TES V as a MMO........

[simon445]

I vote for online co-op on the xbox 360 and or PS3, more importantly the 360,

 

oh, and to araashan

 

they all end up as a competition field for illiterate teenagers who really should be at school instead of playing time consuming games.

 

That was not very nice, and also just a little bit stereotypical, but don't let me prevent you from making a gross generalization about an entire age group.

 

Thank you,

 

Simon

[roquefort]

That was not very nice, and also just a little bit stereotypical, but don't let me prevent you from making a gross generalization about an entire age group.

 

I kind of agree, although remember that `age' is a state of mind in this area, rather than a number.

 

Merry Christmas ;)

[Sarya]

simon445, generalisation? For an age group? Definitely. But... that doesn't really matter, as that unpleasant description fits 90% of MMORPG population... whether they are 14 or 40... and I saw some 40's even worse than those 14's...

[Guest]

Thank goodness so many people are opposed to an MMO TES!!! A small LAN-based multiplayer would probably be nice, but just as an afterthought, not as a focus-point.

Unfortunately, multiplayer would make it impossible to pause and look through one's inventory at a leisurely pace, chose what spells to select, what poisons to apply, what potions to drink, etc. And I'll be very agitated if I lose that feature!!!

 

TES single-player rules!!!

[zeralesaar]

No.

 

No and a thousand times more, NO.

 

Playing a single player game can get boring, I'll give you that. However, you need to think of it this way...

 

If the TES series added the fifth installation as an online game...

 

-Monthly fees to play

-The sudden infestation of the community with the illiterate, self-important, "T3h OMgZ0rzzz j00 r t3h suk." crowd.

-A step backwards in graphical quality (As it is, TESIV would not work as an MMO in large part due to the upper-end video quality)

-NO MORE MODS!

 

These four reason alone, I think, are more than reason enough to denounce any MMO Elder Scrolls game. They obliterate any vestige of "Lore" (Though I can personally do without that bit, since it spawn lore-freaks that drive away good modders). More importantly, they would rob the Elder Scrolls games of the thing that makes them indisputably better than any other RPG: Modding. What BethSoft gives us in the wonderful TESCS in each TES game is the potential to expand and glorify the world they built; to truly make it a community game without the need to reduce it to shambles with online play.

 

The only form of online play I could really see as being helpful in TES is perhaps an auction house (I'd love to buy a thousand Umbra swords legitimately. Gives me something to do with my ungodly pile o' gold.) and an online arena for PvP combat. Maybe a few downloadable co-op raid missions for some team PvE could be added and just "locked" to modders. Otherwise, TES games don't need online play...they're perfect as they are.

 

Well...except for the slightly wonky physics engine. That could improved just a little bit. (At least it's still way better than Half-Life, eh?)

[wasder]

All right Im new here (not that you have to care), but here is my opinion.

 

I think I'm the only one who actually WANT TES V to be a MMO!!!! I mean, i just love morrowind and oblivion. but its kinda boring when travelling around tamriel and meeting bandits, forresters, and other npc's, when YOURE THE ONLY ON EVER, WEARING EBONY, GLASS OR DAEDRIC ARMOR! It could be so cool if you and youre friend is travelling in the woods, at spots another player with good gear, an then you and youre friend, decied to kill him, and take all the gear to sell!!! I mean if you make that every player is killable, you could just slay the newbs who yells at your, or being annoying. Think about it, you could actually have REAL GUILD WARS, if every player is killable like in oblivion! And if you become member of fighters guild, players would have to pay you little gold, to find and kill the guys that robbed them. And they should make it, so when entering a cave without a group or party, YOU will have the cave to loot youreself. But i you enter a cave when you have joined a group, YOU and YOURE group have the cave to loot youreself, kinda like in Hellgate : London. And if the game is too much GB they could make it so the game runs on the cd only, like on xbox, where you never actually install the game. I even thought of making it a USB like game, where the game runs on a USB, when you plug it into the pc. Its not that I hate the other TES Series, but when my lvl 30 mage/warrior walk in the Imperial City, Im actually never scared of leaving the safe walls and the legion soldiers, because i now a can take every monster and bandit down. But if it were a MMO, It would NEVER be safe to walk in the wilderness. Even if youre are at lvl 60 or so, and have the best gear ever, you never know when a group of other players is following you, just until you reach outside the city guards eyes and Suddenly assault you, to take all the gaer for themselves. For the first time, you will NEVER feel safe in Tamriel!!!. When you think about it, TES is almost like a MMO, it has open-ended worlds, an lots of npc's, but somehow you allways feel lonely when playin it.

 

Please write back.

 

I admire your bravery at posting that, when the entire forum thinks the opposite. I don't think, after what everyone else has said, that I need to say any more than NO in 1000m high glowing letters.

[Sarya]

Well, I don't think that requires bravery, we won't eat him for that (or, as a more real option, he won't be banned). Even the most unpopular opinions are worthy to be shared.

[Chesto]

It could be a PVE Server( Player vs Environment ie npcs ) MMO, like one has on Conan. No ganking that way, and it is fun to play with other real humanbeings, believe it or not. At least it is if you stay away from PvP, tho there is a nice frisson to be had from wondering if that person coming towards you is going to waste your a**.

[MechanicalPirate]

I would support TES V being multiplayer, where any player can host a server. Not an MMO, moddable, can be done privately to not have any problems with idiotic 1337tards, and would allow enough players for people to just become a trader and play that way, or a merc. So basically a single player game but with the option to play in a persistant world.

 

As an MMO, it would ruin the immersion, lore (I can take a few hits to lore, but not on the scale an MMO would to the Lore-rich ES. As a small scale online game, with voice rather than text chat, it would be fun.

[DavidWhitefang]

I do agree that if TES V was released as an mmorpg it would definitely be nothing like the series releases so far, which we appreciate so much.

 

PvP in a mmo creates it's own restrictions as to how you play. If that appeals to you, a lot of those games already exist.

 

Mmo's in general, have to many party dependent quests, where if you prefer to play by yourself, you will never excel.

 

I have previously played a mmo for a few years, and I do not miss the constant shouting of the inconsiderate players (whatever age they were) who decided to talk crap to each other (when they could have talked in private mode, and didn't), for all to hear whether we wanted to or not.

 

I do like MechanicalPirate's thought on this, and I believe that the possibility of that has been discussed in these forums before.

 

I do like the appeal this series has of allowing any of us to modify the base release! We would lose that in a mmo version.

 

Honestly if this game went mmo, I don't think it would measure up to some of the ones which already exist.

 

The main thing that Bethesda could do for all of us, is that when they release the new version as a single player game, they could legally allow us to modify it with the existing tools, mods, meshes, textures, if we so desired ~ basically, allow us to use previous game items, from Oblivion for example, without having to 'recreate' those items as fan art.

 

I brought this up awhile back... that if Bethesda planned out this series right, and inter-related their releases, to where they linked and complimented each other (A Release for each planet in the Nirn system, which linking is based on having the disc for each planet) it would equal much more money for them, and much more content for us, over the years.