The Elder Scrolls Online

**Mailman653** · 05-03-2012, 21:28

Zenimax Announces The Elder Scrolls Online

**TinCow** · 05-03-2012, 22:26

I am simultaneously intrigued and repulsed. On one hand, the Elder Scrolls games would convert over to an MMO incredibly easily due to their massive open world nature. There is a great deal about the standard ES games that I would very much enjoy experiencing with other players. On the other hand, I'm concerned that adding many new players into the game would itself ruin the ES experience.

**tibilicus** · 05-03-2012, 23:01

Going to be interesting to see how this one plays out.

**rvg** · 05-03-2012, 23:16

Originally Posted by tibilicus

Going to be interesting to see how this one plays out.

Ak4t0sh_909 says: LF1M for Necromorgan, Master Resto preferred, no bosmers plz

**rickinator9** · 05-03-2012, 23:42

I don´t know how this might work out. They have put in 3 years into Skyrim alone. If you would want a game of comparative scale all over tamriel, you would need near to a decade.

**rajpoot** · 05-04-2012, 05:58

This is just, terrible.
Set a millennium before Skyrim means that on the upside we'll probably keep getting SP games from Bethesda, on the downside it means that the MMO will be messing with a lot of lore.
Maybe they can just call it non-canon. I don't care. As long as they keep making good single player games, I just don't care.

**Kralizec** · 05-04-2012, 18:33

There's enough lore in the TES universe to build a MMO with, but I'm not sure it would be any good. One reason why I enjoyed Morrowind so much (and to a lesser degree Oblivion; haven't tried Skyrim yet) is the lack of pressure: do whatever quest you want, when you want etc.

Speaking of which, right now I'm playing an incredibly awesome Oblivion mod that basically recreates Morrowind and all its quests. Pretty impressive so far. Google "morroblivion" if interested.

**rajpoot** · 05-04-2012, 18:59

I remember that mod. Last I heard of it was some years back. All one could do was walk around. No quests or anything.
Seems to have come quite far.

**Kralizec** · 05-04-2012, 19:32

Indeed. Levitation!

**rajpoot** · 05-04-2012, 20:05

Originally Posted by Kralizec

Indeed. Levitation!

That's one of the few things which made Morrowind better than Oblivion. That elf falling from the sky and using his scrolls afterwards were a lot of fun.

**Monk** · 05-04-2012, 09:51

Originally Posted by Mailman653

Zenimax Announces The Elder Scrolls Online

So the Elder Scrolls series is officially dead, then. Fantastic.

The best part about the ES series isn't combat, overcoming big bosses, or finishing quests. Goodness I never even did the Civil War quest line in Skyrim because I couldn't be bothered. It's about exploration and what you find on the way to the quest - you're walking and all of a sudden a vampire attacks you and infects you. Now you're on a race against time to get cured before you turn. Or you stumble into a mineshaft looking for food only to find it's overrun by bandits who happen to have a blind look-out. It's about what's over the next hill because the road goes ever on and on...

Those are not aspects that can be improved with an mmo environment.

At least I have the Skyrim DLC to look forward to, I guess.

**Mailman653** · 05-04-2012, 17:15

The Elder Scrolls Online Teaser Trailer

**rajpoot** · 05-04-2012, 17:42

Originally Posted by Mailman653

The Elder Scrolls Online Teaser Trailer

They mixed the Elder Scrolls theme into the music.
I'd stopped following the Bethesda-Zenimax lawsuite (there has been one about the franchise right?). How did Zenimax end up getting the rights to making the MMORPG anyway?