Feature: The Elder Scrolls Online: Where it went wrong

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Feature: The Elder Scrolls Online: Where it went wrong

Added: 29.04.2014 17:00 | 2 views | 0 comments

Bethesda's MMO shows slightly glimpses of promise, but overall just falls into old territory.

Feature: The Elder Scrolls Online: Where it went wrong article

Elder Scrolls Online isn’t like that. Its first ten levels are some of the dullest, soberest, sloggiest game I’ve ever forced myself through. After ten minutes, I was frowning. After three hours, I wanted to stop. After twenty my brain was mush. Every one of the MMOs I’ve played before (yes, even Scarlet Blade) cast itself in a better light than the dreary caverns, cliché characters and mind-numbing quests of ESO.

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