Impressions from the PTA (The Elder Scrolls Online)
No, well, I was ready for the fact that this is an MMO and it is really an MMO with all its flaws and lack of pluses.
Grafoniy is frankly backward, and even on release, now it has not become better, the locations are frankly poor, there is nothing to look at. And the world itself is pretty empty, go on quests and activities and that's it.
The role-playing system is not from the series, rather typical for the genre, although it cannot be called bad. Norm. Even a little bit trying to cosplay the normal games of the series in terms of pumping the skills used with the gain of experience.
The plot and tasks, as many say, are really atypical for an MMO. Even in a seemingly passable side task, there will be some kind of small turnaround, and often there will be a well-furnished choice of two options. Compared to story games, they certainly lose, but at least this is not "kill 10 boars." It jars that a dofig of ghosts, as if after death they have nothing to do except to pester the living with tasks. I didn't really know the plot, I went through only the first large location of "Glenubr", the plot is there, but ... somehow I didn't get involved. And that's 40 hours !!! And there are dofig such locations, it's a monstrous amount of time and not to say that it would be so interesting.
You seem to be playing, you seem to even get involved, but all the time you think that you shouldn't have bought those two planned games at the autumn sale. Maybe I had better time.
It works more or less stably, but in the evenings in the cities the FPS sags by half. It happens that it throws it out of the server, and it doesn't matter what the plot you go through or something else. It is strange that after the technical work (a separate song) the players are not even awarded with any small bun.
Separately, it causes persistent misunderstanding and frankly irritates the complete equality of everyone and everything, bordering on idiocy. That is, it is normal that the orcs will make up the majority in the traveling unit of the mages guild. The coolest warriors will be women, and in one quest to save people there are generally two strong women who resist the enemy and two men trembling with fear. Feudal society, damn it. In short, a lot of pseudo-left schiza.
If you want to see what it is, then buy ONLY the standard edition. The rest can be bought later, and so there is just a lot of content. Moreover, there is no complete edition with all DLS at all, even in Steam.
In general, this is more of an ordinary MMORPG wrapped in a TES wrapper, while TES itself, that atmosphere of free exploration of an interesting living world is not here.
6/10
The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind
I understood why the main game seemed to be no, because there is a typical medieval fantasy, while Vvardenfell still amazed with its most interesting and unusual views. Strange creatures, amazing places, ash storms, Dwemer ruins and Daedric dungeons, mushroom forests, strange architecture. That is, even in this game, Morrowin looks like a real interesting fantasy, and it has become more detailed, in some places it is really beautiful.
And, of course, nostalgia. Nostalgia hits you with a pound hammer and for the first few hours you just run from Syed Nin to the Vivek or Balmora under construction and smile idiotically, sometimes even howling with ecstasy. Indeed, the return to Morrowind is conveyed very cool, but the euphoria does not last very long, and then you begin to see that in the main game - a candy wrapper from your favorite world, and not the world itself. And of course immersion spoils the fact that this is an MMO.
The main plot is average, but some additional tasks, especially in large cities (they consist of a sequence of quests) are very even. There are excellent ones. And with drama and humor.
Pseudo-equality here, too, blooms with schizo. Even the fierce racists of Telvani will accept as an equal Argorian, a former slave. Yeah, I really believe ... Despite the fact that the quest, oddly enough, is excellent.
But the main thing that outraged - there is a broken quest! Well this is how to make a game so that there is still a broken quest in the game ?!
In short, the environment, even if it is better purely due to the more fantastic terrain, is still a profanity, not TES.
6/10
I played TESO for almost 2 years, from Morrowind, closed everything I could, completed all the quests, pumped 16 Persians ... And that was the end of the game) For MMORPGs it is somehow rather weak and not enough lessons. There is literally nothing to do except furnish the houses and dress up the doll, i.e. character (and now there are even two of them, dolls). There is no long-term character development or any kind of progression. Over the past two years, there are simply no updates for pvp either. At all. Zero. For pwe, the same dls dungeons are stamped at the price of an average game and once a year they roll out a regular lock with quests at the price of an AAA game. New classes are donated. New professionals - for donation. New skill lines - for donation. There is a subscription, but it, suddenly, does not allow getting all of the above on the release, except for the dls dungeons (in which, by the way, an indescribable unique gear is farmed). In fact, this is a very significant disadvantage in the game, because even in korean jerks you don't pay such amounts just to have access to content. Plus, all this is the terrible technical state of the game. I think anyone who has played the game for at least a month knows that almost every week the servers go to rest after unsuccessful maintenance work. And no one cares that because of a non-working login, you will lose half a day of a paid subscription. These are not some Koreans out there, with consolation gifts for 1 hour of unscheduled maintenance (in a free game) - real developers can only offer their sincere apologies to the office. site of the game. Another disadvantage for me: for some time now, the game has become too much not very lore content. Frost-fire riding lizard-bears ... No, this is not my fantasy. This was actually sold and sold in the game (in loot boxes). The most colorful bright skins of characters, glowing eyes, pets / mounts of any combinations and colors hit the atmosphere very hard and do not allow you to fully immerse yourself in the plot. In another MMO it would all look commonplace, but this is TES - here the lore should be in the first place and nothing else.
But in general, as a single game - TECO is not bad. For the sake of the plot, for the sake of passing the dungeons once (which also have their own storylines and good ones), for the sake of interesting characters, you can buy and play. Especially TEC fans, but MMORPG fans are better off walking by and not injuring their psyche.