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So it has sorta been confirmed that Bethesda's super secret MMO is set in The Elder Scrolls universe in the second Era.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ZeniMax-Bethesda-Elder-Scrolls-Online-MMO,news-14481.html
Bethesda and ZeniMax are hard at work on a new MMO, and it's taking you back to the world of Skyrim, Oblivion and Morrowind.
While details are still few and far between, Tom’s has learned that ZeniMax Online Studios and Bethesda will officially announce Elder Scrolls Online in May 2012.
An industry source that wishes to remain anonymous revealed the name of the new MMO to us, and confirmed that the game would take place a full millennium before The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Using the Elder Scrolls Wiki timeline as a guide, Elder Scrolls Online will likely take place during the “Second Era,” or several hundred years before any of the other Elder Scrolls games. This information was corroborated by two additional sources before publication.
Elder Scrolls Online will have three playable factions, according to the tipster. Not much is known about the factions, except each is represented by one of three animals: A lion, a dragon, and a bird of prey (either a phoenix or an eagle, we aren’t sure).
A May 2012 announcement would likely be followed by some sort of presence at E3, the annual Los Angeles video game convention. The game would also be shown at Quakecon 2012 in August, along with id Software’s Doom 4 and several other titles.
The fact that ZeniMax and Bethesda are working on an MMO is hardly a secret, as related job postings have been on ZeniMax’s website for quite some time now. What remained unknown until now was the universe in which this MMO would take place. While some were certainly hoping for a Fallout MMO of some sort - a game that ZeniMax and Bethesda control the publishing rights for – that is not to be the case.
When Tom’s reached out for confirmation, the response from ZeniMax and Bethesda was a “no comment.” We will update this article as more information comes in.
I'm guessing it's set during the beginning of the new Empire. It says there's three factions lion, dragon, and bird of prey...prehaps representing Dominion, Empire, and the Akiviri?
Previews:
http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/elder-scrolls-online-nails-the-online-stumbles-on-the-elder-scrolls-during-
http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/we-didnt-see-elder-scrolls-onlines-first-person-mode-until-last-week-heres
http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/03/19/the-elder-scrolls-online-interview-paul-sage/
http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/03/19/hands-on-with-the-elder-scrolls-online/
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ZeniMax-Bethesda-Elder-Scrolls-Online-MMO,news-14481.html
Bethesda and ZeniMax are hard at work on a new MMO, and it's taking you back to the world of Skyrim, Oblivion and Morrowind.
While details are still few and far between, Tom’s has learned that ZeniMax Online Studios and Bethesda will officially announce Elder Scrolls Online in May 2012.
An industry source that wishes to remain anonymous revealed the name of the new MMO to us, and confirmed that the game would take place a full millennium before The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Using the Elder Scrolls Wiki timeline as a guide, Elder Scrolls Online will likely take place during the “Second Era,” or several hundred years before any of the other Elder Scrolls games. This information was corroborated by two additional sources before publication.
Elder Scrolls Online will have three playable factions, according to the tipster. Not much is known about the factions, except each is represented by one of three animals: A lion, a dragon, and a bird of prey (either a phoenix or an eagle, we aren’t sure).
A May 2012 announcement would likely be followed by some sort of presence at E3, the annual Los Angeles video game convention. The game would also be shown at Quakecon 2012 in August, along with id Software’s Doom 4 and several other titles.
The fact that ZeniMax and Bethesda are working on an MMO is hardly a secret, as related job postings have been on ZeniMax’s website for quite some time now. What remained unknown until now was the universe in which this MMO would take place. While some were certainly hoping for a Fallout MMO of some sort - a game that ZeniMax and Bethesda control the publishing rights for – that is not to be the case.
When Tom’s reached out for confirmation, the response from ZeniMax and Bethesda was a “no comment.” We will update this article as more information comes in.
I'm guessing it's set during the beginning of the new Empire. It says there's three factions lion, dragon, and bird of prey...prehaps representing Dominion, Empire, and the Akiviri?
Previews:
http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/elder-scrolls-online-nails-the-online-stumbles-on-the-elder-scrolls-during-
http://penny-arcade.com/report/article/we-didnt-see-elder-scrolls-onlines-first-person-mode-until-last-week-heres
http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/03/19/the-elder-scrolls-online-interview-paul-sage/
http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/03/19/hands-on-with-the-elder-scrolls-online/
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I personally prefer first person, but eh, it's not a deal breaker for me.
I can't really say I'm super-excited about the prospect of this MMO at the current time, because I so love the single-player Elder Scrolls games, but I'm entirely willing to have my mind changed. I think the action-oriented combat and questing of Skyrim easily fits into an online game. Hell, I'd just love to see an MMO where every quest isn't given away by an exclamation point.
The same engine TOR uses.
That is pretty god damn amusing.
I'm trying to picture this.
It's coming off as hilarious and very sad all at once.
But hey, if they can pull it off I'm all for them trying.
All I'll say is, picture the following:
The Hero Engine + Bethesda's QA team.
I'm picturing a huge epic raid, 30 guys in Daederic and Ebony armor, we're almost to the giant king, raid resets tomorrow, just have to do one more pull of mammoths and we're sure we've figured out the fight this time... And the raid leader gets his head stuck in the ceiling and we have to call it for the night.
My biggest worry with this would be the character system. Skyrim's isn't quite as susceptible to the ridiculousness of abuse that Morrowind's was, but it's still not really something I'd call balanced for multiplayer, let alone massively multiplayer. And I'm not sure it could be without turning it into something that jut doesn't feel like Elder Scrolls.
The hero engine actually isn't bad. There's a few other (much smaller, less well known) MMO's that are using it, that look fucking fantastic and don't have much in the way of bugs.
The problem is TOR's devs were pants on head retarded about their graphics at release. We're just now getting the high def textures in 1.2. First they claimed it was a post release feature, then they claimed they didn't want to "stress the limits of CPU's that couldn't handle it due to the engine", and now they're back to it being a post release feature after people called them out on how mind bogglingly stupid that claim was on their forums.
Which is good, because there's a few in development MMO's that use the Hero Engine that look leagues ahead of TOR at the moment.
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I'm going to be the local drunkard getting into fist foights with other locals.
You'll be the local cynic who drunkenly berates people in global chat for talking about upcoming MMOs rather then playing the one they have between naps.
And if bandits raid the town you'll help fight them off with broken bottles and by peeing on them.
I have literally no faith for this game and I wish you all hte best.
Like what? The defunct Gamebryo that was used for Oblivion?
(I love Bethesda but this will not end up well)
Have there been any really expansive games in a while? The last one that I played that actually felt like it had a large world was Asheron's Call. I loved just going and going and going until I was in the middle of nowhere. Hunting Golems for motes. Stumbling onto some weird dungeon...
Basically, if this is a third person tab-target game with a hotbar I will shit blood.
Go look at Dominus during one of its testing sessions. Looks like a proper modern day game for the areas they've fully textured.
Chill out about the damned Hero Engine thing, people.
I'd be more worried if this is going to end up as World of Skyrim, really. Seems to be the trend.
Hero Engine does not inspire faith, but my only experience of it is with TOR.
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Come to think of it I can't think of any first person MMOs. And Elder Scrolls gives you the somewhat useless in it's context choice between 1st and 3rd person perspectives, especially Skyrim. I don't know that it would work here.
It can't be cut and paste Skyrim at any rate.
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My concerns for this game is more about whether they will go the class based system that has been used by nearly every MMO or a skill based system.
It's being made by a different game studio owned by Zenimax.
Hopefully that means Bethesda can keep doing cool stuff with the mainline series of ES and ignore the success or failure of a separately developed ES MMO.
Of course, people did buy Skyrim in insane numbers, and put a ton of time into it, so I guess adding a social element yet somehow letting it be the same type of game could work.
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The other major concern I have was also mentioned above: Are they going to stick with the traditional ES system of having skills determine what your character can do? In my mind, they kinda have to for it to be a real ES game, and yet balancing such a system is impossible even for a single-player game. :P
I do not mind if they gave us the option for third or first person views, I just hope they actually animate the first person view. Most MMOs do not and honestly why would they?
Also initially when you were regaining mana back as a caster your spellbook took up what little screen you had in 1st person view.