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How is the story?

scorpex-xscorpex-x Member RarePosts: 1,030
in Elder Scrolls Online

I watched the impressive CGI cuts for this game, for an mmo they didn't seem to make much sense though.

 

I felt like I was watching a movie, the whole idea of an mmo if the player is the most important person in the story.  I didn't ever get that impression from the cgi.

 

Is the rest of the story about the player or is it more of the same type of story about someone else the as the CGI implies?

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  • jdnewelljdnewell Member UncommonPosts: 2,237

    To me the main story was actually pretty good. If you stop to actually follow it and pay attention.

    Every quest has VO and are well written. Even if many of the side quests are fetch / kill x type quests.

     

    To me this is a game best enjoyed at a slower pace, at least the first time through. It seems like most MMO players are so focused on getting max level and endgame raiding that they forget to enjoy the journey there.

    You can skip the dialogue, and I do on my alts. But my first character I took it slow, listened to the quests, explored, ect. and had a great experience.

  • DAS1337DAS1337 Member UncommonPosts: 2,610

    I need to correct you.  The whole point of a MMO should not be to make you the most important person in the story. 

     

    That said, the story is good.  It's not crazy deep, but for a video game, it's pretty good.  There are other stories throughout the game as well.  There's the main story, the mages guild story and the fighters guild story.  And even though they exist with you through your leveling process, in the same world, they are not really intertwined.  There's also quite a few random quests where you'll encounter some repeat characters.  So it can be interested to see what those long lost NPC's are doing 10 levels down the road.  It adds a bit to the immersion factor.

     

    The CGI is nothing more than fighting sequences to give you a hint as to what the game is about.  You know, three factions fighting one another, as well as an overarching evil force that threatens to destroy all of their existence.  I don't know what you didn't understand the videos.  They made perfect sense to me.

  • DAS1337DAS1337 Member UncommonPosts: 2,610
    Originally posted by jdnewell

    To me the main story was actually pretty good. If you stop to actually follow it and pay attention.

    Every quest has VO and are well written. Even if many of the side quests are fetch / kill x type quests.

     

    To me this is a game best enjoyed at a slower pace, at least the first time through. It seems like most MMO players are so focused on getting max level and endgame raiding that they forget to enjoy the journey there.

    You can skip the dialogue, and I do on my alts. But my first character I took it slow, listened to the quests, explored, ect. and had a great experience.

    Actually, this game has really good replayability the first three times through.  But only if you choose to play the other factions.  That is, unless you take one character all the way through both enemy faction areas and do all of their quests as well.  I'm not that far into the game though, and I'm not even sure it works the same as leveling from the beginning.

  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    Originally posted by DAS1337
    Originally posted by jdnewell

    To me the main story was actually pretty good. If you stop to actually follow it and pay attention.

    Every quest has VO and are well written. Even if many of the side quests are fetch / kill x type quests.

     

    To me this is a game best enjoyed at a slower pace, at least the first time through. It seems like most MMO players are so focused on getting max level and endgame raiding that they forget to enjoy the journey there.

    You can skip the dialogue, and I do on my alts. But my first character I took it slow, listened to the quests, explored, ect. and had a great experience.

    Actually, this game has really good replayability the first three times through.  But only if you choose to play the other factions.  That is, unless you take one character all the way through both enemy faction areas and do all of their quests as well.  I'm not that far into the game though, and I'm not even sure it works the same as leveling from the beginning.

    It does. All the same quests except all the mobs and content are leveled to VR1 for your first zone, VR2 for the second and so on all the way up to VR10 in your last zone. But the main story and mages' and fighters' guild stories are missing since you already did those from 1-50.

     

    All the content being the same level for the whole zone also opens things up a bit and you can just wander off in whatever direction you want,

     

    Other than that, doing it as a VR character is the same as doing it 1-50 with alts.

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  • BladestromBladestrom Member UncommonPosts: 5,001
    I've just dinged vet 14 and gold, and I have to say that was an epic 6 month/350 hour journey, loved it, and questlines were really enjoyable and well voice acted.

    Now To spend that 350k I have amassed and all those materials :)

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  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    Originally posted by Bladestrom
    I've just dinged vet 14 and gold, and I have to say that was an epic 6 month/350 hour journey, loved it, and questlines were really enjoyable and well voice acted.

    Now To spend that 350k I have amassed and all those materials :)

    Congrats! My highest is still only VR 13.5... that's what happens when you play lots of alts, PVP and craft all professions (got all maxed except for some traits I still need to research) and gather in Upper Craglorn trying to hit the nirncrux lottery :)

     

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  • CurragraigueCurragraigue Member UncommonPosts: 84
    Completely agree with jdnewell that first time experience of the quests in all of the zones is great and the fact that it is all voice acted helps with the engagement with the story. I'm doing my third character through Silver & Gold now and I am just skipping through dialogue at this stage. Overall great game and having an enjoyable PvP side helps to give a break from questing every now and then.
  • CurragraigueCurragraigue Member UncommonPosts: 84
    Originally posted by Iselin

    Originally posted by Bladestrom
    I've just dinged vet 14 and gold, and I have to say that was an epic 6 month/350 hour journey, loved it, and questlines were really enjoyable and well voice acted.

    Now To spend that 350k I have amassed and all those materials :)

    Congrats! My highest is still only VR 13.5... that's what happens when you play lots of alts, PVP and craft all professions (got all maxed except for some traits I still need to research) and gather in Upper Craglorn trying to hit the nirncrux lottery :)

     

     

    I'm researching my last two blacksmith weapons and last medium armour nirncrux items now I have all the others so if you have the Nirncrux and need one happy to make one for you.
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