Unfinished: The Elder Scrolls: Blades (04/03/29)

First?

hmmm

Totally forgot about this game.

This game seems all right, but those faces seem pretty dirty.

This doesn't seem like it was worth any time at an E3 conference.

I actually thought it was released years ago...

@hassun: Years? Wasn't it announced last E3?

You're probably thinking of Scrolls, the canceled card game from Mojang. Easy mistake.

wow graphics on phones look like this in 2029? google stadia must've flopped

I got into the beta but when tried to d/l to my phone a Samsung Galaxy S7 it isnt a supported device

If you guys are going to do a quicklook for this, you should consider a quicklook for Nintendo's gacha game Dragalia Lost

My favorite part of this game so far is getting level up rewards that are limited time discounts on items you buy for real money

@scorched: Dragalia has me addicted. I think it's really the only one I've played pretty consistently since its release

I suspect that "Theo Gorlash" may not be that guy's real name...

I'm surprised it took Bethesda this long to get into the free to play gem garbage genre. Not touching this with a 100 foot pole.

Looking forward to their stamina based gacha game next though.

I got whitelisted, played for about 15 minutes or so, then promptly deleted this fucking shit.

Next Day Edit:

So after finishing this QL I decided to download this on my phone (iPhone SE), and I found the act of playing it better on that than my iPad Pro. For some reason it was making me dizzy last night, I think due to the FOV. Anyways, I’ll keep giving it a go on my phone, but will not be putting any money into it.

Three Days Later Edit:

I’m loving the game, and have spent money on it. ?

I hope people actually shift their loyalty away from BGS after two massive turds in a row. This is more than just 76 being everyone's favorite hot mess. Even if their games weren't broken, they would still be bland and boring.

bigotry against people based on eye color... how terrifically offensive. Down with Jason! Up with eyes of every possibly color!!!

Fuck this. Bethesda's been on my banned list since 76 together with EA and Ubisoft. I don't want to have 'em banned, but shitty decisions must be punished.

Anyway, I wonder how they are going to rebalance/change this stuff for the console and PC releases.

Years? It was announced less than 10 months ago.

Why no Jeremy Soule? What the hell is Bethesda doing?

Phone tech has gotten so advanced. It's just a shame they don't have buttons on 'em, it'd be nice to have any desire to play a mobile game.

This looks pretty bad

That's crazy. You're crazy! A mad god, even.

It's pretty telling that a game I got for ten bucks on Steam over the weekend, Elder Scrolls Online, has given me already well over a dozen hours of fun.... and that was made by Zenimax.

This looks freakin tedious as shit.

I much rather play Skyrim again. This seems made with monitization in mind rather than fun.

@crazybagman: That wasn't so much canceled. That came out, but that got the axe just before or after the microsoft taken over I think. Probably not accurate, but that thing was pretty cool, just a bit too long and it took to long for them to update it.

This "product" is disgusting to me. Thanks, but no thanks, Bethesda. Gonna go play modded Oblivion instead.

Managed to get into the beta and play a bit and I have to say it really stinks. The combat is boring and incredibly repetitive, the chests are an annoying throwback to when developers were first realizing how trigger happy people can be with their money, and everything - everything - is monetized. From completing missions without having to go dungeon crawling (just pay a small fee and you get the stuff!), to speeding up how fast it takes to build, to (of course) chests. Yes, let me pay a bunch of money so I can auto complete quests to get the materials to start my buildings so that I can pay more money to complete them instantly! Also let's throw in a "healthy" roulette wheel that you can put money into so you can have more chances to pay money to auto complete your buildings.

Left a one star review on the app store. Hopefully someone is reading it.

If this weren't free and I had payed $2 for it, I would be pissed. That it's free and monetized to shit makes it a slog on top of being a bad game.

Is this game coming out of early access in 2029?

Is this game for people who love Elder Scrolls, or for people who hate Elder Scrolls?

Theodor Gorlash got 'norted

this kinda looks like a fake videogame from a tv show

This looks boring.

In my nightmares, this is how I imagine The Elder Scrolls VI could end up...

nice of them to put early access on an elder scrolls game. usually theyre just buggy messes for the first 2 years

Huh... this actually looks pretty cool. Seems like there's a lot more to it than expected.

I got into my invite a few days ago.

It looks pretty good for a phone game. The character models are butt, but the environments are nice. The virtual sticks work well.

Too bad I hate everything else about this game. The fov on landscape mode is vomit inducing. The exploration is as open as a strip mall. The combat is dull. This may have been okay in a pre infinity blade time, but that game came and went and this is multiple steps back from that.

Worst part is, even if I wanted to play it, I would want to recreate my character. You can’t. You can’t start a new game. I don’t want to invest my time into Pop from Towningtown.

Oh God, with how things are moving it could end up a reality.

Ya know what, this sucks.

I'd say "Good on Bethesda for doing something different," -- if this wasn't just a "chase an exploitative business model that lost its novelty five years ago because oh god we're desperate to find a game that can generate a profit" project. :b

Would be nice to see more mobile game videos that didn't have a big name on it/aren't only shown when they're ported to Switch or didn't have "yeah, whatever it's a mobile game" statements in them as if there aren't great mobile games released all the time that don't 'nickle and dime' players.

It's good to have this to show people, but it isn't exactly helping the impression that mobile isn't as "worthy" as other platforms

@anaturalfirmness: I'm not saying you are wrong, but did you expect anything else?

I'm kinda confused by the reaction to this game in the comments. This is a mobile game and they are all kinda the same type of bad (overly-monetized and so on) but I also kinda think that it has to be judged on the merits of the platform. I'm not saying its great or anything but...yeah, what did people expect? I don't think this is supposed to be the next great thing that blows the mind of every gamer everywhere.

Have a nice day :)

I'm not read up on how it works on iOS these days, but if you're using Android it's as usual pretty trivial to let yourself into the early access instead of signing up and wait for it.

I remember Jeff attempting to show Dragalia Lost off on a UPF on October of last year, but technical issues prevented him from doing so

This looks like a skyrim mod.