Elder Scrolls Online

[HeallunRumblebelly]

God, I think I'm gonna buy it. For all my hating, I'll be there for early access, lol. As it turns out, if you play the solo portions in first person they're actually kinda fun. PVP of course is mandatory third, but still.

[citizen1080]

Originally Posted by HeallunRumblebelly [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

God, I think I'm gonna buy it. For all my hating, I'll be there for early access, lol. As it turns out, if you play the solo portions in first person they're actually kinda fun. PVP of course is mandatory third, but still.

Ill be able to reserve names on the first day of early access..and then i'm flying out to Hawaii for a week. I can't think of many better reasons to miss out on early access but it still sucks lol...

[Knuckle]

I'll be in the dominion with a group of friends, rolling as Knuckle Nord Dragonknight

[Randarn]

Sadly the f2p with stores is all about profit... the sub era is over...they just make more money when the player can buy aesthetic items. gw2, LoL. etc.

They govern to the masses and that's what they want these days. Casual playing with pretty outfits.

I say, bring on the VR....I'll pay pretty much anything lol.

[liveitup1216]

It's the shiniest turd we have available, so I'll be stomaching it until something better comes along. Just like always.

[citizen1080]

Originally Posted by liveitup1216 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's the shiniest turd we have available, so I'll be stomaching it until something better comes along. Just like always.

Funny, this is how I feel about our elections.

[Auvdar]

Originally Posted by liveitup1216 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's the shiniest turd we have available, so I'll be stomaching it until something better comes along. Just like always.

It's thinking like this that keeps getting us bad MMO after bad MMO. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Lune]

Originally Posted by liveitup1216 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's the shiniest turd we have available, so I'll be stomaching it until something better comes along. Just like always.

Originally Posted by Auvdar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's thinking like this that keeps getting us bad MMO after bad MMO. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Agreed, although I'm not sure whether I can attribute this to MMO's actually being bad, or the jaded cynicism of an adult who has been playing MMO's for half his life.

Opiate users 'chase the dragon', trying to replicate their idealized perception of what it first felt like to get high, in spite of diminishing returns and tolerance. All MMO discourse, everywhere, invariably comes across like a bunch of heroin addicts arguing about why nobody can get a good high anymore. It's missing the point.

I'm fairly certain no new MMO, no matter how masterfully designed, is going to blow your socks off. You've lost the ability to have your socks blown off.

When one finally does come along, the mind-blowing is going to manifest itself as "Meh, this game is actually pretty fun".

You never catch the dragon.

[citizen1080]

Originally Posted by Lune [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Agreed, although I'm not sure whether I can attribute this to MMO's actually being bad, or the jaded cynicism of an adult who has been playing MMO's for half his life.

Opiate users 'chase the dragon', trying to replicate their idealized perception of what it first felt like to get high, in spite of diminishing returns and tolerance. All MMO discourse, everywhere, invariably comes across like a bunch of heroin addicts arguing about why nobody can get a good high anymore. It's missing the point.

I'm fairly certain no new MMO, no matter how masterfully designed, is going to blow your socks off. You've lost the ability to have your socks blown off.

When one finally does come along, the mind-blowing is going to manifest itself as "Meh, this game is actually pretty fun".

You never catch the dragon.

Qft

[Tecmos Deception]

I disagree. Imo a great, new drug will blow your socks off even if you've been using something else a lot and/or for a long time.

But new MMOs aren't great (or maybe even good); they're just new.


Can all of you honestly say that nothing has blown your socks off since your first MMO? EQ was my first, and yeah. OMFG. But WoW blew my socks off too, and I'm nostalgic about early wow (the content more than the mechanics) almost like with classic EQ. Eve blew my socks off too. A few other games were solid "good"s in my book... usually cause they'd have a few great features, but the overall game was mediocre at best (city of heroes, shadowbane are the ones I can think of atm, I didn't play DAOC or early SWG). And then basically everything else was "shitty" because even if there was a great feature or two, or a number of good features, the overall game was terrible (rushed releases and games not delivering on early promises being the biggest issues, probably).