Originally posted by Magnum2103

I found a screenshot showing some of the UI details!:

LOL!

We need to replace the saying: "A picture is worth a thousand words." with "A couple of pictures will make a thousand trolls cry in a lot of words."

Originally posted by greyed-out

The graphics look like a cross between Rift and LoTRO to me.  Not bad; not great.  IMO its a bit too cartoony and needs to be polished up on the realism side a bit more.

 well since the gameplay is excalty like rift/ wow then i think the grpahics suit it. Obviously you could save yourself some tiem by jsut playing those mentioned 2 games since they will undoubtedly play exactly the same as this. If its the lore and world of TES oyur after i still say stay away from this, they have taken so many liberties with the lore presented in the original TES games its a complete abortion. Case in point the 3 factions, just look at the races in them and who they are allied with its retarded.

ugh, not my style at all. Reminds me EQ2 a bit, blech

I'm no graphics junkie as I prefer games like Ac1 and UO, but I can not stand the look that some of these games go for with the overly plastic look of the models...

I'll take the raw look of AC1 and Istaria anyday over this.

Huge ES fan though, and will keep checking out their SP games if they keep making them.

Originally posted by deathshroud

Originally posted by greyed-out

The graphics look like a cross between Rift and LoTRO to me.  Not bad; not great.  IMO its a bit too cartoony and needs to be polished up on the realism side a bit more.

 well since the gameplay is excalty like rift/ wow then i think the grpahics suit it. Obviously you could save yourself some tiem by jsut playing those mentioned 2 games since they will undoubtedly play exactly the same as this. If its the lore and world of TES oyur after i still say stay away from this, they have taken so many liberties with the lore presented in the original TES games its a complete abortion. Case in point the 3 factions, just look at the races in them and who they are allied with its retarded.

Actually, as a traditional MMO, it looks like it will probably be one of the better games out there.  Soft-Trinity combat system, hubless quest design, public quests/events, non-instanced as well as instanced dungeons, raids, and 3faction PvP (although it being race-locked sucks) all work to its credit, IMO.

The problem for us is that the traditional DIKU/WoW model is not even a little bit applicable to the Elder Scrolls IP.  Should have been so much more.

Looks ok to me.. How it plays is what really matters though.

I wouldn't say the graphics or art style are disastrous for a game that has some time still. Plz no shiny plastic faces.

Originally posted by Eir_S

Yeah, TES has made a certain style for itself over the years, which this game doesn't even remotely resemble.  It looks like polished shit.

That doesnt suprise me in the least. 

I had said weeks ago when people started talking about it that mmos are often dubbed down compared to other games.  Not that I have anything at all against mmos, because I dont.  But when its just a fact. 

Did I expect an Elder Scrolls mmo to look as good as Skyrim?  In what realm of the imagination was that going to happen?  And graphics are going to be only the half of it.  The game wont probably play quite like Elder Scrolls traditionally has either.  And there will be thousand other differences. 

This is why I've always been against the idea entirely.  And from what Todd Howard had said, he was too.  So why in the world he would say that and then turn right around immediatly and start making an Elder mmo is beyond me.  Its really weird.  Id assume they'd be in production for awhile now.  So why would he say they had no interest in making one only a few months ago?  Weirdness.

Originally posted by Roin

Kind of amusing reading all these QQ post from arm-chair developers.  That have never worked on a game let alone a MMO.  Yet seem to think just because they played a game, they know oh so much about how one should operate.

I cant build a car or an engine, but I have driven enough of them to know a well made one and a POS!

  I don't know if anyone mentioned this, since I didn't bother reading all of the posts, but these screenshots were not leaked.  They were the same screenshots in the newest game informer that I just recieved.

Looking good.

Originally posted by Corehaven

Originally posted by Eir_S

Yeah, TES has made a certain style for itself over the years, which this game doesn't even remotely resemble.  It looks like polished shit.

 

That doesnt suprise me in the least. 

 

I had said weeks ago when people started talking about it that mmos are often dubbed down compared to other games.  Not that I have anything at all against mmos, because I dont.  But when its just a fact. 

 

Did I expect an Elder Scrolls mmo to look as good as Skyrim?  In what realm of the imagination was that going to happen?  And graphics are going to be only the half of it.  The game wont probably play quite like Elder Scrolls traditionally has either.  And there will be thousand other differences. 

 

This is why I've always been against the idea entirely.  And from what Todd Howard had said, he was too.  So why in the world he would say that and then turn right around immediatly and start making an Elder mmo is beyond me.  Its really weird.  Id assume they'd be in production for awhile now.  So why would he say they had no interest in making one only a few months ago?  Weirdness.

 

 

 Of course people expect MMORPGS to have worse graphics than a singleplayer game, But a completely different art style? thats something else.

Graphics don't make the game, dude.

Originally posted by Corehaven

Originally posted by Eir_S

Yeah, TES has made a certain style for itself over the years, which this game doesn't even remotely resemble.  It looks like polished shit.

 

That doesnt suprise me in the least. 

 

I had said weeks ago when people started talking about it that mmos are often dubbed down compared to other games.  Not that I have anything at all against mmos, because I dont.  But when its just a fact. 

 

Did I expect an Elder Scrolls mmo to look as good as Skyrim?  In what realm of the imagination was that going to happen?  And graphics are going to be only the half of it.  The game wont probably play quite like Elder Scrolls traditionally has either.  And there will be thousand other differences. 

 

This is why I've always been against the idea entirely.  And from what Todd Howard had said, he was too.  So why in the world he would say that and then turn right around immediatly and start making an Elder mmo is beyond me.  Its really weird.  Id assume they'd be in production for awhile now.  So why would he say they had no interest in making one only a few months ago?  Weirdness.

 

I still believe Todd Howard wants nothing to do with MMOs.  Todd is only the head of Bethesda Softworks.  Altman is the current chairman and ceo of Zenimax.  Consider also the recent 150 million infusion of private investment funds and a diverse board of directors, and its unlikely that the MMO directive originated with Todd, but from Altman and the board.

Unfortunately, Bethesda Softworks is the bread and butter of Zenimax.  ID hasn't produced anything of relevance for a decade.  Starbreeze has some potential, but Arkane is very minor.  Any financial hardships experienced by Zenimax over this MMO will likely hit Bethesda, and the single player RPGs, the hardest.

Originally posted by Chickenfries

Just me, or does Bethesda make horrible character models?  The first mod i always add is a face / texture mod.  Personally I think (mainly hoping) this is all just a big marketing ploy since everything is from a "leaked source".  Its almost as if the articals that were written by the devs are poking fun at the modern MMO's. 

It would be nice if they were trolling us for once , keep in mind once I get my new Game Informer I will be scanning the coverage onto this site unless MMORPG.com staff beats me first.

Originally posted by Mephster

WTH is ths crappy cartoony nonsense is this ? God this is so disappointing. It is over before it even started I think...

 

Link: http://www.incgamers.com/News/31243/elder-scrolls-online-looks-very-mmo-ish-first-screens-leaked

I admit I clicked into this thread planning on lambasting you or something, but God that is awful. Part of my soul just died or something.

Originally posted by Vorthanion

Originally posted by toddze

Originally posted by newbo

I knock a lot of things regarding TES Online, but the graphics are not one of them. Some of you need vision checks.

 

My vision is just fine. See if you can see the diffrence

This is ESO:

 

This is TES:

...and what MMO pray tell is capable of going with single player game graphics?  Even the highest grade graphical MMO doesn't even come close at present, because it's just not feasible.

I disagree ArcheAge uses the Cry2 Engine the game isn't even out of closed beta and the game looks leaps and bounds better by far than the stylized TES screenies that were posted if anything I'd say the Skyrim graphics on a MMO is possible and its being done with this game. It all comes down to this do you want a quality game with all the bells and whistles that people have been clamoring for years now, or rehash the same MMO thats been done for the past 8 yrs and hope for the best?

I'd say if a non-mmo TES player were to play something like TES and get the freedom and open world with all the bells and whisltes of the single player games and then some like Naval Combat and Underwater Exploration and content , I'd bet TES fans would play ArcheAge over TESO.  Why design a MMO that the formula that has been done to death already?  Money? Sure money is nice if your going for short term, make a quality game people will but it and people will sub to it and stay it's that simple.

Originally posted by KingGator

Originally posted by Mephster

WTH is ths crappy cartoony nonsense is this ? God this is so disappointing. It is over before it even started I think...

 

Link: http://www.incgamers.com/News/31243/elder-scrolls-online-looks-very-mmo-ish-first-screens-leaked

It looks fine to me. Some of you skyrim fanbois need to get that nerd rage under control. This game has no effect on the rest of the games, its seperate, skyrim will still be skyrim this will still be this, whatever this is going to be.

An abomination?

God I hate this stupid fucking candle! Seriously who doesnt think this look cartoony as hell?? And why is a stack of books 4X the size of that maerchants head???

Originally posted by jiveturkey12

God I hate this stupid fucking candle! Seriously who doesnt think this look cartoony as hell?? And why is a stack of books 4X the size of that maerchants head???

 

Now if this was a true TES MMO you would pick up that candle and drop it on his head or throw it at him :P But then again we can't have nice interactive enviroments anymore its gotta be static, lifeless and bland for the type of players that get easily confused if you let them stray off the bread crumb trail of quest hubs and loot slot machines... god forbid a world to play in oh my!!!