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Cheers Maz!

I'm certainly going to give it a try whenever it goes free-to-play. Failing that, I'll give it a year or so at least and see how it pans out. There's a lot of potential there, but the bar is pretty high for them as well. I fear this will be another MMO that turns out to be pretty decent but never lives up to the hype and the fans expectations. Something akin to SWTOR.

As for the "realism" that's Elder Scrolls in general. It's never been cartoony, and goes for that realistic dark-medieval kind of appearance.

As for the first person, is that going to be required? In skyrim I found myself swapping between 1st and 3rd with some frequency. It was obviously easier to see what was going on around you in 3rd person, but I found it harder to aim a bow or spell accurately. One of those things I'd often be in 1st person at range and 3rd person during melee. I'll be interested to see how it all plays out.



YAY

Congrats Maz. Good Luck and don't get frustrated. It can be a very rewarding profession.

No sense wasting words when digg has said it all. Nothing beats traipsing along a watercourse grabbing butterflies and shooting crabs.

I too am hoping it won't turn out to be another SWTOR.




EDIT: because fingers aren't strong enough.


Edited, Jun 12th 2013 1:07pm by cynyck

It's fun times when your goal when you log in is to catch as many butterflies as possible so you'll have potions for your next dungeon crawl.

Has anyone ever mentioned that you might be gay?

Spoiler

Well that would explain the odd way I just ate that ear of corn...

If you were really gay you wouldn't be running away from a bear.

Grats on your degree Maz!

lols @ Digg!

You know you're going to **** it out eventually, there was no need to take shortcuts.

Yeah, I'm trying really, REALLY hard to not let that bias me. But the lack of player housing isn't helping either. If I'm not supposed to be saving up for the biggest mansion I can find, what's the point???

I'll probably just continue trying to ignore the game until its popular enough that it's unavoidable.

I feel like largescale PVP could be interesting, if there was any actual way to direct people and it wasn't just everyone running amok. What that would mean in practice, I don't know. The only thing I can imagine is restricting whatever points the system uses specifically to their ability to fulfill the objective of their group, with the bulk of earned points coming from victory? Plus access to real direction tools by the group leader?

Since they're already going to have rank systems, automatically place the highest-ranked characters in the zone at the match start into those roles, have them select their group objectives, and go from there?

I imagine it would either be an amazing system, or the worst system ever, with very little room for anything in the middle.

Say it's a cap of 40 players, 5 player groups. The 8 top-ranked players would become group leaders, and the remaining people would be shuffled those groups evenly.

Then the group leader will select some objectives, and some tactical points on the map, for the start of the match. With the ability to change them on the fly throughout the match?

If a kill isn't going to reward a player with anything, unless it's a kill in service of their objective, and those kills are insignificant compared to victory, it MIGHT work.

Might.

Well, the hope is that the highest ranked players in a match would have an understanding of PVP tactics, and actually speak to each other to decide on tactics.

Of course, if the top PVPers don't want to do the largescale PVP, that's not going to solve anything.

O.K. I missed that. Thanks for mentioning it. What the hell does PVP-centric mean?

I know what PvP is. The discussion makes it sound like the game will center on PvP with maybe a bit of PvE to get the PvPers leveled up. That means I mentally strike it from my list of "must do" games. So it is said, so it is done. (All hail Ramses the Great.)

But then I read a bit of this poorly written, sycophantic info and it made me curious enough to read a bit more in the "gameplay" area of that site. My hope is restored and the game is physically unstricken (I just made that word up). It sounds an awful lot like GW2 in the sense that it is a single PvP zone with three factions fighting over different objectives in large scale fights, etc. The plan is for it to mean something and have some impact on the PvE aspect, from what I can glean.

Not too horrible, as long as the "impact" is nothing too impactful. It seems that they are maybe going to have the main boss available only to the faction that controls . . . something . . . PvP-wise. If that's true, it won't last long. How long will one faction have solo access to the main boss before everyone interested in raiding the main boss switches to that faction? Maybe if they limited the amount of time the main boss could be accessed, and gave the faction that controls that something PvP-wise a little longer access time, I could see it working.

So, hopefully, the "ESO will be PvP-centric" is either a dumb rumor or the developers' way of trying to garner interest with PvP-centric types. Remember, this is no longer The Age of Aquarius. Today, lies sell and being truthful is for the hopeless and naive.

But, still, no personal housing? Whaaaa???!!?!? I was hoping to invite Maz to my place and shoot an arrow into his knee. Or sneak into Digg's place and steal his butterfly collection.


EDIT: to, too, two.


Edited, Jun 13th 2013 11:32am by cynyck

Edited, Jun 13th 2013 11:32am by cynyck