I reserve my judgement for release time 😉
Especially online stuff has the tendency to become something else or vanish 😉

I'm not a fan of MMOs so regardless of whether it rocks or sucks I doubt I'll be playing it. :P

Personally though, I don't think mutliplayer is the right way to take the series, especially if it's not going to play like the other TES games. I understand why they want to make it though and I don't doubt that many thousands upon thousands of people will want to play it, I just don't want to see their efforts with this game change the way the next numbered TES game plays, lest we never again get a first-person single-player experience out of the TES series. x_x;

There's alot of idiots out there clamoring for an Elder Scrolls MMO so Bethesda would have to be retarded not to try to get some of that $$$$.

From what I've heard the MMO is supposedly not going to affect the single-player series......of course we all know how that goes.

I don't play online anyway (too much singleplayer backlog,I hate people and I like to be able to replay games years down the road).
However optional co-op would be nice to have.

"I hate people" 😉

But I agree with all you wrote and can add that I git badly burnt by Ultima Online over a decade ago... After three months of wasting on this I quit and decided to never play such a thing again 😉

I agree with all of you. I don't like MMO either. But I think it's a good idea for developers to get some extra cash... 😁

eL_PuSHeR wrote:

I agree with all of you. I don't like MMO either. But I think it's a good idea for developers to get some extra cash... 😁

The problem with that is developers end up becoming too focused on the online component and the single player game suffers. It is going to reach a point where games won't even have a single player storyline anymore, just online fragging and once it gets to that point, how do games distinguish themselves from each other anymore? One online fragfest is just as good as the next.

I wasted too much time on World of Warcraft, so I won't let myself play MMO's any more. It's just not fun having to play on someone else's schedule.

Now I play single-player games and pause whenever I want 😜

The good news is that I got so far behind on single-player games that I can sit back and wait for $5 sales 😀

Old Morrowind was the best game of the series, I doubt Bethesda can ever make a better TES.

Oblivion was less hardcore and had level-dependant bot-generated world, that was interesting in some key areas and dumb in all other places. Although Shivering Isles rocked!))

Skyrim was interesting for a day or two, but than it became much like Oblivion, only even less hardcore. I'm not waiting for anything anymore. Don't want to waste time on another casual game.

I think it's funny how everyone judges the entire series against Morrowind. It's good but it hasn't aged as well as some games. It's also much different from the first two games in the series, and much more similar to its sequels.

sliderider wrote:

The problem with that is developers end up becoming too focused on the online component and the single player game suffers. It is going to reach a point where games won't even have a single player storyline anymore, just online fragging and once it gets to that point, how do games distinguish themselves from each other anymore? One online fragfest is just as good as the next.

That's exactly what people were saying back in 1999 with UT, Quake3 etc., and here we are 13 years later. Trends come and go.

As someone with zero interest in the big-name titles these days I personally couldn't care less.

Morrowind has aged very well thank you.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/morrowind-rebirth
http://morrowindoverhaul.rpgitalia.net/

Agreed, morrowind really was the apex of the series. Neither skyrim or oblivion were as engaging or enjoyable as morrowind.

This is the mod guide I used http://www.somethingfornobody.com/2011/morrow … -modding-guide/

I find I like Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim equally, for various different reasons but what it essentially comes down to for me is that Morrowind is the least immersive but the most dynamic, while Skyrim is the most immersive but the least dynamic, and Oblivion is somewhere in between.

By "dynamic" I mean in terms of what you can do in the game. Morrowind has a lot more stats and a lot more options for making spells and enchantments and such, while Skyrim has the fewest of those options, and Oblivion is somewhere in the middle.

If there were shootable poisons in TES 3, I would play it forever 😁

Don't get me wrong, I like all of the TES games for different reasons.

I will never worship Morrowind though, if only because the UI is painfully horrid. I really wish someone would figure out how to mod that - especially the alchemy UI.

Agreed UI-wise, Skyrim is okay. I must confess I never finished the two chapters in the Elder Scrolls series (Arena and Daggerfall).

I liked Morrowind and I liked Oblivion and Skyrim too. I think change is good and inevitable.

as long its provides LAN play its okay for me, after all i've ultra sucky internet connections, thats make it only capable to 10% of possible fun.

eL_PuSHeR wrote:

Agreed UI-wise, Skyrim is okay. I must confess I never finished the two chapters in the Elder Scrolls series (Arena and Daggerfall).

I liked Morrowind and I liked Oblivion and Skyrim too. I think change is good and inevitable.

I played Arena and Daggerfall a ton back in the day, but never finished them until the last year or so.

I really enjoyed both Daggerfall and Morrowind. Morrowind was actually the last PC game I ever got into. I was impressed with Morrowind at the time, because it greatly exceeded my very low expectations. At the time I was pleased Bethesda still hadn't sold out to the mainstream idiots. I've never bothered to try Elderscrolls 4 or 5, because I figure that my system is probably too slow to run them.

I totally agree that going multiplayer is going to run Elderscrolls though. Quite frankly I'm surprised they didn't do it years ago.