Speaking for just myself, I couldn't care less what review sites say. A review site does not speak for my enjoyment or lack of enjoyment regarding a game, only I can attest to that, just like only you and others can attest to how THEY like or dislike a game. Take reviews with a grain of salt, I say.

Professional reviews are never as important as the most important question you ask yourself, "Do you enjoy the game?"

https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/games/the-elder-scrolls-online-tamriel-unlimited/cid=UP1003-CUSA00132_00-GAMECLIENT000000

*Again*

Reviews for MMORPGS are an idiotic concept to begin with. They are changing beasts that can only be rated for a specific instant or a specific period of time.
My feelings for ESO have oscillated from 11/10 best game ever to wth is this rotten POS. for the last two years.

To be honest games will get poor reviews at this time ever since it came to light that there was a lot more 'back room work' between the reviewers and game developers. If you look at some of the recent reviews, let's say in the past twelve months, you will find that there have been a lot of 'average' games. The only games that have got really good reviews are the same copy and paste games that come out every year.

Don't get me wrong I'm not saying ESO is perfect, there is always room to improve any game, but I can't trust a lot of online reviews anymore.i mean come on how can you trust reviewers that will come out and say games like Call of Duty and Madden are great and give them a 8/10 or 9/10. When those games are nearly the same as the previous year, apart from a bit of touching up of graphics.

What I find funny, is more often than not, reviewers aren't all that good at the games they review. In fact, I wonder if they are very good at games in general.

In the gamespot review he mentioned having to go to cyrodiil to level. My instant reaction to that was "lol wut?"

Absolutely. But when you often have to return to that portion of the game just to properly level up, it becomes a hair-pulling time-sink.

You're doing it wrong Mr.Reviewerguy. At level 23 I've come to drop quests because I've become over leveled for them, and with 3 and a half zones on the map in front of me, I don't think I will be having any issues getting to 50 at the pace I am going. I dunno how the vet levels work, but I imagine they cannot be too different from what I am doing.

It mentioned some relics of the past within the game that we supposedly have moved past. As a player from that past, I cannot always say that what is newer is 'always' better. The mmo genre has seen some changes for convenience that more or less destroyed what mmo's originally were.

I see this review as little more than a disgruntled player who doesn't really know what they are doing, so they are only making it harder on themselves. Instead of problem solving or thinking about what they should be doing, ratehr than writing a thread to complain, they wrote a review to complain. lol

Personally, I give the game an 8/10. It's pretty good. It needs work, yes, but then again have you seen world of warcraft lately? I think I'll stay right here.

The problems with most 'professional reviewers' is that they never have enough time to actually play OR enjoy the game because they have to move on to the next review. Also, just like in movie reviews, the reviewer has a favorite genre, and anything outside of that, they have trouble connecting with... which is why I've never understood how they can have critics who clearly don't enjoy certain types of movies, actually review them without bias.

DDuke wrote: »

For sake of discussion, here's the user score according to Metacritic:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-elder-scrolls-online-tamriel-unlimited

And here is the other roughly 90% of ratings from before the name was changed and the Tamriel Unlimited re-release was classified as a separate game:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-elder-scrolls-online

Opinions are like perceptions - quite subjective. Critics are only offering their opinion. I stopped reading critic reviews when Street Fighter routinely outscored Mortal Kombat in reviews. In my opinion, Mortal Kombat was always the more enjoyable, better made game. I hate Street Fighter. If I were to score SF4, I'd give it 3/10 - whereas I'd give MK9 8/10. Yet the critics all scored SF4 9/10. In this example, the critics were wrong - in my opinion.

In the OPs example, the critics are wrong. This is a stellar MMORPG. I've played these games to end game and maxed out the tradeskills in each one: EQ2, DCUO, WoW, Aion, TERA and GW2. They were all great games. I'd still be playing them if they were better than ESO. Also, I could play any of the current online games but I'm here playing ESO because it's my favourite. So I'd score ESO 9/10.

Just got it a week ago and while I have a fair bit of nitpicks (Crashing, looping load screens, lua errors, Chat switching channels on it's own between zones, enemies sometimes respawn way too fast, Wizards seem more like supporters rather than proper glass cannon DPS and the Ebonheart pact starting city needs a dye station) I love the game. It's my crack. I had friends reccomend me to it as well. Everyone I talk to loves it and so do I.

Who cares what reviewers say?

TheBull wrote: »

Amsel_McKay wrote: »

DDuke wrote: »

For sake of discussion, here's the user score according to Metacritic:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-elder-scrolls-online-tamriel-unlimited

I lol at the games on metacritic with better scores the ESO... In short you will soon realize that its a bad site to follow...

Not many games have a better user score than 9.2.

Not even ESO it seems...

http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/the-elder-scrolls-online-tamriel-unlimited (73 meta, 8.1 user)
http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-elder-scrolls-online (71 meta, 5.7 user)
http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-one/the-elder-scrolls-online-tamriel-unlimited (77 meta, 8.8 user)

The reviews are pretty accurate, if a bit myopic in their scope.

ESO is not a bad game, but it's not a great game. I think most posters agree that it has the potential and is *almost* there, but it hasn't quite gotten past the last hurdle to greatness. Most people's introduction to TES is from Morrowind, Oblivion, or Skyrim, and those were PHENOMENAL games. Most people expected ESO to be an acorn off that tree, and maybe it is, but that acorn has not flourished quite yet. I think once Zeni gets past having Sybil as their primary product director, the game will improve.

Seriously, judging by the reviews mentioned by the OP I strongly beleive that the so called authors today base their results on a magic eight ball.

I'm definitely not indicating that this game is flawless, I however enjoy it very much.

With that said, by all means, cross reference any game you've played with other reviews by the same authors and see what kind of results you'll get...