is ESO worth getting into in 2024?

[Yakkob auf Cincy]

I am a MASSIVE fan of the elder scrolls, I have WAY too much time in skyrim (not all of it on this account though), a good few hundred hours in daggerfall and have played a bit of morrowind, oblivion and arena, I loved skyrim (although I strongly prefer modded skyrim I don't hate vanilla) and also really enjoyed daggerfall, in fact daggerfall is tied with skyrim as my favorite game in the series (before you bring up nostalgia the game is like 6 years older than I am and I didn't even know it existed until like 2015 or so) and if we are talking vanilla it wins hands down... even arena wasn't bad its just bad IN COMPARISON to daggerfall... anyway should I get into ESO as a new player in 2024?

[Halcyform]

If you want to get into it, start with base game first and go from there. The base game will start you in Morrowind. Take boat in Vivec City to mainland Tamriel and you'll be approached by a "cloaked figure" that will fill your journal with the proper starting quests that will launch you into the proper start tutorial. The proper start tutorial will load you up with story context and then send you directly to your proper starting destination.

If you buy a bundle, the game will throw you into a confusing, low effort tutorial that's largely bereft of any kind of lore/story context and will culminate in giving you a choice of multiple destinations. To avoid mass confusion, you have to read and pay attention to the dialogue choices that the npc gives you. You need to pick your faction's starting location portal. If you make the correct portal choice, you'll run into the "cloaked figure" and can follow the path mentioned above.

As far as ESO as a whole, I highly recommend playing at least up to and including Summerset. Everything after that though is...meh. The game starts to sharply go down hill after that.

Edit: For additional context, ESO used to have level ranged zones and doing things out of order wasn't really a thing. That has since changed with "One Tamriel" and level scaling. The game will now let you do all kinds of things out of order that can get massively confusing from a story standpoint which is why what was mentioned above is important.

[Paul]

I was similar to you, a fan of Elder Scrolls games, I subscribed to ESO in 2024 and am now hooked. It's like playing 10 single player elder scrolls games in 1, the content is huge. Give it a go!

[Matrix]

If you like exploring and lore, those are my favorite aspects of ESO. The sceneries can be breathtaking, and you could do nothing but read books and complete story driven quests for months, at least. I'd recommend starting it now to anyone that doesn't mind seeing people with thousands of hours in experience everywhere you go. Some of these guys get pretty egotistical, and it can be annoying. I'll admit I've had pretty ego driven phases in the game, myself. Trying to be better about not offering unsolicited advice.

[Jeeralt of Tilberia]

if you have any interest in doing traditional mmo endgame content, so basically the majority of content that mmo's are known for, avoid, its a vapid soulless singleplayer game where you will see other players also doing singleplayer content, game is complete trash, avoid, play FF or WoW

[Captain Canard]

As someone who just quit the game, I can say YES, it's a fun game for many hours, as long as you realize an MMO is a very different experience than a single-player game like most Elder Scrolls games you are used to. And if you're patient, you can get the base game pretty darn cheap on sale.

[MISO4EVER]

If you like elder scrolls lore it shouldn’t matter what year it is.

[Cursed_Candle]

Originally posted by Halcyform:

As far as ESO as a whole, I highly recommend playing at least up to and including Summerset. Everything after that though is...meh. The game starts to sharply go down hill after that.

That's a personal thing. I really disliked questing in Summerset, but I loved Murkmire, Greymoor and (only Northern) Elsweyr.

[Ghoul Hunter]

Kind of hard to say if you'll love something, when you give very little input as to why you love other things.

I'm an Elder Scroller from Morrowind, and this is my Elder Scrolls fix. It's nice, because it has continuity and a persistent world, which the single player games don't have. I go into Skyrim these days, and I'm like, here's a brand new character, it's the same old world, and it's just me. It's like being in a fish bowl. Then I'm bored pretty quick. I don't feel that continuity and persistence of virtual world.

Anyway, some people hate this game, for whatever personal reasons. I'm the opposite. This is the best Elder Scrolls game, for me. Great single player stuff, my character is always there from adventure to adventure, and also I can play coop with friends, if I want.

[Halcyform]

Originally posted by Cursed_Candle:

Originally posted by Halcyform:

As far as ESO as a whole, I highly recommend playing at least up to and including Summerset. Everything after that though is...meh. The game starts to sharply go down hill after that.

That's a personal thing. I really disliked questing in Summerset, but I loved Murkmire, Greymoor and (only Northern) Elsweyr.

You can call it personal if you want, but the story telling aspect gets objectively worse after summerset. Seeing how the lore/story is the selling point of Elder Scrolls, what I mentioned is not a good thing and leads to bad things long term.

[mughi]

I enjoyed Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind. I avoided ESO for years because I don't like multiplayer games.

Then I saw that my PS Plus subscription gave me free access to the base game, so I gave it a try. I found I enjoyed playing it as an online-only solo RPG. I mostly ignore the MMO aspects, but maybe you'd enjoy the co-op and PvP.

My advice: Wait for the next sale and buy the base game for under $10, or watch for a free play weekend, or see if you can get it thru GamePass or something. The main story and 3 alliance storylines are good for months of gameplay. If you're still playing after a few months, you can consider buying DLCs for more storylines.

[Tensar]

No and the reveal of the next update only show how the game continue to dig its grave

[Matrix]

Originally posted by mughi:

I enjoyed Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind. I avoided ESO for years because I don't like multiplayer games.

Then I saw that my PS Plus subscription gave me free access to the base game, so I gave it a try. I found I enjoyed playing it as an online-only solo RPG. I mostly ignore the MMO aspects, but maybe you'd enjoy the co-op and PvP.

My advice: Wait for the next sale and buy the base game for under $10, or watch for a free play weekend, or see if you can get it thru GamePass or something. The main story and 3 alliance storylines are good for months of gameplay. If you're still playing after a few months, you can consider buying DLCs for more storylines.

You can also wait for the next time they're giving out a free trial of ESO plus. You can create an account for free during this time.