Game Grenade: The Next Elder Scroll

 

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See, I have a slight problem with the upcoming Elder Scrolls Online.  Besides the fact that they're doing things like giving up their skill-leving system and going for a more traditional MMO experience points based system, there are some other problems I had with the Elder Scrolls Online.

The thing that makes the ES games special is that you can do anything, be anyone.  You can go around and kill everyone in a town, you can clear out a house of all its valuables, you can sit and wait for game hours at a time, and own property in every city in Tamriel, you can even get jobs to assassinate important characters.  And in an MMO, you can't really do that.  And even if you will be able to do that in the ESO, then it just won't have the same repercussions.  And if you lose such a big part of the game, well then, it's just not the same Elder Scrolls.

 Now I'm definitely not saying that The Elder Scrolls Online can't be a good MMO.  For sure not.  At this point I don't know enough about it, and I haven't tried it.  They can still bring in a lot of good things that makes this a very good MMORPG.  There will still be elements that we love, tons of exploring and random encounters.  

Now, The Elder Scrolls, similar to World of Warcraft, had a huge amount of single-player games before hand that already brought in a large audience.  Of course, getting in some fans isn't everything.  We'll have to wait and see what The ESO can bring to the table, and if they can secure a chunk of the MMO community.  

Whether or not the elements that are in the game make it still feel like a good ol' Elder Scrolls game, we'll have to wait and see.  I hope that it does, because I, like many others, enjoy the series greatly, and it'd be a shame to see it fail.  A little bit of sense of character might be lost, but hopefully the world is just as big and mysterious as the one that we've all fallen in love with. 

-Logic Box