The Witcher: Enhanced Edition (the first game) free on GOG (Gaming)

by narcogen , Andover, Massachusetts, Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 07:51 (2777 days ago) @ cheapLEY

Have you played Elder Scrolls Online?

A bit, starting back with the beta on the Mac and then commercial launch on the Xbox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVCHX_Aofo0

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIof4Cp3-canjsSr_RY0QAqcp2nPebfGs

Can it be played alone, without really engaging in the more MMO elements?

No, not really.

I've heard that it can, but maybe not satisfactorily.

There are dungeons that even more than Destiny activities require a group because they physically don't allow solo players to enter (at least, at launch it was like that-- they have changed a lot). That said, those areas are not mandatory. You can take quests and complete them, for the most part, without a party, but playing alone makes the world feel simultaneously lonely and overcrowded.

I find it distracting as all heck that there are SO many players in every area all the time. The game, IMHO, needs to be aggressively sharded to provide for a good experience, but they seem stuck on big regional servers (EU vs USA).

It certainly looks like a neat game, if only just as a tour of all of Tamriel, but I just don't feel like playing an MMO. That trailer for the Morrowind expansion looked cool, though.

TESO is an MMO with an Elder Scrolls skin, rather than an Elder Scrolls game with cooperative play, which is what I really wanted.