Creative Director of TESO Interviewed

Written by: QuintLyn Bowers (@QuintLyn) | May 8, 2012 1:10 pm

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For anyone who somehow missed it — I’m not sure how — Bethesda and Zenimax Online announced The Elder Scrolls MMO.

It seems some Elder Scrolls fans have been waiting a long time for this, while others are pretty sure it’s not the best thing to happen to the IP. But no matter what they think, everyone wants the details.

Ben Hanson over at Game Informer sat down with Creative Director Paul Sage and asked him a few questions. As is common with interviews about a newly released project, he was a little cagey with some of his answers, but he gave a good idea of the direction of the game.

The interview covers everything from why Paul is working on this project, to why the game has three factions.

Sage describes a game that holds onto the world of Elder Scrolls in a proper way. The team intends to stay away from things like out of world references that would destroy immersion. The development team has also set up the conflict in the game to be more than just “I hate you because you’re you so lets fight.” The conflict has depth in its reasons and includes everything from trade to general politics.

When asked about modding, Sage said that they have no large plans for it, but will allow UI mods. They do want to avoid mods that will allow one player to interfere with the play of another.

I know a lot of you are looking forward to this game, so feel free to tell me what you’re excited about — or not excited about.

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Saboteur Sweden

The universe and IP is great! I wonder why they’re playing it safe with third person view… It just seems weird. I will try it if it is a B2P.
jayremy

Needs to be as “Skyrim-y”as possible, just with a big online multiplayer experience, great realistic graphics and all the fun the game brought through its design; oh, don’t forget the great music. The only things I see needing changing is class creation/design, AI design and such to make it more suitable and challenging for group play.
http://www.facebook.com/Bradballanger Brad Ballanger

This looks absolutely awful. You shouldn’t be forced to ‘pick’ between pve and pvp…should be both implemented so you can kick ass one night and raid another. Catering doesn’t help hardcore gamers. We’ll be in depth discussing this in length on our iTunes podcast, Filmocalypse
http://twitter.com/RootSlashPeriod Zed

Not getting sucked into the hype of this one. standard third person, standard wow hotkey lock on combat, xx420butseckxx all up in my face while im trying to steal from the meat vendor? No thank you.

This will not be an elder scrolls game. It will be a generic third person fantasy MMORPG with “ELDER SCROLLS” printed on the box. Pass.

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Cheers.
Revanhavoc

We don’t need another safe, redundant, third-person MMO taking advantage of popular IPs.

I think this game could be a great opportunity to expand on the sandbox genre of MMO, but somehow that has become too risk-ay (notice his French accent? What a tool…)
- HarmonBlues
  
  My duck friend, you’re odd.
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Ronny-Sunrock/100002737688676 Ronny Sunrock
  
  Yes I want this to be a first person view sandbox game with some them park elements. But from what I have heard so far it sounds a little bit like that.
CCLemon77

I like the idea of an Elder Scrolls MMO. However, for it to be successful, I believe it needs to retain many elements that made the series successful. Not having 1st Person View(Option) combat would be a mistake IMO. The world design and graphics will need to be as good as Skyrim or even better. Finishing moves welcome too.
With Tera and GW2 raising the bar, they’ll need to really come out with a winner here in order to pull and retain players.
Bradford Bernard

In order for this game to succeed it needs to maintain ALL of the aspects of elder scrolls and NOT pattern itself after WOW.. everyone caters to wow nowadays and quite honestly for elder scrolls that is NOT the answer…IF they pattern after wow they will basically ruin the game, IF they really want hints tips and tricks on how to make this game go from the Godliness of swtor,morrowind,oblivion etc then they need to take a look at Ultima Online rather than at WOW