• SiliciusEscipion

    3 years ago

    A CARTOONY TES GAME.,, it’s an insult! A colorfull monstruosity!!! Yes, it’s hurts the eyes. And destroy the hearts! I feel sorry by Todd and the real ES team. Zenimax Online are not capable of capture the essence of the game. I have only recognice an ordinator! Only that of a dozen screens. This is not TES! TES IS BETTER THAN THAT!!! Sorry my english. But I need, I really need, express my angry!!!

  • Polnadian

    3 years ago

    TES was all about being the “chosen one”. How will they accommodate having hundreds of thousands of “chosen ones”?

    TES was also all about modding. For me, at least. How will you allow modding for an MMO?

  • Tim Bucto

    3 years ago

    Oh look, another generic looking MMO. Can’t you see loyal fans are upset with the direction you’re going into, Bethesda? This will bomb hard and you’re going to learn a lesson.

  • Zeta

    3 years ago

    Ok now, I hear a lot of people whining about this.
    I actually don’t really like the idea of it either, but then again, MMOs are not really something for me.

    I’ll have to see some more before I can decide whether I like it or not.
    But the idea is not really appealing to me.

    Anyway, I hope you guys can make a great game out of this!
    Cheers!

  • Bladed Cicada

    3 years ago

    It’s going to be ok guys. Todd and the team are not pulled from what they do and contribute. There will most certainly be more of the good stuff from them. Just don’t play it if you don’t like it. It’s a popular franchise and like many, would like to expand on something that has less risk than new properties. MMO’s operate on much more dynamic processing and are typically much larger so graphics tend to get scaled down. Personally, I’m curious to see what they expand on and how it’ll all work and I don’t even play MMOs.

  • Mastersarge

    3 years ago

    Oh god… now were gonna get bitching here…

    Listen; there is no way in hell these Screenshots look legitimate. There’s no reason to even judge it AFTER IT WAS FIRST ANNOUNCED

  • Rick

    3 years ago

    This makes me so sad.

    What have you done Zenimax? You’re destroying a such-beloved franchise.

    At least when you handed the keys to Fallout: New Vegas to Obsidian you made them keep it in the same basic mechanics.

    The worst part is, there’s no reason beyond trying to clone WoW that they couldn’t have a gritty MMO with real-time combat and skill-based progression. If you look at current MMOs like Darkfall and Mortal Online it is perfectly possible to have Skyrim’s combat system in an MMO. Game Informer lied about that one.

  • Jara

    3 years ago

    You gotta be shitting me. This looks like a beta screenshot for Morrowind.

    Warcraft has pretty lousy graphics by today’s standards too, but this looks… after how gorgeous Skyrim was, this looks like an insult.

  • SiliciusEscipion

    3 years ago

    WHAT? THIS NIGHTMARE IS REAL!!! AND IT´S BURNING MY EYES!!!!

  • SiliciusEscipion

    3 years ago

    THIS^^^
    NOT EVEN MANTAIN THE ART STYLE!!! At least mantain the Art Style!!! This is not TES! TES IS BETTER THAN THAT!!!

  • UnknownError

    3 years ago

    I’m going to tempt fate; it’s a WOW clone.

  • FT

    3 years ago

    Sorry gstaff.. is the “leaked” have more images.

    People say resemble to Morrowind?

    You guys are crazy…

  • tytus simpson

    3 years ago

    seriously this is an mmo not a single player game show me one massive open world mmo without shitty graphics. Zenimax finaly gives us what we were asking for and all people can do is complain about a game that actually seems to have nice graphics for an mmo.

  • SiliciusEscipion

    3 years ago

    Pull the plug now and start over. This is not what your fans want or what they have been waiting for. This is an insult.

    This is not TES! TES IS BETTER THAN THAT!!!

  • Julian

    3 years ago

    Looks cool.

    Nah I’m pretty disappointed too.

  • Caio

    3 years ago

    Oblivion are the beggining of the crash, ugly and full of bugs. Skyrim is all about graphics and bugs. Both with regular story. TES lost structure after Morrowind.

    This is not an insult, is just the franchise falling in parts.

  • Alex Cruz Tonamelt

    3 years ago

    In my opinion a spin-off doesn’t hurt anybody…

    I mean, there is that iphone version of Elder Scrolls (TES Travels), and nobody complained about those games. They even have their own addition to the lore, which most people (like me) totally missed.

    And I’m fine… My life is still complete.

  • Caio

    3 years ago

    Why people say Todd Howard this and that?
    This project probably start together with Skyrim, the guy knows of course!

    Hey, remember $$$$$$ or shutdown the company!

    Crying Babies! kill all babies!

  • Skarr

    3 years ago

    Guys, don’t start whining until you know how the game REALLY looks, and how fun it actually is. You literally know next to nothing about it thus far and you’re essentially “judging a book by its cover”. If you never give it a chance, there is no plausible way that you would enjoy it, regardless of its true quality. Remain neutral and calm, and let everything play out. It’s no big deal. Really.

  • Yoshi

    3 years ago

    I don’t get the complaining, but personally, I don’t mind the “cartoony” graphics. For a multiplayer game like this, I think it’s valid. concentrate on content and gameplay than on the awesome graphics. Leave that to the other Elder Scrolls games. But that’s just me. I’m no one.

  • M’aiq the liar

    3 years ago

    M’aiq thinks this game is gonna be awesome. M’aiq will buy it on release.

  • Fortify Fatigue Pants

    3 years ago

    Codpiece!

  • Mike

    3 years ago

    Can’t disagree with you anymore. If you can’t figure out how to install a few minor patches and think the only reason people play it is for the graphics your obviously beyond help. Find a new default argument other than visuals and minor glitches. Maybe try expanding into actual gameplay mechanics and then people might take you seriously.

    Also, Sorry Bethesda but I do not want.

  • castro

    3 years ago

    Nobody pays attention.

    The id software case: the group knew that id software today, is just a old guy with some medals, with nothing to return to its revolutionary origin ($$$). They know the reality of Rage “the game sux”. So the notorious id tech 5 became proprietary, because sux “the best loo..” shame. The visual during the marketing campaign completely change close to the launch, some screenshots appear with bad texture. The entire campaign was based on the “fathers of the FPS” highly emotional.

    During the same Quakecon 2011, Bethesda talk about multiplayer, MMO, why not or maybe yes… is all a controled situation, they know the present, but the audience receive as future or improbable. And more music and keynotes.

    A MMO takes time, this game and Skyrim probably have a close development start, maybe, in my theories, this is the cause for the lack in quality inside Skyrim, the bad level design and lack of ideas. Bethesda have a overflow, because TES is a project impossible for Zenimax Online take care alone.

    The worst case scenario? all this sacrifice for nothing.

    I think Doom 4 is the next !@#$ thinking in all that manipulation the game industry uses. Probably with better texture, but extremely huge and limited in gameplay, tech and ideas. This game are in development before Rage!

    Remember the Mass Effect 3 campaing? the actors express her opinion about “this is amazing” nobody are prepared for this! just wait! yeeeaaah…..

    Better than this recognition as an art, a law more rigid for the ads and events inside the gaming industry, this thing became a beer.

  • Llama765

    3 years ago

    Why isn’t it first person?? The combat looks like it’s styled after other mmo’s… Why is it cartoony??

    Argh…sorry I know I shouldn’t bitch before getting more info, but as a big fan of the Elderscrolls I’m a little disappointed right now.

    So what makes this mmo unique?

  • Duncan

    3 years ago

    No guys, no no no. Almost all the community wants the old Elder Scrolls, not an MMO. We can’t it co-op, we want it just like how it has been but with a co-op option. This is not- not right. This is a bad move, you are competing with two really good MMOs that hold the entire MMO community and you’ve made a bad move to most of your fans.

  • Caio

    3 years ago

    the name.

  • rafaq

    3 years ago

    We need to start a petition to cancel this game ASAP plz D:

  • AstroCat

    3 years ago

    Wow, this looks just awful!

  • Woverdude

    3 years ago

    People, it’s PRE-BETA. Betas always look terrible compared to the final edition. They don’t use their time making the betas look good, they focus on getting them working. The final product should look *much* better than this.

  • dave

    3 years ago

    Wow, this is just fail. Obviously this is directed by Zenimax suits. Fail.

  • Alexander

    3 years ago

    One more MMO. I’ll wait for a normal TES 6.

  • EtaYorius

    3 years ago

    Aaaagh… IT BUUUURNS!

    I would have preffer if Bethesda would release an Expansion with CO-OP in the mix, i would have payed 300USD just for Coop and play with a couple of friends… because playing with random [Censored] and getting killed every 5 minutes is not the type of Role Playing i am looking for… seriously, the graphics sucks… i mean, THEY SUCK… yes its that bad… cramp the Graphics like… A LOT and i may pay to play this just for being TES.

  • Hellbishop

    3 years ago

    They might go back to a TES 2 DAGGERFALL formula where instead of being the “Chosen One” you are a unknown citizen among the countless population of the empire. You may do great deeds but they might only effect those in your surroundings. So you could be the great hero or vile villain of a small town but beyond that no one has ever heard of you. Also certain weapons,armor,clothing might only be available in certain areas which could mean some looong traveling opening up possible adventures along the way.

    As for the screenshot looking great! Love the colour and the amount of detail which seems like THE ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE will run on many systems. Hopefully there will graphic settings to up the detail if one wants.

    Thanks for the imagination exploding eye popping mouth uncontrollable quivering at earthquake levels awesome screenshot :D

  • amila

    3 years ago

    this looks really bad i know this will break my heart there fore i will skip this and wait for the next elder scrolls chapter hope the faliure of this game wont bankrupt Zinimaz or Bethesda and dont ever include any of this games back story to Elder Scrolls Lore But the good news is the new game dishonoured its a must by for me :-)may TALOS & AKOTASH guide Betheda and Zinimaz.

  • Moloch

    3 years ago

    All right, looks like it’ll be played from the overused 3rd person after all. Good luck selling that.

  • FT

    3 years ago

    Hell says: “They might go back to a TES 2 DAGGERFALL formula where instead of being the “Chosen One” you are a unknown citizen among the countless population of the empire”.

    The best resolution, close to my attempts!

    People lost the sense, this crazyness shows a paranoic level. There are a move to speed up the game online, happens to everyone, a little more lowpoly, you see this in all types of MMO. About the TES world, the concepts show the region of Skyrim, Morrowind and some ruins close to the the imperial capital, the characters have a very good design.

    I stop here! my stamina is low for this massive attack of trolls.

  • robertus

    3 years ago

    destroying the saga like fable in 3, 2, 1 …

  • robertus

    3 years ago

    and the hands, oh my god the hands!!! D:

  • Petter

    3 years ago

    I think I have never seen graphics improve between the first (beta) screenshots and final version of a game. Neither with Morrowind, Oblivion or Skyrim, by the way.

  • Lev

    3 years ago

    When we said we wanted multiplayer ES, what we meant was some kind of system where you had a follower but a second player could drop in as the follower, not this. But, it will be interesting to see if you can pull this off and not just make another WoW clone.

  • Sypron

    3 years ago

    Have you guys gotten any positive feedback on this game yet?

    Because I think it’s high time you go back to the drawing board with this game. I think we understand that design concessions must be made in order to make the Elder Scrolls work as an MMO, but that hasn’t been done here. Reading about the gameplay, nothing sounds like Elder Scrolls. It just sounds like any other generic MMO. Do something new, something different. Change up the formula. No one is interested in playing World of Warcraft with an Elder Scrolls skin.

  • Kahsajara

    3 years ago

    You guys lol.

    Yes i know TES, especially Morrowind and Oblivion was part about defining the next generation of gfx. This is a MMO. You think all the people loaded into the world can handle Skyrim gfx AND load everything that everyone is doing all at the same time? Skyrim gfx barely just load by itself. Too me this looks pretty darn good, nice artwork for a MMO that resembles TES pretty well. I look forward to this. Stop crying as though it were made by Beth.

  • Connor

    3 years ago

    I think it looks like it might work, but I think you should leave it another year, and bring it out on future consoles,

  • HerpDerp

    3 years ago

    A WoW clone with TES theme? Oh god, the Mayans were right…. I’ve loved TES since Arena, but this has me worried. I’ll just have to wait and see..

  • Maxo22

    3 years ago

    HELP!!! We want you back Tod Howard, help us!

  • Martin McAllister

    3 years ago

    Why would zenimax wanna make this seriously, this is not a good thing here and you’s have lost a lot of respect from the games industry today. Your a bunch of sell-out a-holes and who’s ever idea this was there is a circle in hell reserved for you and it in all you do is grind pointless enemies and do stupid fetch quests and it never ends!

  • Darkstorne

    3 years ago

    Graphics and art style are two very different things. TES art style has never been bright colours and slightly accentuated proportions and architecture. The screenshots for this game could have come straight out of Kingdoms of Amalur.

    The other issue about this MMO not resembling TES, is that TES is defined by first person combat, a unique levelling system, and a highly interactive and reactive environment. They’ve thrown that away in favour of mechanics that are easier to jump in to for other MMO players. Way to completely mis-judge your target audience.

  • Ryan

    3 years ago

    You know what? I have taken action and crafted a letter to send to Zenimax Online. Im sure they’re not gonna think much of it, but i still find it in my duty to inform them how i feel as a fan of this respected franchise.

    Join me brothers and sisters, Let your voices be heard!!
    This letter was also sent to Zenimax Online contact form.
    http://www.zenimaxonline.com/contact.php

    Dear Sir/Mdm,

    Im very sorry to take up your precious time in reading what will be a very long letter.

    I am writing this letter in the hopes that you will seriously reconsider your decision in releasing The Elder Scrolls Online.

    I have come to this decision, after viewing the announcement trailer, and the leaked 19 page Game Informer magazine scan to write to you as i really feel it as my duty of a fan of this respected franchise to let you know how strongly i feel about this issue.

    Sure, you may just treat this email as nothing more then the ramblings of a crazy fanboy, but i hold in my heart the hope that maybe, just maybe someone would be nice enough to read this and pass it to Mr Matt Firor.

    As i am sure you should have known for now, the backlash from the fans have been extremely negative. In case you need to know WHY it has been negative, i will list them all out in point forms:

    ===================================================

    1) This MMORPG has VIOLATED every virtue that the Elder Scrolls Series have upheld.

    No longer are you the chosen one, where everyone and their mother are now the Dovahkiin. You will have the an emperor of Tamriel whose name is LegolasXXXX or LeegooLaXXWTF
    No more will the story be weaved around you, no more will characters sing your praises. Night after night, all you will hear is “WTFOMGBBQNOOB WHY IS YOUR TANKING/HEALZ/DPS SO SUBSTANDARD!!!! GTFO!!!!”

    The Elder Scrolls series has always been about a massive openworld sandbox SINGLE PLAYER experience where players are free to do whatever they wish. Putting it in a MMO context completely pushes this idea out of the window.
    This particular quote really made me very frustrated and angry:

    “It needs to be comfortable for people who are coming in from a TYPICAL massively multiplayer game that has the same control mechanisms, but it also has to appeal to Skyrim players.”

    The word “Typical” and “Same Control Mechanisms” here tells me that there will NOT be any innovations in this MMO, and it is taking the safe route of following what WoW and millions of other clones have done.

    ===================================================

    2) There is a very real fear among us that because of this MMORPG, the Single Player Elder Scrolls will be forever be banished, and only Elder Scrolls Online will be the one you can play.

    These fears are very real, as everyone have been trying to calm each other down by saying Zenimax Online is doing this, not Bethesda Game Studios.

    While this may be the case, alot of us are thinking what is to stop the company then, to merge these 2 studios together to fully focus only on the MMO as after all MMOs are more financially viable?

    I quote 2 examples that enforced this fear:

    Example A)
    WoW (World of Warcraft) is the reason why fans of Warcraft RTS will never see a Warcraft 4.

    Example B)
    Fans of KOTOR (Knights of the Old Republic) are extremely unhappy that a once beautifully crafted single player game is now SWTOR, which Bioware explicity states is Kotor 3,4,5,6,7 etc.

    ===================================================

    3) The art direction shown in the leaked Game Informer scans don’t give anyone any confidence. It shows us that this is merely another Hero Engine WoW-wannabe clone.
    Please kindly access the below weblink which shows a Gamespy article in which IT IS UNDERWHELMING.
    I couldn’t have said it better then what he said.

    Quoted from the Article:
    “If you’d shown me this screenshot and asked me to guess what it came from, I would never have guessed it was an Elder Scrolls game.”

    http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/elder-scrolls-online/1224380p1.html

    If you would want a video of what another outlet “Destructoid” is saying, here is another link:
    Here they are discussing why is the MMO taking out EVERYTHING that made Skyrim special?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBtfjOx0MJQ

    ===================================================

    4) The general tone of the article gives people the impression that ALOT of things that made the Elder Scrolls great CANNOT be put in due to technical reasons. (eg: Housing)

    If you have done research prior to making this Elder Scrolls MMO, you would have gone to the various Modding Websites, take a look at the Top Mods and know what people want. Player Housing is just one of the very many listed.

    ===================================================

    5) Alot of people are also asking “Why did you start to release info on this MMO, AFTER 5 YEARS of Production? Why can’t information been shown to the public in bits and pieces so we can still have the chance to help give our opinion to help build a game that the fans would be proud of?

    Announcing it at this time, with ONLY a year left is not going to be very helpful, as it is nigh impossible to request changes anymore this late in production.

    ===================================================

    In conclusion, while i sincerely hope that you can trash this whole MMO and redo it, i know it is financially and logically impossible especially after Zenimax has already dumped 5 years of work into it. Surely the bosses will not be happy at this decision.

    Hence, i offer the below suggestions, while may be rather drastic, will hopefully do a turnaround on this MMO. Im sure you guys are alot smarter then me and can produce and even better idea then what i have done here:

    1) Because Zenimax Online is still not known among the fans of the TES series, why not produce something that will give us confidence that our Elder Scrolls series is being handed over to a capable team?

    Establish the trust in the players first instead of just showing up out of nowhere and shove a MMORPG in our faces and expect us to buy it.

    Firstly you could get the Zenimax Online team to craft a MULTIPLAYER CO-OP Skyrim DLC.
    This will be good because of the below reason:

    1) Alot of people who want multiplayer, wants to co-op with a friend/spouse in the land of Skyrim, not with 10 million other strangers in an MMO.

    2) If the DLC is crafted well, Having this Co-op DLC produced first will show the players that Multiplayer do work in an Elder Scrolls setting, and give confidence that the team behind a good Co-op DLC should be capable of handling a massive project like an MMORPG.

    ===================================================
    My vision of what an Elder Scrolls Multiplayer would feel like:
    ====================================================
    This section details my stupid hopes and dreams if i had the capability to do so.

    Firstly i would not make the Elder Scrolls into an MMORPG, but a maybe 4 – 5 players Co-op, utilizing the existing Skyrim Visuals, UI, artstyle.

    It will feel like how Borderlands is designed, an Open World RPG that uses a first person perspective. THere isn’t much of such games around the market and this could be a good chance of doing so.

    Of course, while borderlands uses guns, my style will be to use the Skyrim mechanics of swords/magic/stealth.

    ===================================================

    Anyway this comes to the end of my letter and although personally i do not think it will make much of an impact especially since release is only 1 year away, i just want someone to at least hear what i feel at this time.

    Please do not destroy a very highly respected and beloved RPG franchise.

    P.S:
    Please send my regards to Mr Todd Howard and the entire Bethesda Game Studios team that i love their games so very much. The games they make, are what makes me proud to be a gamer and a fan. How i wish i could go down to their office, knock on the door and buy everyone one of them a nice cold beer for a job well done on Skyrim. They deserve all the awards that was presented to them.

    Best Regards,
    A very longtime and old fan of the Elder Scrolls series.

  • Sander

    3 years ago

    Dear Bethesda/Zenimax. This is just pathetic. It looks like it is another WoW clone. Make something original.

  • Jason

    3 years ago

    Rage is awesome.

  • Curly

    3 years ago

    Bethesda Softworks announces More WoW™. Did you like WoW? Then you’ll love More WoW™. All the pointless busywork is here: level grinding, faction reputation grinding, collection quests, heroic dungeons and raiding, over and over again, until the day you die. Forget about the limitless potential of gaming. Shut up and play More WoW™.

  • Dutch Oven

    3 years ago

    Looks great to me considering I never plan on playing it. A MMO will never be the same immersion as a single player game. Don’t even mention The Old Republic. Not quite the same feeling as KOTOR when there are 10,000 other Jedi Knights bunny hopping around the maps.

    Coop would have been the way to go with TES.

  • Snakeman

    3 years ago

    omg look at the hands :D

  • Nath

    3 years ago

    All this game needed was First Person View. So many years have I been reading about “First Person MMO” to be released and nothing ever comes of it.

    Elder Scrolls MMO, First Person View, Minimilistic UI = What we want and will pay for.

  • EtaYorius

    3 years ago

    It looks a lot like Kingdoms of Amalur or WoW.

  • Gen_Bucky

    3 years ago

    I can’t believe that Frior doesn’t “get” the TES Franchise.

    MMO Hot Bar Combat?
    No First Person?
    MMO type Classes?

    Can this project ASAP and make a REAL TES Online (Skyrim for mass people). This is a TOTAL abomination of the IP!!!

    As for the graphics… I don’t expect much with the Hero Engine after seeing beta shots of Hero’s Journey and the release of SW:TOR. It’s clear that engine isn’t about graphics. But for f***’s sake don’t make a fricken typical MMO WoW Clone! What a waste of cash… and potential!!!

  • Aggro

    3 years ago

    Shouldn’t the first screenshots of a new game which you are present to the crowds look awesome or nice or something like that? But this one looks pretty shitty to me….I’m sorry.

  • Gen_Bucky

    3 years ago

    I can’t believe that Frior doesn’t “get” the TES Franchise.

    MMO Hot Bar Combat?
    No First Person?
    MMO type Classes?

    Can this project ASAP and make a REAL TES Online (Skyrim for mass people). This is a TOTAL abomination of the IP!!!

    As for the graphics… I don’t expect much with the Hero Engine after seeing beta shots of Hero’s Journey and the release of SW:TOR. It’s clear that engine isn’t about graphics. But for heaven’s sake don’t make a flippin’ typical MMO WoW Clone! What a waste of cash… and potential!!!

  • Kirby

    3 years ago

    When I look at that screenshot, nothing about it says TES. All I see is another generic, uninspired mmo. I think I’ll stay with the single player games…

  • Viles

    3 years ago

    Sure it is , a shame , I won’t even follow it.

    Go Bethesda !

  • Darkstorne

    3 years ago

    Damn. He doesn’t even need a sword. He just grab that Atronach’s face and squeeeeeeeze.

  • Sankras

    3 years ago

    Instead of constructive criticism there are only doomsday-caller. It would be better to talk how to make it better instead of crying how bad it is.

    But i must say: the screenshot is bad, but we never see how it works with only a screenshot: maybe it’s only a bad screenshot or it’s simple to early.

    And please don’t forget: character design on a mmo can neve be as detailled as in a single player game: lesser fps on a single player game is not so tragic, but lagging in a mmo is deadly.

    My suggestion would be to wait with screenshots until the models are in a better state. And i really hope there are customizeable faces, because these two are really ugly. I’m sure that on a mmo there will be no possibility to make them better with various mods, so it’s your job this time (skyrim with vanilla faces is also not very playable)

    I think you can do better and in this state there can be a lot of changes.

    And the background: plants are so so, grass needs a better texture and with higher settings there should be real grass to see, the wall in the background is ok, stairs are also ok, waypath is really bad and does not fit in a elder scrolls mmo (to a old abadoned fort (at least it look like this) there should be a broken path with grass).

    And again: please overhaul the characters: the body models are a little bit to old, but the faces are only bad; REALLY BAD. Simply change them.

  • castro

    3 years ago

    Rage Sux. Amazing waste of time and money.

  • Rick

    3 years ago

    I never been so excited then completely turn off by a game announcement before in my life. When I heard about the game earlier in the week I was pumped that there would be a TES MMO. After reading the game informer article the game just became a pass. Really your just going to copy the EQ/WOW template and hope that its going to be able too meet sales and subscription expectations. You guys really have to start making better decisions or you will end up like so many Developers before you thinking that you guys are untouchable. Don’t be surprised if you having to sell you IP to some upstart company down the line you have done it yourselves don’t think that it will not happen to you keep going down this road. Other than Skyrim what game have you guys come out with that actually met your sales expectations with the amount of marketing that you guys put behind these games.

  • Snakeman

    3 years ago

    agree 100%

  • The Icarus

    3 years ago

    You guys really shouldn’t judge a game based on one lousy screenshot, at least wait until the game comes out to complain about it. (I certainly won’t be complaning).

  • Charybdisjim

    3 years ago

    “A MMO takes time, this game and Skyrim probably have a close development start, maybe, in my theories, this is the cause for the lack in quality inside Skyrim, the bad level design and lack of ideas. Bethesda have a overflow, because TES is a project impossible for Zenimax Online take care alone.”

    The MMO was being worked on by a different 250 people, in a seperate Zenimax subsidiary, in a building 60 miles away using an entirely different engine (Hero Engine). The engine architecture, world building tools, physics package and almost everything else used making the MMO requires familiarity with a different technology than Skyrim. You can say the samething about iD and Rage too. It would not be of much use for them to have mixed up the teams at all beyond maybe concept and texture artists even if that’s how studios like this worked (and their jobs are mostly done very early in the development.)

    If you didn’t like some aspecs of Skyrim that’s a perfectly fine opinion, but they are no more related to this project than any defficiencies you may have seen in Rage had to do with Skyrim or Starbreeze’s The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. Some of the things people complain about most in Skyrim have been things people have complained about to some degree in Bethesda games since Daggerfall. Take it as a hazard of large open-world games, their particular managment and development style, or blame grizzly bears if you like.

  • castro

    3 years ago

    I expressed my opinions. Rage for me is a bad game, an example of brute force + media to sell close to adequate, using the magic of “multiplatform”.

    Skyrim is good, i do not consider it a bad game, but released as something too extraordinary, is not a stable experience for probably half of the consumers in the end. And the game sells a lot, one of the best marketing campaigns ever made in my opinion, for a game.
    There is no way to support problems in the end, people have limits.
    Today with crises and problems, spend money to buy a eletronic toy or game, is serious. For the consumer, who desires just play, the amount of people, director of the movie, color of the hero, names and so on, dont matter in the end.. the fun, fluidity is all.

    Even separated, some contact must have occurred between BGS and Zenimax Online. The BGS works with TES far beyond the visual or mechanics, are the parents of the child, the idea. You put 500 people, without the mentors, is just an army of zombies.

    Hardcore fans have one feeling “rage” and whatever you say about the mechanics and lore… is just rage. I think rage is trademark for !@#$ now.

    Just my opinions and theories, i do not say “a guy come back from the dead as absolute truth” in the end.

  • castro

    3 years ago

    All titles are different, but the end is the same, sell a game. For the consumer, name and history are different, but the final use is just play the game.

    Is fun? is ok? thats the problem.

  • Shaun

    3 years ago

    I only want to see The Elder Scrolls in MMO form when you guys are capable of supplying it, not because just there’s demand for it. From what I’ve read, the combat won’t be realtime due to latency issues. If that’s the case, then clearly it isn’t possible to create an MMO that truly deserves the title of being an Elder Scrolls game. It’s odd because I’ve always found combat to be one of The Elder Scrolls weak points. But recycling the lazy and over-used WoW style of combat will only alienate TES fans, and make for a painfully generic game that lacks any sense of innovation.

  • Robman

    3 years ago

    Wow, that was REALLY dissapointing. Looks like crap in my opinion.

  • Johnn123

    3 years ago

    People are expecting the wrong type of game. People are expecting a typical TES game in an MMO. Obviously thats not going to happen. This is an MMO. This is going to be a new style game in TES series, something TES has never done before. Before people go off the deep end about it, why don’t we just let it come out and play it for a bit before judging it?

  • FlickkedOff

    3 years ago

    Stylized graphics? Are you kidding me?! That alone says cash-grab. To those commenting on the graphics improving over time; that won’t change them from stylized to realistic no matter how much we want.

  • josh

    3 years ago

    You gotta understand, this isn’t the next TES game. This is the first game in a series of it’s own. The only thing it has in common with TES: Arena-Skyrim is that it will be in the same universe. It’s probably not going to be anything like anything we’re used to. I’m going to buy it, without a doubt. I would still love if there was some way to incorporate multiplayer gameplay into Skyrim. Like on the loading screen you could either load, continue, or multiplayer. Even cooler than that, a new DLC that puts a new location in Skyrim, a place called Arena, you enter the Arena and your now in a multiplayer version of the game. Everything could be level based, kind of how pokemon is on the ds. There could be categories for levels 1-5, 5-10, 10-15, etc. Just some of my wishes, more so dreams. Ha.

  • josh

    3 years ago

    Another thing that has me really pumped for this is that it’s on Mac, I will never own a PC. It kinda gives me hope that TES games will start being made for Mac plus PC. I play on Xbox so it kinda sucks not having the tools pc players get like CK, SW, a whole community of modders working together. There’s not very many mods out there for Skyrim on Xbox, I wish people would realize that there are mods for Xbox though. I have to give great thanks to the modders out there that make these mods possible for Xbox players. I salute you. Lol. For the people that are already saying it’s gonna be terrible, just stop. We’ve known about it for how many days now? 4 or 5 days. It’s not even coming out until next year, if even then, so theres plenty of time for it to become something great, and i’m sorry but honestly, you could take dog turds and put em in TES cases and their gonna sell, and probably be the greatest dog turds ever made. ha ha. I’m just saying, it’s got all the potential to be epic. Don’t knock it at least until it comes out. I do hope Bethesda has something to do with the development of it though, if they do then Lord knows it will be great. Look at everything else they’ve given us, classic after classic after classic. Skyrim hasn’t even been out a year and it’s already a classic.

  • CO

    3 years ago

    if it is NOT free to play then I will NOT play

  • Comet

    3 years ago

    Well the game was just announced and there’s very few information but the little that there is it shows that Elder Scrolls Online will be just like any other standard MMORPG.
    But people don’t want just another standard MMORPG in the TES world.
    Yes people would love to get a multiplayer TES experience. But one where the real-time action based gameplay remains the same.
    Where the world keeps on changing. With NPCs walking around and all that. It may be a MMO, but does a MMO need to always follow the same rules?

    I hope that as time goes on information shows that Elder Scrolls Online in just another MMO following the same rules as others.
    If it doesn’t it will fail miserably because it won’t live up to the millions of fans of the TES world. And word of mouth can make or kill a product.

  • Whostine

    3 years ago

    i like how when people hear about Skyrim they get excited and say its gonna be the best game ever made and Bethesda is one of the best companies but, as soon as they announce an MMO people insult the entire franchise and point out every bad thing about TES series. Im not a fan of MMOs but I don’t think this is gonna ruin the entire company and the TES series, if anything it will be a game that people hate but in the end, play it anyways because its an MMO.

  • Pedro Ferreira

    3 years ago

    The description that a Khajiit in a encampment just oustide Whiterun made me of Elswyer while playing Skyrim almost made me believe that the next Elder Scrolls game would take place there, vast deserts with cities so ancient the sand have swallowed them hole. And we will go there… but after looking at that screenshot i don’t think i will be the same experience, it’s not about the graphics, but i doubt the level immersion will the same… and that’s like loosing part of the very soul that made me a fan of the series.

  • Adam G.

    3 years ago

    Bethesda, Zenimax, as a fan who has played these games since 2002, here’s a bit of sage advice: Toss out the ideas behind this MMO.

    I mean wholesale. Throw them all out. Copying the style of WoW clones from 2007 to 2010, which the information that has been given shows, is only going to see this project dead, within a year or two at most. There has been over five years of MMO development since this started, far more than enough time to break free of copying WoW.

    However, since this project is real, try these ideas instead.

    – Have instanced worlds with 1 to 6 players by default. – The Guild Wars method. In this case, you don’t get other players who use l33tsP3Ak like morons to mess up your experience, which I’ve noticed a lot of people complain about so far. You get only the players you grouped with speaking to you, which satisfies the co-op people want.

    – Keep the open worlds and freelance gameplay. – People want to quest when they like, kill if they please, steal everything not nailed down, and interact with the world. Above all, people want real-time gameplay. TERA is doing it, and people love it. Use that instead.

    – Do not use the EVE Online method of charging exorbitant amounts of cash for things like clothing or gear. – If you are going to go the microtransaction route for this game, stick to only cosmetic and simple items that require money.

    – Do NOT streamline this game. – Counting back, Daggerfall had 35 skills, Morrowind had 27, Oblivion had 21, Skyrim has only 18. Please don’t reduce that number any further. Moreover, add back greaves, pauldrons, and separate gloves.

    Further if this is an RPG, you should have strengths and weaknesses in your character, so bring stats back. Chances are this will go back to the Arena style of gameplay with XP for each kill and certain actions, leaving the skills to grow as you allocate points upon leveling.

    That said, until it’s proven that TES: Online is more than a WoW clone, I’m remaining pessimistic about the success of this game.

  • Ezra

    3 years ago

    peoples anger when they saw this just shows how succesful TES franchise has been, and when they see our “heroes” Bethesda showing a first screenshot of their new project which happens to be mmorpg (remember, those crappy semi turn based concept of gaming to allow many players to play together because noone has been able to design a real fps/rpg like game for thousands) which looks like any other shitty free to play crap that any other unknown chinese game studio could have throw up, well, then Id say its normal people get mad.

    But like I say, that only confirms how people (including myself of course) have become captive of bethesda great TES games

    Zenimax/bethesda now needs to show they are dead serious with this project in not making another one in the vast dozens of generic mmorpg crap out there, this first screenshot does not seem to show that,victims of their own success I guess.

  • Aedelric

    3 years ago

    I suggest a new name for the game, `Generic MMO 2013´.

    Really, just look at those screenshots, it has completely lost that Elder Scrolls flavour. The art direction seems to have completely missed the mark, well, unless the mark the team was aiming for happened to spell the word bland.

    Still, I love Bethesda Gaming Studio games, you can still count me in for Elder Scrolls VI regardless, just not this.

  • dovakuin

    3 years ago

    why is this called TES?…is not TES, don’t disgrace the name of a excellent game with this generic-uninspired mmo.

  • EtaYorius

    3 years ago

    I dont like the direction of the game, but i wish Bethesda the best of luck and success… ill pass on this title and will keep playing and supporting the Single Player TES games or hopefully a CO-OP for Skyrim.

  • Steve J.

    3 years ago

    Ugh…I’ll just go back to playing Skyrim now…

    To be honest, I may give this a chance, but I just do not like MMOs. The fact that TES is going MMO scares me considerably.

  • Jeff H

    3 years ago

    The screenshots for the game do not look promising, I realise that it would be impossible to make it look like Skyim, I accept that, but at the same time the TES games have never looked this ‘cartoony’ before. They always had a certain style to them and this doesn’t show it.

    Also I found out that not all of Tamriel will be explorable, that areas are level restricted or unavailable until future expansions. TES is all about exploring, take that away and you don’t have a TES game.

    On the other hand having some dungeons open and not instanced is an intriguing idea.

    I hope I am wrong, I will reserve my full opinion when all the info is out, I have been a fan since Arena first came out, but the Game Informer article doesn’t paint a good picture of it. It comes off more like WoW, I like WoW, but I don’t wanna play that. I wanna play TES Online.

    I haven’t been disappointed yet by TES . Lets hope I won’t be this time.

  • GG

    3 years ago

    you know… initially i was skeptical but hopeful for this title…. but after reading alot of this serious backlash from the community, I gotta say I find myself agree’ing with most everything. Even if I end up liking the game, it’s still not TES… it’s starting to leave a sour taste in my mouth.

    Know whats the worst in an online game? lvl caps and endgame content,… it always sucks,.. to make a successful TES online, I’d say they would need to at least deviate from that MMORPG trend.(no leveling? idk, that creates issues also)

  • Benjamin Swinbanks

    3 years ago

    this is a shot in the kneecap for true TES fans.

    while yes the world is big and the history immense. we dont play TES for these things. we play for the IMMERSION.

    and now we can turn based dice roll combat, forced third person, ugly ass hotbars?

    jesus christ zenimax you really screwed the pooch on this one. all people want is the ability to invite a friend or two into the world and play co-op or pvp doesnt matter. dont take such a loved IP and shit all over it.

    i feel bad for Todd Howard and his team. zenimax is destroying such a great franchise in the hearts and minds of so many.

    this game will not be bought by me. I understand that the netwrok infrastructure doesnt exist yet for the MMO we would want.. so WHY MAKE THE GAME ZENIMAX.

    such a shame…

    ah well.

    Deadly Azuril – creator of ThuuMic

  • eahaddix

    3 years ago

    gstaff,

    Over the years, I have come to mentally picture the ideal version of Elder Scrolls Online as a game which has the gameplay and environmental presentation of TES3: Morrowind with some additional upgrades from TES5: Skyrim, the graphical quality of TES5: Skyrim, and a first person point of view centered open world which would encompass all of Nirn regularly.

    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 Elder Scrolls Online.

    Converting 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.

    In short, I feel that Elder Scrolls Online, as it is shaping up right now, is a bad idea.

  • Chris

    3 years ago

    Looks awful. I’ve spent a lot of time playing mmo games, I’m burnt out and bored of the formula. I play games like Skyrim for a change, there is no way I will pickup TESO. I think you have made a very big mistake, this will die pretty quick. Out of your two main franchises I think Fallout would have made a far more intersting MMO, there would have been plenty of scope to do something novel. TESO? I really hope you havent sunk much money into this project, you won’t be getting it back!

  • Sean

    3 years ago

    The excuse that Zenimax and Bethesda are separate companies and are completely independent is bull. The two companies are joined at the hip.

    Whatever happens at Zenimax you can be sure that Bethesda is aware it.

    This MMO is clearly a generic WOW clone. It exists to produce easy money, at least that is how it would have been seen when development began.

    Today the MMO genre is over-subscribed, has a fickle customer base, and is generally lacking in innovation. Based on current information the Elder Scrolls Online does not appear to be adding anything novel to the mix.

    Beth and Zenimax are going to have to find a way to step out of the s*@t they find themselves in without damaging the Elder Scrolls IP any further.

    I am disappointed that Beth (or Zenimax if you must) would foist something so average onto their fans.

  • Fabrice

    3 years ago

    Agree. Although we have to keep an open mind that it’s a different game. Nonetheless, my first hopes and excitement was “OMG Skyrim MMO”. But this isn’t a Skyrim MMO. It’s going to be a million miles away from Skyrim’s simplified UI and immersion. It’s a bit disappointing because there is room to make something very different.

  • Fabrice

    3 years ago

    All those images can be summed up in one word: YAWN.

    Honestly, Bethesda, what are you trying to do here? Just cashing in the trademark? We have seen this a million times already. And it’s been done to hell and already much better it’s called AION, or TERA or whatever else will come out long before ES:Online does. It’s ALREADY done. No amount of “special interesting skills, combos, new twist on the skillbar/crafting/younameit” is going to make a scrap of difference.

    Give us an immersive experience like Skyrim.

    NO GUILDS to separate players.

    People band together as in-game PRE MADE guilds like the Companions, a sort of allegiance.

    Minimal UI.

    Action Combat like Skyrim is just fine. Just improve it.

    Skyrim is a sandbox, how about a MMO sandbox? One where the goal is not to get to level 99 as fast as possible, but one where people can BUILD things like SecondLife? Build cities or houses?

    Come on, you already have a housing system in Skyrim that is a wonderful time sink all of itself and could have been improved for an MMO.

    Let people build dungeons like EverQuest 2.

    Let them live a life in a Skyrim sandbox, with friends.

    Do something DIFFERENT.

    You want money? Just look at how people are insane about modding this.

    Make money selling in game modifications: clothes, make ups, hairdos, weapons, house decorations, dungeon building, …

    And why not

  • Fabrice

    3 years ago

    Untrue. The art directions is thought LONG in advance and very early in the development cycle. The screenshot indeeds says a thousand words, but they’re all variations on Y-A-W-N.

  • Fabrice

    3 years ago

    Since they’re going for “nextdoor” MMO, and they already used Scaleform in Skyrim, here, save some time:

    Autodesk Scaleform MMO Kit
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t4skDLLf_E

    Just what we need.

  • Bagles

    3 years ago

    Everyone can complain about TES Online as much as they want and it will never make a difference. Bethesda has almost always ignored what the consumer says about their products.

    An example is Oblivion, all of the “core” TES fans of the time complained non-stop because it was different than Morrowind but because the LOTR movies were being released and still fresh the game did extremely well and gained a NEW fan base. This is no different.

    If you like TES Skyrim and the other single player games they will continue to make them for your to enjoy BUT if you think they are making this MMO for us you are mistaken. They are making this game for a different audience, a broader audience. They don’t need us to make it a success. This is typical Zenimax/Bethesda strategy and it has worked for them thus far and IMO it will continue to work for them.

    I will wait until there is REAL information to decide on this title, screenshots and trailers have never captured the essence of a game.

  • Elder lol

    3 years ago

    Mmm… I noticed the three creatures that were clanged in each other were not three dragons, but a loin, a bird and a dragon, and I heard recently( a month ago) that these three were the symbols of the three guilds( sides) you can choose, not like the usual two, but three! I still don’t know how the game is going to look like, because this screenshot could have been taken anywhere in tamriel… and anytime.

  • Red D.

    3 years ago

    it’s not looks like a TES. It looks like a common MMORPG
    instead making a new MMORPG, why u no making new fallout series?

  • shnabubula

    3 years ago

    hero engine? really? all that’s going to produce is a watered down WoW clone, just like SWTOR. If they absolutely HAD to make a TES MMO, it would have been a great franchise to break out of the MMO cookie cutter. Instead they take the easy way out, use the same tired combat system, same predictable crafting system, and the same ol boring pvp.
    Don’t believe me, look at SWTOR. A game that, through its entire development, promised to be nothing like WoW and to deliver an MMO experience the likes of which have never been seen.

    And one more thing: this will be the last TES game that is developed for PC. :D

  • Adam G.

    3 years ago

    Gonna disagree with you there. If you’ve noticed, Skyrim is more like an MMO than an RPG in many ways.

    – No more stats.
    – Endless quests to kill/collect/deliver.
    – Perks that can’t be unlocked until several levels in/Do nothing significant.
    – A civil war that is spoken about but never truly shown.
    – Simplified skills/armor.
    – Weapons/armor/clothing that mostly boosts skills and simple stats.
    – Regenerating health.

  • Brent Mifsud

    3 years ago

    Nice to see some decent screenshots, the graphics aren’t really that bad after all.

    Why didnt Bethesda put up some higher res screens? The ones up here on bethblog look like they were scanned out of a PC gamer magazine in the “game rumors” section.

    All i can say is that this game better have some revolutionary game play mechanics or i wont even consider it. And by revolutionary I mean tera-esque combat, and crafting that isn’t a boring as fuck grind like in wow. Im just so bored of button mashing auto-attack combat, i want something more engaging in an mmo.

  • Nackidno

    3 years ago

    What people don’t understand is that it’s not Bethesda that is making this game, Zenimax Online is (Beth only publish it, kinda like with FONV) and the true ES series will continue JUST like it does today. This MMO thing has nothing at all, 0%, nothing, not one single thing to do with the true Elder Scrolls games. The single player series will continue just like it always have and we will get out TES VI with no delay. Don’t like it? Don’t get it. Nothing will change in the normal series.

  • Phillips Briggs

    3 years ago

    I thought this was some kind of joke when I saw it. This is the best screenshot they picked? Is this from an alpha build?

  • Caio

    3 years ago

    Spit out the Fallout MMO too, yeah! show your hidden things. The public dont deserve lose money traveling to see inside E3 or QuakeCon, the future wounded dreams!

  • JMHeitkamper

    3 years ago

    How many times will people ask ‘why make the game’ when the answer is so obvious? Because people will buy it. Just because you aren’t one of those people doesn’t invalidate the opinions of the people who are.

    Ultimately, why is it such a big deal to you? If you aren’t going to play it, why do you care if it exists? I don’t eat asparagus because I hate it but I would never tell the farmers of the world to not grow the stuff.

    The Elder Scrolls isn’t sacred. Hell, Battlespire and Redguard are evidence enough that the series can be used to make a number of different game styles. They aren’t the kind I prefer but I know a number of people who love them.

    Seriously, I am one of those ‘been into the Elder Scrolls since Arena’ blowhards same as the next zealot but we really need to realize that what WE think the ES should continue to be isn’t necessarily what the company wants to pursue. They aren’t punishing us by making new games.

    MMOs can and do make money and using an existing product like the ES as a basis can only improve their odds. People like things like this and I applaud any effort Zenimax and Bethesda make to keep the Elder Scrolls property alive.

  • RFolok

    3 years ago

    Not too impressed. Skyrim was a beautiful game with a great look and feel. These screens look so generic, it’s almost boring to look at them. The armor designs look so..generic, the models look…generic, the backgrounds look generic and uninspired. It looks like no love, or care has even been put into making these few “leaked” screenshots look like anything spectacular. This could be a major fail on behalf of Zenimax. Not interested in this one bit until they show us what the catch is and why I should care about this game.

  • Rick

    3 years ago

    Basically the two rational responses have been: “we hate this” and “wait and see.”

    Neither makes things very promising. Worst response to an MMO announcement in history. By far. This blows the trickle of distaste when Warcraft went MMO out the the water!

  • Jeff H

    3 years ago

    That’s my hope, it’s just alpha

  • Rick

    3 years ago

    Having a Mac over a PC on purpose is like having a Fisher Price Easy-Bake-Oven over a Real Oven…on purpose.

  • TheJexster

    3 years ago

    Welcome! To! World of elder scrolls! Seriously this should look and play like UO 2 not wow 2.0. Sad just sad.

  • HarborMaster

    3 years ago

    Check this out, from ESO forums. This is an analogy for what ESO has done to us TES fans (Imagine if you were a COD fan and Activision announced this). Freakin’ HILARIOUS and also a little sad:

    HYPOTHETICAL PRESS RELEASE EXCERPT:

    DOUBLE HELIX GAMES, makers of “Battleship: The Game” are currently developing a brand new MMO for Activision’s acclaimed, signature first-person shooter franchise: “Call Of Duty.”

    Built upon the WORLDFORGE engine, COD: ONLINE, will feature a new and exciting third-person view from which to control your soldier! Pair that with the same MMORPG mechanics so many veterans are used to, with hotkey, timer-based combat, cooldowns, but in the fast-paced, hardcore military environment of World War One and we can’t lose! The story of CODO will be a pre-pre-prequel to the Call of Duty single-player games, that sees many familiar faces on dead old French people from the first COD WW2 game, as actual main characters that you and thousands of others will control across the theaters of WW1. Why not the core FPS combat of previous COD games? Well because in an MMO that would be technically IMPOSSIBLE! (Don’t google “Planetside” please).

    From the Sommes to Gallipoli, you will march across decimated wastelands and war-torn landscapes to finally fire one round from your bolt-action rifle and be immediately cut down by incessant, AI driven machine-gun fire that will guarantee a historically accurate outcome to the war. Keep in mind though, the rock-paper-scissors of hotkey-based 3rd-person combat! If your opponent uses his “Mustard Gas” AOE DOT then you counter with your “Gas Mask” Interrupt and press the number 2 to fire your gun at him. Suck at aiming? Don’t worry, all you have to do is tab target your enemy and you will hit him in the face every time. Battles will be staggeringly huge, sometimes up to 100v100 in the same battlefield! Did we say battlefield? We meant Call-of-Duty.

    Also, we’ve decided to approach the art-style with a more cartoony feel to it. Considering the success of games like “Team Fortress 2″ we’ve decided to basically copy that. It’ll be great, you’ll love it. You have to! It has “Call of Duty” written on it! You don’t want people to think you don’t LOVE Call-of-Duty do you? Think of how bullied you’d get in school, and that cute girl in class would never look your way again without a lifetime subscription to CODO! Since we also own Blizzard, we’ll also be able to do some cross-promotion with you WoW veterans, who will feel right at home in the trenches of WW1 since all the battlefields are basically re-skins of Arathi Basin. You can even earn some new unique gear in CODO that will give your WoW character some new looks like, a German WW1 helmet with that cool spike on the top! Imagine your level 85 Goblin wearing one of those! Badass!

    Last thing, the shareholders at Activision have said that if this doesn’t blow away WoW’s lifetime sales in the first week and score at least 103 on Metacritic, they will close the book on all future COD projects, regardless of genre or developer. It’s only fair, since we’ve invested more money and manpower and time into this game than any other COD before. So if you want COD to continue, you will buy this game and subscribe to it. Forever.

    Love, your “bestest pal ever,”
    Robert “Bobby” Nicholson J. “I was in Moneyball with Brad Pitt” Kotick

  • Ztreek

    3 years ago

    Why would someone buy this game? and not WoW,TERA,GW2,SW-ToR?

    Please tell me, what does this game have that those does not?

    TERA and GW2 is the future of MMORPG combat

    WoW is the major mmorpg out there, SW-ToR is made in the same engine, which will be SW-ToR medieval?
    Why would someone Buy TES online? is it just for the name? if this was called World of Heroes or something, nobody would buy it, and i dont think many will buy this title either, it lacks everything from what we have right now.. we already have what this game does not have at this early stage at least..

    By changing the combat to a modern mmorpg style, making this the first FP-mmorpg would also make it a unique and cool one..
    But nope, WoW formula, SW-ToR engine, and third person.. good job.

    -.-

  • Will B

    3 years ago

    Actually the final release will look WORSE as they trim the fat to get the game running better.

  • Fabio Bittar

    3 years ago

    Yep. Capitalize on the name and that’s it. This is an insult.

  • Fabio Bittar

    3 years ago

    This is horrible.

  • john heffernan

    3 years ago

    Guys, please just scrap this and pick something else. SWOTOR was promising to be something different from WoW, and they spent 300M on it, but when it was released everyone saw it as the WoW clone it is, and they have already given away a free month to pad the subscription numbers to try and hide how bad they are doing.

    Going through with this and providing a WoW clone will make you lose money. Anyone who wants a WoW clone is already playing WoW. Anyone who isn’t playing WoW isn’t playing it because they don’t want too. If they wanted to play a game that plays like WoW, they would play WoW. Adding a theme doesn’t make a game different, case in point with SWOTOR.

  • Pete

    3 years ago

    If I hadn’t known this was elder scrolls online screenshot I would have said it was a screenshot of RIFT. Just cancel this shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Darkstorne

    3 years ago

    I think most people get it. The knee-jerk reaction these past few days comes down to the fact that when word of an Elder Scrolls MMO was announced, a LOT of fans suddenly thought about how awesome traditional TES gameplay, across all of Tamriel, alongside friends, would be. Then a day later the info was leaked and we were faced with the reality that the gameplay is really nothing like the single player TES games.

    It’s on Zenimax now to win everyone over by showing that they HAVE advanced the standard MMO formula enough, and it’s not just another WoW clone with a few additions and tweaks like SWTOR was. Prove it’s innovative, and still captures the spirit of TES (even if they’ve already given up on the gameplay) and perhaps they still have a winner on their hands.

    That generic MMO-style art style isn’t the best start, unfortunately.

  • HyperHyper

    3 years ago

    Noooooooooooo! Please stop that sh*t Bethesda! Stop them destroying your work. I know you guys from Bethesda hate it – you gotta stand up now or its to late. You have to completely work over this stuff and release a REAL TES Online much later than 2013.

  • Ulrika

    3 years ago

    I’m kind of worried here. This doesn’t feel like Elder Scrolls to me. The cartoony style feels all wrong.

  • Rory

    3 years ago

    Will B and Petter are spot on!

    What a disaster! This is all about money, TES fans are clear about what they want, a innovative and original MMO experience based on TES Gameplay!

    No excuses, it can be done! put the talented people behind Skyrim to work on the tes online project. If you respect TES fans then the project can’t fail as we will back it to the end… But this is not a TES game and it is dammed to failure!

  • Rory

    3 years ago

    …Even Better spend a fraction of the budget for this creating a solid online CO-OP mode for Skyrim, sell it as a expansion pack and you would keep Everyone Happy!

  • DarkLobo

    3 years ago

    This game looks horrible and the proportions of the characters look like world of warcraft im dissapointed eww.

  • john heffernan

    3 years ago

    Swtor*

  • lopez

    3 years ago

    I read alot of the comments above and must say that if there wasn’t people willing to buy this, they wouldn’t make it. I personaly won’t get it, but i hope they do a good job on it so we won’t later look back at this as a stain on a great series.

  • WheelyBob

    3 years ago

    This is awful. People wanted Skyrim the MMO. Not another warcraft knockoff. This might as well be named Generic MMO #123. At least that way this crap wouldn’t tarnish the good name of TES.

    I honestly thought this was a joke initially. I was right. This game is a joke. They’re just messing with us right? It’s april fools trolling?

  • WheelyBob

    3 years ago

    People were willing to buy an Elder Scrolls MMO. This isn’t that, this is another generic MMO that just happens to have TES in the name.

  • Grohiik

    3 years ago

    Looks Good To Me And i’m Sure I’ll Play And Love it once it’s Released. Thanks You Bethesda For your All Your Awesome Games.

  • Bs Bethesda

    3 years ago

    Hey at least we know why skyrim DLC hasn’t come out yet. Bethesda has waisted their time on a wow clone. Great job Bethesda!

  • Drakan

    3 years ago

    Looks awful, like yet another clone of WOW – as if we didn’t have enough already.

  • Externix

    3 years ago

    I don’t see why everyone’s getting so annoyed from ONE screenshot. We haven’t even seen one SPECK of gameplay and people are brushing the game off as a WoW clone just based off its graphics. For all you know the gameplay could be a revolution in MMOs. Just because you see this screenshot’s graphics that doesn’t mean you should go “AHGUIEAGHUIABFIBFIA BETHESDA IS EXPLOITING AND RUINING TES SERIES OMG THIS WILL SUCK WOW CLONE WOW CLONE WOW CLONE THIRD PERSON THIRD PERSON THIRD PERSON”. Wait until Bethesda shed some more light on this before you start calling it a WoW clone.

  • E. Botchi

    3 years ago

    Oh my codpiece!

  • E. Botchi

    3 years ago

    Is that a CURVED SWORD? Curved. Swords.

  • TangleClaw

    3 years ago

    … You do understand that this is only the first screenshot… and that an MMO will require hundreds of people to be on screen at once. If the graphics were anything like the actual Elder Scrolls games then your system would choke, and ignite into a smoldering pile of burning ashes. I may a console guy, but this console guy is also a Computer Technician… and we -know- the physical limitations of these things. Now… would the graphics potentially get better? As guaranteed as the Schrodinger’s Cat’s death, maybe.

    But if Graphics are all that make games to you now… then I feel sorry for you son.

  • Llama765

    3 years ago

    It’s not so much just the graphics, but even the combat system looks copy pasted from other mmo’s.. I’m not totally blowing blowing it off yet, but it had better have some really unique features or be free to play.

  • Ekusa

    3 years ago

    Holy crap this looks terrible. Bethesda should just kill themselves now.

  • caio

    3 years ago

    Stop waste your time fanboy, the end result is the same. Go back to your Offline MMO Shooter, or Skyrim.
    Try copy a mod for a new pretty armor! full of details, colorful!
    Maybe some naked bodies, florets with better resolution .. is all about “immersion” right?

  • collector

    3 years ago

    this looks like a ‘carebears’ version of skyrim

    best if the work on a fallout mmo first to work out the bugs then do elder later

  • Sean Kelly

    3 years ago

    I dont knowwwwwwww, doesnt seem like tes ,

  • ryan andrews

    3 years ago

    the guys at bethesda are carrying a lot off weight on thier shoulders. dont screww this up cause skyrim is almost perfect
    (except from the glitches and freezing)

  • ichinan

    3 years ago

    Hmmm, based just on the graphic quality, the game looks very subpar to the newer MMOs just released, let alone the ones releasing in the very near future. Tera, FFXIV, Guild Wars 2, ect., graphically, look far far far superior to this. I am not impressed at all.

  • Sharpice

    3 years ago

    A MMO focus on PVP is Ok, but I do not see the point of using the TES franchise. Sure, you can attract some fans of the series, but the difference in gameplay will also create haters from the fanbase which are mostly fans of single player action RPG with freedom to explore and modding support (and those feature are very unlikely to show up in a PVP focused MMO). So the game might end up with less number of players (PVP lovers minus the haters), and bad publicity by going TES.

  • Bethe$da

    3 years ago

    Go to hell bethesda, at least change the damn name of the title, its not a tes, its a wow copy so call it properly.

  • falendeal

    3 years ago

    -_- I am pretty well disapointed! Elder scrolls is a class of its own and now they are srewing it up! >:C
    I have no problem with an online elder scrolls… but serieously, just take all the countries, put them together, make servers, put in weps, classes, lvl’s, etc and down freaking screw with the elder scroll series.
    The idea of making this in the way this image potrays is pretty retarted and low for Bethesda. They know that if the game is like the image it will tarnash them! WHY BETHESDA?!?!?!?!?!?!?! WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!
    I hope this image is a false leak or a troll! -_-

    Sincerely,
    Falendeal

  • Adams

    3 years ago

    Not very excited at the prospect of yet-another dull-as-dirt sword and sorcery MMO, regardless of what name it carries. Even less excited about the prospect of it diverting resources from arguably the best singleplayer game franchise in history. Color me suspicious, bored, and slightly disappointed.

  • WhatisthisIdonteven

    3 years ago

    As long as its not like a bloody point n click like 99% of mmos and the game relies more on swordplay than stats, it cant be bad.

    But who knows…

  • Garr

    3 years ago

    Shut up. One Screenshot and the actual informations are totally enough.

  • S.C.B

    3 years ago

    Even if the online will be amazing, this screen shot DOES NOT advertise what the TES people love. They like unique, original and open world games, this just looks like a shitty, blocky, linear representation of another 3rd person MMO.

    Make something that has never been done before! Live up to Bethesda’s name! What you make us think is that you believe mediocrity is alright in the gaming industry.

    Make a good, first person MMO with lots of character development and player interaction. Do things like have player control kingdoms and guilds and compete with enemies and allies. Dont introduce some shitty picture showing two idiots fighting a poorly modeled atronach or what ever the hell that is.

    Show us something we want from a game because we cant find it anywhere else, that is why people love you bethesda, because you make games that other companies can’t. Anyone can make a shitty MMO, you dont have to.

  • Brods

    3 years ago

    I was hoping for graphics similar to/better than Aion Online. x.x

  • davey

    3 years ago

    it looks like a wow clone but wait till we get some game play before you start hatin and maybe theyll get there heads out of there asses next time and make the next Elder scrolls one either Co-op or multiplayer right away, in fact i think they should make this Co-op before they try to do online to see if it works correctly

  • YOU IDIOTS

    3 years ago

    This game is NOT BEING MADE BY BETHESDA, the developers, their times, their money is not being used. Can people stop complaining about Bethesda on this?

    ZeniMax Online Studios is the developer and they have a whole new team from the ground up. I am sure some members of Bethesda have been consulted as it is their IP but development is NOT BY BETHESDA.

  • Juan Machuca

    3 years ago

    For the love of Talos, this looks awful:
    1Generic rock-magic monster
    2Terrible armor for the characters(codpiece?)
    The magician´s clothes look terrrible
    I mean it looks like any MMORPG out there, the characters look afwul and dont look anything like the Elder Scrolls characters, the thing about The Elder Scrolls is the detail, the sence that every culture has his smithing style and techniches to build the armor, this just look like a random armor and the clothes of the magician look like brand new, nothing like Skyrim…

  • collector

    3 years ago

    erm who do you think owns bethesda?

    ah yes thats right its zenimax

    but yes it looks like rubbish and will almost certainly fail

  • Tary

    3 years ago

    Awful, absolutely awful.Not just the screenshots, but the details already released about the game makes it sound like such a generic MMO.According to the developers, the purpose of the game is to complete quests handed out by NPCs until you’re a high enough level to do raids with other players, or just pvp.Now what does that sound like to you, oh gee, I dunno?Every MMO in the world that’s been made since WoW?If you don’t believe me, look up the details about the game for yourself, everything points to it being just another MMO.

  • Copin

    3 years ago

    Just so you know this is the exact same engine as SWTOR….so it’s going to have the same limitations. They’re just trying to make some quick cash off the elder scrolls name. Also, this is a subsidiary of Bethesda, so yes, you can complain to Bethesda about this.

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