It has elder scrolls books and lore and elder scrolls atmosphere. you can go many places and feel the elder scrolly emerging you

Smitch_59 wrote: »

ESO is something that my wife and I can enjoy together. It was because of ESO that I bought a second Xbox; we have both consoles set up in the living room so we can group and quest together. If there's a downside, we both spend too much time playing ESO, sometimes to the exclusion of other hobbies.

you have a wife that wants to play games with you, that's just great. if she is good in other ways too, it's perfect really. does she also not nag you about cleaning and also not wanting you to attend family parties all the time?

Mostly just a realisation that you all guys are ***. And so am I.
I think this game actually made me more bitter and worse person overall.

(clearly a joke)

Reminded me of this story, different game though.
https://www.nextnature.net/2010/05/norwegian-boy-saves-sister-from-moose-attack-with-world-of-warcraft-skills/

It kept me connected to the world while I worked my way through graduate school. My days and nights were so busy during those two years that I almost never saw friends in person, and had essentially zero social life to speak of. By virtue of being playable whenever I had a little bit of time, whenever that might be, ESO filled a really important role for me: it was my main interactive hobby and, simultaneously, it was my chance to socialize with my guildies, some of whom are real-life friends who I basically never could work out a time to see in person. It allowed us to maintain our friendships during that period when, had ESO not been in the picture, it's entirely possible we would have drifted apart due to lack of contact.

While I don't have the personality traits that MMORPGs (this one included) tend to use as anchor points for game play loops and thus don't find myself as invested in this game as some do, it's still a game I enjoy well enough, and the the ability to meaningfully socialize with others while I play a game remains incredibly appealing to me. I had wondered if I would stop playing once I graduated, and yet, here I am. Clearly ESO is doing something right.

I don't think that means what you think it means.

It allows me to temporarily forget and cast aside all the *** irl.

And that's pretty cool.

sno_flah_ke wrote: »

Name something this game has done to make you a better person or helped you in some way with a real life situation. Anything at all. I would love to hear about it.

I learned how to slaughter people and use their skins as clothing. A valuable skill in Real Life.

sno_flah_ke wrote: »

Name something this game has done to make you a better person or helped you in some way with a real life situation. Anything at all. I would love to hear about it.

It entertains me after I get home from work

Datthaw wrote: »

adriant1978 wrote: »

Turelus wrote: »

The biggest impact would be that I met my girlfriend through ESO

Can't claim to have actually met mine in ESO, because we were already friends online, but the time we spent playing and regularly talking over voice comms brought us closer to the point where we realised that we wanted to be more than just friends.

Yall erp didn't you. You can't fool me

Nah, not really our thing.

Turelus wrote: »

It also helped me through some darker times in my life where I ... needed an escape from the real world..

Same here. Any game might have been able to fill that role, but ESO was there, and I have to think the sheer size of the game, and number of different things to do, made it the right thing at the right time.

These are not things that ESO taught me, but it strengthens those for sure. Patience (loading screens and lags), not giving a F about people who just want to make you angry, that even when [snip] happens - don't loose your grip, be kind to people, have a goal in your life - one day you will reach it, don't believe in everything that some random person wrote on some game forum.

[Edited for profanity]