The Elder Scrolls® Online

best MMO

Alright, I'm going to be honest with you all: This is not a good game. If you are a massive Elder Scrolls fan, this game becomes OKAY AT BEST. Otherwise, it is not an MMO worth your time or money even on sale. Yes there's no monthly payment required to play (the Plus Membership is for extra content) which is great, but as an RPG it is just not very fun. The quest dialogue is all voiced but your character goes out of view, which takes you out if you play in third person. The writing is terrible, often times I read the dialogue choices and thought "what a dumb thing for my character to ask", and would try to continue the quest without asking but the game won't let you continue until you ask it. Compare it to a game like Star Wars The Old Republic where every class story arc is interesting and your characters are allowed to have cool moments within cutscenes. The gameplay sucks, the simple joy of seeing your skill bar progressively get bigger and start taking up your screen on the vertical right side is gone. You get 5 active skills + 1 ultimate, at level 15 you get a second set of 5 + 1. But guess what, if you are a sorcerer for example and summon a minion on one bar, then switch to the other bar mid combat to use your skills there, the game will kill your minion even if it's full health. Great. Thanks, game. This was all done to make the game play well on consoles apparently. So yeah, tons of content but none of it particularly amazing besides the occasional Elder Scrolls reference you recognize. And the community is not anything to write home about either, pretty standard online game community, no one is going out of their way to interact with each other in any meaningful way, if you wanna join a guild you get told to join a discord. If you want an online game to grind there are plenty of other options.