In an ideal situation, those would be R-Click, and L-Click respectively. Toss in having to un-sheathe your weapons (so you can still, y'know, click things ) and I'd think we have the makings of a pretty good combat system.

I just don't like the idea of having to click 1,1,1,2,2,1,1 when I could be holding down my mouse keys. It just seems like a lot of needless clicking, IMHO.

I agree with this

Ahh, yes. People that raise valid critisism are becoming labeled as 'haters' and are ignored. I guess it is easier to ignore people you don't agree with.

People must just want 'yes men' surrounding them... but I digress...

TotalBiscuit raised valid concerns pertaining to combat, immersion, and exploration, and then later, talked about some of the cooler stuff revealed about TES:O. I suppose that makes him a hater...

It's that reason I have given up posting here in disscussions.

Please, spare me. The optimists get just as much flack. I've been called a "troll" more times than I can count the last few days, among other things.

TB isn't just bashing it, he makes good points.

Why?
You prefer TES:O to be outdated and therefore have high chances of failing?

Yes, but he could still check out the background of TB a bit before making such claim.

Yes, but that system is overdone, outdated and is getting pretty boring by now.
If you want it, then go play other 183956932863 MMOs which are using it.
Real TES fans want to TES:O to be great game which will make justice to the franchise.

Also, stop labeling people who don't agree with you about this as haters since all of them actually give pretty damn good reasons for their negative opinions.

TES:O will be a great game, there is no doubt about it.
The problem it has is that there are tons of games like it already!
Not to mention that lot of them are free.
Speaking of free; how does TES:O, a MMO which will have a monthly fee, means to compete with GW2, a MMO which will not have a monthly fee and improved and up to date gameplay?

To sum it all up, there are two major things which are screwing up TES:O:
1 - Out of date boring combat.
2 - It doesn't look like TES!

I know that a lot can't be done about it at this point, but they should do their best in order to fix those two.

To be perfectly honest, Total Biscuit is a poor gaming commentator, he often lets his personal opinion colour his reviews to the point of being completely biased. His general industry view and diatribes about such matters are often entertaining. But I would never go to the man to get a decent objective view, his Dear Esther review was a travesty.

He doesn't give "reviews", he gives "impressions". There's a difference - one is objective, and the other isn't.

Well to be honest, there is doubt. Stuff like a WoW-inspired graphical style, hoykey 3rd person gameplay, that its not made by Bethesda and the way it's done a massive poo all over Elder Scrolls lore give me plenty of reasons to doubt it'd be anything but an average MMO. Lets not forget, they're jsut using the IP, its not a Bethesda-Elder Scrolls game in any way.


In the same way WoW overcame the first Guild Wars; by providing more, better quality content.


Of course he's biased. Its impossible to be purely objective. Thats his role, giving you his opinion on games and gaming news. His Dear Esther review was his opinion, the same way that any review is an opinion. You may disagree with what he says, but it doesnt make him a "poor" commentator in the slightest.

A reviewer derives opinions from impressions, logic, feelings and personal experience. Total Buscuit is a much a gaming commentator as any, he takes his impressions of games/industry and places them in a twenty minute directionless video, this makes him one of the vast number self proclaimed YouTube gaming reviewer experts.

The difference between a good and bad reviewer is if they are objective or not, of which Total Biscuit is not.

Edit - As I said, I do sometimes enjoy his gaming industry commentary and opinions about corporations/developer publisher news, I would never go to him for a decent review of a game though.

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No, not at all. He doesn't classify them as "reviews", because those have a certain connotation attatched to them. He doesn't strive to do anything more than give you his personal feelings about the game, which is completely different from what an actual reviwer, who gets paid to do their job, would do.

He may not, but that is exactly what they are. I could call grass weeds, but it is still grass. All reviews are opinions, to a degree, good ones are objective. Which is as I said he is not. Thus he is not a good reviewer and an average opinion piece gaming commentator.

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Nothing to do here.

No.
I could call weeds grass, but they are still weeds. Your point?
All reviews are opinions, that is, wholly subjective, and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoTrueScotsman (which are, as already established, wholly subjective) http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoMeansYes?
What I actually got from that was "yesno he isisnot".
Given that a "good review", as we established, is a contradiction, of course he isn't.
Not sure where how you're able to jump to this conclusion, when the rest of your argument was about reviewers and not commentators.

Oh, I mean that it will be a great game when compared to other mediocre MMOs.
It's definitely going to be left behind in quality now when new games are raising the bar.

Yes, but I doubt it will be the case this time.
GW2 is working on some really good content and surpassing it will not be an easy task (especially when you have outdated combat and have to pay more).

I've just watched his video about his opinion on the topic and I think that MMOs generally try to win over customers by their unique mechanics and combat. During long years of seeing different games all similar with each other I just got used to a fact that all MMOs combat kind of svck. Instead I would try to focus on unique mechanics.

Let's see how strong these systems will be in TES: Online and then formulate an opinion on the topic. Right now it really is hard to say if they will be well polished or not...

I hope the doesnt fail. That guy did a good job and he was fair.

He's just speculating, like the rest of us. You all realize there's nothing to 'review' yet, right? Just hang tight; as more info is released people will begin to see the light. That's MY opinion

I disagree with his idea that TES combat is boring, I honestly enjoy it. But with ESO? Meh....

I'm remaining optimistic. :]

It was an interesting listen, but I definitely need to see some thorough gameplay video/coverage. As he said, he isn't 'panning' the game before it's out just yet.

Lol TB is known as cynical brit for a reason. Also to those of you that think Tera is a new MMORPG, its not.
It is a 1 Year old and failed horrible in Korea (the market it was produced for).

Maybe that's why it failed; it focused only on Korea.
Doesn't change the fact that it's still trying to be innovative and bring something new to the genre.

Tera did not fail on Korea...

Personally, I think it'll fail in NA / EU. Half naked porm stars and a script written by my 10 year old cousin can only take you so far.