Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[SturmChurro]

I know it's fairly solo friendly, but in the instances where you might want to party with other people, how 'required' is it to actually be able to communicate with them?

About as needed as any mmorpg really, Cyrodill PvP might necessitate more depending on how involved you'd want to get though. I really only played it to do the exploration and story content personally, so I don't have much experience with high-end PvE.

I'll say that the combat in ESO can be pretty clunky, though - FFXIV is much smoother and more polished on that front.

All in all, if you played one of the single player Elder Scrolls games and liked it then you'll probably feel the same way about ESO.

The combat is actual trash. It's SO bad. The combat is literally like bad Oblivion. I know some people won't play it simply due to not liking the combat. Graphics also kind of suck. The models and animations can look pretty bizarre.

The game doesn't lack for things to do, which is a good thing I suppose. Cyrodill PvP is nice if you are into that kind of thing. I don't like it at all. Same with the cheese builds people would use in PvP which pretty much ruin BGs (or whatever they are called). I personally like the single player ES games much more (Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim), but if you are an Elder Scrolls fan in general, then it's fairly nice. Lore is alright as long as you don't think too much about it.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Also, I presume to play on the console version, you need the usual PSPlus stuff like FFXIV does?

FFXIV doesn't require PSPlus. I know I don't have it and I play on console just fine.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

FFXIV doesn't require PSPlus. I know I don't have it and I play on console just fine.

Does it not? I don't play XIV on PS4 so I had no idea; I thought I'd heard the PSPlus requirement a long time ago, but who knows. Mandela effect might be in play due to other games needing it.

[Rannie]

Does it not? I don't play XIV on PS4 so I had no idea; I thought I'd heard the PSPlus requirement a long time ago, but who knows. Mandela effect might be in play due to other games needing it.

Yeah it has never required PS Plus only a PSN account. I've been playing on a Playstation since 2.0 released on the ps3 currently on the ps5. (I do have ps plus though cause of free games monthly and more)

[Kolsykol]

I really REALLY dislike the weapon swap in ESO especially that bow is Meta for all melee builds to swap too it feels so clunky and weird to swap to a bow to drop a ground AoE lel.
Even outside of that tho the combat just feels really unresponsive to me and the animations are pretty terrible.
The models yeah they have that painted on look that WoW does only that WoW has made an effort to move away from it and modernize it making gear more 3D.
Even the bodies look 2D lol they have little volume to them and feel like it's more like 2D textures plastered unto them.

It's still a great singleplayer open world game tho imo, the world is really really good and it lends itself well to RP.
When I played I played a Nightblade thief and assassin and went around sneaking into houses and palaces stealing stuff.

[Larirawiel]

Yes, ESO has real difficulties with their meta builds. The devs have no clue how to balance this game or they simply do not care. And they swing from one meta build to another meta build. I played this game at very beginning and back then there was a vampire fire sorc meta build and melee builds were completly useless. It is sad because this game has it's own uniqueness. The ingame music is also very good. I love "Northpoint Nocturne".



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[Kolsykol]

Yes, ESO has real difficulties with their meta builds. The devs have no clue how to balance this game or they simply do not care. And they swing from one meta build to another meta build. I played this game at very beginning and back then there was a vampire fire sorc meta build and melee builds were completly useless. It is sad because this game has it's own uniqueness. The ingame music is also very good. I love "Northpoint Nocturne".



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I think that what especially gets me about it is that the classes all feel like they play the same.
It's sort of a weakness of the '' every class can be anything '', I think it constricts their design quite a bit.
And the Meta has basically been the same since forever they don't rly switch it up at all so it's just the same all the time, and even when you get new classes they still adhere to the same playstyle.
The difference rly feels mostly visual and the visuals aren't even strong to begin with.

[RobynDaBank]

Really annoyed. Get a full fricking new laptop and there's already issues. Discord and mic being weird. FFXIV not showing up as a valid game in Discord. I guess I have so little information I don't know if the issue is with Discord or my mic system and FFXIV... seems I'm not out of the woods from diagnosing problems just yet.
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[Raoabolic]

To the person in that one CT run who recommended me Everhood, THANK YOU! I gave it a hard pass back in the day due to the visuals but that game is a real gem. Everyone goes crazy over the song Revenge but I think fiesty flowers is just as good but in a chill way.

[Larirawiel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP9V8Ka3sQM

Captain Grim did it again.




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