That is just your personal preference regarding combat though and i doubt that ZOS is going to change anything just because you dont like the combat.

For me the combat is one of the best things about ESO and i certainly would not want it changed.

With the inclusion of magic to the world I never think too much about the animations of swinging weapons around. Now when I play Mount and Blade or Mordhau it absolutely means something, especially when such games advertise themselves as realistic fighting games. Like for instance when swinging your sword you'd never have your shield flail around like it does in ESO and you'd never do all the crazy over swings.

If you just swing your sword left and right with basic mouse attacks it might look odd animation wise -and yes the animation is bad. Try weawing your skills into light and heavy attacks, it does look much better.

Ideally you wouldn't be spamming light attacks to kill things. You should be using skills/weapon abilities after each light attack.

VaranisArano wrote: »

In those many action games and action RPGs you've played, you did play TES IV Oblivion and TES V Skyrim, right?

Because that's the sort of combat ESO imitates, just with the addition of animated weapon, class, and guild skills.

Which, really, shouldn't be surprising since ESO is an Elder Scrolls game and would naturally seek to imitate its predecessor TES games in style and substance.

I'd be rather surprised if ZOS chose to switch horses midstream to chase the combat style of a different game series owned by a different company.

Melee combat in this two is bad. I do remember that nightmare, where the weapons feel like wooden planks and hitting enemies feels like hitting wooden box with wooden plank. It is part of the reason why do I play stealth/mage.
ESO melee combat is not perfect too, but at least you have more options in fighting technics and it feels better.

Each to their own, but ESOs fluid, fast paced combat is often held up as one of its major unique selling points and as a positive.

Note that this does not mean combat is perfect, far from it, there are plenty of areas which can be improved upon.

Id also add, that swinging two handed weapons like a pendulum, is quite realistic and similar to how they were used due to their weight and size - i.e using the weapon weight to maintain motion. It takes a great deal of strength and effort to change the direction of a large heavy weapon to effect different swings, thrusts, blocks, so practically speaking a pendulum approach saves energy and can be done with more consistency. Just thinking out loud here.

When I saw the shield type enemy just running through in front of me on the red carpet, I lost
every tension and immersion of the ESO combat.

When I saw the "mysterious missile arrow" was launched from enemy's bow keeps following me,
I lost some "reality" against ESO combat. (Skyrim is better at this point)

When I saw "weird shield parry scene" in the ESO combat, I drank my "favorite whisky" to forget bad joke.
Because I've expected parry action of Dark-souls or Ghost of tsushima at that moment.

I knew that kind of game design might be basic MMO system. But I'm not MMO fan, I still can't accept ESO combat at all.

AvalonRanger wrote: »

When I saw the shield type enemy just running through in front of me on the red carpet, I lost
every tension and immersion of the ESO combat.

When I saw the "mysterious missile arrow" was launched from enemy's bow keeps following me,
I lost some "reality" against ESO combat. (Skyrim is better at this point)

When I saw "weird shield parry scene" in the ESO combat, I drank my "favorite whisky" to forget bad joke.
Because I've expected parry action of Dark-souls or Ghost of tsushima at that moment.

I knew that kind of game design might be basic MMO system. But I'm not MMO fan, I still can't accept ESO combat at all.

I engage in several medieval martial arts in my spare time. (SCA fighting and Burhurt primarily). If you are looking for realistic combat you shouldn't be looking to video games. Even the witcher games don't really have realistic combat. The closest any game has come to reaching it us bannerlords. The problem is real life sword fighting isn't sexy. It isn't action pact. It's grueling repetitive. It has almost no showmanship so naturally you won't find it in media. The witcher show has some of the worst sword fighting I have ever seen. Absolutely terrible.

That being said ESO is an MMO and balance and the mechanical functionality of the game are more important than realism. If that arrow didn't travel in that path it would fundamental altar the nature of bow skills and would be a huge disruption to how the game is balanced and how combat works. It would be a complete mess. It also doesn't really make sense for ESO from a mechanical perspective as the game is completely built arround rotations of skills and having to actually aim or gauge distance would likely disrupt that quite significantly.