Sunday, 27 January 2013

Wood elves being ruined



>Pink skin
>Punk girl haircut
>Cute and quirky
>Cleavage
>Fingerless gloves
>Exposed midriff
>Ewan McGregor Kenobi single braid

Compare it to Morrowind:


It is so disgusting to see a interesting and cultured race be turned into a childish cutsy generic elf.

Thursday, 24 January 2013

Awful art direction


Compared to Morrowind it looks like a kid's Pixar movie.

FUCKERS

Elder scrolls capture-the-flag mechanic



>mystical ancient scrolls that predict major future events
>series is named after them
>just laying around in keeps being win traded every hour by factions

They have never been spoken of as being used tactically like a weapon, and everything about them defies the idea that they can be wielded like some sort of general's toy. It's a stupid mechanic and should not exist. It shits all over what Elder Scrolls are all about.

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I don't even know why they had to rape the lore so much with the 3 factions and the non-jungle. Nobody wanted the game to be set during a big war, everyone wouldve been fine with a huge as fuck, player driven tamriel. You pick your race and spawn in your own country and then you go and explore shit.
Players can build settlements if they want and npcs will move into your cities that sell shit and store items etc.
Guess that's too much to ask, it will be a shitty as fuck TOR(GW2 clone with the TES name slapped on it


Scrollocaust


TORtanic 2.0

>Hero engine
Check
>300m+ budget
Check
>Full VA
Check
>Palmed off to secondary studio
Check
>Biodrone equivalent
Check
>Everyone saves the world!
Check
>Lore rape
Check

They even gutted the two main draws for TES games
>Customisation
Want to be a shady alchemist who almost exclusively kills by poisoning people through pick pocket? Sorry
>Sandbox
Want to ignore the quests and decorate your home with all the books and pretty flower arrangements? Nope, gotta level fast!

Thursday, 12 July 2012

Another hint: Full voice-acting in a MMO

From this classic post:

And Bioware? Don’t make me laugh. They’ve spent more money making the Old Republic than James Cameron spent on Avatar. you not. More than $ 300 million! Can you believe that?
And you know what they’re most proud of? This is the kicker. They are most proud of the sound. No seriously. Something like a 20Gig installation, and most of it is voiceover work. That’s the best they have. The rest of the game is a joke. EA knows it and so does George Lucas,they’re panicking , and so most of Mythic has already been cannibalized to work in Austin on it because they can’t keep pushing back launch.
I don't think there's any reason full voice acting couldn't work if it's done correctly, it's been done well on some ordinary RPGs such as Knights of the Old Republic.

But I think it hints at a MMOs failure because it shows a fundemental misunderstanding of how players act and how to manage resources. Nearly every player in The old Republic would click through the dialogue rapidly. Even most players interested in the lore do so, because leveling as a fast speed is important to them, and has to take preference over listening to voice-acting.

The other reason that I can confidently say "waste of resources" is that these fully voice-acted MMOs always seem to have a lot of missing/upcoming content at launch, things which players would of got a lot more enjoyment from. I only think full voice-acting is a good idea when there is nothing else that needs to be added to the game.