ESO is a Hero Engine game, a game engine used by SWTOR, DC Online and other MMORPGs. It’s an engine specifically designed to make “WoW killers” with. It doesn’t feel, play or look like a Bethesda Games Studios game at all. So the comparison doesn’t work. 

Really? Just some panning shots? That was nothing special at all. 

Which isn’t in the game either.

I’ve been looking forward to this.

Seriously, what the fuck was this guy watching? People are so bent out of shape with the neksnapping scene that they’re not even thinking straight anymore about what actually happens in the film.

“When I play Odyssey, I’ll spot a cluster of question marks on the game’s map and venture toward them to find out what they represent. If they point me to the location of “alpha animals” to kill or optional enemy bases to clear, I’m into it.”

Only open to U. S. res-si-DENTS!!!

Why have they still not figured this out in games? Is clipping with cloth physics just impossible to prevent?

So I've only played I and II on PS2 back when they first came out more than *10* years ago. Can I just pick up and play this and understand what's going on at all?

Spot. On.

As opposed to the shitty grind fests that are Origins and Odyssey? HAPPILY.

They should go back to Persia. Complete the circle and go back to its roots (AC was originally a next gen PoP). They’re already doing a Darius DLC (Darius was the first assassin to use the hidden blade and assassinated Xerxes). Ancient Persia could look incredibly striking. Plenty of cool landmarks, environments and…

They’ve abandoned any pretense of being historically accurate since Origins. Odyssey ramped it up even more.

Amother character Blizzard designed for people to make porn of!

“I played for a few minutes and the differences continued to pile up. Kassandra, my Odyssey protagonist, moved like a superhuman gymnast compared with Arthur Morgan, the plodding star of Red Dead 2. Kassandra’s horse, Phobos, controlled more like a Star Wars speeder bike than the idiosyncratic, free-thinking animals…

No, you can't "just add" black bars because it would screw up the composition of the shots. You have to recomp all your cinematics if you decide to crop out the entire upper and lower sides of the image.

“Hate to tell you this, but unless the other side is cheating, every game you lost you deserved to lose. That’s how sports works. The other team was better on that day and won.”

It barely feels like a game (but maybe that’s just how all these games are suppose to “feel”). You’re a poorly animated poor-mans Conan chopping trees for shelter. It’s just so fucking terrible, I hate these games. It’s the same with Ark, they feel like incomplete experiences made as bedrock for future “content”…

Thank you so much for that well written and beautiful response. I’ll have to check out those books! One of the (somewhat funny) things that happen to me when I *try* to meditate is I get sleepy, heh. I’ll literally just fall asleep if I’m not careful. The key to meditating is to just not think about anything right?…

Hey, I’m interested in getting into meditation. Do you have any recommendations about how to get into it? There’s a lot if stuff out there and it all seems a bit overwhelming.