http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOkPaSwXC6s
I seriously hope this is what happened to my head. Wouldn't be suprised if this was the first meeting discussing this mmo as a 'good idea' with batman and robin Todd Howard and co speaking out against Zenimax Online Eggman and co

Its really looking like a random mmo #34324
And hero engine ugh

The art style is completely inappropriate to the Elder Scrolls universe.

Agreed. Very banol and generic, could have been screens from any mmo if there wasn't text below.

Have seen the leaked screenshots.

Nothing impressive at all, in fact it looks exactly like RIFT.
Its yet another 3rd person WoW clone that hopes to be a WoW Killer.

From the looks of it, nothing has changed, it'll use the trinity again, same old raids and instances.
Seriously WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS????

Todd Howard, where are you?? Only YOU can save the Elder Scrolls Franchise now.

This is my primary problem. It already looks stale and generic. Most MMOs aren't doing so hot because they keep trying to use the exact same formula and failing. We've been using these mechanics since the 90's. Just because it worked for WoW does not mean it works forever.

The art style is not my biggest concern but I agree with those who find it lacking the TES touch.

I agree to disagree with most of you in this thread. But then again I don't play many MMOs. I like the art direction but I enjoy cartoony and realistic. It is a little too generic but some of the armor is copied right from Skyrim. have you seen the Orsimer? I like the Ordinator armor because it is not identical to the one in Morrowind. Shows progression though I miss those damned pauldrons already! Cartoony is the best way to go if you want it to look halfway decent and still perform well. Realistic takes too much of a hit to the old performance.

I'm not sure this is entirely accurate though. I agree with you that it's widely believed, but just look at how many copies of Skyrim have been sold on Steam. There's a massive audience that could run a TES MMO with visuals on par with Skyrim. Dozens of player characters on screen might harm frame rates in populated areas like cities, but that's where smart culling and LOD systems come into play in MMOs. The further away a character is, the lower resolution his textures and meshes.

This need to go for a performance-friendly and cartoony look doesn't add up to me. Especially when it goes against the established visual theme of a series.

Well they were planning on having 100 VS 100 raids or something. I cant imagine that being untaxing on performance. I hear that SWTOR had performance problems because they used an incomplete and self tweaked version of the Hero Engine.

But as you said, you don't think the cartoon style is less taxing. I am honestly not sure either. I would think it is less taxing though. Anyone got any evidence?

Anyways, the style is not blatantly high fantasy cartoony. At least not as bad as most MMOs out there, or for my own personal taste. Most of that stuff doesn't bother me personally though. I play JRPGs sometimes lol. Not too worried about ridiculousness in the graphics. I just want the lore and overall look to not scream non-TES. That would be good enough for me. Accurate Lore that is not stretched so much it gets hypertension and certainly no lore that is just outright broken. I AM a hardcoe TES fan who's primary interest will be the Lore though. And having football pad armors with 9 foot swords would be stretching that lore too. I just like the art and feel like it is not that bad.

I'm not too fond of the color palette, but it looks nice for an MMO. Those are also most likely alpha stage screenshots, graphics can get a lot more polished by release.

Agreed. i guess I am just impressed with how good it looks. Most of the MMOs I have seen look like crap tbh.

Where are you people seeing all of this footage? Source please? I am baffled as nothing has been released on the major sites yet.

It looks a little like SWTOR.

That's because it's not supposed to be. Any uploading of the magazine scans (where the images are from) is illegal and sites only do it illegally.

Yea, and because i still respect Bethesda rules, im not gonna post any links.
Its not quite hard to find anyways, just google.