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Came Back, again
VShane
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SO I was outta here for a bit playing BDO. Fished, mob grind, built a fishing boat (you can probably build a real one faster in RL) got lots of Silver (their version of gold really) etc.... exploration was fun, being able to climb was the coolest thing imo. Its like micromanaged crafting there, pretty environment.
Don't really want to type what everyone has said already....
Quite honestly with everything to do and explore, for me, it felt HOLLOW. Not sure what it is, even laid off it a couple days, went back and threw my character off a mountain that I climbed for an hour. Just nothing.....
ESO truly has a soul full feeling. When I signed back into here, there was atmosphere, and it FELT good to play here. I haven't re-subbed yet, like everyone else, I've been here since Beta on and off, but you know what, through all of them (LOTRO/GW2/SWTOR/AOC/CO/DCUO/POE/Def/Rift/NWO/STO) I gravitate back here again. Its amazing to me that an MMO creates a full bodied feeling of experience, tangible and I hope it keeps it up.
I will always dip my toe in other water, or check how green the grass is over there, not sure what it is, but the mixture of sensory experience here is very unique.
(WOW lasted all of 3 hours on my computer before I uninstalled it couple years ago)
I enjoy this community and may your armor be detailed, and your weapon shiny!
Don't really want to type what everyone has said already....
Quite honestly with everything to do and explore, for me, it felt HOLLOW. Not sure what it is, even laid off it a couple days, went back and threw my character off a mountain that I climbed for an hour. Just nothing.....
ESO truly has a soul full feeling. When I signed back into here, there was atmosphere, and it FELT good to play here. I haven't re-subbed yet, like everyone else, I've been here since Beta on and off, but you know what, through all of them (LOTRO/GW2/SWTOR/AOC/CO/DCUO/POE/Def/Rift/NWO/STO) I gravitate back here again. Its amazing to me that an MMO creates a full bodied feeling of experience, tangible and I hope it keeps it up.
I will always dip my toe in other water, or check how green the grass is over there, not sure what it is, but the mixture of sensory experience here is very unique.
(WOW lasted all of 3 hours on my computer before I uninstalled it couple years ago)
I enjoy this community and may your armor be detailed, and your weapon shiny!
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Volkodav✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭I do this too,for some reason.Wondering if there is another one like ESO,where it feels like "home".And it does.It's always like coming home every time I come inworld.
Neither can I explain what it is.
The actually engulfing feeling of the waves lapping,or coming in.The thunder just before a downpour,or just walking into the bank in Vulkhel Guard and hearing all the people moving and talking. And each place had its own atmosphere and people. Khenarthi's Roost has that warm beach and pirates feel.While Bleakrock has that Viking thing going on.Makes me want to put on a sweater at times.
So,in the end,I give up and come back to ESO.I cant even make a full evening's gameplay in another game.Other than Morrowind,anyway.2 -
VShane✭✭✭Ah sunsets on Stros Mkai, they totally nailed that summer evening feel, and I've been startled a couple times (not inebriated or high or anything) when been so engrossed, for a split second, there it is, I briefly feel the temperature and smells, then I'm like wtf? And I snap back and its gone as quick as it came. Granted this can be experienced with anything when you've "forgotten yourself", but I find its the only game that has ever given me that suspension of disbelief with its environment effects and detail.2
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Dromede✭✭✭✭The game is wicked beautiful. I have the same feeling about Auridon (all my chars are AD). Gorgeous blooming trees, waterfalls, weird platos that are extremely challenging to climb but so rewarding to camp at. I just love random arcs on main roads. Makes you feel like ther's order in Aldmeri Dominion as this Altmer zone is so well organized, they bothered to put sidewalk bars all over it
Oh, and that quest with an old lady who lost 4 children and asks to visit their graves makes me feel the feels everytime. I did it on every single one of my characters
Hope she's doing well, and i'll see her soon as i'm levelling a new dk tank toon 
Edited by Dromede on April 8, 2016 7:14AMSkye Cloude - Sorc DPS, Master Crafter. Main, the bestest
Lae Lenne - Templar Healer Trial grade.
Dromede - Stamina Nightblade, she's a newb and doesn't know what she's doing
V'oghatta - Stamplar pretending to be a tank
Ulville Thonvella - aspiring Fire Mage, be careful around her fire sticks!
Dromedaris - lost and not found. Named after a shoe, what else can you expect from her? A proper tank in her wildest dreams
Swims-Naked - too pretty to grind, too silly to quest.
Sun Flair - Dunmer Templar that can't spell for life. To bad she's too broke to afford a name change... Well, at least she's pretty...4 -
VShane✭✭✭OH man no kidding! I do that one for every Alt as well, I have kids that just don't get in touch as often as they could, when you miss that chance to connect its before the curtain call, its painful (I am second to last in my core family ,10 members in 12 years).0
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waterfairy✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭To each their own but I don't know what skooma you're sipping to prefer this over something as impressive looking as Black Desert. I can only comment from the outside as I only know what a friend has showed me but it looks leagues above this game (no offense ZoS).
My love for TES and being on console are the only reasons I play this game but if I were on pc I would likely prefer BDO or that other fancy looking flying mmo.
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Bananko✭✭✭✭TESO is indeed among the most beautiful looking MMO's I'd ever played and I've tried many MMO's over the years (I'm old
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And from an emotional and narrative standpoint, Legacy of Baelborne Rock is among the best quests I'd ever played in any MMO, particularly if the "good" path is chosen. 0 -
Amos✭✭yeah its a great game, i tried alot of other games to get a good "feel" but i just couldn't get hooked. I think its the fact that the game (at least for me) runs very smooth and feels like it has no lag at all (there is obvious lag sometimes but i find it forgivable). It also feels like everyone is voice acted amongst the npc's which gives the game more life and the quests are just catchy i.e you just wanna do them. Maybe its the setting as well? not really cartoony, not overbearingly colorfull or grey/brown, it's just right and looks amazing (stros m'kai is my favorite destination so far). Out of some of the games that i tried like b&s, bdo, swtor, gw this one was the only one that hooked me.3 -
Cadbury✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Personally, BDO felt like a sequel to Archeage to me. Like a prettier version of it.
I found B&S to be a more engaging KRMMO in comparison"If a person is truly desirous of something, perhaps being set on fire does not seem so bad."1 -
Cadbury✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭WalkingLegacy wrote: »Elder Scrolls games before ESO help with the emotional attachment for ESO.
Most media works like that, with the prior entry bolstering the next."If a person is truly desirous of something, perhaps being set on fire does not seem so bad."0 -
Bananko✭✭✭✭As was mentioned, the fact that every NPC is voiced to some extent really lends to the immersion, which makes it difficult to now go back to older MMO's (and even to some more recent ones like FFXIV) and have to read blocks of NPC dialogue.1
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To each their own but I don't know what skooma you're sipping to prefer this over something as impressive looking as Black Desert. I can only comment from the outside as I only know what a friend has showed me but it looks leagues above this game (no offense ZoS).
My love for TES and being on console are the only reasons I play this game but if I were on pc I would likely prefer BDO or that other fancy looking flying mmo.
BDO looks better but that's it. Don't let pretty screenshots fool you.0 -
a1i3nz✭✭✭✭Great game if your a PVE only player. Middle finger to the rest of us over and over via lag and imbalancing. Still playing it though, praying that they start regular maintenance instead of making us wait months for fixes.0 -
waterfairy✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭JonTheBarbarian wrote: »BDO looks better but that's it. Don't let pretty screenshots fool you.
I can't really comment but I can say that the character creation is obviously better and I like the look of the combat with collision and combos.
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Malmai✭✭✭✭✭
✭SO I was outta here for a bit playing BDO. Fished, mob grind, built a fishing boat (you can probably build a real one faster in RL) got lots of Silver (their version of gold really) etc.... exploration was fun, being able to climb was the coolest thing imo. Its like micromanaged crafting there, pretty environment.
Don't really want to type what everyone has said already....
Quite honestly with everything to do and explore, for me, it felt HOLLOW. Not sure what it is, even laid off it a couple days, went back and threw my character off a mountain that I climbed for an hour. Just nothing.....
ESO truly has a soul full feeling. When I signed back into here, there was atmosphere, and it FELT good to play here. I haven't re-subbed yet, like everyone else, I've been here since Beta on and off, but you know what, through all of them (LOTRO/GW2/SWTOR/AOC/CO/DCUO/POE/Def/Rift/NWO/STO) I gravitate back here again. Its amazing to me that an MMO creates a full bodied feeling of experience, tangible and I hope it keeps it up.
I will always dip my toe in other water, or check how green the grass is over there, not sure what it is, but the mixture of sensory experience here is very unique.
(WOW lasted all of 3 hours on my computer before I uninstalled it couple years ago)
I enjoy this community and may your armor be detailed, and your weapon shiny!
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craybest✭✭✭✭✭i think it has a lot to do with feeling "at home". to me, home is still GW2. But it might be changing for ESO if i keep playing, because i have loved ut so far...
i never really get into MMOs at first, because of the same sensation, but after a while I start ti get interested.
that being said I think both gw2 and eso are amazing MMOs, much better than Neverwinter, the one I was playing before... i cant believe i played that fir so long.1 -
Florial✭✭✭I really enjoy ESO and will stay subbed for the time being. Many of the games the OP listed, I've played. Several of those games grabbed me and kept me engaged for several years at least. There is no crime in trying different things out. With that said, I'm also playing BDO along side ESO. Will it be a game that engages me for years? Not sure yet. Probably not but I haven't played long enough to reach an informed decision. I haven't encountered the PvP nature of the game being so low level. Also don't like the lack of a good story, excellent voice acting and frankly the community really is vile, at least on the my server. Also don't care much for the energy system but can understand why it is in the game. Better than ArcheAge at least (in my opinion of course).
With that said though, a game like BDO or ArcheAge do many things right. I do wish that there was a Western MMO that has all the activities I've encountered in BDO. I find the plethora of things to do overwhelming and very engaging. I have to admit that I haven't logged into ESO for a week now and am doing so today to keep up with sales in my trade guilds. I would love to see some of those ideas in a game like ESO. As much as I love ESO, sometimes I feel that there isn't much to do outside of combat and quests. Ship building and exploration of the seas (I'm still building my ferry in BDO so can't comment yet on the exploration part), horse taming, farming, housing, trade, conversation with NPCs to open up quests, shops, better fishing system, etc. I really, really like how many things are done in BDO and that is really keeping me engaged. I haven't even leveled up my main who sits at 26 I think. I'm so interested in all there is to do. I think that ESO could also add some of this stuff into their game. Not a clone of BDO of course but the sky is really the limit in making this game more sandboxy.
My dream---probably not a realistic one---is to have a game like ESO but with a huge number of side activities in a sandboxy game like BDO or even AA. With housing coming hopefully this year, wouldn't it be great to have an engaging housing system? I would love to build interesting stuff with my crafting abilities and then to furnish to my heart's content with long and short term goals in mind.
Anyway, off to work on my mage a bit in ESO however I am feeling the call to chop down more trees to finish my ferry. Then gotta go tame my first horse!
And welcome back OP! It will be interesting to see how BDO fares in months to come. Really curious. And I do agree with you, ESO is a fantastic game!!2 -
VShane✭✭✭That was the thing with BDO, I felt rushed like I was competing with 100s of others on the same servers, (I like to explore casually and FEEL the adventure, not unlike reading a book).
But yes, there are things in both AA and BDO I would like to see in ESO. And true the OWPVP is a big downer, I can't tell you the numerous posts that revolve around PVP vs PVE, since in the NA/EU version they lowered the pvp threshold from 50 to 45, has many up in arms. And the constant crafting add infintum, I want to PLAY my game, not sign on to go to Virtual Workplace.
At least in ESO Your look matters (as far as variety) and you can craft a different look, in BDO it can only be attained through their cash shop at $30 a costume PER class, ONE outfit.
And don't get me started on thier RNG cash shop only dye system. ESO has an excellent system.0 -
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✭BDO no the cash shop costumes and skins are expensive. That game has no pve dungeons and you can't trade from character to character. The community there is pretty toxic in my opinion. I was glad to come back to ESO. Much better more reasonable conversations and mods who care. I wish I wouldn't have purchased BDO.1 -
Volkodav✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭To each their own but I don't know what skooma you're sipping to prefer this over something as impressive looking as Black Desert. I can only comment from the outside as I only know what a friend has showed me but it looks leagues above this game (no offense ZoS).
My love for TES and being on console are the only reasons I play this game but if I were on pc I would likely prefer BDO or that other fancy looking flying mmo.
Black Desert Online is still the new flavor on the block. Also it is a different game altogether. ESO is based on a long running series of games that everyone loves and is familiar with.I had planned on purchasing BDO,and still might.
Impressive looking doesnt always mean great to play,or great storyline. For many people those two things are worth more than "pretty".0
