Bethesda have released a new video detailing how exploration and gathering will work in The Elder Scrolls Online. It all looks mighty detailed and immersive, so exactly what one would expect from the minds behind Skyrim and Morrowind.
The Ogrim’s rotund, scaly form and jolly, physics-enabled gut may look like the unique result of Zenimax Online’s sanded-down-and-stylised take on the Elder Scrolls monster manual, but there’s actually a good chance you’ve met him before.
"There's one more thing."
This is the moment when it all clicks. I've been playing Elder Scrolls Online all day, and I like it. A lot. It's a fast paced, well thought out, friendly and impressive MMO game. An MMO game set inside the Elder Scrolls universe. But there's something missing. A spark.
Zenimax Online Studio's creative director Paul Stage is on-stage, and he wants to pull a Steve Jobs style surprise.
Zenimax Online will be sending out invites this month for The Elder Scrolls Online's soon-to-launch closed beta. So there's only a short time left to apply if you're wanting to be considered for this first round of selectees.Our Spotlight units plug content our journalists have made, that our advertisers want to promote. Sometimes the promotion is paid for, but the content they go to is always independent with no client oversight or approval.
TEScO game director Matt Firor talked to Digital Spy recently, and this is what he said.
No dates, no details, no nothing but a big turquoise button on a web page. Click that button, though, and there’s a chance you’ll be among the first to wander a unified Tamriel.*
We've seen precious little of The Elder Scrolls Online since its reveal and those initial previews that spurted out onto the internet, except for a few screenshots and a short video, it's been scarce.
Tamriel is uniformly about the second or third fictional realm to drift into the ambitious heads of prospective mod makers, just behind permanent mind’s-eye fixture Middle-earth. As such, just as there’s a Westeros in Minecraft, you can bet there’s an Elder Scrolls mod for Civilization V. As it happens, there are at least three good ones knocking about Steam's Workshop.
It’s in third person, the colours occasionally tend toward the primary and there are other people milling about. But it’s still unmistakably an Elder Scrolls game. See it in motion below.
Not much is known about The Elder Scrolls Online: will there be spiders, are the people of Tamriel going to speak with a Welsh accent, how many Elder Scrolls contain recipes for pizza-based meals? These 14 screenshots answer none of those questions. They are awfully pretty though.
Whether they be drenched in wubwubs, besotted with Inception-esque brawngs, edited together by an ADHD lab-chimp or just grossly misrepresentative of the final product, everybody loves a good old-fashioned videogame trailer. I've gone ahead and pulled together the biggest PC game trailers of E3 and laid them all side by side, to save you wandering all over the internet and potentially getting hurt. Some of them are brilliant.
