Elder Scrolls MMO in the works
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PeteAtoms
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They're seriously calling it the ALDMERI DOMINION?
Way to break lore
Why would that break lore?
Civ'ed
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The Aldmeri Dominion is the NEW country, based on Aldmeris, the OLD Thalmor.
PeteAtoms
FormulaRandom
What is the proper name then for the 2nd Era alliance between Summerset and Valenwood, if not Aldmeri Dominion?
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PeteAtoms
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Yeah. . . I still don't see where the lore is being broken.
Civ'ed
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nevermind, I was confused with the homeland of the elves.
PeteAtoms
FormulaRandom
I don't know if it has already been officially addressed or not, but I hope that regardless of your race, your character will be able to fully explore the continent. I'm not familiar with how other MMO's handle that kind of thing, but I still want to be able to explore and quest in Argonia/BlackMarsh if I play a Breton or Bosmer, for example.
Maniacal
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There will be explorable areas for each region, but some of them will not be fully opened up yet as they are going to release them in future expansions.
Civ'ed
I ain't gotta explain a thing
So, as an example, would that be yes Ald'Ruhn no Vivec, Yes Wayrest no Daggerfall, yes Kvatch no cyrodiil city etc?
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
The Imperial City will be present, other than that I don't know. The major cities will probably be included and then they will expand out from there.
PeteAtoms
FormulaRandom
I was just wondering how it would work for a character belonging to the Aldmeri Dominion, wanting to explore and quest around Vivec or Solitude. If two alliances happen to be at war, are characters not limited geographically by that?
Civ'ed
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now for ze problem: What's a "Major City?" Is it a capital, like Winterhold*? or just important areas, like Whiterun?
*Hold up about winterhold, it's still important in the time period.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
They haven't said anything more about it other than that some areas will not be entirely explorable upon release and will be opened up in expansions.
PeteAtoms
FormulaRandom
Civ'ed
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the second pic is Stros M'Kai. I'm sure about it. The first seems to be mountains and jungle, so I suspect Morrowind or Argonia, though Elsweyr is a valid option.
Akka
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At least the graphics are figgin' GORGEOUS.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
At this time in the TES timeline Cyrodil was still covered by jungle too. They retconned it for Oblivion with Tone of the Septims using magic to change the land to a generic medieval fantasy.
Civ'ed
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I know, what interests me as well is those markings.
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I think the first pic is probably Cyrodil, the dead dudes look more or less like Imperials to me.
Edit: Just read the article, nothing in there that is making me warm up to this game at all. Use a weapon to get better with it? That works in a single player game but in an MMO it's going to be the suck. Basically it means at end game, every time you decide to equip a new weapon type you are going to have to grind it up to max level before you can continue running content with your friends. Use your skills to make them more powerful? Same thing. Get ready to select your skills, and then spend hours grinding them to max level before you can raid with your friends. And people are completely fooling themselves if they think that being able to select which skills to have on your bar will mean freedom from class stereotypes. Every class will have one or two "builds" that are the mathematically ideal skills to select, and in order to raid you will be expected to be using one of them. They tried to do this in Rift too, introducing a pretty cool class system which was the most interesting part of the game, but at the end of the day it (surprise, surprise) wasn't perfectly balanced so everyone fell in to a few archetypes within each class.
Bottom line is the systems we see in Elder Scrolls games were originally designed from the bottom up for use in single player games. What works in a single player game can sometimes be the exact opposite of what will work in a multiplayer game, much less an MMO, and from what I'm hearing that appears to be the case here. They hype they are dispensing here reminds me very much of the initial hype we heard with The Old Republic. They are hyping different features than TOR did, but it has a very similar feel. And that game turned out to be a half-assed WoW clone with lightsabers. So you'll have to forgive me for not lining up to prostrate myself before Bethesda for this marvelous gift. This game feels like one that will be free to play within a year of release.
Edit: Just read the article, nothing in there that is making me warm up to this game at all. Use a weapon to get better with it? That works in a single player game but in an MMO it's going to be the suck. Basically it means at end game, every time you decide to equip a new weapon type you are going to have to grind it up to max level before you can continue running content with your friends. Use your skills to make them more powerful? Same thing. Get ready to select your skills, and then spend hours grinding them to max level before you can raid with your friends. And people are completely fooling themselves if they think that being able to select which skills to have on your bar will mean freedom from class stereotypes. Every class will have one or two "builds" that are the mathematically ideal skills to select, and in order to raid you will be expected to be using one of them. They tried to do this in Rift too, introducing a pretty cool class system which was the most interesting part of the game, but at the end of the day it (surprise, surprise) wasn't perfectly balanced so everyone fell in to a few archetypes within each class.
Bottom line is the systems we see in Elder Scrolls games were originally designed from the bottom up for use in single player games. What works in a single player game can sometimes be the exact opposite of what will work in a multiplayer game, much less an MMO, and from what I'm hearing that appears to be the case here. They hype they are dispensing here reminds me very much of the initial hype we heard with The Old Republic. They are hyping different features than TOR did, but it has a very similar feel. And that game turned out to be a half-assed WoW clone with lightsabers. So you'll have to forgive me for not lining up to prostrate myself before Bethesda for this marvelous gift. This game feels like one that will be free to play within a year of release.
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