Can 'The Elder Scrolls Online' Live Up to the Franchise?
SodaHead Gaming
2012/06/07 13:00:00
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It's only been about half a year since "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" came out, and that piece of work is still sitting at the top of the stacks. But art director Paul Sage hit E3 this week with some heavy-hitting info on an upcoming addition to the Elder Scrolls universe: "The Elder Scrolls Online," a massively multiplayer online game set 1,000 years before "Skyrim." And it could touch down as soon as next year.
Sage told Gamasutra, "One of the things we're trying to do [with our MMORPG] is get that feeling of active and reactive combat. So my take is that you have to feel like, 'This is really kind of like The Elder Scrolls [single player RPG] combat ... I will say that playing with your friends and meeting strangers, and being able to just do it in a way where you're informed, it's a big thing for us." There's a lot more information in the interview below. Can "The Elder Scrolls Online" really live up to the legendary games it's based on?
Sage told Gamasutra, "One of the things we're trying to do [with our MMORPG] is get that feeling of active and reactive combat. So my take is that you have to feel like, 'This is really kind of like The Elder Scrolls [single player RPG] combat ... I will say that playing with your friends and meeting strangers, and being able to just do it in a way where you're informed, it's a big thing for us." There's a lot more information in the interview below. Can "The Elder Scrolls Online" really live up to the legendary games it's based on?
1. This will follow in the footsteps of its predecessors and become one of the greatest MMOs in HISTORY. It'd play somewhat like Planetside 2 (Except the constant war would only be in specific areas), I can see different regions harboring different people, I can see clans and clan wars, heroes vs. villains. All while maintaining the sheer beauty and gameplay of The Elder Scrolls series.
Or.
2. This will become another WoW clone and take a giant, indignant, furious dump all over the rest of the franchise.
I will lose it if that second one happens.
But here is the rub—I never pictured it as a straightforward MMO, but rather as the single player RP experience which is already present in the entire Elder Scrolls series with the option to participate and complete content in various cooperative modes.
My point? I can get the experience which I want from the Elder Scrolls series as they are now. It is what makes the Elder Scrolls series great. So, please, just keep the Elder Scrolls series “within the family” and use that fundamental formula on TES:O.
Converting the Elder Scrolls Online into a clone of preexisting MMO(s) betrays what makes the Elder Scrolls series great—it takes the experience which I want and can get from the Elder Scrolls series as they are now and replaces it with a different, trite, and personally unwanted experience which I can get from preexisting MMO(s) already. It takes something which...
But here is the rub—I never pictured it as a straightforward MMO, but rather as the single player RP experience which is already present in the entire Elder Scrolls series with the option to participate and complete content in various cooperative modes.
My point? I can get the experience which I want from the Elder Scrolls series as they are now. It is what makes the Elder Scrolls series great. So, please, just keep the Elder Scrolls series “within the family” and use that fundamental formula on TES:O.
Converting the Elder Scrolls Online into a clone of preexisting MMO(s) betrays what makes the Elder Scrolls series great—it takes the experience which I want and can get from the Elder Scrolls series as they are now and replaces it with a different, trite, and personally unwanted experience which I can get from preexisting MMO(s) already. It takes something which I hoped for and still hope for and shelves it indefinitely.
In short, I feel that TES:O, as it is shaping up right now, is just a bad idea.
Why fix what is not broken?
Why stray from a successful formula?
This situation makes no sense to me—what a waste of a great opportunity!
Reading about it: No thank you.
We'll see where they are at in a year, but at the moment I almost couldnt care less.
Damn! It was hard enough to give it up as a disc on the Xbox! A fully immersive version? They may as well come and repossess the house now!
And now that I'm almost out of college I'll probably never touch it DDDDDDDD:
edit: co-op is all I really want though..
Because I love backwards flying dragons and dead people showing up to my weddings.
And don't even get me started on the PS3 fiasco.