Links to hands-on previews with Elder Scrolls Online, march 19 2013

Well that sucks there's no stealing or killing of friendly NPC's. Was also hoping you could steal items from merchants, and hearing that you can't go back into zones you outleveled is kind of dumb. I'll still try out beta but dunno if I'm going to buy this game.

CthulhuPuffs · March 2013

Until these gaming sites actually send out someone who writes a Non-bias review pointing out the good AND bad in a game I dont take any stock in what they say.

These "Previews" of upcoming games are just paid-for-advertisements that always show the game in a positive light.

Arcona · March 2013

Love the 3 factions and the keep warfare, hope we surpass DAOC one day

4 man dungeons, and no raids. That's pretty unusual, but very Elder Scrolls like, I guess

The skill system sounds like GW2's, awesome

Ryowulf · March 2013

I still have this issue with the game. For people with guilds/friends there are 3 race choices. Maybe I missed it, but unless you can do pve, belong to groups and guilds cross faction this seems like a problem for non-rvrvr players.

azarhal · March 2013

Originally posted by CthulhuPuffs
Until these gaming sites actually send out someone who writes a Non-bias review pointing out the good AND bad in a game I dont take any stock in what they say.

These "Previews" of upcoming games are just paid-for-advertisements that always show the game in a positive light.

At this level it's not "paid-for-advertisements". Those previewers have NDA and there are things they can't talk about legally. The IGN preview actually start with things you can't do (but based on TES sp games). Most of them sound really cautious when it come to MMO features as well.

SlickShoes · March 2013

I have read a few so far, most of them list things they like and things they dislike, none of them say its the second coming of jesus and none of them say its terrible because it's a 3 hour developer given preview so to pass judgement on the game based on that short a play time is ridiculous.

Arcona · March 2013

Excited to learn we finally will have a MMORPG with good AI

Sovrath · March 2013

Originally posted by CthulhuPuffs
Until these gaming sites actually send out someone who writes a Non-bias review pointing out the good AND bad in a game I dont take any stock in what they say.

These "Previews" of upcoming games are just paid-for-advertisements that always show the game in a positive light.

Elder Scrolls Online nails the “Online,” stumbles on the “Elder Scrolls” during our first hands-on

And that's just one of the tidbits. I would just read articles as they have good and bad things to say.

Filbur · March 2013

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlXfySgucb0

New gameplay scenes? Some of them are unknown to me.

Maephisto · March 2013

I hate to be the negative nancy here, but has anyone read any substantial criticisms the journalists had.

I am only seeing praise so far, and I have read/skim through maybe a quarter of what OP posted.

EDIT: Thanks for gathering these links OP. I will have a lot to read through when I get home from work.

Amana · March 2013

Sticking this for now so it can be easily found. Going to adjust the title slightly.

SoMuchMass · March 2013

Originally posted by Ryowulf
I still have this issue with the game. For people with guilds/friends there are 3 race choices. Maybe I missed it, but unless you can do pve, belong to groups and guilds cross faction this seems like a problem for non-rvrvr players.

If they are friends try to agree to play on one faction. If you don't want to do that just find a one faction MMO instead.

Punk999 · March 2013

I like what i have read so far in the previews, sounds like a solid mmo with decent enough elder scroll feel and lore.

Tho At the same time nothing ground breaking which is fine to me as long as it's fun.

Punk999 · March 2013

Originally posted by Maephisto
I hate to be the negative nancy here, but has anyone read any substantial criticisms the journalists had.

I am only seeing praise so far, and I have read/skim through maybe a quarter of what OP posted.

EDIT: Thanks for gathering these links OP. I will have a lot to read through when I get home from work.

The ign one has criticism about how it's not totally elder scroll like etc.

Sovrath · March 2013

Originally posted by Maephisto
I hate to be the negative nancy here, but has anyone read any substantial criticisms the journalists had.

I am only seeing praise so far, and I have read/skim through maybe a quarter of what OP posted.

EDIT: Thanks for gathering these links OP. I will have a lot to read through when I get home from work.

If you read them there are criticisms.

azarhal · March 2013

Originally posted by Maephisto
I hate to be the negative nancy here, but has anyone read any substantial criticisms the journalists had.

I am only seeing praise so far, and I have read/skim through maybe a quarter of what OP posted.

EDIT: Thanks for gathering these links OP. I will have a lot to read through when I get home from work.

Check the Eurogamer preview for criticisms.

walltar · March 2013

I don't know ... except for crafting there are only bad news for me. No raids, only four clases, no dye system, only four man dungeons ....

Punk999 · March 2013

Originally posted by walltar
I don't know ... except for crafting there are only bad news for me. No raids, only four clases, no dye system, only four man dungeons ....

"the three available classes of Dragonknight, Sorcerer, and Templar were more like suggestions than set-in-stone templates, and I appreciated the ease with which I was able to transform my Sorcerer into a bow-wielding, medium armor-wearing ranger. If that isn't Elder Scrolls, I don't know what is."

-IGN

Im not really seeing 4 classes only, and they seem to be just templates like in other games.

walltar · March 2013

Originally posted by Punk999
Originally posted by walltar
I don't know ... except for crafting there are only bad news for me. No raids, only four clases, no dye system, only four man dungeons ....

"the three available classes of Dragonknight, Sorcerer, and Templar were more like suggestions than set-in-stone templates, and I appreciated the ease with which I was able to transform my Sorcerer into a bow-wielding, medium armor-wearing ranger. If that isn't Elder Scrolls, I don't know what is."

-IGN

Im not really seeing 4 classes only, and they seem to be just templates like in other games.

- Though there will be four classes available on release, I had to choose between Dragonknight, Sorcerer and Templar for this playthrough.

ZAM

Nightblade will be fouth ... i hope they will be diverse enough and customisable as much as possible ... that could rectify their quantity

During class selection, I was given a choice between Dragonknight, Templar, and Sorcerer. The devs let slip that there will be a fourth class at launch called the Nightblade.

Massively

Punk999 · March 2013

Originally posted by walltar
Originally posted by Punk999
Originally posted by walltar
I don't know ... except for crafting there are only bad news for me. No raids, only four clases, no dye system, only four man dungeons ....

"the three available classes of Dragonknight, Sorcerer, and Templar were more like suggestions than set-in-stone templates, and I appreciated the ease with which I was able to transform my Sorcerer into a bow-wielding, medium armor-wearing ranger. If that isn't Elder Scrolls, I don't know what is."

-IGN

Im not really seeing 4 classes only, and they seem to be just templates like in other games.

- Though there will be four classes available on release, I had to choose between Dragonknight, Sorcerer and Templar for this playthrough.

ZAM

Nightblade will be fouth ... i hope they will be diverse enough and customisable as much as possible ... that could rectify their quantity

During class selection, I was given a choice between Dragonknight, Templar, and Sorcerer. The devs let slip that there will be a fourth class at launch called the Nightblade.

Massively

Oh ok i see well hopefully you can really change the class how it plays in multiple ways.

Guess just gotta wait and see.

Sovrath · March 2013

Originally posted by Punk999
Originally posted by walltar
Originally posted by Punk999
Originally posted by walltar
I don't know ... except for crafting there are only bad news for me. No raids, only four clases, no dye system, only four man dungeons ....

"the three available classes of Dragonknight, Sorcerer, and Templar were more like suggestions than set-in-stone templates, and I appreciated the ease with which I was able to transform my Sorcerer into a bow-wielding, medium armor-wearing ranger. If that isn't Elder Scrolls, I don't know what is."

-IGN

Im not really seeing 4 classes only, and they seem to be just templates like in other games.

- Though there will be four classes available on release, I had to choose between Dragonknight, Sorcerer and Templar for this playthrough.

ZAM

Nightblade will be fouth ... i hope they will be diverse enough and customisable as much as possible ... that could rectify their quantity

During class selection, I was given a choice between Dragonknight, Templar, and Sorcerer. The devs let slip that there will be a fourth class at launch called the Nightblade.

Massively

Oh ok i see well hopefully you can really change the class how it plays in multiple ways.

Guess just gotta wait and see.

But you can. You can be a plate wearing mage that uses a sword and shield or a leather wearing warrior. Anyone can mix and match euipment and your equipment is what gives you whatever added abilities coupled with your own "skills".

So, it's "sort of" Elderscrolls like" on a certain level.

Jyiiga · March 2013

Sounding pretty "samely" and average to me. Lacking a lot of features and those extra details.

walltar · March 2013

One more thing i don't like, when they have only four races which are more like templates .. why coose so specific names? Why not name them Warrior, ranger, mage ... Templar, Dragonknight, Nightblade are prety specific in my opinion.

Sovrath · March 2013

Originally posted by walltar
One more thing i don't like, when they have only four races which are more like templates .. why coose so specific names? Why not name them Warrior, ranger, mage ... Templar, Dragonknight, Nightblade are prety specific in my opinion.

I Morrowind and Oblivion there were "classes" of which Knight and Nightblade were two of them. There was also Swordspell and Pilgrim and Sorceror, etc.

Of course these classes were just made up of the available skills and one could either follow that template or create their won. I suspect they are trying to do the same thing here though it's slightly more confining as you have to take a tree that you might never be interested in.

dimasok · March 2013

Probably the only true preview lol

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-03-19-questing-for-freedom-in-the-elder-scrolls-online

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