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Are you playing for the TES or the MMO?
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GreySix✭✭✭✭✭
✭Both!
Purchased two copies and two subscriptions so my wife and I could play cooperatively completely through a TES game.Nox_Aeterna wrote: »I played my share of MMOs , i would not have touched this game if it was not about TES lore here.
Sadly, cannot do so with ESO. Perhaps someday...Crotchety Old Man Guild
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CaffeinatedMayhem✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭I'm playing for the TES!Purchased two copies and two subscriptions so my wife and I could play cooperatively completely through a TES game.
Sadly, cannot do so with ESO. Perhaps someday...
Not sure why you can't play together. This is exactly what my husband and I do. We make sure our characters stay in sync, but that's the only drawback.0 -
Elencha✭✭✭I'm playing for the TES!@thatlaurachick This is what my boyfriend and I do. You don't find it annoying as all get out when it's time to head to the harborage? It takes me twice as long to accomplish these quests as it does him. And I hate that he always has to turn it into a competition. "Oh, I did it without dying." or "I didn't think it was hard..." These things make me want to kick him...2
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GreySix✭✭✭✭✭
✭Both!thatlaurachick wrote: »Purchased two copies and two subscriptions so my wife and I could play cooperatively completely through a TES game.
Sadly, cannot do so with ESO. Perhaps someday...
Not sure why you can't play together. This is exactly what my husband and I do. We make sure our characters stay in sync, but that's the only drawback.
Cannot cooperatively play the main story instances, the Fighters Guild instances, or the Mages Guild instances. All of those are solo-only.Crotchety Old Man Guild
"Hey you, get off my lawn!"0 -
CaffeinatedMayhem✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭I'm playing for the TES!@Elencha It is annoying but we compare notes over boss fights. I do more DPS than his bathrobe wearing Imperial, but he heals himself more and therefore dies less.0 -
Lunerdog✭✭✭✭✭Squirrel!Voted for the squirrel as I came for the TES but seem to playing an MSO (Massively Single Player Online) for most of the time.
I shall now go and polish my nuts
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CaffeinatedMayhem✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭I'm playing for the TES!Cannot cooperatively play the main story instances, the Fighters Guild instances, or the Mages Guild instances. All of those are solo-only.
True, but it's less than 5% of your game time. Yes, they are difficult fights, but I still count it as "together" time because we play simultaneously and give the other person tips if they are having trouble.0 -
GreySix✭✭✭✭✭
✭Both!thatlaurachick wrote: »Cannot cooperatively play the main story instances, the Fighters Guild instances, or the Mages Guild instances. All of those are solo-only.
True, but it's less than 5% of your game time. Yes, they are difficult fights, but I still count it as "together" time because we play simultaneously and give the other person tips if they are having trouble.
Yeah, that's a work-around - not cooperative play. And in no way, shape or form should the main story in an MMO be solo-only. That is an egregious fail on the part of the ESO developers.Crotchety Old Man Guild
"Hey you, get off my lawn!"0 -
Elencha✭✭✭I'm playing for the TES!@thatlaurachick LOL My boyfriend is a bathrobe wearing Dark Elf. but he does more damage and heals more effectively. Most of my points are in crafting. I lament that I didn't make that character a NightBlade because I truly fail at playing a DragonKnight. Not to mention, he's an MMO player from way back. I'm a lifelong single-player RPG gamer. I only just got over the lack of cheat codes. Sadly, I have never been great at video games, but it isn't because I haven't been playing them more or less nonstop for nearly thirty years. Hand-eye coordination just isn't my thing...
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Enkil✭✭✭✭✭
✭Both!I came for both but I'm only staying because it's Elder Scrolls. It feels like a beta still and many of the MMO features need major work.2 -
LordEcks✭✭✭Both!thatlaurachick wrote: »Cannot cooperatively play the main story instances, the Fighters Guild instances, or the Mages Guild instances. All of those are solo-only.
True, but it's less than 5% of your game time. Yes, they are difficult fights, but I still count it as "together" time because we play simultaneously and give the other person tips if they are having trouble.
Yeah, that's a work-around - not cooperative play. And in no way, shape or form should the main story in an MMO be solo-only. That is an egregious fail on the part of the ESO developers.
Gotta agree with Thatlaurachick on this one....
I play with my significant other and really those quests lines come around about once every 10 levels... and generally take 10-20 minutes at most to complete. The other 15+ hours or so we're questing together the whole time.Elencha wrote:This is what my boyfriend and I do. You don't find it annoying as all get out when it's time to head to the harborage? It takes me twice as long to accomplish these quests as it does him. And I hate that he always has to turn it into a competition. "Oh, I did it without dying." or "I didn't think it was hard..." These things make me want to kick him...
I LOL'd. I think I am somewhat guilty of this as well. My girlfriend usually watches my screen to see where I go / what I do, but most of the time she can't keep up or may end up dying. Its not like I intentionally race against her though, but I'm sure she feels something to nature of that
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Karnus✭✭✭✭Squirrel!Squirrel = Using ESO as a tool to facilitate a delusional fantasy world that exists partly in the game but mostly in my head. :'(
Formerly Karnus, the Marauder in Warhammer.1 -
Sakiri✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Both!thatlaurachick wrote: »Purchased two copies and two subscriptions so my wife and I could play cooperatively completely through a TES game.
Sadly, cannot do so with ESO. Perhaps someday...
Not sure why you can't play together. This is exactly what my husband and I do. We make sure our characters stay in sync, but that's the only drawback.
Main story and guild quests are forced solo. Thus, cannot coop completely. He wants to be glued to her 100% of the time.
While I think its excessive, he has a point.1 -
Sakiri✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Both!@thatlaurachick LOL My boyfriend is a bathrobe wearing Dark Elf. but he does more damage and heals more effectively. Most of my points are in crafting. I lament that I didn't make that character a NightBlade because I truly fail at playing a DragonKnight. Not to mention, he's an MMO player from way back. I'm a lifelong single-player RPG gamer. I only just got over the lack of cheat codes. Sadly, I have never been great at video games, but it isn't because I haven't been playing them more or less nonstop for nearly thirty years. Hand-eye coordination just isn't my thing...
Ive been playing them nonstop foe 30 years and Im legally blind with the coordination of a tightrope walking elephant >.>
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Elencha✭✭✭I'm playing for the TES!thatlaurachick wrote: »Cannot cooperatively play the main story instances, the Fighters Guild instances, or the Mages Guild instances. All of those are solo-only.
True, but it's less than 5% of your game time. Yes, they are difficult fights, but I still count it as "together" time because we play simultaneously and give the other person tips if they are having trouble.
Yeah, that's a work-around - not cooperative play. And in no way, shape or form should the main story in an MMO be solo-only. That is an egregious fail on the part of the ESO developers.
Gotta agree with Thatlaurachick on this one....
I play with my significant other and really those quests lines come around about once every 10 levels... and generally take 10-20 minutes at most to complete. The other 15+ hours or so we're questing together the whole time.Elencha wrote:This is what my boyfriend and I do. You don't find it annoying as all get out when it's time to head to the harborage? It takes me twice as long to accomplish these quests as it does him. And I hate that he always has to turn it into a competition. "Oh, I did it without dying." or "I didn't think it was hard..." These things make me want to kick him...
I LOL'd. I think I am somewhat guilty of this as well. My girlfriend usually watches my screen to see where I go / what I do, but most of the time she can't keep up or may end up dying. Its not like I intentionally race against her though, but I'm sure she feels something to nature of that
They happen way too often, in my opinion, even if they really only took ten to twenty minutes. This is the case for him. The rest of the forty minutes to an hour that they take me, he's hovering over my shoulder with the, "Why didn't you..." and the "Oh, see that's why I said you need to put less skill points in crafting." and the "I just..."
Backseat driving isn't sexy. I don't think he means to be competitive either. He just likes bragging.2 -
Sakiri✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Both!thatlaurachick wrote: »Cannot cooperatively play the main story instances, the Fighters Guild instances, or the Mages Guild instances. All of those are solo-only.
True, but it's less than 5% of your game time. Yes, they are difficult fights, but I still count it as "together" time because we play simultaneously and give the other person tips if they are having trouble.
Yeah, that's a work-around - not cooperative play. And in no way, shape or form should the main story in an MMO be solo-only. That is an egregious fail on the part of the ESO developers.
Gotta agree with Thatlaurachick on this one....
I play with my significant other and really those quests lines come around about once every 10 levels... and generally take 10-20 minutes at most to complete. The other 15+ hours or so we're questing together the whole time.Elencha wrote:This is what my boyfriend and I do. You don't find it annoying as all get out when it's time to head to the harborage? It takes me twice as long to accomplish these quests as it does him. And I hate that he always has to turn it into a competition. "Oh, I did it without dying." or "I didn't think it was hard..." These things make me want to kick him...
I LOL'd. I think I am somewhat guilty of this as well. My girlfriend usually watches my screen to see where I go / what I do, but most of the time she can't keep up or may end up dying. Its not like I intentionally race against her though, but I'm sure she feels something to nature of that
They happen way too often, in my opinion, even if they really only took ten to twenty minutes. This is the case for him. The rest of the forty minutes to an hour that they take me, he's hovering over my shoulder with the, "Why didn't you..." and the "Oh, see that's why I said you need to put less skill points in crafting." and the "I just..."
Backseat driving isn't sexy. I don't think he means to be competitive either. He just likes bragging.
Ask him if he thinks hes so hot to go do last fighters guild quest at 30.
Lemme know if he does it. Usually guys hate when a girl one ups him.
If he can actually prove doing it at 30 hes got me beat by 1, and I have video.0 -
Lovely✭✭✭Both!thatlaurachick wrote: »Not sure why you can't play together. This is exactly what my husband and I do. We make sure our characters stay in sync, but that's the only drawback.
I guess because there are parts that force you solo. If his wife for example was stuck at one of those bosses, though luck. My guy raged over some of these (Lyris Doppelganger comes to mind), if only I could've been allowed to help him
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Rosveen✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭I'm playing for the TES!I came for TES. I'm enjoying the multiplayer side more than I thought I would, but it's still TES that's holding me here.0 -
Khenarthi✭✭✭✭✭
✭I'm playing for the TES!I came for the TES as well. Meeting other people is (usually) a nice added bonus but I still play it mostly solo.PC-EU0 -
Elencha✭✭✭I'm playing for the TES!@Sakiri I'm gonna tell him. He's not uber-leet or anything, though. I think that's why it's important for him to be better than me. Also, nice to know lack of coordination isn't something with which I alone have been cursed.
^^This, but in reverse. I hate the forced group stuff and the forced solo stuff. It makes little sense to me that he can help me with easy stuff but not with Doshia and Mannimarco.thatlaurachick wrote: »Not sure why you can't play together. This is exactly what my husband and I do. We make sure our characters stay in sync, but that's the only drawback.
I guess because there are parts that force you solo. If his wife for example was stuck at one of those bosses, though luck. My guy raged over some of these (Lyris Doppelganger comes to mind), if only I could've been allowed to help him
Also, this. I fought kicking and screaming against joining a guild at all, but now that I have, I freakin' love those guys. I expected aggravating, elitist jerks or obnoxious overgrown children. On the contrary, our guild is full of awesome humans. Alleged, humans. They might just be too cool for humans. Not a snotty, cliquey, or immature one among them that I've met so far.I came for TES. I'm enjoying the multiplayer side more than I thought I would, but it's still TES that's holding me here.
I still don't do group stuff except with the boyfriend because I don't ever want to be the one causes a group to wipe. That and I'm morally opposed to the trinity. My character is a whole person and she will not be pigeon-holed into some cookie-cutter role even if it means she will never see the inside of Craglorn.1 -
I'm playing for the TES!I would've never gotten the game if it weren't for the TES aspect in it. But after playing it for about a month or two, I'm pretty fed up with the game now. I've had my fun, and we finally learned a bit more about the second era, but I feel a bit bored of the game most of the time now. Some of the things that they have in the game don't really make it as TES-ish as I want it to be, they always have to tweak stuff or change things to make sure that the MMO part of the game doesn't get compromised. I miss my levitation, water walking, reflecting and all of that other good stuff.
So in short, I don't think I'll be playing this game again until they add a lot of new story content (probably gonna take a year or so) that can keep me busy for a while again. The only reason I got the game is because of the story, I have absolutely 0 interest in PvP or dungeon grinding.0 -
poodlemasterb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭thatlaurachick wrote: »Not sure why you can't play together. This is exactly what my husband and I do. We make sure our characters stay in sync, but that's the only drawback.
I guess because there are parts that force you solo. If his wife for example was stuck at one of those bosses, though luck. My guy raged over some of these (Lyris Doppelganger comes to mind), if only I could've been allowed to help him
Dropped 'big sparky' 4 times on that fool, last time, with my Vampire Witch. Abner is better. I have taken both through there. Lyris spends a lot of time looking in the wrong direction and standing around. I like the quest, both ends are no big deal, but the middle ...0 -
Elencha✭✭✭I'm playing for the TES!I can relate to some of what you're feeling there, Matt. I'm a bit disillusioned about the nerfs to stealth and the over-emphasis on in-your-face combat.
In previous games, I felt I had options on ways to complete quests. In this one, it's fetch and /or fight. There are a few nods to creativity in the quests on occasion, but not as many as I'd like. The puzzles are too easy, presumably because it is believed that a large portion of the player base would freak if the puzzles were complex.
In previous games, I could afford to be a bit of a glass cannon because I was super-sneaky and hella-good with a bow if I had the time to properly aim and power a shot. Having to balance PvP means the way I like to play simply can't be allowed, I guess. It's one thing to allow me to one-shot an NPC, but allowing such a thing to happen to another player would result in gnashing of teeth. Irony being that I have zero interest in PvP, so it wouldn't be an issue for me.
All that being said however, I've mostly learned to love it for what it is. I'm still chomping at the bit for the new Dragon Age, but I won't stop playing ESO unless they state categorically that they aren't going to release any new content that isn't PvP and doesn't force groups.0 -
sylviermoone✭✭✭✭✭Squirrel!I wish "look, shiny thing!!" Was an option, but I'll vote for squirrel. Frequently while questing, I get distracted by a flower, or rune, or wood, or whatever, so squirell fits me.
I came to this game for the TES. Never played an MMO, but am enjoying trading with people, and the random chats I've had that have lead to in game friends, which has lead to questing and crafting buddies.
At this point, I am here for both.Co-GM, Angry Unicorn Traders: PC/NA
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