The Elder Scrolls Online

[palmer_eldritch]

It's on Massively.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/01/22/elder-scrolls-online-beta-signups-now-live-six-minute-cinematic/

Oh, and according to their sign-up process, my chances of gettin' into closed beta are "Excellent".

Mine too. See you in game!

[Lakov_Sanite]

Jut noticed this game existed and that we had a 30 page mmo circle jerk bout it. Honestly why didn't we just take the SWTOR thread and switch the name?

Does it bother anyone else that they changes the elder scroll elves to be prettier?

[Falconeer]

we had a 30 page mmo circle jerk bout it.

You are mistaken. 25 of those pages have been spent making fun of the mole.

[Draegan]

I liked the trailer.

[Lucas]

Beta FAQ:

http://help.elderscrollsonline.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/679

Looks like they're aiming for weekend/short events (with maybe a smaller fraction that will be granted continuous access).

Also, after reading this interview with Creative Director Paul Sage...

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/821/feature/7061/Elder-Scrolls-Online-Paul-Sage-Talks-Beta-Crafting-and-Progression.html

...It looks like the first (small) batch of invites (which will include yours truly and Palmer_eldritch) will go out sooner that expected:

Paul ended by saying that the small group beta will begin very soon, and you'll likely hear about it from proud forum posts of "I'm in the TESO beta, and that's all I can say because of the NDA."

[Sir T]

Don't forget to sob quietly so we can't hear you.

[blackwulf]

we had a 30 page mmo circle jerk bout it.

You are mistaken. 25 of those pages have been spent making fun of the mole.

So cute...

On another note:  The trailer is pretty sweet, but it IS just CGI.  Anyone with money can hire a good CGI studio.  I hope we get some more gameplay info/footage soon.

[Samprimary]

Less CG, more in game. Please.

But .. ingame would give you an idea about what the game was actually like??

[Lakov_Sanite]

Everything about this game seems completely 'meh' 

[Lantyssa]

No Argonians, Khajit, or Orcs.  It was pretty, but just another trailer with humans and elves.

[Paelos]

SWTOR CGI trailers were pretty badass too...

[Draegan]

Can't we just enjoy and appreciate a good CGI trailer for what it is?  Hell I know I enjoyed the SWTOR trailers more than the game.

[Lantyssa]

Not without Argonians.

[JWIV]

Not without Argonians.

 

[Lakov_Sanite]

Can't we just enjoy and appreciate a good CGI trailer for what it is?  Hell I know I enjoyed the SWTOR trailers more than the game.

The cg itself was nicely done but again, meh.  It wasn't gameplay, it didn't feature anything but pretty people doing pretty things and was a complete non-story.

[Fordel]

Having never played an Elder Scrolls anything, that trailer was a snoozer that had entirely too much grey layered on top of grey.


What was supposed to be happening there?

[Lantyssa]

Wulfgar and Drizzt were going on a dungeon romp through undead werewolves, while high above Entari assaulted a keep held by elves.  As Entari and the head Elf-Witch performed a staredown, Wulfgar climbed out of the sewers and turned it into a three-way.  Fade to black.  Bow-chikka-bow-wow.

[Zetor]

Having never played an Elder Scrolls anything, that trailer was a snoozer that had entirely too much grey layered on top of grey.


What was supposed to be happening there?

It's just a shout-out to Morrowind's brown on brown motif.

[Draegan]

Also three-faction pvp.

[Paelos]

Can't we just enjoy and appreciate a good CGI trailer for what it is?  Hell I know I enjoyed the SWTOR trailers more than the game.

No. They exist only to cloud the issues and fog the mind.

[ashrik]

I saw that there was something new about the game and hurried on over to f13 to see what Blackwulf had to say on the subject

[Draegan]

Can't we just enjoy and appreciate a good CGI trailer for what it is?  Hell I know I enjoyed the SWTOR trailers more than the game.

No. They exist only to cloud the issues and fog the mind.

i love lamp

[Miasma]

It was good as fantasy fighting porn but had almost nothing to do with the elder scrolls.  The one thing it tried to allude to, the three factions, didn't even work very well.  I had to rewatch it to figure out the last 'hero' type guy isn't another elf.

So the defenders were empirical but they aren't actually part of any of the factions?

[Ingmar]

Yeah the Empire is the non-player universal badguy group apparently. Which makes me , I almost always play an Imperial in these games.

[Samprimary]

No Argonians, Khajit, or Orcs.  It was pretty, but just another trailer with humans and elves.

At least there was a dwarf!

also I think there is an argonian at the very beginning after the nordwarf kicks down the wall, but he subsequently transforms into a dark elf so

[Samprimary]

After doing a cursory overview of the game's established lore making a three-way faction thing happen, I have come to the conclusion that the Ebonheart Pact represents two things

- The point at which you realize lore has gone beyond simply being massaged to fit a gameplay premise
- The "And that left us with three remaining races so they are an alliance now" alliance

[Miasma]

Factions make no sense.  They just sort of sprinkled the 'evil' races around, each faction is absurd.

And where was there a dwarf?  If there are any dwarves they would be in an expansion and be the end raid tier.  There was a norn.

[UnSub]

After doing a cursory overview of the game's established lore making a three-way faction thing happen, I have come to the conclusion that the Ebonheart Pact represents two things

- The point at which you realize lore has gone beyond simply being massaged to fit a gameplay premise
- The "And that left us with three remaining races so they are an alliance now" alliance

But everyone knows that three factions make everything perfect, which is why DAOC has been the most popular MMO ever since launch.

[rk47]

So that's why Warhammer failed! 

[Lakov_Sanite]

This might as well be "Generic fantasy MOO: the elder scrolls-ish"

[Sir T]

With furries (maybe)!

[Lantyssa]

It reminds me a lot of the WAR trailer now that I think about it.  That was a good trailer.  Shame about the game.

[blackwulf]

Found this interesting tidbit in a recent Matt Firor interview.( http://www.3news.co.nz/Elder-Scrolls-Online-interview---Matt-Firor/tabid/418/articleID/284162/Default.aspx) Not sure these numbers have been stated so plainly before:

The 'Introduction to Elder Scrolls Online' video
(embedded above) has a massive PvP siege battle which
looks like hundreds or even thousands of soldiers facing
off against each other. Is a battle of this magnitude actually
possible in the game, made up of human players?

Every one of the figures in that video was a human player. We
got all of our devs into the game for a PvP test, and then
captured that sequence with them. It was all in-game.
Cyrodiil (the PvP map) is open-world and supports up to
2000 players in it at the same time. ESO’s client is designed
 to be able to handle (on the recommended spec) 200 players
on screen at the same time. That particular scene had about
115 players on each side.

[Paelos]

I wonder if it will run like Relic Raids did in DAOC. I remember slideshowing my way through a few of those on follow with some bard.

[blackwulf]

I wonder if it will run like Relic Raids did in DAOC. I remember slideshowing my way through a few of those on follow with some bard.

Haha, yeah, those were good times.