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Today I wanted to talk about the current state of Elder Scrolls Online and give a more in depth analysis of its current…situation. Elder Scrolls Online has of course recently announced their upcoming chapter (DLC) release so it has gotten me thinking more heavily about the game and playing it a bit more. Now a bit about me, I’ve played the game since closed Beta. I’ve got about 2,000 hours into it. To say I got my moneys worth is an understatement and I’ve certainly continued to support it via things like a subscription when I’m playing, buying the latest content, and occasional crown store items. This post is not to say that ESO is a horrible game and is not successful. By every metric available, including my own play hours, it shows that it is successful. This post is also NOT saying that the developers are bad. I can tell that they’re really working their butts off to give us the best game that they can within the constraints that they’re facing. That being said however, for me personally, I play this game still because of one simple thing….
ESO is a GREAT RPG, but it is a bad MMO.
What Makes It Great
Now ESO has a lot of good qualities to it. Usually qualities that revolve around the RPG aspect of it and the universe it is set it. When you ask large groups of players in this game on why they play, do not be surprised when a large portion of them say that it simply being an Elder Scrolls game has a huge impact on why they still play. I’m no exception. The Elder Scrolls universe is fantastic and is full of fun, interesting, and intriguing lore. ESO Does a great job at showcasing this information. Another huge boon for this game is that they tried to carry over various RPG aspects from the singleplayer games. You have an entire stealth system to sneak past NPCS, pick pocket them, break into NPC houses to steal their items, assassinate NPCs, etc. You have book cases and shelves that you can ready that not only add in new lore stories to your library, but may also increase your skill levels! You can pick up a ton of items into the game and loot almost every prop that looks like a container.
Giving you junk to sell, materials to craft with, and rarely things like motifs/recipes/antiquities leads. It has a robust choice of horizontal rewards to decorate your player character and housing. It has a companion system akin to the singleplayer games where NPCs have their own back stories and a few short quests to expand on that. On top of a series of likes and dislikes (for example, some companions do not like it when you steal or assassinate people. Some like it when you read books. Things like that) that raise a little meter that tells you how much they ‘like» or dislike you. As this meter goes higher you unlock more quests and such. There’s a large selection of emotes to help encourage roleplay and instanced housing to take it a step further. There is certainly a large RP community here.
Another really nice thing is the way they handle skills. To stay in line with the singleplayer games, you have a large selection skills to choose from. You have 3 skill lines that come with your class and they all follow the same general theme for each class.
One skill line is for DPS. One for Tanking/Survivability. One for support. Then ontop of this you have classless skill lines. You have a skill line for each weapon type. You have one for each armor type (light, medium, heavy). You have one for the various guilds in the game (Fighters Guild, Mages Guild, and Undaunted Guild are the main active ones). You have world skill lines such as soul magic. But my personal favorite is definitely the werewolf and vampire skill lines. To unlock these you have to get bitten by a player who is already one of these or find an NPC in the world and get them to infected you via combat.Of course you can bypass this via the cash shop and just «buy» the skill line. But I will go into that further.
The questing is also pretty good. Now the «objectives» for this game are not anything ground breaking. If you’ve played any other MMORPG, you know that quest variety gets predictable after awhile. You see the same sorta designs for all quests when you strip away the cosmetic features of quests.
That being said, ESO has fully voice acted quests. And their storylinse are usually pretty good and fit with the theme of Elder Scrolls. Some even let you make choices that impact the outcome of the quests. Other times you may have special dialogue options depending on skills you choose with your character. Like if you get a skill in the mages guild skill line, you can use the «persuade» dialogue options. Fighters guild get an intimidate option (you can have both of these at the same time, there’s no «you can only join one guild» type of thing). If you’re a werewolf or a vampire and talking to a character that is also a infected, you may have a special dialogue option. They also have a star constellation system that does resemble the singleplayer ES games, despite taking significantly longer to grind. There’s a fairly in depth and enjoyable crafting experience. While the gathering experience isn’t on the same level as say New World. The crafting does feel more rewarding than other games because it takes a fairly significant time investment.
There is a lot of time gating involved in research things called traits. Which is required to unlock for special effects and also some crafting sets require a certain amount of traits unlocked. So these are hard timers. For a single profession, if you log in every day to use the research time reduction consumables, I think it takes roughly 125 days of timers? So while this is a huge time investment, it does add a bit of value into crafting. Where seeing a «master crafter» is a rare site (of course since launch this number has been steadily going up, but its still more rare than most mmorpgs). Graphically speaking, the game also looks great. It wont look like skyrim or anything like that, different engine and all. But it still looks visually impressive. The general visual theme of ESO is a bit more «grounded» than other MMORPGs. Its still a high fantasy adventure, of course. But you wont have anyone running around with giant angel wings and glowing like a sun (you know who you are). The final thing is that it has a first person mode.
While endgame its hard to play in first person, doing so when you can makes the world feel so much more immersive and big.
All of these things together really help craft an amazing RPG experience. Especially for a MMORPG.
What Is the Difference Between MMO & MMORPG?
What is the difference between MMO Games and MMORPG Games?
Are they the same thing? How do I tell them apart? Which one am I playing right now, and what does it have to do with Rocket-Propelled Grenades?
You have probably asked yourself at least some of these questions at one point or another. Otherwise, you won’t be here.
Surprisingly enough, the answers to all these questions are quite simple:
An MMORPG is a type of MMO.
But to really understand this answer, you first need to know what exactly are MMOs.
What Are MMOs & MMORPGs?
Let’s start with the basics: what does an MMO mean? An MMO is a “Massively Multiplayer Online” game.
To put it in simpler terms, an MMO is a game which a large number of people can play simultaneously.
You don’t play with or against just a handful of players, but thousands, sometimes even millions of them at the same time.
MMORPG means “Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.”
Another somewhat comical definition is “Many Men Online Role-Playing as Girls” (it’s funny because it’s true).
Some might say that all MMORPGs are easily recognizable by their fantasy settings, but that’s not at all the case. Though the majority of RPGs do take place in the realm of elves, orcs, and dragons, a lot of them choose different worlds to explore, like far-away planets or post-apocalyptic wastelands.
The keen observers among you may have noticed the two types of games have very similar definitions, but not quite the same. That leads us to the key difference between MMO and MMORPG.
What Is the Difference between MMO and MMORPG?
When someone asks what a game is, they often refer to its genre or subgenre. A game “is” a first-person shooter, a survival game or a role-playing game.
It’s the same thing with MMOs.
No game is just an MMO. It’s like saying a game is a “multiplayer game.” That’s well and good, but it doesn’t really tell you anything about the game itself, apart from the fact you can play it with (or against) other people. The game has to belong to a specific genre.
Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games, or MMORPGs, are MMOs that belong to the RPG genre.
They are role-playing games that can be played online by a large number of players simultaneously.
The difference between MMO and MMORPG is that all MMORPGs are MMOs, but not all MMOs are MMORPGs.
MMORPG is by definition an RPG, while an MMO can be anything from a Battle Royale action title, a real-time strategy game, or even a new type of interactive experience that defies genres.
It’s a subtle distinction, but an important one. It can be a bit embarrassing talking to a fellow gamer about the new MMORPG you’re playing, only for them to realize you’re actually playing a hardcore Multiplayer Strategy title with a deep base-customization system and no RPG elements whatsoever.
It might sound a little trivial, but gamers can be pretty sensitive to these kinds of mistakes.
How to Recognize an MMORPG
Breaking down the MMORPG genre to its core components — the MMO and the RPG. We’ve already covered what an MMO is, so let’s talk about what makes an RPG.
RPG video games borrow a lot from their pen-and-paper ancestors. For example, they have the same level of character customization. Players can create and customize their characters, represented by a digital avatar.
They can control pretty much anything, from their appearance, race, and sex to their profession and skills. As the game progresses, players have a chance to improve and evolve their adventurer, making them more and more unique and powerful.
Most modern RPGs give the player not only control over their character, but over the world they inhabit.
Players’ actions have a direct impact on how the story progresses, and how the world changes around them. It can simply happen by advancing the plot and seeing the story unfolds, but it can also be because of player choice.
The best RPGs allow players to tackle problems and advance the plot in multiple ways, so each playstyle is respected.
An elementary example would be getting past a guard that is guarding a door. The player can choose whether to distract the guard using magic, lie and pretend to be someone famous, or draw a sword and attack.
There should be a different consequence to each of these choices — maybe you’ll get to meet the guard you deceived later on in the game — now out of work and begging on the street.
Then you have all the technical stuff: quests, experience points, loot, skill, and combat. Each of these is tied directly to the core mechanics of character customization, player agency, and a rich narrative.
Take all of this, and put in an environment where dozens if not hundreds of players interact at the same time, and you got yourself an MMORPG.
Hopefully, by now you know how to tell the difference between an MMO and an MMORPG.
One important thing to remember — most MMORPGs don’t usually involve Rocket-Propelled Grenades. Unless, of course, you’re playing in a futuristic dystopia where magic has been replaced with high explosives, which are more or less the same thing, only way cooler.
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Royal Quest is a Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMORPG) developed by 1C Company and Katauri Interactive.
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Game description
Genre
Adventure, MMO, RPG
Language
Russian, English, Polish
Age restrictions
16+
Release date
2012
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MMORPG Royal Quest takes place in the world of Aura, where magic, technology and alchemy coexist side by side.
Aura is in danger in the form of black alchemists seeking to get the extremely rare and valuable mineral elenium, which has unique properties. To organize a rebuff to the enemies, the king is looking for brave heroes who are able to expel the invaders forever. As a reward for the heroes, he offers titles, castles and surrounding estates!
Everyone who wants to become lords and take possession of their own castle will have to go through many severe trials. The inhabitants of dark forests and endless deserts, underground inhabitants and sea monsters, swamp creatures, geometers, orcs, demons and numerous hordes of the undead will stand in the way of the players.
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Intel Core 2 Duo, AMD Athlon X2 64 3.0 GHC
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10GB free space
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Windows 7/ Vista / XP SP3
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Intel Core i5-760, AMD Phenom II X4 965
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1024 MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470, ATI Radeon HD 5870
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Massively multiplayer online game | it’s.
.. What is Massively Multiplayer Online Game?
Massively multiplayer online game (English Massively Multiplayer Online Game, MMO, MMOG ) is a network computer game in which a large number of players play simultaneously (mostly at least a few dozen, now most often thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands [1] ).
The main difference between MMO and most standard networked computer games are two factors:
- MMO operates exclusively via the Internet — standard multiplayer games can operate, in addition to the Internet, and via a local network. nine0760
- MMO is played by several thousand people at the same time — the number of simultaneous participants in standard multiplayer games is limited to approximately ten to several hundred people, and in most cases 64, 32 or 16 players.
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By genre
Online games are divided into two broad types:
- Looking for a partner service, that is, playing a first-person shooter, driving simulator and other traditional games with the ability to find a partner on the Internet (this does not include chess, poker, etc.
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- Online World is a game in which a large number of characters «live» in one virtual world. In turn, online worlds are divided into:
- Mass quizzes.
- Massive strategic games (both military and economic). As a subspecies, sports managers.
- MMORPG is a massively multiplayer role-playing game.
- MMOFPS is a massively multiplayer 3D shooter.
- MMORTS is a massively multiplayer real-time strategy game. nine0760
- And other rarer types. For example, war simulators, flight simulators with air traffic control.
For example, the War Thunder game, which is an online flight simulator where, instead of the classic leveling of characters, players improve combat vehicles from the Second World War. Or the Fight Club project, where there are elements of life in the virtual world, and the organization of fights.
By client type
Client software can be:
- Special client software (eg World of Tanks, Lineage 2, World of Warcraft).
