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Started by Pete Dero, October 19, 2018, 08:48:51 AM

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Philippe

Quote from: JasonPratt on October 19, 2018, 01:19:08 PM
Quote from: Gusington on October 19, 2018, 12:42:52 PM
And I really miss Skyrim. Someone please tell me that Elder Scrolls Online has some of that Skyrim magic...lie to me if you must.

I liked it quite a lot -- some recent reviewer has called it the best Skyrim sequel you're not playing, which I think is accurate as far as it goes. But you have to get used to the usual public busyness and crazy-ness going on around you when you aren't in a plot instance, with colorful characters lining up to get the same plot you're getting. After a while it just broke the immersion for me. Which wasn't helped by being escorted by a much higher level friend who didn't care about the plot (and probably never did).

At least some of the costumes are... aesthetically interesting.  ^-^

Right now, I might suggest Lord of the Rings Online instead. Halloween around the western early-game entry areas is fun, and there's a little less random PC population making it obvious that they're running the same plot as you all the time. In fact, last time I was on looking around, the Shire area was pretty empty of human players. It's absolutely free now, with most of its income being made off cosmetics or extra character slots for running different character builds, and if you're a patient methodical guy like me you can wander the area draining quests and unlocking the plot as you go. Or you can buy cheap upgrades from Steam which unlock more of the main plot immediately. It isn't nearly as colorful as Skyrim online, but it isn't as overtly insane either -- you won't see dark elves with a succubus build and feather-mail bikinis or the equivalent, when you're hanging around smithies working on your xp, and you may consider that a plus or a minus. It's easy to find a server where people seriously role-play their experience, and so don't do trollish things. PvP is restricted to one area (the Troll Fells if I recall), which players never have to get involved with unless they just want PvP. I enjoy letting the nieces trot around the Shire occasionally using my bard (who looks a lot like me). The devs care enough about the lore to keep out pumpkins, for example; but on the other hand, bards are the wizards of the game in effect (since there are only three active wizards per the book series).

I've been thinking about letting my update run tonight and then hopping on over the weekend to wander around. I've long since finished Bree (the human start area), and have been just meandering the Shire as one of the honorary sherrifs, in no hurry to get to the plot which after all can take care of itself. But the game features the largest contiguous game area of any ongoing game -- there are subtle boundary loads, but you don't go into loading screens, so I rode to the Shire from the Bree area, and could walk to the Blue Mountains, or to Mordor by now if I wanted. I'm not sure the game's plot has finished up the War of the Ring yet but they're getting close.

I used to play LOTR about ten years ago.  I remember organizing a group fireworks display in Hobbiton at the bridge by the mill (many of us had collections of useless fireworks accumulating and it was satisfying for everybody to shoot off everything at once).

One of the things that I didn't like about the geography of LOTR was what happened to the west of the Shire.  When travelling in either direction you magically skipped over a large intervening area by going through a portal.  That portal wasn't needed and it would have been much more satisfying to have seamless geography from the far east to the far west.
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Orly? I haven't tried traveling west of the Shire yet. The only portals I've seen (so far) are into localized areas, like the suburb where characters can buy and stock houses.
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Quote from: MetalDog on October 19, 2018, 04:00:17 PM
@W8:Congrats on the new man cave!  O0


Thanks MD.  It's not much but at least I have a secluded area of the house to setup my board games without fear of a pet trampling over them. 
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