me. It's characters I've made gave me years of comraderie and memories, I hold my girls dearly.

isadoraisacat

ArchMikem wrote: »

I found ESO during my Chemotherapy treatments. This game helped save me. It's characters I've made gave me years of comraderie and memories, I hold my girls dearly.

I hope you are feeling better. Cancer sucks I just lost my grandma to cancer this past month. I wish you well.

FeedbackOnly

ArchMikem wrote: »

I found ESO during my Chemotherapy treatments. This game helped save me. It's characters I've made gave me years of comraderie and memories, I hold my girls dearly.

You say saved so I hope things are well for you! Congratulations

Bobargus

Being able to earn exp and gold, by doing Dark Brotherhood contract missions is what makes ESO special to me.

derkaiserliche

I loved to play oblivion and skyrim and i dont want to miss the world anymore.

When Whiterun and riverwood will be implemented (with a good sized house) i will feel like a child again haha

CardinalJack

Nords and being able to play an Orc Paladin via Templar... unlike WoW....

AllegedParadigm

I love the story I built that started with my main character, and evolved to include them all. The game is full of rich lore and incorporating it into my creative writing has been fun. I never get bored of doing quests and because I started late into eso I still have lots to do.

AzuraFan

It's elder scrolls!

I can solo a lot of the content. It's also easy to join others for "world" events like WBs, harrowstorms, lava vents.

Zones are varied and interesting. (most are gorgeous!)

Lots of customization for character looks and costumes.

Tons of story content.

ArchMikem

isadoraisacat wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

I found ESO during my Chemotherapy treatments. This game helped save me. It's characters I've made gave me years of comraderie and memories, I hold my girls dearly.

I hope you are feeling better. Cancer sucks I just lost my grandma to cancer this past month. I wish you well.

FeedbackOnly wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

I found ESO during my Chemotherapy treatments. This game helped save me. It's characters I've made gave me years of comraderie and memories, I hold my girls dearly. ]

You say saved so I hope things are well for you! Congratulations

I'll be 8 years Cancer Free this September, as well as 8 years an ESO player this August. Time does fly, huh. I also really gotta redo my character portrait with all their current outfits.

Danikat

It's an Elder Scrolls game, and one which has more of Tamriel (and Oblivion) than any single previous game and may eventually include the entire continent.

Yes there's a trade-off in that it's less detailed and many of the maps are smaller than they would be in a single-player game. But the series has been going for almost 30 years and there's entire provinces which haven't been seen since Arena and then we only got bits of each so I'll take what I can get. I like the lore and the world and want to be able to explore as much of it as possible instead of just reading about it in books. Morrowind was my first TES game and as much as I really enjoyed it I found it so frustrating to read about all these other places and be unable to go there.

The fact that it's an MMO is not all that important to me, except that it meant if the game did well it would get more areas added over time and if it did badly it might not be available later on. I was already playing an MMO I'm happy with (and I still am) and wasn't looking for another one but I obviously wasn't opposed to the idea either. Sometimes it's fun to have other people in the world, but I'd play it either way.

WetYoda

• The lack of modern and/or future technology awkwardly infused into a universe in which it doesn't belong.
• The MMORPG gold standard of Tank/Healer/DPS is implemented well.
• I have every style book and almost every dye, and with the millions (billions?) of possible combinations I probably spend more time playing "Barbie" than "adventurer".
• Almost everything has a voiceover.
• The ambient musician and singer NPCs randomly placed throughout the game.

Now if only they'd give us a class change token.

Necrotech_Master

i got into this game because i needed another "big project multiplayer" game i enjoyed after city of heroes/villains was very (unceremoniously) killed off in 2012 and one of the games i picked up in the 18 month period from city of villains closure and eso launch was elder scrolls 5 skyrim

i tried ESO because i really liked the customization and freeform character building with the skills and such, and felt a close analogue to how much customization you could do in city of villains that ive stuck with it (theres still parts that it doesnt replace, like travel powers (i hate mount systems), and some of the costumes are a little bit less flexible on customization)

still here after 9 years lol

merpins

I pre-ordered ESO when I was in high school. It was the first game that I purchased myself. It was the first videogame my wife and I played together before we even started dating; we played the beta together twice before the game was released. We were dating by the time the game came out officially. The game came out about a week after I graduated high school, and the day after I found out I got accepted into my college of choice. Found ESO to be very disappointing on launch, as many did, and waited until One Tamriel released rather than paying for a mandatory sub service. My Wife and I've been playing on and off since release, always coming back for major releases even when we aren't playing much. Last two have been more of a letdown for us, and we haven't played much. But this next one we're hopeful will bring us back again for a while.

TaSheen

merpins wrote: »

I pre-ordered ESO when I was in high school. It was the first game that I purchased myself. It was the first videogame my wife and I played together before we even started dating; we played the beta together twice before the game was released. We were dating by the time the game came out officially. The game came out about a week after I graduated high school, and the day after I found out I got accepted into my college of choice. Found ESO to be very disappointing on launch, as many did, and waited until One Tamriel released rather than paying for a mandatory sub service. My Wife and I've been playing on and off since release, always coming back for major releases even when we aren't playing much. Last two have been more of a letdown for us, and we haven't played much. But this next one we're hopeful will bring us back again for a while.

That's AWESOME. Hope you continue to enjoy this world!

markulrich1966

there is a lot negative I could say, but will focus on the positive respecting the topic.

I took a 4 month break playing Fallout 76, and this actually makes me see positive aspects of ESO again.

Complexity:
at first, F76 was cool, because everything is simple. Not more than 100 different sets, dozend of skill-lines.
Just mod your pew, level up, and you soon can enjoy endgame. No chaos of nerfed sets, wasted millions of gold (caps).
But: what is relaxing at first, quickly gets extremely boring.
I just started a new character in ESO some days ago, and ran wayrest sewers at level 20-30 to get enough pieces of sergeants mail to have a HA build already at this low level. Such a challenge keeps you busy, and you feel "proud" once you reached your goal.

The other major aspect is how PVP is handled. Clear seperation of PVP and PVE in ESO (except events), while in F76 you get slaughtered in trap camps and workshops even if pacifist game-mode is enabled. Even if you just lose a little junk, it sucks as you get confronted with people you experience as "sadistic".

Both issues are the reason why I actually cancelled my F76 sub after just 4 months. Boring and annoying PVP encounters.

Which brings us to the 3rd difference, the community.
Although F76 has very helpfull and friendly players, you also encounter many, who have the main goal of griefing and "destroying" other players. They openly communicate it in channels like facebook. They justify it as "intended by the game" (Raiders/Wasteland scenario).

In ESO, I encounter toxic people only in PVP (that I can skip completely), or sometimes in dungeons, but it does not really annoy me there. So the main impression is that of a very open community, guilds (non-existant in F76), zonechat (none in F76), with players helping players. It is this positive social aspect I really enjoy, the teamplay spirit, and that I missed most during my break. So for now back to ESO, and F76 just for a distraction now and then for events (seasons), to avoid a second "burn out" in ESO.