Does anyone actually think questing is fun?

Abeille · March 2017

Balamoor wrote: »

One thing I have learned, you never are going to get a Skyrim fan to admit anything is as good or better than Skyrim. Myself and many of my friends have been playing TES since Arena and we all agree that Skyrim fans are a different subset of TES fandom.....it's kind of like Justin Bieber fans and Twilight fans got together and had a baby, out of all the Elder Scrolls games Skyrim is my least favorite, not so much for the game, but the rabid cult that follows it.

I call those "Skyrim Kids". They only played Skyrim (and joined the Stormcloaks, and they will let you know, this is important), which could be called "Dragons and Vikings on Ice" for all that they care since no other TES game matters to them. They play a Nord DK in ESO (Not all Nord DKs are Skyrim Kids, but all Skyrim Kids are Nord DKs). They praise Talos in the zone chat unironically even though we are in the Second Era. They are horribly racist against any and all kinds of Mer and then proceed to complain about them being racist. They want Dragon mounts.
And, of course, they yell at me when I tell them that Morrowind is a better game overall and that Oblivion had better guild quest lines by far. This of course does not apply to all the Skyrim fans, just to the people with the listed characteristics, which unfortunately (or fortunately, if you find them funny) are many.

But Skyrim is a fantastic game, in my opinion. Only an okay-ish TES, but a fantastic game overall, if that makes any sense to you. Skyrim had some interesting plot lines that for some reason led nowhere, so we were left with a bunch of open endings that were not touched upon by the DLCs. I don't understand why they did that.
I assumed at first that it was to left the doors open to a direct continuation. I mean, Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion all happened in a little over 30 years, so maybe they would do the same for TES V and VI and set them close to each other in the time line. But now I think they just wanted to do that to make the game feel "infinite", you know?

Sneaky-Snurr · March 2017

I myself actually enjoy questing. I only skip dialogues when I'm grinding through quests. I mostly do quests and a lot of PvP in this game so grinding for levels is top priority.

And recently I've just completed (and it's long overdue) the Orsinium main quest and I have to say that the storyline and the corresponding plots are extremely well done. I LOVED every moment of it and I fully immersed myself into the quest and I actually feel melancholic completing it. I can't explain how it feels like but it is definitely one of the best quest I've ever played in this game. But now Morrowind has to beat that expectation.

Simply stupendous.

The_Undefined · March 2017

Yes, it's my favorite part of the game. I don't raid, I don't enjoy PvP. Other than questing, I love to do delves and farming.

phairdon · March 2017

First time around, questing was frustrating with all the bugs. 2nd time through, most of the bugs were fixed, which provided a better experience. 3rd-6th time.....

loses the appeal very quickly.

Abeille · March 2017

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zaria wrote: »

not that level however having an alt who will reach reaper march next week, Khajiit looking forward too it, will buy an good whiskey to enjoy with it.
One of the nice things with one tamriel is that you can mix thing a lot. One guildmate went back to do overleveled quests and he told about the famous gay bosmer one.

Out of curiosity, what is the "famous gay bosmer one"? I've done a quest with a gay breton couple where one was a werewolf, and another with a gay Khajiit couple, but don't remember a bosmer one.

It is a beautiful quest in Greenshade, not far from the Labyrinth. It is called "The Flower of Youth". Go check it out. Greenshade has its fair share of great quests, but this one takes the cake.

The feeeeeeeels!

I can't deal with them. Greenshade has quite a few quests that either gives me the feels or are just incredibly awesome, now that I think about it. One quest in the Gold Coast mentioned Aranyas, and it gave me a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

Greenshade is, in my opinion, one of the best maps in the vanilla game, perhaps only behind Rivenspire.

My man! Greenshade is my favorite zone!
Yup, we meet the Dunmer vampire hunter again in Gold Coast. The feel when he mentions Wilderqueen......

Also cannot forget Razum-the-queen xD

The mention of the Wilderqueen made me indescribably happy. Because of the ending of her story arc, I didn't expect to hear of her again. She said her memories were slipping away, I thought she would forget me...

She didn't :,)

Moonscythe · March 2017

I don't think I would play at all if all there was was killing and looting. I love exploring and questing is part of that. I stop and talk to M'aiq everytime I find him and still smile over his musings about elves.

Myrrah · March 2017

UrQuan wrote: »

Lord Xanhorn wrote: »

As the central feature of almost every single DLC and now the Morrowind xpac, does anyone actually enjoy questing? I would think that most people are like me and just skip the dialogue and move to the objective that the all knowing marker tells me to go to. There's no choice, consequence, or impact to any of my actions and listening to dialogue for 5 minutes at a time seems tedious and keeps me away from what I really want to be doing which is killing things.

You'd be wrong. There are a ton of us who are much more interested in the story and characters than in mindlessly going from one objective marker to the next.

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acw37162 · March 2017

It was the first two times.

After that it's just another obnoxious chore in a line of obnoxious chores to get a character sheet to a presentable level.

Jemcrystal · March 2017

Don't know. I have not bothered to quest yet. Maybe I will like it maybe I will not. No fault of TESO ZoS. I just got burnt out of questing from all the games I have played in my life. I pretty much craft, dolmen, and bite people. And kill WB when someone shouts for help.

fgoron2000 · March 2017

Questing is where much of the humor that the TES series is so well-known for, and that includes ESO. Now, in a game like this, where you are prone to running quests multiple times with various toons, and also by design with the Silver and Gold runthroughs, I can see where multiple runs of the same quests can be a bit tedious, but I try to mix it up then, when quests offer alternate responses, I'll try to do a bit of RP at that point, and select differing answers than before...

FloppyTouch · March 2017

We talked about this in our guild funny you bring it up and everyone does the same things just skips and runs to quest marker. Brought it up in another guild and got the same response. Even though these forum people will say they are very engaged in the story and love questing it seems the vast majority of the player base does the same thing as you OP ur not alone.

I try so hard to listen to the story of each quest but give up about half way through and find my self just skipping it all saying OMFG just shut up npc and let me finish this damn thing.

I only do this is mmorpg in single player RPGs I can sit all day and listen to the story unfold but it's just different for me in an mmo, there is farming to do dungeons to do keys to get pvp rank with limiters game time I feel rushed to do these things

Integral1900 · March 2017

The vast majority enjoy it and like chatting to npcs because if they didn't ZOS would no way in hell go to the cost of putting it all in there, they would just do it like that creaky old pile over in Azeroth

I hate skipping dialogue, I've created characters purely to be able to go through 4 man dungeons with freinds and listen to the stories. If there is one thing in this game I hate its that minority of muppets that skip all the dialogue

Questing, crafting, story telling, photography and exploration is my game, you couldn't pay me to pvp or to do trials

d0e1ow · March 2017

Hmm... a lot of the side quests are pretty hoe-hum, but I installed an add-on that let's me filter on my map only quests that award skill points and are for Cadwell's. Those all happen to be pretty central to the "main" storylines of the game, and imo most of them are quite entertaining. I enjoy it a lot. The DLC questlines have all been good imo as well. I love the Thieves Guild muchly bigly.

Aliniel · March 2017

At start, kinda. Then it got quite repetitive, the characters got boring, story got boring... Always saving the world and once you save it you enter a new region and they are like "Who do you think you are?". And this goes on and on. So boring.

I expect much more from a PEGI 18 game to be honest. ESO has limited animations, I got bored of listening always to the same 5 voices repeating over and over and the stories aren't anything to be excited about. The Witcher game series reminded me of what made me fall in love with the video games when I was a kid. Anyone remember the Gothic series? ESO is just far below for my taste.

ElliottXO · March 2017

I'm a skipper. For stories I play single player games.

Mephilis78 · March 2017

I'm sorry for you, honest. You're skipping some pretty good voice acting, like Bill Nye [edit] (Bill Nighy) as King Emeric, Michael Gambon, John Cleese, and the always entertaining Jim Cummings a.k.a. Darkwing Duck, a.k.a. Tigger, a.k.a. Taz, as well as a million other characters (Jim is actually a very accomplished VO actor, he's like the modern generation's Mel Blanc). Also, if you are skipping over Sheogorath's lines, then you are clearly missing out!

As a guy who has a leading role VO acting on a machinima, it would be blasphemy for me to just skip over all the hard work these people have done. However, if i have done the quest a million times, then yes I will skip; or sometimes if I only have a short amount of time to play, but I never, never, skip uncle Sheo.

Draxys · March 2017

Mephilis78 wrote: »

I'm sorry for you, honest. You're skipping some pretty good voice acting, like Bill Nye as King Emeric, Michael Gambon, John Cleese, and the always entertaining Jim Cummings a.k.a. Darkwing Duck, a.k.a. Tigger, a.k.a. Taz, as well as a million other characters (Jim is actually a very accomplished VO actor, he's like the modern generation's Mel Blanc). Also, if you are skipping over Sheogorath's lines, then you are clearly missing out!

As a guy who has a leading role VO acting on a machinima, it would be blasphemy for me to just skip over all the hard work these people have done. However, if i have done the quest a million times, then yes I will skip; or sometimes if I only have a short amount of time to play, but I never, never, skip uncle Sheo.

Bill Nye as an MMO character... L.O.L.

Vapirko · March 2017

95% grind for me. It's not that the story lacks per say, its just that the objectives are mind numbingly similar. Go do the same thing in a row 4 times then go here and do something else 6 times then collect these things in these 3 spots and on and on and on. I occasionally come across quests that are fun. Wrothgar had a few, the one near the frozen ships was cool as well as pushing my way up the mountain with the avalanches and wind. But its extremely rare that a quest features some sort of interesting mechanic.

Nalier · March 2017

Myself, I like questing. It's actualy pretty similar to other elder scrolls games. I love running (or walking) around the world in first person and discovering all the stories and bits of lore. If there were no quests, just killing things, I don't think I'd play for much longer.
And I never skip dialogue.

Leandor · March 2017

I am very much split on this question. I have three tamriel heros and two more chars who only lack Cyrodiil achievement. I enjoyed that part thoroughly.

Nowadays, I take one char through a new zone in a completionist manner and all others just grab skyshards.

I hope the Morrowind questline will capture me for more than one playthrough, especially since I intend to level my two wardens there (which will be char 13 and 14, to put the above to perspective).

Mephilis78 · March 2017

AlMcFly wrote: »

What the hell do you play this game for if skipping the dialogue? You just want to reach the objective? To what end? Why play MMOs than? Why ESO?

People who say "oh I love the ESO world and lore so much" who also say "oh I skip all quest dialogue" are contradictory morons.

Lol That's a really good point! If one doesn't care about the dialog, then why even quest at all? Why not just run around and grind, or explore all day? Although, if one doesn't care about dialog, I can't imagine that one would care about story or lore at all, so even exploring would be pointless because it wouldn't mean anything anymore.

Thus is the disadvantage of being a Breton scholar, you see the cynicism in everything.

Mephilis78 · March 2017

Draxys wrote: »

Bill Nye as an MMO character... L.O.L.

Sorry bout that, spelled the wrong "Nighy"

That would be bloody epic though lol If he was in this game he would be an Altmer mages guild magister, or some kind of Breton historian I think.

mariskaas · March 2017

I love questing. I listen to all dialogue (at least the first time around or when it was long time ago I did the quest) I made a character for every faction to play the story with an 'appropriate' character. I don't do cadwells because it feels weird to do that with character from different faction. I finished AD and DC and now in the second zone of EP. Till now AD was my favorite but I do like king emeric:)
I'm sad i don't know any of the dungeon stories since when you try to listen to it people are already running forward x)

AshTal · March 2017

I like story and questing first (maybe second) time through.

Problem I have with ESO is there does not seem to be much I can change or effect. As such my third play its just clicking the buttons as I know the story and outcome.

Sinolai · March 2017

I enjoy most of the stories, although there are few "I lost my blahblahblah can you get it for me?" Which I dont follow through that closely.

helediron · March 2017

Without questing and lore i would not play this game. I have two Indomitable questers. I have also completely grinded alts through veteran ranks to make certain builds to end game and hastily leveled crafters. These are all different and all enjoyable aspects of the game.

Even when it's long time i may have quested an area, i still remember them and know the connections. Last week i made a Magnus set and farmed a bit. I stopped by and did /kneel at the old man with his dead husband. These things are as memorable as any Mazzatun hardmode.

STEVIL · March 2017

I like questing.

Kanereno · March 2017

I like the story of questing, getting to know each and every character, how each one has a life and story, the only part I don't like is the super long quests going through all that work for 300 experience when you need like 10,000 to 20,000exp to level up, it's too much work for too little exp. I mean at at least the enemies give 150 exp but even then it's such a grind.

Torbschka · March 2017

Which zones are the best of EP ? I did DC and AD with my main and DC was very cool and funny ( especially darien), ad was very boring for me(i dont like high elves, kahjit , although bosmer are cool).

I did stonefalls and liked the map, but the main quest was very boring, so i stopped (ago 2years now). I enjoy questing once, after i know the plot i skip through everything.

So, which zones are worth it to quest through in EP? Rift? Eastmarch? Did i need to know the Storys before or can I immediately start there? ( i like Nords, orsimer and redguards the most).

Eshja · March 2017

It depends. I don't like questing as leveling. I have to be in mood to do quests, I want to enjoy it, not just think 'oooh, want lvl 50, Prophet, shut up and give me next level' or think about achiev which I want to get.

I didn't really like EP and DC quests (but there were some awesome stories too) but I'm totally in love in AD quests. Maybe because I play with bosmer so I feel this story as my own.
I like Wilderking plot the most.