Tats wrote: »

3/5 on ps4. If they added text chat and basic mmo things like buff timers it would be 4.5/5 (nothing is perfect)

Text chat is coming, it's already got a UI internally and will be implemented soon. Buff timers do exist... they just don't show up in the main UI. You can only see them through your character sheet. I agree, having them up front would be better.

I hate very much most of the times. So much repetition, bugs, lag and... ooooooohhhhhh you meant rate... with 'R'... nevermind then...

I enjoy the game a lot, I cant give it a rating because I dont even know if it would be 3 or 4...
I agree with you guys about the greediness, but unfortunately that is how gaming companies, in fact any companies operate nowadays, and after all, it is a free to play game, so maybe thats where the lack of costume quality etc comes from sometimes (not that I agree with it).

Anyway here is a more in depth:

Graphics: For a mmo I would say the graphics are very good. Not great, you can easily see the 3 stones on a path that are repeated over and over, the square of grass, being copy pasted next to each other, creating clear lines sometimes of where it was copy pasted, the textures of some rocks...

Take a closer look at the imperial horse and see for yourself, take a look under the bear mount...or better yet, dont; the clothing unfortunately looks just like one layer with a painted texture on top not in the highest resolution, the unrealistically made body proportions - long torso, short legs, huge shoulders, breton heads that look like balloons, new female armor that makes this shape on the chest: " ( " instead of following the...erm female curves... You get the idea. I know this is something that doesnt matter to most but for me it does, I am very picky when it comes to graphics... however... I go around in Auridon, the sun sets, then the stars come under the fluffy clouds... and I cant notice any little flaw anymore in any texture because everything in that moment looks just right . I dont know if it is just me, because I love sunset and watching the stars, but I would say they did a beautiful job at creating the ambience for an online game.

It is an mmo after all, a free to play one, that means they cant just include flowy capes, hairs and high textured armor, they probably lack the resources for that, this is why I say for me the graphics are still very good even with the lack of good quality textures, that can easily be replaced in the future.

TLDR: The textures could be in a higher resolution, they arent at the moment but they can always improve, the game is beautiful.

PvE: What can I say, I love most of the main stories in game and some of the side quest stories, the only thing that could be a complaint is just that some of the voice actors dont sound very convincing.
As for my other complaint... bare with me, I am a terrible gamer, so dont take this too much into account but I feel as if the game doesnt actually have a middle ground. What I mean with that is: I stroll around, do my quests, fight a boss here and there, last main story quest, piece of cake, all extremely easy and then I get thrown in Vet Maelstrom and it is unlike anything I encountered in game... Dont get me wrong I loved the experience BUT I feel as if the game didnt prepare me for that in the slightest, just personal opinion but probably because I suck at gaming, and no I am not a casual I spent a lot of time in this game, trying to get better, have my own plans but... I am just bad xD.

Game mechanics: I know, I know... as an mmo they have to constantly change things around, but they do it a bit too much in my opinion, they constantly change a thing here and there in the skills, vets then no vets etc... It feels as if they didnt actually know what they want to make out of the game, so they just change things around, and that is a bit of a drawback for me personally.

PVP: Lag. Nightblades. Hate them. But I still dont care, I will take my sorceress there, mute the chat, and start cursing like a sailor ;____;.

So I guess now that I thought more about it I give it a . Love the game, there is room for improvement but that is with everything.

And before some massive fanboy tells me to stop playing because "I dont like the game" just because I made a critique, please just...take a deep breath, and realize that the only reason anyone that plays the game and criticizes its mechanics its because they WANT to remain customers and love the game, otherwise they would have moved to a different game already.
And for those saying ZOS has no responsibility into listening to our "greed", remember again, it is them trying to sell you a product, they have to convince you the product is good enough and worth of your investment, its not that the players are "greedy", its how sales work, if you pay twelve dollars or something per month, you ARE entitled to ask for a lag free experience, especially if you pay it for a year and ask for it for a year with no response.
If you pay around 15 dollars (I think) for a mount, you are not greedy for wanting the textures to be high resolution and so on, otherwise the next thing is people going to the restaurant, paying for a steak and getting an eggplant.

I give it 3.5 stars out of 5. Terrible loot system with RNG, awful performance in Cyrodiil, new exploits surfacing every month, broken skills with every update, and more new bugs than you can shake a stick at. I think that about covers the missing stars, but the 3.5 remain just because there are still many redeeming qualities such as overall content, and a commitment to continuously add new engaging content and interesting things to do.

Although I eventually gave up on Heists out of frustration I did enjoy most of the Thieves Guild content, Orsinium remains a very memorable storyline to this day, and eventually I may decide to give Maelstrom another try at some point if they ever make it worth the time and effort, although after two tries I vowed I would never do that again. I am still looking forward to the Dark Brotherhood quests and whatever else is in store for the next DLC after that.

3.5 out of 5.

And there are no 5's.

The game was always good, at least to me, but the current rate of new content along with other improvements to the base game make it really something special.

Now, if they'd just make Craglorn do-able so all my crafters can get their 9 of 9 and free up those extra points languishing in Research.

It's a fun game but, the lag in cyrodil has literally killed it for me. I get on for periods of like 30 mins now split up between days or weeks. I don't really care for the updates either. I think they kind of suck to be honest. I don't know it's kind of ***.

I got to level 10 on PS4 before uninstalling and buying The Witcher 3, Bloodborne, and Dark Souls and Nathan Drake Collection, with UC4 preordered.

There are much superior single player games out there, which is all this game is as long as communication is borderline impossible.

Between all those games I don't have time to waste on a game that frankly frustrates me.

I gave up, and I'm not willing to "catch up" after 8+ months of waiting for them to implement this. The shiny has worn off.

Whatzituyah wrote: »

Pi out of 5 in other words 3.14159265~ out of 5. It used too be a 4 out of 5 but now that they are saying that the crown store needs to have items removed to make room for new items making all those items limited.

LOL was that an official answer by ZO$ for real ???? Amateur-ish korean MMOs have dozen and dozen of cash shop pages... But ZO$ needs to remove Things because it takes room ?

It's the most ridiculous thing I've heard.... Why not be honest and say putting a Limited Time next to something makes weak minded people buy stuff?

Personally i give it 3 it has come a long way but it still has a long way to go especially in the small group content area.

How many stars out of 5 you say? Okay let's see...

-1 Star for numerous performance issues.
-1 Star for numerous balance issues.
-1 Star for game breaking bugs that take weeks or months to "fix".
-1 Star for the severe lack of ETAs.

1/5 Stars.

If you had asked this question before Tamriel Unlimited launched I would have given it a 4/5 easy.

currently I rate the PVE 4/5
PVP is 1/5 overall I would give the game an 4 still lots of things to be improved and every patch ZOS seems to be ruining this game. on console release I would have givin this game a 4.5/5

After all I have been through in this game and completed as much of it as I am able to and on a good day I might give ESO 5 stars.

But my hands and arms are shot to hell playing this game frantically for too many hours for too long so now I just play less than an hour per day because I think I'm done with ESO. I'll hang on for DB tho' but I am going nice and real slow with this game now.