Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (=DCM=Fionn)

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:22:25 GMT

As long as the keep the graphics and mod-ability of even just the ini files then I'm all for it, I love Elder Scrolls Lore and I hope there's alot that can be learned from the MMO for any future single player releases.

boredgunner

seronx

boredgunner
^ I'd love the next Elder Scrolls game to take place on the entire continent (with some loading screens obviously), but keep it a single player RPG and not an MMO. That would be an amazing game.... 1500+ hours of content!
Instanced Areas and Non-instanced Towns. Most MMO are massive areas but they weren't always that way for example the first MMO Neverwinter was party based instanced.

For a single player game on all of Tamriel, a loading screen for each country/province would be ideal I think. For an MMO... don't waste your time Bethesda!

Forget Tamriel, I'm thinking of Nirn. :P

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (hero4682)

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:22:06 GMT

totally,... i just want to play with my bro... maybe SOME friends too, (most of my friends dislike rpgs - and live another life type games)... id hate to see a million dudes wearing the coolest stuff instead of me,.. damn warcraft!.. or just in general, seeing that many players.. ug..

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (EVGATech_DaveB)

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:08:52 GMT

Right there with ya, I would LOVE to coop with some friends, but, I dont know if I want 100,000 other poeple around at the same time.....just not how the world was built IMHO.

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (hero4682)

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:53:43 GMT

ive always wanted to play elder scrolls with my twin brother..
we've always had characters but they could never interact!

will i finally be able to do this? i dont know? im sceptical..

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (EVGATech_DaveB)

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:29:13 GMT

Cooperative gameplay, definitly, MMO, not so much.
I agree, I wish StarWars had been single player.

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (kidcrumb)

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:04:20 GMT

I hate this new trend to make everything an MMO. Its a good idea but the MMO player base is not big enough to support so many.

Guild Wars 2
Elder Scolls MMO
World of Warcraft
Blizzards new MMO
The Old Republic
Fallout MMO (Rumored)

All great MMOs im sure but an MMO needs to be played at the time of release imo. Playing after the initial surge makes it a lot less fun. If all of the aformentioned MMOs come out, i would want to play them all but i cant afford the $100 a month to play them. Let alone the time to play them all and the money to buy them in the firstplace.

I just dont like games that are supposed to be singleplayer but they make it an MMO to milk more money out. The Old Republic might be great but i would have preferred a KOTOR 3 as a singleplayer game. Same as Elder scrolls and same as Fallout.

I bet you Bioware will make a Mass Effect MMO. It would be awesome, but it just doesnt do the franchise justice.

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (boredgunner)

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:49:43 GMT

^ Couldn't have expressed myself better. +100

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (shaneduce)

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:44:48 GMT

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (EVGATech_DaveB)

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:50:09 GMT

I think having it more like a 2-8 player scale, like Diablo rather than a full MMO. they have talked about this since the 90's, right after Battlespire came out. I just have a bad feeling that while it definitly has possibilities, that it would be a franchise breaking game.

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (Brad_Hawthorne)

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 03:43:37 GMT

Personally, I see no issue with a MMO TES. The content and world is definitely there. The average TES mod user could go into detail why TES was never multi-player though.

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (VequalsITR)

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:50:31 GMT

seronx

Big map...big mmo

Thats depresing the combined europe and asia to create a map instead of creating something original... freaking lame

xanderf

warlord420

There was supposed to be a "fallout online" for past 2 years

nonthing yet

That's what this was.

Bethesda has been known to be hiring MMO developers for about that long, everyone assumed it was a 'Fallout' MMO because...seriously, Elder Scrolls MMO? ****? Gotta be Fallout, right?

Well, turns out, no. All that hiring and work has been for this guy.

EDIT: That does mean, presumably, this was done by and large in parallel with Skyrim...almost certainly by a different team. So shouldn't share too many of Skyrim's foibles...at least, not those which are not chronic to the series.

fallout does seem better than skyrim ... my point is that they been laggin it years and unless they announce something at E3 its gonna be another 2 years until done

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (EVGA_RobB)

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:31:08 GMT

I think if they can do it, I will be all over it. I love SW:TOR simply for the fact that I can solo most of it (single player), but I can also play with my friends if I want (very small, friends and family guild). If this is similar, I'm in. I should note that I am an MMO player and rarely play outside the genre.

I wouldn't mind an idea like Sim had with a co-op style MMO if they could make it up to around 8 players. That would be awesome.

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (_Nite_)

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:36:22 GMT

boredgunner

^ I'd love the next Elder Scrolls game to take place on the entire continent (with some loading screens obviously), but keep it a single player RPG and not an MMO. That would be an amazing game.... 1500+ hours of content!

I like your idea boredgunner, that would be awesome!

or if a community team did a project to combined Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim into 1 game, that be cool as well.

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (Cyanide89)

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:11:19 GMT

I would not enjoy this at all!

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (boredgunner)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:15:27 GMT

seronx

boredgunner
^ I'd love the next Elder Scrolls game to take place on the entire continent (with some loading screens obviously), but keep it a single player RPG and not an MMO. That would be an amazing game.... 1500+ hours of content!
Instanced Areas and Non-instanced Towns. Most MMO are massive areas but they weren't always that way for example the first MMO Neverwinter was party based instanced.

For a single player game on all of Tamriel, a loading screen for each country/province would be ideal I think. For an MMO... don't waste your time Bethesda!

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (seronx)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:13:58 GMT

boredgunner
^ I'd love the next Elder Scrolls game to take place on the entire continent (with some loading screens obviously), but keep it a single player RPG and not an MMO. That would be an amazing game.... 1500+ hours of content!

Instanced Areas and Non-instanced Towns. Most MMO are massive areas but they weren't always that way for example the first MMO Neverwinter was party based instanced.

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (MSim)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:13:50 GMT

They need to make a co-op RPG or one where players can host on dedicated machine that can hold a lot of players. They could sell expansion and allow modding community to make stuff for the game.
That is the kind of RPG/MMO i would like to see made.

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (boredgunner)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:59:08 GMT

^ I'd love the next Elder Scrolls game to take place on the entire continent (with some loading screens obviously), but keep it a single player RPG and not an MMO. That would be an amazing game.... 1500+ hours of content!

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (seronx)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:38:34 GMT

Big map...big mmo

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (xanderf)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:36:01 GMT

warlord420

There was supposed to be a "fallout online" for past 2 years

nonthing yet

That's what this was.

Bethesda has been known to be hiring MMO developers for about that long, everyone assumed it was a 'Fallout' MMO because...seriously, Elder Scrolls MMO? ****? Gotta be Fallout, right?

Well, turns out, no. All that hiring and work has been for this guy.

EDIT: That does mean, presumably, this was done by and large in parallel with Skyrim...almost certainly by a different team. So shouldn't share too many of Skyrim's foibles...at least, not those which are not chronic to the series.

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (tet5uo)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:34:36 GMT

As long as they don't let the guy that designed Skyrims UI anywhere NEAR this game. In fact he should be made to wear an electric shock device that jolts him with 220v every time he even THINKS of designing another UI.

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (VequalsITR)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:12:53 GMT

There was supposed to be a "fallout online" for past 2 years

nonthing yet

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (phades)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:12:31 GMT

Phoenixx45

They are definitely walking on thin ice here. I am not sure what to think about an Elder Scrolls MMO. Like many of you have already said, if they had a lot of trouble making skyrim bug free i am not so sure how an MMO would turn out.

Not to mention they could potentially ruin what is in my opinion one of the greatest series of all times.

Eh? Most MMOs at launch aren't any better than skyrim was. Some have been better, but those are few and far between.

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (Phoenixx45)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:04:55 GMT

They are definitely walking on thin ice here. I am not sure what to think about an Elder Scrolls MMO. Like many of you have already said, if they had a lot of trouble making skyrim bug free i am not so sure how an MMO would turn out.

Not to mention they could potentially ruin what is in my opinion one of the greatest series of all times.

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (Bkatt)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:05:53 GMT

uhhh.

I see this as being really hard to pull off...

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (boredgunner)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:00:46 GMT

Afterburner

Not interested. My thinking is similar to xanderf's... Skyrim for me is a way to stay away from online trash...

+1, I'll definitely pass.

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (kayfaei)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:46:06 GMT

This will probably end up like Star wars.. Bioware is best for single player games.. and that's why Star wars the old republic feels like a single player game instead of a MMO.. *grumble*

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (Afterburner)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:31:00 GMT

Not interested. My thinking is similar to xanderf's... Skyrim for me is a way to stay away from online trash...

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (lordshinro)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:47:12 GMT

Not only that but the combat is dreadful, and the "boss fights" are likewise dreadful. Their appeal is story and interaction within that story.

Sadly without great combat and amazing boss fights the game will flop, and as blacksapphire state those glitches would be unacceptable in a MMO.

Re:Say Hello To MMO Elder Scrolls (blacksapphire08)

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:24:05 GMT

I honestly dont believe that they can pull it off. They cant make single player games that arent plagued with bugs and glitches, what makes them think they can add a more complex component?