The Furious Angels
FA Discussion => General => Topic started by: Reaper on April 18, 2014, 07:27:25 am
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Do you guys still play mmo's?
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Some are still playing SWTOR. Some are playing EVE. We're looking at future MMOs with Rift support (Star Citizen, perhaps Everquest Next).
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We remain terribly good looking however.
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I'm playing ESO!
I, uhh... think I'm alone in playing it, though.
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How is ESO? May take the plunge for my PS4.
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I'm really enjoying it, though I can easily see how plenty of others would choose to stay away.
I think it does as good a job as possible in marrying an MMO game with a TES game, though it's certainly on the side of MMO. As if they started with a basic MMO structure and attempted to make it as much like an Elder Scrolls game as possible, rather than the reverse (which I think many would have preferred).
Questing is, for me, the most enjoyable thing and is far more exciting than other MMO questing. IF you care about the story and dialogue, then you can immerse yourself in the game and ignore the fact that you are, in fact, doing the same old MMO quests you've done a million times in every other game. The fact that ESO can get me to forget that and ENJOY what is usually the biggest chore in other MMOs is wonerful!
I'm also enjoying the PvP (always my priority in any game), and it's most similar to DAoC and GW2, and proves to me that GW2 WvW could have been so much better with the tiny tweak of a larger map. Cyrodiil is a pretty damn big place, and though the large zerg ball still exists in ESO, it's effect on the war is actually pretty minimal. Organization and communication are key to victory, not numbers.
There are a number of fairly big problems existing in the game at the moment, but it is my opinion that most "problems," defined as things I personally don't like, are bugs and errors rather than intentional design choices. That means that, in time, most everything I dislike will likely be fixed and corrected. One of the BIGGEST downsides to me is the frustrating inability to benefit from your party members while doing quests. Each individual must complete each quest objective, making it seem like you are questing in parallel with your friends rather than questing WITH them. That SUCKS, and I really hope they fix that so I can play with my friends and not constantly feel like we are wasting time doing everything twice.
So will you like the game? Hell if I know. All I know is that with the current MMOs on the market, I enjoy ESO far more than any other. Maybe Shroud of the Avatar, Camelot Unchained, or Star Citizen will change that, but those games are still a LONG time out!