Why not just make it a magic version of lockpicking? Lockpicking looks like you're interacting with a REAL device, and not a representation of one. It takes some focus but isn't arduous. It has sensory mechanics based on sensitivity and visual/audio cues rather than easy puzzle-solving. And it feels very thievy.

Easier said than done, I'm sure

mystkldrgnb14_ESO wrote: »

Yea..

I don't know if I'll like it more or less than the WoW Archeology 'minigame' system. For those who never played with it, WoW Archeology lets you stay 'in world' (unlike this minigame) and you put down a little device that gives you a red/green/yellow light that lets you know the direction and a rough 'distance' estimator (by the color) of where the treasure is for you to dig up. You go that 'distance', in that direction, and either put down another device to get closer to the item - or the device glows to let you know you found it. Dig it up and wala - Stuff received. Now It IS a minigame - just a minigame of a different sort, that also doesn't have you leave the game field to do.

I was actually hoping it was a better version of wow archology system where you would set up a actual mini camp to excivate in world.

Who knows, all things said, the design shown off it's prototype and not final. If the rewards are crown crate cards then I would surely like to have them for stuff, It's a minigame at the end, similar to many other MMO's minigames, and like lockpicking already I guess. I would like them to have something more interesting that what we were shown off tho .

I really dont like mini-games, im too old for this. Give me something like tetris or chess, i know how to play this at least.

Yep. I literally thought I was looking at some sort of comparison video clip or something when I first saw it on Nefas’ vid. I really hope the gfx and interface design is one of those works in progress, because the mini game looks absolutely horrendous.

The mini game looks like something similar to Eve Online. It should be reworked. Why not just dig deeper for items? Keep it simple. Otherwise, it should be worth the time to do it. Usable items (lost monster set), large cash stash (100k in gold),etc

Thevampirenight wrote: »

Well I kinda of like it because well its a minigame within a game and because it might not be as much of a boggle on performance had they done it in another way. Who knows maybe it will lead to a game that is a lot like Elder Scrolls Legends being interfaced within the game itself one day. So those crown crate cards could be useful for something.
An Elder Scrolls game within an Elder Scrolls game. That would be neat actually. If they ever did that .

I really enjoyed the bit of Legends that I played, just not enough to go play another game. Would play in a hearbeat though if I could plonk down a card table in my house and invite people to play and collect my decks in-game via quests and looting. Yes I know I essentially just said I want to play gwent and the witcher 3, but it would still be awesome to combine these two elderscrolls games into one and maybe help keep the card game devs employed to boot!

Back to on topic, I'm not sure how I feel about the way the antiquities system looks. I don't mind it being a cutaway mini game screen, but it does lack a certain something. Will have to wait and see it in action on PTS before I get upset. Either way I don't imagine this system will see an drastic overhauls this close to launch.

This is pretty much how I envisioned that it would be after the reveal.

Admittedly, it is the weakest part of the whole system. Having to open, not one, but two, mini-games, outside of the main game, is definitely a draw-back to the system.

What is really striking is that, after watching the video, it does not look fun. Seriously, it looks pretty boring and not something that I would be interested in doing more than a couple of times. I will not take me long to get to the point of just wondering why they can't just give me the antiquity and save me the trouble.

It will be interesting to see how it plays on PTS, but by then, it will be too late to make changes. It probably is, already.

Dracane wrote: »

What is the purpose of this system once you have gotten these few unique items?

They will probably add new stuff in homeopathic doses that'll give players some sense of achievement. See: Battlegrounds, where they introduced more motif pages after a year.

KingMagaw wrote: »

This looks like ZOS adopting Candy Crush style in the hopes of promoting more micro transactions.

I have been pondering how they will "pay for" this system. Given that it looks boring, my guess is that we will have plenty of Crown Bypass tokens that we can buy and apply to this to make the boredom hurt less. That and the inevitable skill line bypass so that only one character has to do it and then everyone else can just buy the bypass.

What if.........This is the most elaborate april fools day prank an mmo has ever done and everything we have seen so far is fake?



We can only hope