I wouldn't say that I'd quit right away. Having had good fun playing previous games in the Elder Scrolls universe, I would certainly look into a similar game made by the same people. Even play a trial of it, however that doesn't mean that it would be all that great.
I'm sure we've all seem many "new" games by old designers that turn out to be the same thing we've all played before, just with a new front.

Yes, I came here for different reasons.

I had a long post of my story typed out but then remembered that no one really cares.

Obviously not.

This kind of poll has been made in this forum many times anyway.

The only good of the game is the TES universe on it. Very far from TES universe standards but its quite ok.

This exact game not having ELDER SCROLLS in the name,would have last 5 months.

To say another thing is just to avoid reality.

Maybe Bethesda and 3-way PVP might have drawn me in. I was quite happy in Rift before ESO, its probably one hell of a game after all those Expansions now, but Ive no regrets to switch from Rift to ESO. Im sure this was the right call.

If it still had a race similar in appearance to the Argonians, yes

For me, it is hard to say. I have been playing Elder Scrolls since Morrowind and Tamriel is like a comfortable pair of jeans at this point.

Guild Wars 2 has enough lore and story, but it has not been able to replace ES where I expected that it might. I suspect that it is mainly due to the more prevalent use of place names that are hard to spell and say, and are thus more difficult to remember. This would be something very specific to the native language of the player, obviously. In my case, as a native English speaker, the references in Guild Wars 2 are too hard to remember so, even though there is lore there, I feel disconnected from it because I cannot remember it easily.

Warcraft has a ton of lore, probably several cargo ships more than Elder Scrolls, but World of Warcraft does not make me want to find out what that is. A friend of mine followed all the lore and dug into it all in order to find out why the player was led through quests and what it all meant. He could not get that from the game, and it is hard to tell from inside the game that the lore runs that deep. Warcraft has the lore but fails to present it in a manner that has an impact. It is not that the lore is hard to remember, it is just that it is not an important part of playing the game. As an example, I did not know what an "Azeroth" was for a lot longer than I should have. The trailer for Draenor had lore in it that was lost on me, even though I had played the game for years.

There are other example games, but two are enough.

Elder Scrolls is done in a manner where the lore of the world seems to matter, and it is not unusual for it to be presented in a way that pushes it and makes me want to know more. It is presented from a number of different positions, from quest givers, to random people on the street, to books, which always makes me feel like everyone else knows what is going on, or what has been going on, in the world. It is that feeling that I am missing something that drives me to find out what it is. The lore is presented in really small, but frequent, bites, which means that as I progress through the game, I am picking it up almost constantly. The series does a very good job of presenting the lore like the air around us. It is just always there, even if we don't see it, and we can get as much, or as little, lore as we want.

ESO upholds all of that, and goes one step further by creating a means by which all the lore in the whole series is available in the game, ensuring that even people who are new to Elder Scrolls will be able to pick up on all of the lore. As much as some people complain about "books from the future" being dropped everywhere, I do think that this is important for ESO, and if I was new to the Elder Scrolls universe with ESO, I think I would latch onto it for that reason.

I feel the game would be in a better state pvp wise if it wasn´t an elder scrolls game - they might have actually focused on that part.

The only, I repeat, The ONLY reason I'm here is because it's Elder Scrolls.

i have played MMO's for a long time, i have played 2-3 of the ES games before this and loved them. So when an MMO that was based on ES came out i jumped at it, played some in beta, and at release, left for about 6 months and then came back . I would have tried it at least if i had never heard of ES just for the look of the game. As much as i like it i think i would still play even if it werent based on ES.

babylon wrote: »

This is a strange question because if it wasn't based on the Elder Scrolls Universe, it would be a different game entirely. There's no way to know my answer...but my bet is no because it most likely just wouldn't be as good a game if it hadn't been done by these guys in this universe.

This!

If I had know back when I came to game a few months ago how unknown the direction of this game is, I would never have invested in it anyways.

For how hard it's trying not to be an MMO, it's still failing utterly hard at that.

TES stories have consequence. They have choice.

ESO has no consequences and the only choice you have in ESO is your starting zone, character and class.

Acharnor wrote: »

Totally would - Love this game SO MUCH!

That is the sad part. I would not have tried the game, but I probably still would have enjoyed it if I had given it a shot.

I wouldn't have cared about it had it not been Elder Scrolls. In love with this series since I first played Morrowind.

DaveMoeDee wrote: »

I've never played any other MMOs and I would not have played this one.

Not that I haven't been interested in trying MMOs before. I had heard so many good things about GW2 at launch that I considered trying that in the past. I actually installed WoW like last week just because it gets mentioned so much here and I tried the initial quests for a few minutes. Geez, what a horrible UI. I am assuming that the newer expansions clean the game up. I liked Warcraft 3 a lot so I thought I might enjoy the WoW story, but it is hard to get past that UI and the dated graphics.

It is likely that I would have returned to solely playing single player games if I wasn't looking forward to visiting all the other zones in Tamriel.

Elektrakosh wrote: »

No. It said Elder Scrolls in the title and I had been duped. Loved the character creation though 10/10 for that. Story was good, lovely scenery got to meet some creatures of lore and I thought it would have some freedom like single player games only with a multiplayer element. In this game I have found that you have to rely on others to help you. The classes are restrictive and so are some racial passives especially if you want a great avatar that can manage enemies. This is my first and last MMO I will ever play as I never knew how MMOs played. I prefer single player gameplay due to having more freedom in your abilities. I made a mistake and boy, did I pay for it.

First MMO and Firor says he can turn you into an online gamer with ESO.
It’s really up to you to figure out how you want to play it, as we don’t enforce a play style one way or the other. In fact, ESO has been super-successful at taking gamers not used to massive online games, introducing them to the concepts of group play by making it fun and optional, and turning them into online gamers.


I also don't know what game he is playing but I had to pick a play style when I created my toon.

WalkingLegacy wrote: »

DaveMoeDee wrote: »

I've never played any other MMOs and I would not have played this one.

Not that I haven't been interested in trying MMOs before. I had heard so many good things about GW2 at launch that I considered trying that in the past. I actually installed WoW like last week just because it gets mentioned so much here and I tried the initial quests for a few minutes. Geez, what a horrible UI. I am assuming that the newer expansions clean the game up. I liked Warcraft 3 a lot so I thought I might enjoy the WoW story, but it is hard to get past that UI and the dated graphics.

It is likely that I would have returned to solely playing single player games if I wasn't looking forward to visiting all the other zones in Tamriel.

Elektrakosh wrote: »

No. It said Elder Scrolls in the title and I had been duped. Loved the character creation though 10/10 for that. Story was good, lovely scenery got to meet some creatures of lore and I thought it would have some freedom like single player games only with a multiplayer element. In this game I have found that you have to rely on others to help you. The classes are restrictive and so are some racial passives especially if you want a great avatar that can manage enemies. This is my first and last MMO I will ever play as I never knew how MMOs played. I prefer single player gameplay due to having more freedom in your abilities. I made a mistake and boy, did I pay for it.

First MMO and Firor says he can turn you into an online gamer with ESO.
It’s really up to you to figure out how you want to play it, as we don’t enforce a play style one way or the other. In fact, ESO has been super-successful at taking gamers not used to massive online games, introducing them to the concepts of group play by making it fun and optional, and turning them into online gamers.


I also don't know what game he is playing but I had to pick a play style when I created my toon.

It's more like - we don't enforce a play style one way or the other if you don't care about being competitive after every major update.