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This results in an occasionally frustrating lack of world coherency, especially in times of hectic combat. With the default control settings for PlayStation Move, teleportation is the only locomotion option available. It all simply makes much more sense when it’s your hands doing the work. The realism of interaction and combat is a huge part of VR, and this is no different here reaching out to grab an item, swing your sword, draw an arrow to your bow, or cast your spells. PlayStation Move arguably increases immersion in the world of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR ten-fold. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR can be played with either a DualShock 4 controller or PlayStation Move motion controllers, each of which has its own strengths and weaknesses. As that first step there are undeniably issues with the videogame, mainly with regards to the available control systems. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR is the first step into a high fantasy world that many have dreamed of since before modern VR even became a consumer product.Īnd therein lies some of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR’s biggest problems. Become a thief and risk being locked-up harness the powers of darkness in a murderous cult become rich and buy land en masse. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR allows the player to completely ignore their assigned crusade and instead behave as they choose. See, while The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR features a main questline which revolves around the player saving the world, the The Elder Scrolls is fundamentally about the freedom of choice within that virtual world. The videogame begins with the player creating their character – choosing from race, discipline faith and more, as well as cosmetic details – before being set on a path for greatness. Now that the videogame has arrived for all to play however, it’s easy to see why Bethesda Softworks chose The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR to launch the company’s push into the new medium.įor the uninitiated, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR is the same high fantasy adventure as the original base videogame, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, including all three downloadable content (DLC) packs: Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and Dragonborn. The game has not stayed true to what it was suppose to be.The re-re-re-release of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is a topic that has been discussed at length since the reveal of the PlayStation VR exclusive virtual reality (VR) adaptation back in this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Los Angeles, back in June of this year. In my opinion, you're better off not wasting your money on the game or it's newest expansion Morrowind. In summary, if Zenimax continues to ignore their larger PvE and RP player base, we will be watching this game turn more into the cash grab that it already is. Also due to the fact a lot of the members in the larger guilds have unsubscribed from ESO and completely quit playing. The in-game market is now crashing due to these issues. Prices of items have shot through the roof to insane amounts of gold for the best gear. The smaller trade guilds have suffered and the large more active guilds have grown richer. With the joining of servers to just 2 mega servers, we went from a few thousand trade guilds competing for a guild trader spot to close to ten of thousands competing for the same amount of limited traders.

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My other problem with Zenimax is how they refused to listen to our trade guilds concerns about lack of trading spots to create a more competitive free market. If ESO was more like Smite or League of Legends then, okay I would totally understand, but ESO started out as a game of adventure and fun, not some competitive event. PvE and RP players are left to suffer though with not even a blink at any of their suggestions. They have chosen to listen only a set few players, the PvPers. Zenimax, on the other hand, does the opposite. However, most developers listen to their player base to help guide their decisions of improving the game. Why do I say this? When the game first came out, it was rough around the edges like all games at their beginning.

These developers have taken a game that had great potential and buried it in the ground with a stake in it's heart. However, Zenimax is the driving force behind ESO. Bethesda has done excellent job bringing a world together that intrigues the imagination and allows freedom of choices. So I've been an Elder Scrolls fan since Morrowind first came out.

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