A 20-minute chunk of gameplay from The Elder Scrolls Online MMO leaked overnight, and was quickly taken down from YouTube on ZeniMax Media’s orders. PCGamer, however, has the clip if you want to see it. Early verdicts are not good.
A 20-minute Chunk Of Gameplay From The Elder Scrolls Online MMO Leaked Overnight, And Was Quickly Ta
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31 responses to “A 20-minute Chunk Of Gameplay From The Elder Scrolls Online MMO Leaked Overnight, And Was Quickly Ta”
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bangersAnd it’s gone there too.
I’m guessing it’s because it looks super generic once you’re actually playing it? Classic hotbar – questlog UI that the devs seem to have been hiding in every preview so far?
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phlaimanHaven’t got time to watch it yet, but is it pretty much as we expected? Generic MMO that brings basically nothing to the table?
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SammiYes, in fact it looks at a good deal worse than most generic mmos in the last few years.
Best thing I can think to say for it is… the interface looks reasonably clean.
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piatSeems like a classic “oops I hit the post button, this isn’t a marketing test I promise” leak
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spoonieWow a 20 minute impression and its thrown to the sharks – tough crowd. Stupid Beta footage not being as awesome as the obviously anticipated AAA expectations, I wonder why dev’s place NDA’s during closed Beta’s???
Doesn’t make sense when obviously people are smart enough to realise beta footage is exactly a work in progress, and not to be judged to harshly or indeed as a final product…people are smart enough, right?
All silliness aside what I took away from this leak was –
1. Action combat (great!)
2. Elder scrolls leveling (usually easy to learn and navigate)
3. REAL stealth in an MMO (this looks awesome)
4. Relatively deep character customisation.
5. Voice acting.
6. UI appears intuitive and easy to use.
7. Map size appeared to be a good size
8. Effects were relatively impressive.
9 Killing rats is fun 😛-
banderdashThe problem is… people wanted a co-op Skyrim.
But Bethesda took that and made it into an MMO instead because an ongoing subscription fee is much more appealing to them.
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spoonie
Has is been confirmed that its subscription based? I haven’t heard anything, and what’s a bigger co-op game then an MMO. Something that you can solo, or bring a friend along (all multiple if you are lucky to have more than one friend – or any at all…I’m so lonely).
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theaptpupilyeah because running online servers 24/7 and the staff to maintain and patch them fro the next 5 or so years comes at no expense to ZeniMax studios or Bethesda.
Even if it was subscription based, one off purchase with DLC or free/freemium at least people are getting elder scrolls where there will be raids, bosses, and hopefully a minimization of the traditional MMO toolbar that turns me off the genre in such a charmingand adorable community that will be oh so forgiving and not at all critical of every leaf in the game.
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mikeockertzMac’s bang on the money. After getting my wife into Skyrim, I’m was jumping at the chance to play something TES and vaguely co-op. Still hoping this won’t tank, but as I’ve said before, you can hope in one hand and shit in the other. See which fills up first…
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dogmanThe problem is… people wanted a co-op Skyrim.
Exactly. The reason why a Elder Scrolls MMO has been in hot demand since way back is because people played Morrowind and went ‘damn, I want this with multiplayer’. This game seems to have missed the heart of that statement. It’s shaping up to be a stock standard MMORPG from 2007 with Elder Scrolls lore pasted onto it which is, at the risk of over reacting, an outrageous waste of potential.
The footage is early beta, possibly even pre-beta, but it’s showing core mechanics that have completely missed the point. It’s like seeing a leaked Pokemon MMORPG video where the players play as Pokemon rather than trainers, and the combat is real-time action based World of Warcraft style. It’s enough to see that they’ve taken the game in a radically different direction to what fans want.
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Sammi
I’ve lost count of the number of betas I’ve participated in, but every single one of them has been representative of the final product, in fact a majority (probably around 65-70% of them) have actually been better in beta in my opinion, balance too often equals boring these days, and accessible shallow. While I understand your sentiment, I think what people are judging is the base gameplay and the feel of the sum of its parts rather than each individual element, and at that the consensus is it seems generic not bad, most of your list are things that you’d expect from a decent generic mmo, so there’s no need to disagree.
3. There was absolutely nothing in that video that suggested the stealth will be any good, he ducked and the elder scrolls ‘hidden/detected’ appeared, stealth wasn’t demonstrated. Also I’m not sure I could in good conscience call stealth in an Elder scrolls REAL stealth.
6. Agree, looks nice.
8. The opposite of what you said 😛
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theaptpupil
3. well if putting a bucket over the shopkeepers head of the store your about to rob blind isn’t stealth I better not pull that bank heist with blackened swimming goggles over all the tellers
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spoonie
I suppose when I mention REAL stealth it’s more the fact that it has a stealth indicator, which I find to be the at least a step in the right direction and better then any MMO that I’ve seen to implement ‘stealth’ – based on the MMO’s and Beta’s that I’ve played.
As for stating that most Beta’s are representative of the final product – I will concede that perhaps a lot of what a game initially implements might represent a final product, but I’ve seen a few MMO’s change drastic things while within Beta stage. This will change from game to game, I just believe especially with this video, it didn’t warrant some of the comments I’ve seen here and other places.
Haters gonna hate and even having viewed this I still don’t pass judgement of what might be. It looked liked the starting area and most MMO’s that aren’t sandbox, have pretty ‘generic’ base level starting areas. I don’t know what gamers expect a MMO to be?
At the end of the day it will come down to personal taste and from what I’ve heard they are incorporating most/all of the areas we’ve seen in ES – so I think it’s too early to tell what this game is going to be like – and that’s my point. To say oh no, generic/boring/bland typical MMO – is huge calls based on 20 mins of what appears to be a guy that doesn’t know how to play the game and dies a lot 🙂
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rgwhouseThere is a video here that hasn’t been taken down
http://www.castleawesome.com/2013/04/15/the-elder-scrolls-online-gameplay-footage-leaked/
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Kritter5xIt looks bad. Sure it has some good points such as voice acting, but then games such as Guild Wars or SWTOR also have voice acting and have done for some time. It’s doing very little to progress beyond the “find 5 of these, kill 10 of those” types of MMO’s that we’re all so sick off.
Plus the combat looks dull and uninspired to be honest. I don’t feel like a crab should take so long to die after being pummeled with fireballs. And on that note, effects and hitting things just doesn’t seem… punchy enough. There’s no oomph, it’s like you’re lobbing puffs of smoke.
Then there’s everything else. Animations are janky, textures aren’t great (though i’ve heard higher res textures are disabled for now), camera looks annoying and it all just looks like something from 5-10 years ago.
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reikoThis is pretty much what I got from watching that video as well.
Tbh it looks extremely disappointing for a Bethesda game. Oh well, guess I will just wait for Wildstar Online.
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nestamaSomething worse than FFXIV1.0 (before the staff replacement)? SE would be pleased to hear this.
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freestylar02Bring back Kingdom of Amalur! At least they are original in their own way, and it was a much easier game to get hooked onto. KOA-2 and an online were in production if not pre-production i believe. I recommend crowd sourcing if they cant finance it via other means, i know i for 1 would support it!
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usualdayThe thing I took away from it is that the first person shtick looks terrible. Identical to WoWs. When I read the Kotaku quick review a while back, it said not to fear, you can play it in first person! Well I hope this isn’t what they meant, cause no hands, fireballs flying out of nowhere is not playing first person.
I hope this is implemented before it goes to final stage, otherwise 100% of what I found interesting about this game (having an elder scrolls style first person immersion) is gone.
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dogcatCertainly not enough for me to quit WoW, but an MMO doesnt have to make me want to in order to succeed. SWTOR is great fun as a casual every now and then adventure, and though i havent played it my guild mates say the same about Guild Wars 2. But this…….Not looking good.
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manmananBut its beta!!
But it just released!!
But they will patch it!!
But i don’t want o be alone!! -
spiderzwholeheartedly i feel that age of conan is a better game, it immediately has similar opening themes, only age of conan does everything better and looks better.
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reiko
I was trying to put my finger on what this reminded of while watching, AoC, it’s been awhile.
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bluntbowsThe gameplay footage looked incredibly bland. Nothing as the screenshots showed.
Although the area shown in the video was a desert. Which isn’t exactly the most appealing place to be. -
rybo5000I’m really confused by the negative reaction.
It just looks like Skyrim but with the whole world at the loss of some it’s look?
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