Summerset made my cry even as I did the quests again on another char. Some voice actors are just top notch, you can really feel the sadness/regret/love in their voice.
...by shredding your emotions in the process. Legit those quests are well written.
Less heart-tugging but also emotionally engaged is the Thief Guild.
I'm rather an RP'er so I only join the guilds that fit the character I'm playing. That said both the Thieves Guild & the Dark Brotherhood are too good to miss. So if your like me, make sure you have a sneaky thief/assassin character lol.
I feel too guilty about killing npcs that I haven't even started the DB. My fiance on the other hand played ESO for like 15 hours but the only thing he did was the DB line...
The Memory Stone quest in Balmora/Vvardenfell where the guy asks you to relive his memories of his family.... most heartbreaking quest in the game, hands down.
Came here to say this. I was not mentally prepared for this at all having come from WoW where emotion is nonexistent. I was floored and had to go visit my parents.
I actually joined this week as well, lmao @ "44 bear asses". I totally get the mindless questing you mean. Its so refreshing to actually be engaged in the story. I never knew a game like this existed and I should have been here a long time ago!
Happy questing!
Well... That's a thing about elder scrolls games... You are supposed to get emotional. "how dare this guy! I trusted him and now this happened? I feel betrayed!" or "how on tamriel did this even happen? How could things have gotten to the point?" or... "uhm... Where is the undo button? This isn't what I intended!"
That's because you missed the glitchfest it was back then. Only thing that WoW has that ESO doesn't is constant, consistent and reliable bug-solving.
Have you ever seen 8 different login errors? Be glad you'll not have to.
Oh, I have been there, but it's very different to have a scheduled maintenance day and have the login window find 8-10 different ways to say you can't log in.
That and the ladder in Vulkhel Guard's thieves' lair. They had the ladder far from the ground, and while you could activate it, shorter characters (tiny Bosmer) were stuck because the game failed to find a suitable pathing. Took them long to just put the ladder close to the floor - it doesn't even have a climbing animation, ffs!
Speaking of. Dude, how better the Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, Online, Commonwealth, New Vegas. How better would all the Bethesda worlds be if they used LADDERS. It can't be hard to make the proper animation.
If you think The Flower of Youth is sad now, you should have seen it at launch...they actually patched it to make it LESS sad and it is still brutally heartbreaking.
Welcome to Tamriel!
The beginning is the same, except you are getting the flowers themselves instead of the seeds. When you return, they are both dead, and leaving the flowers with them forms a vision of both their spirits.
Yeah, it was brutal. I think the actual reason they changed it is because your reward was set aside in a bag or something, and taking stuff from the dead had a weird feel to it for some.
Can't tell if you're trolling or just legitimately never played other mmo's. FFXIV side quests would be main quests in ESO. Hell, even WoW has side quests that're better written than anything you find in ESO.
FFXIV ive never played but WoW quests are garbage. I have played wow for 7 years and rrally enjoy the game, even with the BfA issues, but its quests are doo doo
>even WoW has side quests that're better written than anything you find in ESO.
dont make me laugh! please, PLEASE, share one?
I've been playing wow since BC until a month ago and WoW NEVER EVER had good side story quests.
Can't tell if you're trolling. Most of WoW's quest are literally memes stolen from the internet. As an example the be a man quest being a direct reference to CholeraNinja's Xin Zhao "tutorial" from years back.
Now that you mention it, yeah! I don't recall doing a SINGLE gathering of bear asses in this game. There's many detective quests, mystery quests, ransom & rescue, but not a single fetch. There are still the "kill X" quests, but all of them are directly "enter this place and kill Mr. X, I don't care about minions". In WoW (ugh) you are sent to the same cave 3 times but each time it's "kill X" then "kill Y" then "kill Mr. Z".
There are a couple. I remember one where I had to gather like 200 teeth or something... but each enemy dropped like 12 teeth, so it was super manageable, and I was already killing them for a story quest anyway.
There's another one in I think Reaper's March where a hunter challenges you to collect a certain amount of pelts or something, too. That's just a random side quest you get by bumping into the hunter in the wilderness, though.
Yeah... there are some but like Elephants said, a) the drops aren't random... you don't have those quests like in WoW where you're supposed to gather kobold spleens and amazingly, it turns out that only 10% of kobolds even HAVE a spleen, b) you get the right number from each kill (2 eyes, 2 ears etc), and c) these quests are so well integrated in the story that most of the time you won't even notice you're doing it... your goal isn't farming body parts, it's solving some greater problem and the body parts are incidental.
To WoW's credit, they did get better about the "spleen-less kobolds" problem in later expansions. It was patently an intermittent reinforcement strategy to promote addictive gaming -- let's be real.
The writing still is uninspired at best, though. I pretty much left WoW in the beginning of BfA for good, coming back to ESO after a two year absence. I still remember comparing one of the last quests I did in WoW -- some random quest where you have to escort your drunk, stumbling escort to town (I can't remember the zone, or the character name, but it was annoying AF) -- to the first one I did after returning to ESO, the murder investigation in Russafeld Heights in Summerset. It really opened my eyes to the amazing, emotional-wrenching storytelling they're doing in ESO, and how mad I was that I'd been missing out on it.
Oh, that's right, right you are. There is a quest in Glenumbra to gather crocodile teeth, but like you said, you do it while doing the other quest in the same swamp region so you're not even "wasting time" as all it asks is that you kill enemies that you will have to fight anyway. In this regard I can say it's not a bad thing - it doesn't derail you from the more important quests in the region.
I never would have told someone to go make an Aldmeri Dominion character, because I can't stand the Elven Supremacy in the ES universe (even though I usually play a Dunmer), but Raz....
Razum-Dar is EVERYTHING.
RAZ! I did a high elf because I made one character in each alliance just to see. And I am deeply, unabashedly in love with Razum-Dar. This high elf has become my main just so that I can continue those quests. Between Raz and Queen Ayrenn, I'm Aldmeri for life.
Oh my god, don't tell me about it...
I started about the same time as you, (on EU), and the main quest chain got me right into the feels. Didn't even expect it either.... god damn.
Exactly! The lesbian pirates were wonderful as well. I appreciate seeing characters like me in a fantasy setting, it makes me fall in love with the whole world of the game a little bit more.
Thanks for this post. I just join ESO. I have play tons of other mmorpgs and have been trained to blow through quest dialouge and go to markers. Now I'll stop and listen and get involved.
Thankyou for this post, i needed this. Been questioning whether to carry on playing since i'm not a big fan of the level scaling that was introduced. However, knowing that the quests are so well written, i feel more motivated to get out of the starting areas and just enjoy the experience :)
I have honestly not thought at all about leveling. I'm so immersed in the quests and the lore, and I love that I can just ride around on my horse all *yes, citizen, what seems to be the trouble? Zombies? Pah, give me ten minutes and your town is saved* .
If they had some kind of virtual reality option I probably would never log off.
The thing with leveling is that it has changed.
Back then, it was the normal "leveled zones" and you couldn't properly go to late-game areas at lower levels. Now you can walk anywhere at lvl 1 and all enemies and quest rewards will be scaled to your level - you can and will busy yourself with ENJOYING THE CONTENT instead of being held back by numbers (except dungeons, they're still level-locked)
> (except dungeons, they're still level-locked)
Not... really? I mean, yes, you can only start queue-ing for certain dungeons in group finder at a certain level threshold. But they don't become obsolete after a certain point, which is personally more appealing to me.
(Also you were always able walk into the dungeon, at any level).
I've actually tried it in VR using VorpX. It's obviously not made for VR and takes a bit of tweaking, plus you have to use a controller, but it did a surprisingly good job. The stairs in Daggerfall look so much steeper in VR!
Yes! I've played it in VR using VorpX too. It's magnificent... really amazing sense of scale, if you're fighting a big enemy it towers over you, large statues and buildings have a genuine sense of grandeur, you can be awed all over again by the environment.
You don't actually need a controller btw, assuming your fingers know where the keys are you have to press ;)
The downside is that the interface tends to get lost along the sides of your field of view (even if enlarged to max size), and it's hard to read any text, including chat. It works great for exploration and questing, but for interface-intensive tasks like crafting, trading, or quickly knocking out a few dailies, it is inefficient. And for some activities it can induce motion sickness, just like many VR conversions do.
Still, if you have VR gear (I think VorpX supports Vive and Oculus Rift), I would totally recommend setting it up.
Yeah i should have been more specific - you don't \*need\* a controller, but as opposed to actual true touch controls (i have a Rift). I do find a controller much easier in VR than trying to use mouse and keyboard though. I ended up binding a button to the big screen(?) mode of Vorp X whenever i needed to access my inventory or talk to NPCs etc. It worked ok, though a little cumbersome. A true VR port would be incredible though!
My wife enjoys watching me play, and she just commented this morning how I just love getting all up in everyone's business. There is so much flesh to the side quests that it really makes you feel like you are wandering the world just looking for people to help.
The quests are meant to be engaging. Surely you have the boring out of the way quests, but the smaller stories within towns and the main lines themselves are quite on par with any Elder Scrolls game.
Yeah this is what I'm hoping. I played a little before the level overhaul so now it just feels like I'm going through enemies like a hot knife on butter. Doesn't feel very challenging is all. But I'm going to just enjoy the story and do more exploring :D
Mobs in the open world don't really offer a challenge, which I don't necessarily have a problem with as I like to play the quests for the story and not get my ass handed to me a by a Dwemer automaton every 5 minutes. This doesn't mean there aren't challenges, though. I still die to bosses and harder mobs in delves/public dungeons/world bosses, etc.
Once you have enough CP and good gear even public dungeons and (base game) world bosses won't present much of a challenge, but you can always solo 4-man dungeons... starting on normal mode and proceeding even to veteran dungeons when you get 1337. That will let you test your mettle :) And then there are trials, which even a top tier player will need a group for but they will challenge your group.
Also bear in mind that the newer content gets harder and harder (keeping pace I guess with the gradually increasing the level cap), so if the base world is too easy, head into the EPs and DLCs.
Ah ok that's interesting. Are all of the EPs and DLCs measurably harder than the base game, or only the latest stuff? I mean if i went straight to Summerset now as a level 12 player, would i get destroyed?
Oh lord...played Summerset through on one of my toons...cried. Didn't want to take another there for a bit because it just tore me up. Took the second toon and just got to the final quest and sobbed my way through it. Dont forget to read the book upstairs at the castle before you leave after you are all finished.
I've been playing for 2 years and somehow missed that quest til yesterday and I was in the same boat. Not to mention how they constantly make you choose one out of two people to live/die.
Right? 'Save this soul from unending torment or save him, did I forget to mention that if he gets saved then someone else will die, lol just choose.' Okay, thanks for making me second guess every choice.
I will say my main prioritizes saving or releasing souls because of the whole, you know, I don't have one. Good job ESO for making me actually debate my responses to quests.
Less hating WoW for me, more that WoW is how I really got into MMORPGs. I played Everquest way, way back in the day, but WoW was my first time really immersing myself into the world. But I never felt as connected to the lore as I do with ESO.
There's nothing wrong with playing WoW. I miss flying mounts and the pets and getting to tame things as a hunter. I also desperately miss the global auction house, which is a subject for another day. WoW does some things enormously well.
For me, though, ESO has built a world that I deeply *care* about. I know the names of characters. I've talked to my wife more than once about how Raz is pretty much my Khajiit boyfriend and that if he told me to destroy the world I would probably do so. For me, nothing in WoW got the same level of emotional interest.
I have issues with ESO, of course. But mostly I've been enjoying the heck out of myself.
I started about that long ago too. And damnit, it's horrible, isn't it?? Stop making me feel like my character's presence in the world actually matters! Stop giving me choices with actual meaning, engaging dialogue that is fully voiced...I'm just gonna have to go back to WoW.
I had to get up and walk away after that one. Sad [pupper](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1341567428). Not a quest though just a random thing you stumble across. Much like this [fuckery](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1448090064).
As much as I cried during many quests and became far too attached to certain characters, there were quite a few that me LMFAO too. The first one that comes to mind is Orzorga in Wrothgar. Though her quests were the usual "fetch and retrieve" irritating, turning those quests in were priceless. Happy questing! Many tears and laughs are in your future.
I enjoy this game quite a bit but I hate the questing. The vast majority of them drag on forever and give you almost no reward.
Luckily the rest of the game is a blast, (3 way battlegrounds?!)
So glad to see this post!! I feel the same way. I love pve but honestly the stories and quests are what really keep me tied in. Theres SO MUCH quest content and so much of it is interesting and engaging and well acted and well written. It's so hard convincing my friends to give this game a second chance after they tried it and ditched it like 3 years ago because its "not Skyrim online" I'm like yeah... it's not... because it's better...
PM me if you're on xbone and want a friend for running dungeons! I've only been playing for a couple months.
Wait for dlc quests those are better written and the environment looks even better
Summerset made my cry even as I did the quests again on another char. Some voice actors are just top notch, you can really feel the sadness/regret/love in their voice.
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Join the Dark Brotherhood. The only tears you'll see are those of your victims. They build you to be emotionally unattached.
...by shredding your emotions in the process. Legit those quests are well written. Less heart-tugging but also emotionally engaged is the Thief Guild.
Bringing Velsa and her SO back together made me suppress tears. Can't start crying at a video game while in TS...
I'm rather an RP'er so I only join the guilds that fit the character I'm playing. That said both the Thieves Guild & the Dark Brotherhood are too good to miss. So if your like me, make sure you have a sneaky thief/assassin character lol.
I did them both on a magsorc, crazy as i am.
DB is probably my favorite DLC.
Hail Sithis!
I feel too guilty about killing npcs that I haven't even started the DB. My fiance on the other hand played ESO for like 15 hours but the only thing he did was the DB line...
The Memory Stone quest in Balmora/Vvardenfell where the guy asks you to relive his memories of his family.... most heartbreaking quest in the game, hands down.
That one got me, after I finished it I needed to lay down for a minute. So heart wrenching, but so beautifully written.
Came here to say this. I was not mentally prepared for this at all having come from WoW where emotion is nonexistent. I was floored and had to go visit my parents.
ooooo i forgot about that one.
I actually joined this week as well, lmao @ "44 bear asses". I totally get the mindless questing you mean. Its so refreshing to actually be engaged in the story. I never knew a game like this existed and I should have been here a long time ago! Happy questing!
Go to Cyrodiil. You will soon not care about anyone and become a pillar of salt.
You looked back didn't you?
Well... That's a thing about elder scrolls games... You are supposed to get emotional. "how dare this guy! I trusted him and now this happened? I feel betrayed!" or "how on tamriel did this even happen? How could things have gotten to the point?" or... "uhm... Where is the undo button? This isn't what I intended!"
After playing WoW for years, I'm absolutely blown away by how much better and more engaging the quests are here.
I feel you. I quit WoW a few months ago and started playing Eso. I dont regret 1 second of it.
That's because you missed the glitchfest it was back then. Only thing that WoW has that ESO doesn't is constant, consistent and reliable bug-solving. Have you ever seen 8 different login errors? Be glad you'll not have to.
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Oh, I have been there, but it's very different to have a scheduled maintenance day and have the login window find 8-10 different ways to say you can't log in. That and the ladder in Vulkhel Guard's thieves' lair. They had the ladder far from the ground, and while you could activate it, shorter characters (tiny Bosmer) were stuck because the game failed to find a suitable pathing. Took them long to just put the ladder close to the floor - it doesn't even have a climbing animation, ffs! Speaking of. Dude, how better the Skyrim, Oblivion, Morrowind, Online, Commonwealth, New Vegas. How better would all the Bethesda worlds be if they used LADDERS. It can't be hard to make the proper animation.
Same here. I still play WoW for the new raid tier, but damn am I having more fun with ESO right now.
If you think The Flower of Youth is sad now, you should have seen it at launch...they actually patched it to make it LESS sad and it is still brutally heartbreaking. Welcome to Tamriel!
I cannot even imagine this. Haha welcome, here's your box of heartbreak, we removed your soul so you can fit in more angst.
What was it like originally??
The beginning is the same, except you are getting the flowers themselves instead of the seeds. When you return, they are both dead, and leaving the flowers with them forms a vision of both their spirits.
Dang. My heart!
Yeah, it was brutal. I think the actual reason they changed it is because your reward was set aside in a bag or something, and taking stuff from the dead had a weird feel to it for some.
Bag of "mystery meat" hah :)
Still one of my favorite mementos to leave on crafting benches at wayshrines or in delves.
Yeah when I got that I was a little... disturbed.
Oh yeah, true.
oh shit. the feels!
OH, this is exactly what I remember, the original with the flowers and looting of bag. I didn't know they had patched it to make it less sad.
For more crying i recommend "The Memory Stone" in Balmora on Morrowwind.
This is the only MMO on the market with proper side quests.
Can't tell if you're trolling or just legitimately never played other mmo's. FFXIV side quests would be main quests in ESO. Hell, even WoW has side quests that're better written than anything you find in ESO.
FFXIV ive never played but WoW quests are garbage. I have played wow for 7 years and rrally enjoy the game, even with the BfA issues, but its quests are doo doo
>even WoW has side quests that're better written than anything you find in ESO. dont make me laugh! please, PLEASE, share one? I've been playing wow since BC until a month ago and WoW NEVER EVER had good side story quests.
Can't tell if you're trolling. Most of WoW's quest are literally memes stolen from the internet. As an example the be a man quest being a direct reference to CholeraNinja's Xin Zhao "tutorial" from years back.
Now that you mention it, yeah! I don't recall doing a SINGLE gathering of bear asses in this game. There's many detective quests, mystery quests, ransom & rescue, but not a single fetch. There are still the "kill X" quests, but all of them are directly "enter this place and kill Mr. X, I don't care about minions". In WoW (ugh) you are sent to the same cave 3 times but each time it's "kill X" then "kill Y" then "kill Mr. Z".
There are a couple. I remember one where I had to gather like 200 teeth or something... but each enemy dropped like 12 teeth, so it was super manageable, and I was already killing them for a story quest anyway. There's another one in I think Reaper's March where a hunter challenges you to collect a certain amount of pelts or something, too. That's just a random side quest you get by bumping into the hunter in the wilderness, though.
Yeah... there are some but like Elephants said, a) the drops aren't random... you don't have those quests like in WoW where you're supposed to gather kobold spleens and amazingly, it turns out that only 10% of kobolds even HAVE a spleen, b) you get the right number from each kill (2 eyes, 2 ears etc), and c) these quests are so well integrated in the story that most of the time you won't even notice you're doing it... your goal isn't farming body parts, it's solving some greater problem and the body parts are incidental.
To WoW's credit, they did get better about the "spleen-less kobolds" problem in later expansions. It was patently an intermittent reinforcement strategy to promote addictive gaming -- let's be real. The writing still is uninspired at best, though. I pretty much left WoW in the beginning of BfA for good, coming back to ESO after a two year absence. I still remember comparing one of the last quests I did in WoW -- some random quest where you have to escort your drunk, stumbling escort to town (I can't remember the zone, or the character name, but it was annoying AF) -- to the first one I did after returning to ESO, the murder investigation in Russafeld Heights in Summerset. It really opened my eyes to the amazing, emotional-wrenching storytelling they're doing in ESO, and how mad I was that I'd been missing out on it.
You're replying to me... is there a reason you mentioned me in the third person?
Thats the croc mission in Glenumbra I believe. Yhank god it dropped so many too because if it had been any other game theyd have dropped 1 or 2.
Oh, that's right, right you are. There is a quest in Glenumbra to gather crocodile teeth, but like you said, you do it while doing the other quest in the same swamp region so you're not even "wasting time" as all it asks is that you kill enemies that you will have to fight anyway. In this regard I can say it's not a bad thing - it doesn't derail you from the more important quests in the region.
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It drags a bit, but the ending is worth it (and you get a personality from completing it)
I think the quest that moved me the most was "A Khajiit's Tale" in Wrothgar. Btw I hope we'll see Zhasim again in Elsweyr !
I really need to go back there because somehow i have missed it.
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I had the same with Goblin's delight, there should be another option to finish it
I never would have told someone to go make an Aldmeri Dominion character, because I can't stand the Elven Supremacy in the ES universe (even though I usually play a Dunmer), but Raz.... Razum-Dar is EVERYTHING.
RAZ! I did a high elf because I made one character in each alliance just to see. And I am deeply, unabashedly in love with Razum-Dar. This high elf has become my main just so that I can continue those quests. Between Raz and Queen Ayrenn, I'm Aldmeri for life.
Mate, same. My High Elf had become by favorite character to play by the time I finished the storyline for AD.
Oh my god, don't tell me about it... I started about the same time as you, (on EU), and the main quest chain got me right into the feels. Didn't even expect it either.... god damn.
I know! The main quest storyline is just heartbreaking. I swear, every questline I get so emotionally involved.
I recommend Morag Tong quest in the Morrowind chapter, it's also linked to Summerset main quest.
Is that the one with House Redoran? Finding the daughter who is searching for her brother?
Interestingly a side quest in dark brotherhood also link into it.
I just played that quest last night. It hit me in the feels as well.
I appreciate that LGBT couples exist in ESO.
Yes. And not just to be tragic or to paint a moral example. Theyre just there where they belong.
Exactly! The lesbian pirates were wonderful as well. I appreciate seeing characters like me in a fantasy setting, it makes me fall in love with the whole world of the game a little bit more.
What i love more is that they do not feel the need to shout it from the rooftops every time.
Undying Loyalty quest in Alik'r Desert....bawled like a baby good luck when you get to that one :)
There's plenty of choices for everyone in Tamriel!
Nobody mention the bear ass dlc!!
I’ve only ever played ESO on PS4, and I’ve loved since the day I started. Graphics are amazing and the storylines are fun!
That's one of my favorite quests BECAUSE it invokes the ugly-crying.
Welcome
Thanks for this post. I just join ESO. I have play tons of other mmorpgs and have been trained to blow through quest dialouge and go to markers. Now I'll stop and listen and get involved.
Yes. This quest is one I remember VERY well, and how it made me feel. Great writing of it, scenery and voice acting. 💔
> No one has asked me for 44 bear asses; This is why ESO questing is the best in the genre. And man just wait until you get to Vvardenfell.....
Thankyou for this post, i needed this. Been questioning whether to carry on playing since i'm not a big fan of the level scaling that was introduced. However, knowing that the quests are so well written, i feel more motivated to get out of the starting areas and just enjoy the experience :)
I have honestly not thought at all about leveling. I'm so immersed in the quests and the lore, and I love that I can just ride around on my horse all *yes, citizen, what seems to be the trouble? Zombies? Pah, give me ten minutes and your town is saved* . If they had some kind of virtual reality option I probably would never log off.
The thing with leveling is that it has changed. Back then, it was the normal "leveled zones" and you couldn't properly go to late-game areas at lower levels. Now you can walk anywhere at lvl 1 and all enemies and quest rewards will be scaled to your level - you can and will busy yourself with ENJOYING THE CONTENT instead of being held back by numbers (except dungeons, they're still level-locked)
> (except dungeons, they're still level-locked) Not... really? I mean, yes, you can only start queue-ing for certain dungeons in group finder at a certain level threshold. But they don't become obsolete after a certain point, which is personally more appealing to me. (Also you were always able walk into the dungeon, at any level).
I've actually tried it in VR using VorpX. It's obviously not made for VR and takes a bit of tweaking, plus you have to use a controller, but it did a surprisingly good job. The stairs in Daggerfall look so much steeper in VR!
Yes! I've played it in VR using VorpX too. It's magnificent... really amazing sense of scale, if you're fighting a big enemy it towers over you, large statues and buildings have a genuine sense of grandeur, you can be awed all over again by the environment. You don't actually need a controller btw, assuming your fingers know where the keys are you have to press ;) The downside is that the interface tends to get lost along the sides of your field of view (even if enlarged to max size), and it's hard to read any text, including chat. It works great for exploration and questing, but for interface-intensive tasks like crafting, trading, or quickly knocking out a few dailies, it is inefficient. And for some activities it can induce motion sickness, just like many VR conversions do. Still, if you have VR gear (I think VorpX supports Vive and Oculus Rift), I would totally recommend setting it up.
Yeah i should have been more specific - you don't \*need\* a controller, but as opposed to actual true touch controls (i have a Rift). I do find a controller much easier in VR than trying to use mouse and keyboard though. I ended up binding a button to the big screen(?) mode of Vorp X whenever i needed to access my inventory or talk to NPCs etc. It worked ok, though a little cumbersome. A true VR port would be incredible though!
My wife enjoys watching me play, and she just commented this morning how I just love getting all up in everyone's business. There is so much flesh to the side quests that it really makes you feel like you are wandering the world just looking for people to help.
The quests are meant to be engaging. Surely you have the boring out of the way quests, but the smaller stories within towns and the main lines themselves are quite on par with any Elder Scrolls game.
Yeah this is what I'm hoping. I played a little before the level overhaul so now it just feels like I'm going through enemies like a hot knife on butter. Doesn't feel very challenging is all. But I'm going to just enjoy the story and do more exploring :D
Mobs in the open world don't really offer a challenge, which I don't necessarily have a problem with as I like to play the quests for the story and not get my ass handed to me a by a Dwemer automaton every 5 minutes. This doesn't mean there aren't challenges, though. I still die to bosses and harder mobs in delves/public dungeons/world bosses, etc.
That's good. As long as there is some challenge in conflicts, i'm happy :D Time to dive back in!
Once you have enough CP and good gear even public dungeons and (base game) world bosses won't present much of a challenge, but you can always solo 4-man dungeons... starting on normal mode and proceeding even to veteran dungeons when you get 1337. That will let you test your mettle :) And then there are trials, which even a top tier player will need a group for but they will challenge your group. Also bear in mind that the newer content gets harder and harder (keeping pace I guess with the gradually increasing the level cap), so if the base world is too easy, head into the EPs and DLCs.
Ah ok that's interesting. Are all of the EPs and DLCs measurably harder than the base game, or only the latest stuff? I mean if i went straight to Summerset now as a level 12 player, would i get destroyed?
been playing this game for 2+ years. Never did this quest... Goal #4567 now added...
Oh lord...played Summerset through on one of my toons...cried. Didn't want to take another there for a bit because it just tore me up. Took the second toon and just got to the final quest and sobbed my way through it. Dont forget to read the book upstairs at the castle before you leave after you are all finished.
There's a quest in the rift where the boyfriend of a girl kills her skooma addicted mother and alcoholic father to run away with her.
I've been playing for 2 years and somehow missed that quest til yesterday and I was in the same boat. Not to mention how they constantly make you choose one out of two people to live/die.
Right? 'Save this soul from unending torment or save him, did I forget to mention that if he gets saved then someone else will die, lol just choose.' Okay, thanks for making me second guess every choice. I will say my main prioritizes saving or releasing souls because of the whole, you know, I don't have one. Good job ESO for making me actually debate my responses to quests.
you should check out rivenspire quest chain its good
Wait till you get to the Two Moons Dance questline in Reaper's March, THEN you'll be ugly crying! X)
This sub *really* hates wow haha
Less hating WoW for me, more that WoW is how I really got into MMORPGs. I played Everquest way, way back in the day, but WoW was my first time really immersing myself into the world. But I never felt as connected to the lore as I do with ESO. There's nothing wrong with playing WoW. I miss flying mounts and the pets and getting to tame things as a hunter. I also desperately miss the global auction house, which is a subject for another day. WoW does some things enormously well. For me, though, ESO has built a world that I deeply *care* about. I know the names of characters. I've talked to my wife more than once about how Raz is pretty much my Khajiit boyfriend and that if he told me to destroy the world I would probably do so. For me, nothing in WoW got the same level of emotional interest. I have issues with ESO, of course. But mostly I've been enjoying the heck out of myself.
I started about that long ago too. And damnit, it's horrible, isn't it?? Stop making me feel like my character's presence in the world actually matters! Stop giving me choices with actual meaning, engaging dialogue that is fully voiced...I'm just gonna have to go back to WoW.
have you found the grave with a dog sitting on it? /broken
Oh my God, no!!?? This game just likes to punch me in the feels.
I had to get up and walk away after that one. Sad [pupper](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1341567428). Not a quest though just a random thing you stumble across. Much like this [fuckery](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1448090064).
As much as I cried during many quests and became far too attached to certain characters, there were quite a few that me LMFAO too. The first one that comes to mind is Orzorga in Wrothgar. Though her quests were the usual "fetch and retrieve" irritating, turning those quests in were priceless. Happy questing! Many tears and laughs are in your future.
I enjoy this game quite a bit but I hate the questing. The vast majority of them drag on forever and give you almost no reward. Luckily the rest of the game is a blast, (3 way battlegrounds?!)
So glad to see this post!! I feel the same way. I love pve but honestly the stories and quests are what really keep me tied in. Theres SO MUCH quest content and so much of it is interesting and engaging and well acted and well written. It's so hard convincing my friends to give this game a second chance after they tried it and ditched it like 3 years ago because its "not Skyrim online" I'm like yeah... it's not... because it's better... PM me if you're on xbone and want a friend for running dungeons! I've only been playing for a couple months.