Elderscrolls online is useless on consoles

[Leomoon]

I just started playing ESO for the PS4 and I have to say its one of the worst MMO's on a console. There is no text chat, there is not HUD for materials (mining, gathering and such), the frame rate dips below 30 in mine cities and some time when there is combat but I was dropping frames inside a Blacksmith's shop trying to make armor.

 

The inventory is also a little jacket with you being able to first hold 60 items in the start I had some sacks with maps in them and when I opened them they loaded mt inventory with loads of treasure with stuff I could not go get for a while, so for a long time I had 40/60 slots full. There is no way to view recipes such as alchemy, cooking, weapon or armor smiting in the console version unless you are at a station to craft them.

 

the only good part I saw was the fact there was a large amount of emots yet unless you are on a PC version its not useful, If your going to get ESO get it on Pc getting it on PS4 or Xbone is useless and a wast of cash unless.

[Aaron]

Good thing I followed instinct when the original ESO was announced. 

 

I was like "10 bucks this game will be shit. I have no evidence,  I just feel it."

[Leomoon]

Good thing I followed instinct when the original ESO was announced. 

 

I was like "10 bucks this game will be shit. I have no evidence,  I just feel it."

On Pc I bet its much better but when I played it simply having no text chat in a MMO yanks my chain in a wrong way.

[Chris Ganale]

Yeah, I figured that sticking with XIV would be the better idea. I've not been proven wrong.

[TheLastCandle]

I had no idea there was no keyboard support in the console version. That's not exactly conducive to fostering any sort of meaningful community.

 

Then again, from what I recall the Daggerfall general chat was worse than Mor Dhona and Coerthas /shout combined, so...

 

Good thing I followed instinct when the original ESO was announced. 

 

I was like "10 bucks this game will be shit. I have no evidence,  I just feel it."

On Pc I bet its much better but when I played it simply having no text chat in a MMO yanks my chain in a wrong way.

 

I pretty much blindly preordered the PC version and felt pretty burned on receiving the final product. Most of my grievances have been fixed now though, and since it's gone F2P for anyone who bought the software, I feel generally okay with my purchase. I've had fun playing it with some friends who don't wish to spend money on subscriptions.

[Dogberry]

My wife works for ZOS so all I have to say is BUY ESO GIVE ZENIMAX YOUR MONEY PLEASE SPEND LOTS AT THE CASH SHOP SUPPORT THE DOGBERRY AND HIS WIFE HAVING BABIES FUND

[Arrelaine]

I, sadly, bought the CE for this game on the PC.

 

...at least I'm a fan of TES and liked the physical CE things more than the game. Molag Bal still resides with Anduin and Garalt killing a gryphon on a shelf.

[TheLastCandle]

I drop in now and then to dick around when FF is undergoing maintenance, or just to play with friends. I don't RP there because it's an exercise in futility, but my character is basically Ragnar of Lothbrok which is pretty cool I guess.

 

 

 

[Aaron]

What if this ESO is the new XI

 

AND THE NEXT WILL BE LIKE ARR

[TheLastCandle]

What if this ESO is the new XI

 

AND THE NEXT WILL BE LIKE ARR

 

Not very many people thought Yoshida and his team could pull off what they did with ARR. I'm sure a LOT of struggling MMOs would love to replicate the kind of success they have achieved here.

[Branson Thorne]

Good thing I followed instinct when the original ESO was announced. 

 

I was like "10 bucks this game will be shit. I have no evidence,  I just feel it."

On Pc I bet its much better but when I played it simply having no text chat in a MMO yanks my chain in a wrong way.

 

You'd be sadly mistaken, it's quite medicore by others standards on a PC, and downright atrocious by mine.

[Addison]

ESO, in general, is a passable MMO.

 

As a TES game, however, it sorely misses the mark. And that's my biggest disappointment.

 

That and the PvP, which was hyped to be 'revolutionary.'

[Darien Cadell]

I enjoyed the beta, but not enough to quit what I was already playing at the time, which I think was GW2? So yeah. I certainly never tried it on a console, but if it worked well enough to entertain on PC and was just a hot mess on console, that's got to be disappointing.

[Rakoh]

I remember playing with Beta with Nako and good god it was awful back then. Everything instanced and you frequently get stuck on different instances to your friends. I remember the average session went like this>

 

"Nako? Where are you?"

"Reiko? Where are you?"

"Nako? Where are you?"

"Reiko? Where are you?"

"Nako? Where are you?"

"Reiko? Where are you?"

"Nako? Where are you?"

"Reiko? Where are you?"

"Nako? Where are you?"

"Reiko? Where are you?"

"Nako? Where are you?"

"Reiko? Where are you?"

"Okay I see an arrow, where are you Nako?"

"I see your arrow too, where are you Reiko?"

"Want to play something else?"

"Yep!"

[Dravus]

I had high hopes for ESO yet it ended up being a major disappointment for me. Despite the wealth of intriguing lore available to exploit the developers saw fit to create incredibly dull factions that didn't make a whole lot of sense and were designed purely for the sake of poorly justifying PvP.

 

It was the perfect opportunity to get a faction in an MMO that wasn't a human circle jerk. We could have had a wonderfully gritty faction dominated by the Dunmer or Altmer - but instead the Dunmer were shunned in favour of Nords (understandably to appease those who only got into the franchise with Skyrim) and the Altmer...had everything unique about them stripped away by the developers making the stereotypical Altmer into villains and putting a twenty something human-with-long-ears in charge of what was marketed as the 'elven' faction.

 

My partner and I almost gave up on MMO's altogether as a result. Thankfully FFXIV has proven worthwhile and keeps us both happy.

 

It does have redeeming qualities and I enjoyed some of the quests but...it doesn't help that it was ridiculously hard to organise role-play and we never got the promised filter to help us locate other role-players without adding them to our list of in-game friends.

[Nako Vesh]

ESO, in general, is a passable MMO.

 

As a TES game, however, it sorely misses the mark. And that's my biggest disappointment.

 

That and the PvP, which was hyped to be 'revolutionary.'

 

This is exactly how I felt about it. If it had been other IP, I might view it more favorably, but I'm not sure that TES can be translated to MMO format and still be TES.

[TheLastCandle]

My main complaint is the forced trinity of factions. The Nords allying with the Dunmer is one big headscratcher. Don't even get me started with the Argonians. Ebonheart is the most unlikely alliance in the game.

 

Also I still don't quite understand the decision to put the emphasis on poorly implemented PvP/a race to the (hilariously short-lived) crown of Emperor. Still, it's been a fun game to explore. I enjoyed revisiting Morrowind and especially High Rock, Daggerfall having been my entry point to the series.

[Leomoon]

Good thing I followed instinct when the original ESO was announced. 

 

I was like "10 bucks this game will be shit. I have no evidence,  I just feel it."

On Pc I bet its much better but when I played it simply having no text chat in a MMO yanks my chain in a wrong way.

 

You'd be sadly mistaken, it's quite medicore by others standards on a PC, and downright atrocious by mine.

Well I am deprest...

[Leomoon]

I had high hopes for ESO yet it ended up being a major disappointment for me. Despite the wealth of intriguing lore available to exploit the developers saw fit to create incredibly dull factions that didn't make a whole lot of sense and were designed purely for the sake of poorly justifying PvP.

 

It was the perfect opportunity to get a faction in an MMO that wasn't a human circle jerk. We could have had a wonderfully gritty faction dominated by the Dunmer or Altmer - but instead the Dunmer were shunned in favour of Nords (understandably to appease those who only got into the franchise with Skyrim) and the Altmer...had everything unique about them stripped away by the developers making the stereotypical Altmer into villains and putting a twenty something human-with-long-ears in charge of what was marketed as the 'elven' faction.

 

My partner and I almost gave up on MMO's altogether as a result. Thankfully FFXIV has proven worthwhile and keeps us both happy.

 

It does have redeeming qualities and I enjoyed some of the quests but...it doesn't help that it was ridiculously hard to organise role-play and we never got the promised filter to help us locate other role-players without adding them to our list of in-game friends.

At lest in Guild wars people did try to RP, the ESO the more I play the more I feel likes its a fooling around MO. Guess when I get a fully working Pc I will be heading up wildstare for a different MMO.

[TheLastCandle]

Wildstar is worth a try to see if you like it. The beta didn't grab me, but I have a lot of friends who played it and immediately preordered. Be advised, though, it's going F2P this fall, so you may want to wait for that.

[Nako Vesh]

Wildstar is worth a try to see if you like it. The beta didn't grab me, but I have a lot of friends who played it and immediately preordered. Be advised, though, it's going F2P this fall, so you may want to wait for that.

 

If you like getting creative, it's almost worth it just for the housing system. The housing system is super robust and almost as good as Rift's was. I can't wait for F2P just so I can tour people's houses and see the incredibly creative things people have done with it, but at this point I'm not really interested in playing the actual game. lol

[ArmachiA]

I wanted to like Wildstar, I really did.

 

I just didn't like most anything it did. Housing was top notch though

[Dravus]

Wildstar had a lot of potential. I quite liked the quirky humour and the lore surrounding the Eldan. I liked the Cassians too - especially their architecture - and the housing system was wonderful.

 

Yet it just didn't grip me like FFXIV did. I blame the lack of consistent and meaningful content updates and the rather bizarre decision to make dungeons and raids 'hardcore' and not easily accessible to the average player. I like a challenge but tedious grinds/mandatory timed dungeon runs aren't my cup of tea at all.

[Zyrusticae]

ESO turned me off from the get-go just because their armor models are awful. It ain't no Souls game, that's for sure.

 

Wildstar turned me off because of their really lame character creation. Well, that, and of their racial options, precisely zero appealed to me in particular. Aurin would have gotten close if the character creation were actually worth a damn, but nope. Nopenopenope!

 

I'm REALLY picky about my character models, man. I just can't get past a game that doesn't let me make a character that looks the way I want them to look.

 

Now, Blade & Soul, on the other hand...! Mmm, so good. I have so little to complain about with that game, it's kind of silly. Even after leveling 3 characters to the cap (two of them of the exact same class) and dealing with horrible foreigner latency and language barriers, I still love the damn game. Lyn especially appeal to me, as they're like a perfect balance between Miqo'te and Lalafell (or rather, what I wish Lalafell actually were). My favorite race in gaming thus far.

 

I'll freely admit I am jumping ship as soon as the NA version is released. I have absolutely no qualms about that. HOWEVER, if XCOM 2 releases around the same time...

 

Well, I'll probably die of happiness overload.

[Dravus]

I took a look at Blade & Soul to see what all the fuss was about and...I can't say I'm very keen on the art style/armour design. It seems like another MMO where the 'women' look underage but have massive knockers and give the impression that they're liable to burst out of their costumes at any given moment.

 

I may be wrong but that's what Google images is showing me...I'll cut it a bit of slack if it at least gives men some alluring clothing options and doesn't give them the anatomy of a Ken doll.