Free-To-Play Elder Scrolls Game Expected To Launch On Switch Later This Week

No thanks, not for me.

So you can pay BEFORE the micro transactions hit for a free game?

Maybe.... But doubt I pay for anything....

@mesome713 Polished doesn’t always mean good in the same sense that unpolished doesn’t always mean bad. Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim are all great games that just need a bit of polish. Plenty great games are a bit janky, Vampire The Masquerade, Deadly Premonition, Alpha Protocol, the list goes on. It’s not like Nintendo don’t make bad games either, AC Amiibo Festival, Paper Mario Sticker Star, Metroid Federation Force and Chibi Robo Zip Lash all came out last gen and are terrible.

@mesome713 your blind defence of Nintendo and berration of other developers is quite saddening

@nessisonett But yet all those games were still polished. Which was my point. They could learn a lot from Nintendo and stop releasing unfinished poorly made games.

Honestly intrigued by this a bit. Fan of the series and most things Bethesda, just not usually fan of mobile games.... may check this out, can’t hurt as its free. Just wonder how badly pay walled it is....

Yeah... I'm just sticking with Skyrim.

guessing you're sponsored by them

@mesome713 right?? botW has zero issues whatsoever.... Forest lag isn't real, it's a feature! Flying on horseback is also a feature.

Let’s see... $14.99 USD you get armor and “powerful” weapons that’ll be junk sooner than later. Scrolls and building materials are used up like candy in this game. 2,000 gems and 30k gold will net you a whole lot of not much. Gems especially so unless the RNG gods are kind to you. That, of course, is just the beginning.

@HobbitGamer breath of the wild is very polished, so polished in fact, it was released on the console after the one it was originally made for. It has bugs and exploits because it offers way too many choices in being so open-world. The slowdown in the forest is not good and says something about a lack of optimisation or how underpowered the switch is, but the tricks where you can fly and things are fun, unintentional "features". Nintendo games are generally more polished because they use them to sell a console, act as a showcase for what the console can do when developers try their hardest, to make their consoles compete with more advanced systems, they try to create an install base and not just to make 60 dollars.

Hey do you want to pay to play our free-to-play game?

You know what would be cool? A REAL game where you just buy it like normal, with no timers, power bars, forced waiting, loot crates or microtransactions designed to milk the player of money or demand hours and hours and hours and days and weeks of grinding to progress.

"But but but, I played the game totally free for months! It's a great game!" Yeah, whatever. That nonsense doesn't work on me. But it's your life. Waste your time how you want to.

This mobile free-to-play crap doesn't belong on real game systems. Keep the trash on your phone!

HARD PASS

Played this when it first came out on mobile, bought even some starter pack for 5€. Got bored when the requirement of building materials skyrocketed. Gonna give this a go just because I can continue the save game from mobile.

@mesome713 wow just... Wow
How the hell can you say the elder scrolls games and the fallout games (apart from 76) aren't good games, just go back to yih kiddy only Nintendo exclusives and stop commenting on hard-core games

Played it when it first came out, then it paywalled within 2 weeks or so. But gameplay wasn't terrible.

@nessisonett I agree with you on great games sometimes being janky. I enjoyed the Sinking City a fair bit from last year, and that game had bugs all over the place.

But Bethesda aren’t a small indie dev, and it’s frustrating playing the console versions of their games. They released Skyrim on Switch 6 years later with the same broken quest and floating NPCs they knew about for years. Fallout 4 on PS4 was also ridiculous and I don’t think they fixed since I last played it.

This reminds me, any news on Doom Eternal? 2 + months after release on the other platforms and nothing.....

@mesome713 Imagine having the nerve to call Skyrim a poorly made game. Yikes.

@andyc777 tbf for a AAA game it was pretty poorly made

@playstation_king He said two times that they werent polished, not that they were bad. Which is true Bethesda is known for two things really: Always lying Todd Howards and their games being a bugfest. Those two things have been memed for ages now. This is a (g)old one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFcLyDb6niA

Their games used to be really fun but also incredibly bugged.

Oh great, another addiction based « game » pukes

Asphalt 9 did something similar. It's a free to play game but you can buy a starter pack that will let you get pretty far into the game before you run into any kind of grind walls. I've put about 7hrs nto the game and only once spent $1 for a high lvl car "on sale".

@mesome713
None of Bethesdas games apart from Fallout 76 are poorly made.

Skyrim in particular is one of the most influential games of the last decade.

Asphalt 9 does things really well. Sure, you can pay in your way and speed things up a bit, but it is still very much play to win and no pay to win.

Another TES game that I will never play...

No thanks Huntdown for me.

I'm certain it's no morrowind but I shall check it out at least. Bethesda were once good in my estimation, until the great nerfing of 2006 and the herald of money grabbing DLC that was Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion (very aptly named in my opinion as it was the beginning of the end of video games as we knew them).

So they want you to pay to not play the game, that always says a lot about what someone thinks of their own game.

@westman98 a game that can bloat it's own save file until you can't load it, isn't poorly made?

I love bugthesda games, but they are called bugthesda for a reason. Skyrim has been released about 100 time and there are still bugs there from the first release.

definitely not a fan of this one

Tried this on my phone when it first came out. Technically impressive, but very boring and restrictive unless you pay.

History is about repeat the Fallout 76 disaster once again.

@StevenG
I was speaking in terms of game quality, not amount (or lack thereof) of bugs.

Skyrim was a buggy mess but it was a still a massively ambitious and well-desgined game that influenced a ton of other open-world RPGs years after its release.

@westman98 Quality is exactly what bugs aren't.
If you bought a table with one leg shorter than the other, a bug, would you think it was a high quality table?

Looking forward to it!

@StevenG
Skyrim: Wood is finely polished and table is well crafted, but one leg is 1 cm too short. Issue is partially fixed by placing small object beneath that leg (patch).

Fallout 76: Wood is partially rotting, table isn't well crafted, and two legs are 10 cm too short.

I didn't play the PS3 version of Skyrim, which was the by far the buggiest version of the game, so your experience may differ.

How do we obtain the extras included in the quick start edition?

Played for about an hour, and quickly became stall. The limitations of mobile controls are there even though you got real controllers on the Switch, so the combat mechanics (the only thing in the game that could have hooked me because there is no sense of freedom you would expect from TES universe) is simplistically boring, repetitive and did I say boring already?
The "dungeons" are small, linear, and boring.
There are too many shop teasers.
On the bright side, the graphics are ok, I played docked and the performance is also ok. The town development feature gives you access to services and it would be fun if not the more than probably pay wall in near future.
The arena feature is pointless since there will be a great unbalance between payers and freers.
Probably gonna play another hour tomorrow before deleting it.

... But if course I got a decent amount of games to play, if I had none I probably would be so hard on a free to play game even if it a pay to win.

There are a lot of free to play games done right, Asphalt, Warframe, dauntless, this is not one for this group.

@westman98 I played it on PS3 and PC. Most of the bugs were in both, just worse on PS3.