8am, already 28°
ELDER JANK ONLINE
By the way and as planned, yesterday I tried Elder Scrolls Online, after getting it at launch and never touching it
And I would be remiss to omit that I was Bethesda'ed ! The free pack with pet was until the 30th and... it was not available anymoreeee.
That being said, I'm still unsure about the game. I didn't expect such mix of passable and sheer mediocrity. Janky MMO is all I could think of while playing.
In order of appearance:
++ Intro movie is good shit, not as technically pleasing as FF14 but cool nonetheless.
-- Oh, I see you adopted the nothing makes sense approach to storytelling, bold move cotton. The lore of ES is seemingly rich, but let's explain nothing ! Factions ? What for ? Who are these motherfuckers I'm fighting, where I am, etc, forget it. It's the in medias res from hell.
-- Combat is pretty shit. Level scaling is horrible as usual. Thank God for the actionable powers, keeps you awake.
-- Wait, why are my stats in the 'xx' thousands already ? This is horribly unrelatable, I level up and add 112 points to my thousands, I repeat, thousands !
-- Hell yeah, I got in the second little tutorial zone and I'm already in a caricaturally bad MMO as fuck zone ! A little circle of land with mobs sprinkled on it, just there, waiting to be fought.
-- The UI comes from hell !
++ Cool, the game proper start, this is... small. Open the map... oh, this is gigantic.
-- Nearly no npc to talk to, it's not worth it when you can anyways. Just the quest givers and merchants.
++ Map looks quite full of things to discover, that's cool.
++ A LOT of voiced dialogs !
++ Nobody told me to kill 15 rats yet !
-- It's relatively good looking but empty, janky.
TL,DR
This is the anti-FF14, everything is JANK, lore is nowhere to be found, it feels like a bad F2P MMO, and yet, there is this little something that keeps me playing for now. The quests are bearable, the sense of adventure is here, crafting is horribly presented and explained but it looks decent.