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General: Elder Scrolls MMO in the Works?
MikeB
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Duck and Cover is reporting that Bethesda is seeking to redact details about a "World of Warcraft" type MMOG that they have been secretly working on since around 2006, which is being funded with "tens of millions of dollars" and staffed with "close to a hundred people" from court transcripts from their ongoing case with Interplay.
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VG 24/7 has additional details on the story, and is comfortably reporting that the game is indeed an Elder Scrolls MMOG as they have been "reliably informed." Unsurprisingly, when contacted for comment, Bethesda responded with a "no comment."
I don't know about you, but I'm hoping those excitable guards from Oblivion make a return: "Stop right there, criminal scum!"
Are you excited for the potential of an Elder Scrolls MMOG? Can anyone say ultimate sandbox MMOG? Yes please! Let us know in the comments below!
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That would be cool, I would play that for sure.
I just posted the link from massively.com in the rumor section but this works too! An Elder Scrolls MMO if done well will be great for the mmo genre. Perhaps there is actually mmo hope after all.
I was waiting for an unofficially official announcement about this project ever since Bethesda registered the Elder Scrolls online website domain. I have no clue how they would begin to implement an Elder Scrolls game into an MMORPG setting but if they can pull it off I'll be there in a heartbeat.
I do have a bit of a fear about the "World of Warcraft style MMOG" comment, however. I'm hoping that is just a placement used as a reference to MMORPG's in general since it would be identifiable to more people and not showing huge similarities (see: clone).
Who knows, I certainly do not. I'll continue to keep my eyes on Bethesda and wait rather impatiently for the officially official announcement of the project.
OH, HELL YEA !!
LOL, agreed, because everyone will gripe that it's a fantasy MMO and not anything else. Calling it "uncreative" just because of that. Even though being an Elder Scrolls MMO, I'm sure it'll be LOADED with new and creative MMO game play.
Okay, so maybe I was a bit harsh, but a warning?
Eh... whatever...
Sounds exciting, I'll probably enjoy it.
P.S.
I apologize.
"The question that sometimes drives me hazy: Am I, or the others crazy?" - Albert Einstein
Oh hell ya. Elder Scrolls is one of the best RPG series' ever. If all goes well this could very well turn out to be something truly amazing.
Can't wait!
Hopefully the WOW reference is for the unbloodied masses who are unsure of what an MMO is. I cannot imagine Bethesda downgrading their standard of graphics , nor their gameplay. This could be the game a lot of us have been hoping for.
No way they make an Elder Scrolls MMO with an abilities and leveling system like WoW. The skill based leveling is part of the IPs identity. They wouldn't ditch that to try to copy WoW. Would they? I hope to the gods they don't!
I think we are going to be seeing some great MMOs coming out between now and the next 3 or 4 years as the WoW effect finally wears off and some innovation finally hits the genre. As WoW moves farther and farther away from being a real MMORPG and becomes more like counter strike or unreal tournament or at least into it's own new genre, there will be more people wanting to play a real MMO. Enter an awesome sandbox skill based game like Elder Scrolls
I can dig it.
Yes yes I'll be there
i think they are using an MMO like wow in a broad sense. General questing theme park MMO.
Kind of wondering how well they will do. Not sure their normal formula for making games will transfer over well to MMOs.
I loved the Elder Scrolls world, but despised it's style of combat. I think it would be good for the genre, but unlikely to be my sort of game, unless they change the combat formula.
As long as they keep the open world feel of the game, I'd gladly play this if it's any good.
Take oblivions gameplay and world mix it with WoWs dungeon system minus the lfg portion that just got released and you will have a very successful game.
Take oblivions gameplay and world mix it with WoWs dungeon system minus the lfg portion that just got released and you will have a very successful game.
I would have to disagree. If any instancing, or at least overly instancing, is used, it will be detracting so much from the over all world. And the open world is a major factor as to why Oblivion is so great. If you take that away, you're back to <enter generic mmorpg title here> and quite honestly I hope it doesn't go that route.
The less they pull from WoW the better, imo. Nothing against it really, but it's been done (to death) and there's a growing market for something NEW.
Pls. don't enter WoW territory... every game has failed in this WoW-dominated genre.
The only exception to that may be LOTRO, though the expansion directions may cause some to question that. Then again, it's hard to not have a game, even a clone if you will, be at least semi-successful with the LOTR lore backing it.
Then again, it could have been given to Cryptic.
Not worth giving two hoots about honestly. Bethesda is a horrible company run by a corrupt ex-lawyer who has previously been indicted in numerous kinds of fraud, including banking. They kicked the Bethesda founder out of his own company and took over. The last game the founder had anything to do with was Morrowind. Look at where its going now?
Zenimax ends up some how buying Id and the whole slew of their FPS IP's... cmon we see where this is going. Todd Howard just cares about FPS, not rpgs and hes pushing for that change.
Then theres the issue over fallout...
I plan on boycotting, this is just me speaking, Zenimax products (which are Bethesda products). I hope others would do the same, but thats just me.
Nice, this is definitely worth watching.
"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever." - Noam Chomsky
You know I kind of marked out for both STO and SWTOR but I lost my breath when I read this post this would be one game that would get me to break my vow to not play another fantasy mmo again, and even more exciting is Elder Scrolls as an online game is what I envisioned from Darkfall (and we all know it is nowhere near that) and if we do get an Elder Scrolls mmo it will be what DF pretended it was going to be.
And in reference to Tehikk, I hear ya there if mmorpg would actually do something about all the damn trolls on this board they wouldn't have to be issuing warnings to so many regular people just trying to have an actual discussion about a game.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
This is fantastic news. I loved the Elder Scrolls.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
Once again, MMORPG.com turn up at the party 7 hours late and without any alcohol :-)
You guys really need to get your act together sometimes. This Elder Scrolls MMO was widely reported many, many months when Zenimax launched ZeniMax Online and registered the elderscrollsonline.com web address on the same day.
So it's a continuation of already rampant speculation; it's not new as you would have everyone believe.
http://www.themmoquest.com - MMO commentary from an overly angry brit. OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED!
"Duck and Cover is reporting that Bethesda is seeking to redact details about a "World of Warcraft" type MMOG that they have been secretly working on since around 2006, which is being funded with "tens of millions of dollars" and staffed with "close to a hundred people" from court transcripts from their ongoing case with Interplay."
And exactly what about this statement leads you to believe that they are trying to make us believe they are breaking news here?
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
I watched the video in your comment and not unlike your post it was filled with radical paranoid conspiracy theories. Forgive me if I have a hard time taking it seriously without some hard evidence backing the accusations.
Take oblivions gameplay and world mix it with WoWs dungeon system minus the lfg portion that just got released and you will have a very successful game.
I would have to disagree. If any instancing, or at least overly instancing, is used, it will be detracting so much from the over all world. And the open world is a major factor as to why Oblivion is so great. If you take that away, you're back to <enter generic mmorpg title here> and quite honestly I hope it doesn't go that route.
The less they pull from WoW the better, imo. Nothing against it really, but it's been done (to death) and there's a growing market for something NEW.
I guess you don't equate loading screens in offline games to instances in mmo's. I just got Oblivion this december so it is very fresh in my mind that yes it's an open world but seamless it isn't so I don't know that the instancing thing would be such an issue for Elder Scroll players, it's not like we are used to not getting our play interrupted (since it is every single time you enter any section of a city or any single dungeon in the game.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....