I 100000000000000000% disagree. I find the elegant and that they make the gameplay and transitions feel smooth.

Does it really hurt your eyes, or is it more a figure of speech?

I like it. Better then reading looking at a screen that suddenly flashes into something else.
Like looking at a turned off screen and suddenly all the light shines in your eyes. This is an overexagerated example, though.

as a professional film editor and someone with eyes i find these new dissolve transitions offensive. they are flat out dated and ugly. please give us the option to disable the transitions and revert to the old way of loading screens. having a dissolve between pages does not work. in film language a dissolve represents a passage of time or place- to put it as a transition between a beautiful morrowind concept art- and a character selection screen makes no sense- there isnconnection in any level, aesthetic, or narrative. you dissolve between two elements that are connected, for example a concept artwork of morrowind- then dissolve to our character in morrowind.
someone who knows what they are doing would do a straight cut- as it was, or a fade to black and a fade back out. sorry to be a pompous *** on this ***- but its straight up jarring to people with taste , an understanding of visual language and symbiotic, and anyone with two eyes in their head.

I haven't seen it yet, but I'm curious. Is the "zone art" that used to display (with random gameplay tips and/or lore about the area) still part of the transition? Or is it just some kind of Powerpoint-esque slide transition effect that was implemented?

MakoFore wrote: »

in film language a dissolve represents a passage of time or place- to put it as a transition between a beautiful morrowind concept art- and a character selection screen makes no sense- there isnconnection in any level, aesthetic, or narrative. you dissolve between two elements that are connected, for example a concept artwork of morrowind- then dissolve to our character in morrowind.

Perhaps I've misunderstood, but from what I'm reading it sounds like the dissolve transition seems suitable for a loading screen when going from one zone to another (especially if the zone art is still part of said transition). In terms of the virtual world in ESO, the character is traveling from one place to another and it takes a bit of time - granted, maybe not MUCH time when just walking through a zone wall, but still. Because a huge portion of player travel is done via wayshrine it sounds pretty appropriate to me.

Maybe they could adjust it so that there is no dissolve when entering the game/world from the character selection screen since there's no implied time/distance. Otherwise though, I think I like the idea. (Moreso if the artwork hasn't been deleted in the process.)

Eager to see it on the 6th.
Or 7th...or 8th, depending on the download speed, ha.

People really will complain about anything, eh?

MakoFore wrote: »

as a professional film editor and someone with eyes i find these new dissolve transitions offensive. they are flat out dated and ugly. please give us the option to disable the transitions and revert to the old way of loading screens. having a dissolve between pages does not work. in film language a dissolve represents a passage of time or place- to put it as a transition between a beautiful morrowind concept art- and a character selection screen makes no sense- there isnconnection in any level, aesthetic, or narrative. you dissolve between two elements that are connected, for example a concept artwork of morrowind- then dissolve to our character in morrowind.
someone who knows what they are doing would do a straight cut- as it was, or a fade to black and a fade back out. sorry to be a pompous *** on this ***- but its straight up jarring to people with taste , an understanding of visual language and symbiotic, and anyone with two eyes in their head.

I'm on console. But I'm a vFX artist and Graphic Designer. Care sharing video/screenshot?

@MakoFore