@Dawglet said:

FIRMLY OPPOSED.

100% agree.

I'm opposed to it for my own purely selfish reasons.  Most online capable games don't allow mods and I adore my Elder Scrolls mods.  There are several action-based fantasy MMOs on the horizon, so Bethesda doesn't need to make another.  Let's see if the whole Fallout MMO thing can be worked out first and how such a game competes in today's market before throwing The Elder Scrolls to the wolves (worgen).

I wouldn't mind some drop in/out co-op action, but not if it takes away from the single player experience.

No, I play Elder Scrolls games because of the singleplayer. And I'm still pissed that BioWare decided to make The Old Republic instead of KOTOR III

Immersing yourself in the Elder Scrolls fiction, only to have some twat from XBL come in a cut down all the NPC's? Fuck that.

I think co-op would do well in an Elder Scrolls game. As long as it is fleshed out well and makes sense within the fiction.

I wouldn't be. In fact, if you made an MMO with the Oblivion engine I'd be totally into it.

I'd not mind seeing somewhat of what they did with Borderlands where you can have up to 4 people in one hosted session then it might work. Anything more than a half dozen seems like it'd just lag things down considerably. Didn't really need the extra people while playing the last one but know that there's a few friends of mine that would probably be more interested in the game with the co-op option in it.

I think an Elder Scrolls mmo would be awesome.

I'm all for multiplayer RPGs, though I'm a wee bit tired of them being of the massive variety.

Parties of adventures plundering dungeons is a thing in fantasy, but I don't think you need more than maybe three other people. I think that could work fine.

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I don't want an MMO, but I'd like borderlands style 4 player co-op in an Elder Scrolls game. i think it'd be really fun to go exploring somewhere like Cyrodiil with a buddy.

As far as I'm concerned, The Elder Scrolls is one of the last solid bastions of good fantasy solo play. Anyone who says 'it needs multiplayer' needs to go find a multiplayer game to spend their time on. I'm abhorred when someone suggests that's what the series needs.
 
No. Just no. Luckily I believe Howard and his team aren't inclined to bastardise the series that put them on the map.

@Matfei90 said:

As far as I'm concerned, The Elder Scrolls is one of the last solid bastions of good fantasy solo play. Anyone who says 'it needs multiplayer' needs to go find a multiplayer game to spend their time on. I'm abhorred when someone suggests that's what the series needs. No. Just no. Luckily I believe Howard and his team aren't inclined to bastardise the series that put them on the map.

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Might and Magic : Dark Messiah had multiplayer. It was pretty fucking good, actually.

Keep your multiplayer the fuck out of my Elder scrolls, if you did add it in any way at all MAYBE like an arena or something (like oblivion's just pvp). That's it though.

Only if they limited it to 4 person co-op borderlands style. Elder Scrolls does not need to be an MMO.

It wouldn't bother me, as long as singleplayer didn't suffer any. If you can add something without taking away from something else, why not? I probably wouldn't use it anyway though, I'm just more of a singleplayer guy.

Fuck multiplayer. I like my single-player games and my multiplayer games separate. Typically an awesome multiplayer game has boring single-player, and the opposite is generally true as well.

As someone who did not care for Borderlands, no. Hell no.
 
However, some Demon's Souls-esque multiplayer? Now that I could get behind.

As a separate part of the game. Dungeons completely locked that can only be played with a friend. Loot to be shared.

I just wanna run around in the woods all by myself.

As a separate part of the game. Dungeons completely locked that can only be played with a friend. Loot to be shared.

I'm gonna say HELL NO.

@Hobbies said:

@BasketSnake said:

As a separate part of the game. Dungeons completely locked that can only be played with a friend. Loot to be shared.

That's an exact reason why many people, myself included, DON'T want multiplayer. I don't want to have to be playing with someone else to unlock content in the game - content that the devs have spent their time on to cater to a feature that most everyone is against, content that they could have spent their time doing something more productive with. Also, it doesn't fit the game's plot at all. You're the last of the Dragonborn, and are meant to fight off the threat of Alduin. It's not the Dragonborn and then the Dragonborn's goofy friend. I could say the same for OB; you were the chosen ONE.

It doesn't need to be a part of the plot at all and it can be optional. Bonus co-op dungeons or caves the size of normal quest dungeons that you are free to explore with a friend if you want to. If you don't want to play with anyone else...don't.

Zenimax Online has been working on an MMO for the longest time. I don't see what it could be besides Elder Scrolls.

Yes. That's a terrible idea.

I really want them to focus on the game, the singleplayer experience and absolutely no man hours put into multiplayer at all. They need to fix bugs, not add new shit.

Multiplayer in an Elder Scrolls is like putting your dick in my bowl of soup. It does not belong in there and I don't want to touch that thing anymore.

I wouldn't mind a drop in coop experience. But not an MMO.

I think a lot of RPGs would be better with properly implemented coop, especially those that rely on squads anyway, like Mass Effect and Dragon Age.

I would have shat my pants live if that's what Bioware announced for Mass Effect at E3, but instead we got Kinect.

Yeah, fuck that. If the ES series has multiplayer of any kind, my roommate will beg me to play with him until my ears bleed, like he does with everything else. Don't take my only excuse away from me.

i would like to just bring someone into my game and have an adventure together yes

I wouldn't be opposed to co-op.

Huge fuck no.   By adding multiplayer, you would have to reduce or cut corners with the singleplayer. 

I would love Elder Scrolls to be multiplayer. I'm of the opinion that co-op makes everything better if done properly like Borderlands. Demon's Souls co-op is not what I would want. It was damn near impossible to get any sort of friend join up happening based on how it was implemented.

Yep.  I don't see how multiplayer would fit.  Primarily because I don't play Elder Scroll games because for the elements that would work in a multiplayer game (ex; the combat).

The multiplayer in Oblivion as basic as the mod was (impressive work though) made me wanting more. Just.. eh. Seriously better off leaving it to modders. I've played Bethesda games from Daggerfall to New Vegas, these guys need all the time they can on their games.

Skyrim + Co-Op = the best thing ever.

You can't argue with pure math.

I wouldn't mind SOME type of connection with another player. I spent over 300 hours in Oblivion spread across 3 different characters (two on the 360 and one on the PC)and trust me when I tell you that shit gets lonely sometimes lol. It's the same gripe I had with Torchlight, you spend all this time upgrading you character, looting caves, exploring ect and the only way you can share it with other people is if you take a pic of it and post it on a forum.

Sometimes when exploring in Oblivion and I had a friend online who was also playing I would invite him party chat and we would shoot the shit while exploring the same cave and comparing what we got,what monsters we encountered ect. Also, wouldn't it be cool to actually SHOW your friends that the giant mudcrab exists to prove it's not just poppycock? Wouldn't you like to go jump off dive rock with your friends? Wouldn't it be awesome to drink an obscene amount of skooma and play tag?

And that's a small portion of what you might be able to do WITHOUT mods. Now if two players had the Midas Magic mod....Giant Dragonian Lightsaber Fireworks battle!

Its pretty easy to just not playing an aspect of something I don't like. Im not a fan of fetch quests either, which will make my Skyrim experience significantly shorter than some people's. I could bitch about fetch quests existing at all, time being put into it, or I could just enjoy the other 50 hours of game.

Not if it was a MMO. Maybe something like Borderlands. But it'd have to be a spin off or something. I don't want it to cause delays in the proper series.

I don't think Bethesda have the acumen to do proper MP.

But what if Rockstar did a RDR-esque fantasy medieval game?

RDR had a sorta open world MP in it. It was kinda fun?

ES fans will always be opposed to multiplayer. It's ES, it does not belong

Considering how the story and immersion would be affected, I used to be against it, but I would love to be able to play through a second time with a bro to sneak around with.

Yes. If bethesda wants to add multiplayer to an elder scrolls game, their better off making an mmorpg or at least something innovative on that regard.

I wouldn't mind SOME type of connection with another player. I spent over 300 hours in Oblivion spread across 3 different characters (two on the 360 and one on the PC)and trust me when I tell you that shit gets lonely sometimes lol.