Welcome to the final part of an epic early look at the latest
Elder Scrolls game, where guest poster Jihaus reveals his experience of the game from a MMO player's point of view. I explained why we're both writing about the same game in back in
part 1, and if you want to see the game from the perspective of an
Elder Scrolls fan, you might want to read what I thought about it in
part 2 as well.
Today we get to take a different look at the beta of the upcoming
Elder Scrolls Online, because this is going to be the first
Elder Scrolls game I'll have played in my life. I have a passing knowledge of the series from various friends, but otherwise the series is new to me. I have however played other MMORPGS, with
World of Warcraft and
Final Fantasy XIV clocking the most hours, so that's the perspective I'll be coming from.
This being an MMORPG it's a slow burn experience, so you'll be seeing a lot more time compression in this article than you're used to from SAG. Ray and I played this beta for about three days, which for an MMO is actually not far in at all.
We begin of course by logging in, which comes after the lengthy installation and setup that precedes most any MMORPG. I'm greeted by a short placeholder video that consists of text on a slideshow that tells me that my character is some poor schmoe who gets taken to an underground ritual site and carved up, and then wakes up without a soul in Oblivion, which as far as I know is hell. Then we get to see what our soulless protagonist looks like.
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