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The Elder Scrolls: Online. TES is easily my favorite game series and I'd absolutely love to soak up all the lore available in ESO.
But I just can't stand an MMO. I don't like seeing other people everywhere. I get that you can solo most of it.
It also just feels less focused on "live another life in another world".
Ive tried it a few times, and there's a lot that's intriguing about it story-wise, but I always end up putting it down pretty quickly. I'm hoping it clicks with me at some point.
Old WoW player, hit Guild Wars, EVE Online and ESO. Had fun in them... but I had a lot of the same problems you're talking about. EVE was fun because it was screw the story, the fights are on, but any of the others, there's story and your character is off to the side.
Few months ago a friend got me into Final Fantasy 14. Note, it's the first FF game I've played so I didn't go in with the love like so many but holy lord it scratches that RPG itch I've been looking for for years in an mmo setting... like straight up the story is at a point where I say my character is really not in a good place. Frankly it's story is better than some of the single player games I've gotten to recently.
Same. I play RPG video games because I want to "be" the protagonist, live in that world for a while, and get swept away in a satisfying story I can experience from within in the way that only a video game can do.
I never liked MMORPGs, because A) hearing some squeaky child from across the country tell me how much sex he has with my mom does not help my immersion into the fantasy world, and 2) the fact that they are designed to keep you playing forever means there's not ever going to be a satisfying end to the story by design.
What turned me off of ESO was the class system. I just wanted to be an orc warrior or rogue, not a "dragon knight" or "night blade." While I would normally applaud the creativity, it seems out of place in an mmo. When I'm the legendary world-saving hero in the single player games, I get normal skills. When I'm one face in the crowd, I get these grandiose titles and flamboyant costumes that everyone else gets. Seems backwards.