TESO the biggest rival for ARR?

[Orophin]

I never cared for the Elder Scrolls games, so it doesn't really do anything for me. I'm a console RPGer at heart.

[Mjollnir]

I'm looking forward to TESO. I've been put off the ES series since Oblivion, but the trailers released so far show some really great new concepts for an MMO.

I love FFXIV and will be playing it to pieces, but I do feel that the dev team here are playing a lot of 'catch-up'. Examples: "notification of item sold at auction sound to be implemented", "movable NPC dialog", "map markers" are a few recent dev posts - I wish I could be taking these kind of things for granted and instead be betting hyped for some brand new concepts for an MMO (like Free Company Airships, a CCG, a full AH/MW user API for websites to name a few possibilities)

So yeah, will definitely give TESO a shot, but I'm an FFXIV fan at heart so it's not going to pull me away for more than a few hours a week.

[Goufunaki]

TESO has furry cat girls. Ewwwwwww!

FFXIV has cuter human looking cat girls. Yaaaaaaay!

[Blackpearlguy]

TESO at least gets advertising, you certainly don't see a similar post on there board (No I didn't check). Why I mention this is as I browsed a number of FFXIV sites last night TESO advertisements kept popping up. Gotta love google profile targeting.

[Mjollnir]

TESO at least gets advertising, you certainly don't see a similar post on there board (No I didn't check).

There are four posts on the larger fan-site's board (no official boards like us lucky folk!) that mention FFXIV. Two are from people also looking forward to ARR, one is commenting on lifetime membership and using FFXIV 1.0 as an example of why you shouldn't offer it (lol?!) and the last is saying how it would be nice to sell wares from a shop, like FFXIV tried to do with Market Wards.

But no, no 10-page thread. I like to think that's because we've got a much more vibrant and informed community!

[Deli]

in short: my faith is still on ff14

I watched the TESO cut scene...I'm just disappointed...
for a game company that big, they can do much better job. they have good action movement, but it's all flat and dull if you look for details, such as the face, clothes... at all the action fight, camera shake so much, you can't see anything...
720p too

so...
cut scene: ff14 win
graphic: ff14 win
battle: donno but too much same style of center-aim-fake-action MMO around and they are not doing well...(such as TERA, dragon nest, donno about how PSO2 will be)
quest: donno
mission/story: donno too but faith on SE. if you watch TEOS tried to give a background history...it's not even that good...

B&S is just another korean series by the same company, I think they will all have same fate...

[LlenCoram]

The CGI trailer for TESO is nice and all, but... meh. The gameplay talk-to-the-dev video is even more meh. Some screens make the game look straight out of skyrim (the only ES game I've played at length, I'll admit), but other screens make it look like WoW and Fable had a child.

I'll stick with XIV.

[Valmonte]

The CGI trailer for TESO is nice and all, but... meh. The gameplay talk-to-the-dev video is even more meh. Some screens make the game look straight out of skyrim (the only ES game I've played at length, I'll admit), but other screens make it look like WoW and Fable had a child.

I'll stick with XIV.

go play the elder scrolls Morrowind with Morrowind Overhaul.

the creepy design has always been there but just like every thing else that gets put on consoles the world design took a nose dive oblivion and onwards.

[LlenCoram]

go play the elder scrolls Morrowind with Morrowind Overhaul.

the creepy design has always been there but just like every thing else that gets put on consoles the world design took a nose dive oblivion and onwards.

I tried Morrowind and Oblivion. Skyrim is the only one I've actually enjoyed, which is probably because they didn't use that godawful Gamebryo engine.

The problem is I don't care at all for the Elder Scrolls universe. It's grand and, frankly, amazing in its scope, but it doesn't grab me in the slightest. I wish them luck, especially as a few Onions want to play it, but I won't be touching it. Someone told me that the game is really pushing to be an RPG first, MMO second, which just strikes me as the same mistake SW:TOR made.

We'll see I suppose. I'll be too busy fishing in New Limsa to care .

[Gramul]

I tried Morrowind and Oblivion. Skyrim is the only one I've actually enjoyed, which is probably because they didn't use that godawful Gamebryo engine.

The problem is I don't care at all for the Elder Scrolls universe. It's grand and, frankly, amazing in its scope, but it doesn't grab me in the slightest. I wish them luck, especially as a few Onions want to play it, but I won't be touching it. Someone told me that the game is really pushing to be an RPG first, MMO second, which just strikes me as the same mistake SW:TOR made.

We'll see I suppose. I'll be too busy fishing in New Limsa to care .

The fault wasn't in the engine, after all, other games that used the engine didn't have the issues ES 3 and 4 had.
The problem was the companies poor understanding of action based game play. Still, I prefer morrowind. More original setting, more varied quests, spellcrafting with flair. Shivering isles for Oblivion was pretty cool too.