One Tamriel on Polygon.com

jeevin · October 2016

Just in case anyone is interested

http://www.polygon.com/features/2016/10/14/13285014/elder-scrolls-online-one-tamriel-skyrim-mmo

An interesting read for me, although I do find the spin factor a bit much. Nice marketing Zos

nimander99 · October 2016

I thought it was a pretty fair article. They were pretty critical in Alpha and Beta of ESO. Like the article portrays well, I also feel like OT is a culmination of a journey to make this game a true Scrolls game, and it is.

Now, on to the future! I cant friggin wait!

#NoCrownBoxes

Sentinel · October 2016

I found the article insightful in depicting just how different the game was originally designed to be...

Nestor · October 2016

I have been around since early closed secret beta's that no one knew about other than some insiders. We only had one starting island to play on. I have seen this game grow, and have some growing pains along the way. But, it never really sucked, it just needed to be better. It's getting there, and I think it will be better next year than it is now. It has already gotten better by leaps and bounds.

There are some itemization issues with One Tamriel, in particular with Crafting Mats (divorce levels from the Mats, let us make our gear with any material in the game and let those mats spawn randomly across the zones). And, in any game as complex as this, balance issues need to be addressed, but that will always be a moving target (good reason to have a character in each class).

However, I would not be here after all this time if the game was not great. There are lots of good games out there, and I still play the older ES games, back to Arena and Battlespire, but this one is so far my favorite. Well, I do have some nostalgia for Morrowind and its go anywhere you want, but you might get your butt handed to you if your not ready for it with some places aspect.

I would like to see quest choices matter more, but those are hard to implement in a shared world as my choices are not the same as others. I would also like to see delves become instanced so that we can enter them solo or with a pre made group. Of course we could also enter them as we do now and have other players around if we wanted. It would be interesting to see how many would choose the instanced over the open concept.

Just my thoughts.

Wing · October 2016

one thing I like that you can see in those pics, is that they really did listen to early feedback and got rid of the cartoony aspect that plagues so many MMO's

a recall a noob in zone chat yesterday was staggered by the sizes of buildings and the fact that it seems like people could actually live in them.

much prefer the darker realistic approach of ES.

tinythinker · October 2016

Nestor wrote: »

I have been around since early closed secret beta's that no one knew about other than some insiders. We only had one starting island to play on. I have seen this game grow, and have some growing pains along the way. But, it never really sucked, it just needed to be better. It's getting there, and I think it will be better next year than it is now. It has already gotten better by leaps and bounds.

There are some itemization issues with One Tamriel, in particular with Crafting Mats (divorce levels from the Mats, let us make our gear with any material in the game and let those mats spawn randomly across the zones). And, in any game as complex as this, balance issues need to be addressed, but that will always be a moving target (good reason to have a character in each class).

However, I would not be here after all this time if the game was not great. There are lots of good games out there, and I still play the older ES games, back to Arena and Battlespire, but this one is so far my favorite. Well, I do have some nostalgia for Morrowind and its go anywhere you want, but you might get your butt handed to you if your not ready for it with some places aspect.

I would like to see quest choices matter more, but those are hard to implement in a shared world as my choices are not the same as others. I would also like to see delves become instanced so that we can enter them solo or with a pre made group. Of course we could also enter them as we do now and have other players around if we wanted. It would be interesting to see how many would choose the instanced over the open concept.

Just my thoughts.

I didn't even try to get into beta until near the end because of the rep of MMORPGs I had heard about for so long, only gave in because I was stuck recovering at home and because it was Elder Scrolls and I've never missed a game in that series.

As a late beta player I also see improvement. There are some changes I would like reversed (and I got one of them with the starter island reversion) but the game isn't made just for me alone and ZOS (generally) doesn't cater to my wishes. Looking forward to more debates on the direction of the game and seeing you all in Tamriel again when I get back home.