It's Elder Scrolls . The object of the game is to keep playing till you go blind .

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

It's Elder Scrolls . The object of the game is to keep playing till you go blind .

Or: Mod it Until it Breaks. But, can't do that here.

Rohamad_Ali wrote: »

It's Elder Scrolls . The object of the game is to keep playing till you go blind .

So that's why I now need glasses!

Speaking of Retro, how many of you know System Shock 3 is under development? They started just 1 month ago or so, I believe they just finished the concept art stuff. I think thats quite cool.

For me it's the world you can explore, and the characters and stories you can craft to imagine the setting as experienced by different people. Skyrim was my first TES and is still my favorite for this exercise. For example: What does the Dragonborn legend mean to the Dovahkiin if they're not a Nord? What does Alduin seem like to a devout Akatosh or Alkosh or Auri-El worshipper? And so on.

Also, modding it until it breaks.

Because it's Elder Scrolls. My favourite game series ever, and I'm a sucker for new lore about the series' universe.

Way to spend time. Sometimes a lot of it.

Yeah, like others said above, I liked Skyrim.

I liked Skyrim because of the immense freedom, which I never experienced to that degree in any other game of its calibre. DA:I and Dishonored had better graphics and better voice-acting, VTMB had better writing better voice-acting and better role-play, Bioshock had better writing too, and all of these and more are objectively better games than Skyrim. But they were all very linear, they all forced you into a story which inevitably annoyed me a bit - why can't my character just flip the bird to all of you and go on his merry way? I kept coming back to TES because it let me do whatever I wanted with my char - be an adventurer or a smith or an alchemist or a vampire haunting a barrow or just frolic and pick flowers. Mods expanded these options even more.

The only thing I felt was lacking from Skyrim - aside from all of the above mentioned - was people. It could be an effect of the bad dialogue writing and (IMO) bad voiceacting for NPCs, but I always felt mine was the realest character in that world, which made all the actions ultimately meaningless.

So I was very happy when I discovered ESO was a thing, and joined anticipating the freedom I had in Skyrim plus actual real people. It didn't even matter if I never interacted with them, and I rarely do. Just seeing other players around the city doing their thing gives me what I was missing in Skyrim.

Turns out there is not actually as much freedom here as there was in TES5, which makes me sad. But there's still a lot of it, more than in any offline game. So I stick around.

I enjoy the content and I've not enjoyed another online game this much in a very long time.

Not sure I know what the magic of this is over others, maybe the forums? I spend enough time here.

I am here because of the TES IP. I feel like it gets the fantasy genre just right. Also TES have khajiit and I love them (they are by far my favorite fictional race from anywhere).


Or at least that is why I came here in the first place. If it wasn't for the TES IP I would never have bought this game .

As a hardcore TES lore nerd I'd have to say that I play ESO because of the lore and richness of cultures and peoples. Combat mechanics-wise ESO is very enjoyable, but as an actual MMO with trials and stuff I, after over 10 years of MMO experience, have to say it's "Okay I guess". The exploration and world itself is what draws me in and pulls me back every time I leave.

addiction factor, hard content and sense of accomplishment I receive from succeeding at the super hard stuff, bettering my technique and most of all, the ability to be creative with the classes. Sorc tank works as well as dps, mixing different sets for different situations, and ANIMATION CANCELLING because it adds an active element.

The lore of TES series is incredible ^^ I agree. WoW would not captivate me this way for sure.