Elder Scrolls Online

NotAdmin · Aug 20, 2013

This funnily popped up in my Google Newsfeed due to the article being in Norwegian, and containing the following lines (underlined the bit that made it pop up):

hvordan de har løst min favorittstil, sniking, i The Elder Scrolls Online. Etter å ha lekt meg litt med figurdesignet - noe som stort sett fungerer likt som i Skyrim - døper jeg min Dark Elf til «Skinke», og beveger meg ut i vinterlandskapet. The ...

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So technically not a MindArk article, but it might be interesting enough for those of you who enjoy the Elder Scrolls series (we own several of them ourselves as well). This is the Google Translation of the original article:

There are many expectations attached to The Elder Scrolls Online, and we went to Dallas to check on developers ZeniMax Online Studios is on track ...

Text: Oskar Nyström

Published August 20, 2013 at 09

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It's hot in Dallas. 40 degrees in the shade is red-hot. You run the risk of spontaneous ignition if I stand outside for long. Because of the uncomfortable high temperature is to enter QuakeCon 2013 that getting a foretaste of heaven. The screens I see a cool winter landscape, and I long there. In the foreground stands a Argonian and looking at me with a dead look. I recognize the lizard-like race immediately, and I will not have anything to do with him.
I tap me on, and see that I can choose from one of three available races in The Ebonheart Pact - one of the clans that will represent the people of The Elder Scrolls Online . For some reason, Dark Elf, Argonians and Nords chosen to live side by side, and after more than 100 hours as precisely Dark Elf in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is the choice easy.
Then shall elect a class. Here stands The Elder Scrolls Online from their other games in the same universe. Instead of just climb in rank by focusing on certain attacks such as one-handed or destruction, as you choose now what you will be able to develop the skills right from the start.Although I will be getting better at sneaking if I do it a lot, then you almost have to choose the class Night Blade if you want to be assassin.
The rest just what I choose. I could also choose between classes Templar, Sorcerer and Dragon Knight in the demo, but I'm most curious about how they have solved my favorite style, stealth, in The Elder Scrolls Online . Having played a bit with character design - which basically works the same as in Skyrim - I baptize my Dark Elf to "Ham" and move me out of the winter landscape.

Suddenly I find myself in an appropriately sized island. Snowflakes falling in front of a small collection of log cabins. Around me running three shapes that are controlled by other journalists, including a happy Dutchman named Jörgen. I zoom in to first person perspective, taking my first steps, swings his sword in the air and block with your shield. Then I write in my notes that it feels like Skyrim .
The feeling that everything flows in the same manner as in Skyrim remains the first half hour. The dialogues are well-written and topped with premium voice acting. The environments are beautiful and open for exploration. Play control feels all the time naturally, and every movement seems heavy in a realistic way.
I notice quickly that I still can not pick up any objects lying around. This has previously been one of the show's signature, and it feels a bit sorry even if it is logical. Just think what chaos there would be if players could throw from the apples, forks and candlesticks everywhere. There is simply no room for anarchy in the online role-playing game.
I will soon learn that a scout sent out to check what is going on in a nearby mine have been away suspiciously long time, and I volunteered to help. After a few hundred meters I meet a bunch of enemy soldiers, and a friendly representative from ZeniMax tells me that I can choose to fight, infiltrate or just creep me out.

I choose the cowardly way out, sneak myself into an unsuspecting soldier, kills her and puts on me her outfit. Then I strut around freely, but soon it turns out that my approach has been futile. A bunch of other players attacking namely, the slaughter everything in their path. I therefore throw off my disguise, and also assists them in the game. Together we totally amok while we look at each other and laughing.
Somewhere inside that experience I find the essence of The Elder Scrolls Online . It is full of choice and classic Elder Scrolls vibes, but I am also with a sense that anything can happen thanks to the other players in the open world.
It turns out quickly that both my own and my friends' existence is threatened by a bunch of Daedra sect that will have the island to themselves. I realize early on that it is already over for our part, since they are both more and stronger than us. My mission is changing so a rescue mission where I have to collect as many as possible so that we can escape to the mainland by boat.
Suddenly a series of missions on the map, and I can save up to 15 individuals who all have ended up in some kind of trouble. Three of these, for example, been turned into rats of a wicked sorcerer, and it is my job to find them before I can help them return to their original shape. All this happens while I am impressed by the fine water, the beautiful music and the ambient wind picks up when I go out from sheltered behind a rock. The Elder Scrolls Online is going to take the throne from Guild Wars 2 when it comes to graphics and atmosphere in your role. That's for sure.

It adds up quickly for me this is a fitness area, an introduction for beginners. I therefore choose to blow the other quests, and move me either down to the boats located at a cave. Inside the cave I get the company of the little gang I saved, and I feel a twinge of guilt. We could have been many more here ...
Prologue is finished when I go aboard. A loading screen interferes with empathy for a brief moment, and I find myself once in a Morrowind-like landscape - characterized by everything from jungle and fields, the ruins and giant mushrooms. I am impressed by the nice reflections and a much longer sight than on the island.
Soon the end of the test, and I just have to accept that it's a long time until the next time I'll play The Elder Scrolls Online . At the same time, I am satisfied with the testing, and I can honestly say that both Elder Scrolls-fantatikeren and MMO enthusiast in me has been wanting for more.
Most of the rush got to play the jug Färdigt allready now, även about some BEST intellectual parts understand the need resharpened rejält. Däribland pilbågen as passionate ruskigt hemsk, ful och oprecis. Likaså one time the dialog that nuläget rails form of någon form of computer software such as laser ur one text document. About Just This berättelse Paul Sage in a interview with us as you can också Lasa carcinoma cards, on Gamereactor.
Most of what I have tested work done already, but some things still need a lot of polishing. Among them we find the bow and arrow, which is both inaccurate and ugly. The same I can say about some of the dialogue, but it must Sage Paul be allowed to answer in an interview soon you can read here at Gamereactor.

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From: http://www.gamereactor.no/previews/192944/The+Elder+Scrolls+Online/

Nor Alien · Aug 21, 2013

I was just showing this game to my mom, as she was a big fan and still is. She's 61 this year. ;)

Atun · Oct 17, 2013

Yes its a good one Admin

Respects to you Nor Alien and Respects to your mom

If you all wish,we can all group up in Elder Scrolls Online if you all wish.

RAZER · Oct 17, 2013

Still waiting to get beta access to the game myself, or for it to launch of course.

RAZER · Oct 17, 2013

New character creation video posted today on Youtube

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Atun · Oct 18, 2013

RAZER I agree with you on that

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