i suggest everyone let him know what you think of his "con"..i did..its really easy to reply takes like 5 seconds..

I bet this guy hasn't even touched Skyrim and is just trying to generate press.

I would have thought bugs would be the only con and maybe kill animations as they sometimes miss but coop? Really? With coop, this game would not have the heroic, individual feel, unique exploration, and questing system we have come to love. The only way multiplayer would work in an elder scrolls is to turn it into borderlands... No thanks. It would be nice to have an arena though?

@ a TES game "screeming for co-op"

If turning the game into Borderlands is the only way you can see an Elder Scrolls game ever having a co-op feature, please choose a career well away from game design.

I don't care what reviews say. I know this game is going to be legendary. You can just tell. Utterly legendary.

I read it, and now i wish i hadn't. What a waste of time...

No the point with the TES is to get immersed in a big world and discover for yourself. It is a true open-world RPG.

Co-op is the exact opposite of what TES is going for. 2 people running around killing things, barely interacting with the world.

That's a really dumb con for this kind of game. It's like saying MMOs are bad because they don't have a single player mode.

That's not a review, it's a brief summary of the first 30 minutes of the game. There is no actual effort put into it

Will do lol. So then how would you see coop working in this game and keeping quest management, leveling system, gameplay, and level loading? I'm up for suggestions, but if your reply is changing any one of the previous aspects of Elder Scrolls, don't bother with coop because its what makes the game great.

But with caracter creation and the nature of the story line TES games create a bond to your caracter that would be tarnished by the invasion of co-op, I do enjoy co-op in other games but TES has always been desined as a single player's journey threw the world and those of us who play it like that feel that co-op would be destroying the part of the game that is most apealing.

lol he got crucified for saying it had no Co-op

Yep, but also the fact that it was the only con. It's not a con imo, its a incredible design decision.

your way off base here with the whole tes co-op thing..your not going to find many here that will agree with you..im afraid youd be better off spitting into the wind..

Tbh 30 hours is probably not even long enough for an idiot to process what could be considered a rational thought. Silly idiots.

/sarcasm Right.. because it's simply not possible for two people to get immersed in a big virtual world, interact with it together while enjoying the role-playing elements of the game. I myself always preferred playing pen & paper Dungeons and Dragons solo. Just me and the Dungeon Master, everyone else got booted from the table. More pizza for me that way anyway. Er.. wait.. no, that's not how it worked.



It's funny hearing people go on about the nature of RPGs and then expressing such a limited, narrow minded point of view. I must be talking with a bunch of kiddies from the Gears of War age.

Actually, most MMOs these days do offer the ability to advance through the game solo as an option, and usually get a strike against them if you can't progress your character through much of the game alone. Why? Because enough players expect that sort of thing in their MMO games.

That wasn't a review.

For real? IGN and Gamespot have always had terribly written reviews and inflated scores. PC Gamer is more credible, but their scores have inflated over the years too.

It's not narrow pointed view, most of us just like the formula that has been used in the elder scrolls. Do you honestly feel that coop would make this game better than its current state. I'm up for convincing, but at least for now I don't like the idea of coop in elder scrolls if it involves drastically changing the way the game plays. Although the thought of two on two fights with a buddy and 2 dragons is appealing, I don't see the same quality of elder scrolls if it goes coop unless they get two separate teams to work individually which would cost more money unless they split up the dev team into single and multi.

all I saw was spoilers (which I DID NOT READ AT ALL, I would rather poke my eyes out)

and that game was big

graphics are great

and no Co-op

so yes it was NOT a review

indeed

Is it bad I want to smack the crap out of this "reviewer"? I don't think they even played the game.

Fools...

Why are you making any of these assumptions any time someone mentions optional co-op? Do you know what optional co-op means? It means you can play an Elder Scrolls game like you're used to, alone, if that's how you want to play it. Or, you and a friend can experience the game together.

That's the point in having the "option". Use it or don't use it. Would it really disturb you that much to know that while you're experience Skryim in what you consider the only "true way to play", someone else may be running around the same game with their buddy at their side?

Zomg, crucify them for playing differently than you! In an Elder's Scroll game, no less, where choice be damned!

Oh, wait.

The (extremely harmful) fanboyism in this thread is ridiculous. The review was bad in that it didn't really offer any useful information about the gameplay, although the reviewer warned readers from the start that his experience with the game was limited. It was NOT bad in that he offered his criticism on the lack of co-op, in what was otherwise a review that painted Skyrim in a very positive light.

But he had a complaint about the game, so clearly it's time to break out the torches and pitchforks.