The Elder Scrolls Online - The Bear and Badger

LtPidgeon

Is it ominous that this game doesn't already have a thread of it's own? Reviews seem to be scarce, too.

Is it shit? I am torn between this and The Witcher 3, even though I know that I do not have the time required to sink into either. I'm thinking that the online aspect of this will be better suited to short burst of play.

Bob

Online appears to have launched with some difficulty .

Blocks100

For a MMO, that could prove...costly.

LtPidgeon

Bob wrote:

Online appears to have launched with some difficulty .

Yes, and a 15Gb day one patch. Ouch!

Raiziel

If I do go in I'll just grab it off PSN, which means it's unlikely I'll be getting it this weekend as it's probably up for something silly like £65.

Speedhaak

LtPidgeon wrote:

Is it ominous that this game doesn't already have a thread of it's own? Reviews seem to be scarce, too. Is it shit? I am torn between this and The Witcher 3, even though I know that I do not have the time required to sink into either. I'm thinking that the online aspect of this will be better suited to short burst of play.

I played it on PC - and no, it's not shit. By all accounts they've improved on the original launch content quite a bit as well. If you are thinking of buying it don't think you'll be getting an Elder Scrolls game with multiplayer, because that's not what it is. Think of something like Guild Wars or FF XIV with a TES skin.

I'll probably pick it up again because I want to see what they've done with it in the last year, and I've always wanted a solid MMO on console.

Speedhaak

Finding this lends itself far better to consoles. Enjoying my re-romp atm. Rolling a Paladin type build.

Blocks100

Bollockoff

That Oblivion gate has taken me to a strange land where the trees grow fingers and grass travels in balls.

FranticPea

I do fancy this but my skyrim loving(bumming), MMO crazy mate said it was a bit guff.

Also, starting an mmo is the last thing my pile-o-shame needs right now.

Speedhaak

Blocks100 wrote:

Yeah pretty much. Don't think there's any interest for this on the forum.

Raiziel

I'll dive in when it's up for cheap on PSN, but for now I'm rekindling my love affair with Skyrim with a third epic play through. So that's me sorted for at least 300 hours.

acemuzzy

So this is on gamepass. And I tried a little. And it's certainly a big and vaguely impressive world, with loads going on.

Unconvinced by the "online" bit of it, and I've not got nearly enough spare time to be jumping in properly, but surely some folk would enjoy it?!?!?

LivDiv

I gave it a go a while back.
Nothing really wrong with it as such but it felt like an entire game of side quests. I'm sure that is fine with friends but really didn't seem worth my time.

Campy_Jon

I picked up a ps4 copy in CEX for £3, finished the first part which reminded me of the start of kingdoms of Amalur then never went back to it.
I think it's set 700 odd years before morrowwind/oblivion and you can't use paintbrushes to create steps to reach high places.

Raiziel

I love the Elder Scrolls and I’ve still not played it.

Diluted Dante

LtPidgeon wrote:

Is it ominous that this game doesn't already have a thread of it's own? Reviews seem to be scarce, too. Is it shit? I am torn between this and The Witcher 3, even though I know that I do not have the time required to sink into either. I'm thinking that the online aspect of this will be better suited to short burst of play.

No but it's ominous that there haven't been any posts in nearly 4 years in this thread before muzzy's bump.

Blocks100

Raiziel wrote:

I love the Elder Scrolls and I’ve still not played it.

And it's important to keep on not playing it if you love Elder Scrolls. Look what happened to Fallout when they tried to shoehorn multiplayer into a single player game. Leave this ill-conceived MMO to rot in its forgotten grave.

Raiziel

Yeah probably.

Wookienopants

I played it for about 30 minutes and realised it’s not for me.

Raiziel

To be fair, playing an MMO for half an hour isn’t probably a fair shake of what that type of game has to offer.

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