Grey Pilgrim
Lurker Extraordinare
So, the Elder Scrolls Online breakdown:
First and foremost, this game took an hour to update. Straight out of the box. An hour of just sitting there watching the progress bar hardly move.
Once it updated, I couldn’t log in. The N American servers were swamped so I had to log in through the Euro server.
First thing I notice once I’m finally updated and logged in: It’s laggy as hell. Which, I guess is to be expected considering I had to port through the Euro server.
Played for about two hours or so. Game looks great. Plays ok though the controls take getting used to. At first, I hated them, but I realized as I was about to log off that I had more or less gotten used to them.
Questing system leaves a lot to be desired. Assuming what I was taking for the quest system was indeed that. As far as I can tell, there’s no way to tell your character level or XP progress without backing out to the character screen. No idea how much xp you get per kill or completing quests. There’s no notification at all whatsoever.
I played as a wood-elf archer and the targeting is a little clunky. As far as I can tell, there’s no way to zoom in when aiming. I have no idea if there’s a damage difference between a half and a full draw (on your bow) though I think I’ve come to the conclusion that there is. There’s no damage indicator to tell you how much damage you’re doing to a baddy, just the health bar over their heads. I’m hoping there’s a way you can turn on numerical indicators so you know exactly how much damage you’re dealing out.
Sprinting is easy, ala CoD style, which is nice. Maneuvering is… clunky but that could just be because I’m not used to it. I visited a couple of shops, but I didn’t sell hardly anything as pretty much everything I had was worth zero. Even the spare weapons I had picked up. You could ‘sell’ them, but you’d get no money for it… Um… ok.
The map system looks good, but I couldn’t figure out how to switch between quests (again, maybe just because I don’t know how). I’d also like an actual quest list. In Dragon Age, you could go to your notebook and view a list of active and completed quests. From there, you could view details of each and then make an active quest your main one, and then jump to it’s location on the main map. Made it super-easy to run through your quests. So far, I don’t see anything like that on ESO.
That and since it’s a MMO… there’s idiots all over the place jumping around, emoting and acting like morons. That gets old in a hurry. I somehow got put into a group chat a couple of times (I have no idea how) and having to hear all these kids yelling and screaming is too much. Had to stop and figure out how to leave the stupid chat channel. Odd that it lumped me in there without a confirmation or anything.
So anyway, so far… blah!
Feel free to post your thoughts. I'm going to give it through the weekend. If I haven't started warming to it significantly in that time, I'm selling it.
First and foremost, this game took an hour to update. Straight out of the box. An hour of just sitting there watching the progress bar hardly move.
Once it updated, I couldn’t log in. The N American servers were swamped so I had to log in through the Euro server.
First thing I notice once I’m finally updated and logged in: It’s laggy as hell. Which, I guess is to be expected considering I had to port through the Euro server.
Played for about two hours or so. Game looks great. Plays ok though the controls take getting used to. At first, I hated them, but I realized as I was about to log off that I had more or less gotten used to them.
Questing system leaves a lot to be desired. Assuming what I was taking for the quest system was indeed that. As far as I can tell, there’s no way to tell your character level or XP progress without backing out to the character screen. No idea how much xp you get per kill or completing quests. There’s no notification at all whatsoever.
I played as a wood-elf archer and the targeting is a little clunky. As far as I can tell, there’s no way to zoom in when aiming. I have no idea if there’s a damage difference between a half and a full draw (on your bow) though I think I’ve come to the conclusion that there is. There’s no damage indicator to tell you how much damage you’re doing to a baddy, just the health bar over their heads. I’m hoping there’s a way you can turn on numerical indicators so you know exactly how much damage you’re dealing out.
Sprinting is easy, ala CoD style, which is nice. Maneuvering is… clunky but that could just be because I’m not used to it. I visited a couple of shops, but I didn’t sell hardly anything as pretty much everything I had was worth zero. Even the spare weapons I had picked up. You could ‘sell’ them, but you’d get no money for it… Um… ok.
The map system looks good, but I couldn’t figure out how to switch between quests (again, maybe just because I don’t know how). I’d also like an actual quest list. In Dragon Age, you could go to your notebook and view a list of active and completed quests. From there, you could view details of each and then make an active quest your main one, and then jump to it’s location on the main map. Made it super-easy to run through your quests. So far, I don’t see anything like that on ESO.
That and since it’s a MMO… there’s idiots all over the place jumping around, emoting and acting like morons. That gets old in a hurry. I somehow got put into a group chat a couple of times (I have no idea how) and having to hear all these kids yelling and screaming is too much. Had to stop and figure out how to leave the stupid chat channel. Odd that it lumped me in there without a confirmation or anything.
So anyway, so far… blah!
Feel free to post your thoughts. I'm going to give it through the weekend. If I haven't started warming to it significantly in that time, I'm selling it.
