Coming out of the new tutorial, I jumped right into the chaos of shipwrecks, missing Alliance leaders, and the fight against the Ascendant Order which was a pretty quick jump from the tutorial right into the action, but it works out well as an introduction to the game as it avoids a ton of unnecessary backstory, and the NPC dialogue will get you caught up to speed on the political situation in Tamriel at the time of the expansion whether you’ve played the base campaign or skipped right into the new content.īecause ESO lets you jump right in to each new expansion, it has this weird stats game that it needs to play in order for new players to get through the content alongside end-game players who have long hit the level-cap.
Much to my chagrin, I had an enjoyable 25 hours traversing the High Isle and Amenos.Īs my own history of playing this game is scattered across a number of platforms and character saves, I decided to start fresh for High Isle. So with the intention of keeping my own personal history with the game and my love of a rival MMO from clouding my impressions of The Elder Scrolls: High Isle, I decided to tackle the task of reviewing ESO as it stands now. Which left me unable to separate ESO from what I was used to, and of course The Elder Scrolls Online wouldn’t quite measure up as I already had the title of one MMO stamped into my digital life. Friends had dragged me kicking and screaming into Final Fantasy XIV with the Heavensward expansion, and I’ve been subbed ever since. My quick delve into High Isle for the press preview just a few months ago had me questioning whether I had ever given ESO a fair shake after its 2014 launch crisis. Even expansions into Summerset, Elsweyr, and Blackwood couldn’t get me to spend more than a handful of hours gathering an opinion of new content before quietly backing out of the game again. As ESO’s player count continued to rise it became clear that players were finding something in this game that I just could not see.
I’ve continued to cover the game despite my personal feelings, though I’ve often kept to first impressions pieces. The lacklustre empty landscape of an undeveloped Vvardenfell left me, once again, disappointed. The Morrowind expansion of 2017 nearly got me back, as I’ve always seen The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind as the series’ best entry by far, despite its obvious flaws and abysmal combat. Only a year later and my expectations for MMORPGs had left ESO in the dust. I attempted to return to The Elder Scrolls Online with the Tamriel Unlimited relaunch, and found it underwhelming.
It took a long time for ESO to make up for that rough start, though it currently exists in something of a freemium space which is rife with its own issues.
ELDER SCROLLS ONLINE REVIEW PC
That enthusiasm would be relatively short-lived after the game’s abysmal launch to PC on a subscription model just a month later. While that laptop never quite forgave me for attempting to run a high-end MMO on hardware that was already struggling to keep up, I was absolutely enthralled with the game’s concept and execution. In March 2014 I attempted to assassinate my MacBook by installing 60-odd gigabytes of The Elder Scrolls Online’s beta test.
0 kommentar(er)
