I completely unerstand where you're coming from about lack of innovation and over-dependence on the addictive carrot and stick model though. If this turns out to be MOTS I won't play it, even if it is Elder Scrolls. There are some rays of hope though. If this is more sandbox (Eve) and less theme park (WoW, LoTRO, SWTOR) it could be a much needed breath of fresh air. TES also has a nice, open class system that would be an innovation in the MMO space.
So how many of the MMO haters here have actually played one? MMO's are my favorite genre and I like the Elder Scrolls games specifically BECAUSE they're like MMO's. If you're still unconvinced, this doesn't mean Elder Scrolls are MMO from now on. That's adolescent black and white thinking. It's not an either/or proposition, they can do both.
This is the first MMO I've been interested in in a long time simply because it's in the Elder Scrolls world. Here's hoping I can play a Breton and I can wear the boots of blinding speed without going blind.
Pre-ordering is stupid enough but this is ridiculous. You only want to buy DLC when you really like a game, but here they want you to pre-order all of it, sight unseen and game unplayed. And there's probably no way to get a refund if you decide you don't want it after all. Do not fall for this greedy crap, people.
I don't see it as a huge problem if the collecting of figurines or whatever is integral to the game and the buyer knows up front what he's getting into An implementation of Pokemon or Magic: the Gathering spring to mind as acceptable. What would be unacceptable to me is making people buy scarce figurines to expand a game, for instance to get new weapons in Skyrim, a new class in an RPG or to unlock half the characters in a fighting game. Getting a boost/power up because you own a plastic heart is particularly unacceptable. As far as I know, Nintendo hasn't made use of the AR Cards (?) in the 3DS so this could just be another similarlty forgotten feature.
@Dasim64 Half-Life...? I don't think it's very realistic. The bodies should fall apart and splatter more when they fall from those distances. It also lacks believability when an enemy stands rock steady taking 10 bullets and then the one that kills him sends him flying 50 feet.
If you're thinking about switching to PC if the console makers block used games, forget it. It's hard to find boxed copies of NEW games for PC - everything is going digital. Every time I go into Best Buy they have fewer PC games for sale. There has never been a big market for used PC games and the way things are going, that's not going to change. I don't really see a need used PC games anyway. You can buy awesome games dirt cheap on Steam, GamersGate, etc. once they're a few months old.
I can't believe you people think of yourselves as consumers of a product and you think it's defective. This isn't blender that shorted out, it's a story, and the creators get to say how it ends. Surely you don't think you would get any traction with a petition to change the ending of a movie or a book? How is this different? Even when a game has multiple endings there doesn't have to be one you want where you get to be the savior hero or whatever. If that's the only result you can be happy with, then you should probably take a good hard look at yourself and your aversion to anythng that challenges the preeminence of your ego.
I have never and will never pre-order a game. I don't even like reading previews because they're almost always blindly positive hype and what the reporter sees is strictly controlled by the developer (though things are improving there). Buying Assassin's Creed 3 because you liked the first two is just foolish. Someone said "Assassin's Creed has always been a great game" no, it's been 2 seperate great games. But this is a third game which could be crap, or different enough from the first two that you feel it's crap. All I need ot do for proof is point at all the people who were disappointed with Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect 3, Bioshock 2
I think this is coming up now because gameplay video is approaching the quality of CGI rendered video. Back in the PS2 and earlier days there was no question what you were seeing in a CGI trailer wasn't actual gameplay so no one expected it to be so. Also, trailers for strategy games never have anything to do with what goes on in the actual game. Generally speaking now trailers make the player character appear a lot more powerful and capable of more than they are in the actual game, which is inherently deceptive. I think the SWTOR character class trailers were blatantly overstating what actually happens in game.
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