Since I didn't get much of anything from family on Christmas I decided to treat myself to a game, and Ive wanted to try a new MMO foor a while but without a working PC that limmitted me to pretty much to 2 games, Final Fantasy 14 and Elder Scrolls online and I chose ESO.
And about 30 hours in, at level 20 Im really enjooying myself. It feels enough like Elder Scrolls to carry the name and whike I don't think its as good as Skyrim or Morrowind, I am having more fun with it than I did Oblivion, but 1 thing it does take from Oblivion that Im happy about is the art style, the provinces I've seen are extremely colourful lots of bright yellows, greens, blue's and reds etc, its a really pretty game. Melee combat is pretty much identical to Skyrim, you just have a hotbar with other abilities on it like most MMOs. Rangged combat is watered down, bows don't need Arrows. and projectiles home in on enemies to compensate for lag Im assuming.
The quests are probably the best I've experienced in any mmo, they're well written and pretty much everything is voice acted fairly well too. The game uses a buy to play model, there is a subscription than gives you an xp boost, access to the dlc without buying them individually and some store currency which is mostly cosmetic stuff and mounts. Its not necessary to subscribe but its optimal because otherwise leveling is extremely slow and youre gonna end up underleveled if your not doing almost all the quests in a zone.
I haven't had much chance to try pvp but Ive heard its probably the best thing about the game and from some gameplay videos it does look really exciting.
All in all its really good. Im enjoying it, A lot, but i really wish non subscribed leveling was faster.