Koki on 3/5/2012 at 17:56
Bethesda's ridiculous lack of balance in any form + online = hehe lol
Yakoob on 3/5/2012 at 19:46
Well, the elders scrolls pretty much already are an MMO, just without the other players running around, so it is a logical transition. But seconding Koki's lols, we'll see how Beth balances this.
Shadow on 3/5/2012 at 19:53
Good night, sweet prince.
EvaUnit02 on 3/5/2012 at 20:00
Quote Posted by Shadow
Good night, sweet prince.
It's a SPIN-OFF. NOT a sequel to the mainline TES series.
faetal on 3/5/2012 at 21:19
I don't play many MMOs so maybe I have the wrong feel for this, but does this essentially mean an ES game with no modding?
(Obviously I get that it will have other players in it, I meant will this mean that vanilla is IT, in which case, will be interesting considering how few people play ES games vanilla)
Jason Moyer on 3/5/2012 at 21:27
Quote Posted by Koki
Bethesda's ridiculous lack of balance in any form + online = hehe lol
Bethesda isn't making it. At least, not the studio that makes the ES/FO games.
The guy directing it apparently also worked on Dark Age Of Camelot which, as far as I know, was one of the few really good MMOs.
Phatose on 4/5/2012 at 03:31
How much of the Elder Scrolls could actually make the transition to an MMO? The underlying mechanics seem like they'd be nothing short of a nightmare to balance, so they'd be unlike anything in the series before it. Modding is right out the window. The freeform, go anywhere and explore sandbox nature of the previous games wouldn't work at all - to challenge high level players, you need dangerous monsters, and leveled-everything just doesn't work with more then 1 player. And the action/rpg gameplay pretty much has to go to, since action doesn't exactly meld well with Massively-multiplayer anything.
And can you really start every new player character off in prison without making it completely ridiculous?
Just.....seems really likely they'd need to ditch everything but the lore. And that would be strangely restrictive, I think - after all, the Elder Scrolls themselves are crazy-protected, so not everyone can get one. At which point you've got an Elder Scrolls game that doesn't have any Elder Scrolls in it.
Renault on 4/5/2012 at 03:56
I'd expect it to be an Elder Scrolls game in name only, for the most part. Might not even be in first person. I mean, the MMO style of gameplay is pretty much the polar opposite of what every ES game has been about.
Jason Moyer on 4/5/2012 at 05:10
Quote Posted by Phatose
At which point you've got an Elder Scrolls game that doesn't have any Elder Scrolls in it.
Was there an Elder Scroll in Morrowind? I can't remember there being one.
