A Complete and Exhaustive Analysis of the Elder Scrolls Online

[@reffa2858]

ESO: You either Hate to love it or Love to Hate it.

[@MoongemVAA]

When I see Molag Bal, Adabal, and Cold Harbor after playing Vigilant for so long; "How dare you stand where he stood!"

[@jigthh]

I just didn't like how the story felt like it was stretched all over the place. When i played this game i played through the Vvvardenfell storyline and i felt like Clavicus Vile would never be a big bad evil guy in a major storyline like that, bro just wants to do his real free estate scams but here he goes trying to nuke Vvvardenfell and thus losing lots of potential worshippers and scam victims. Also i haven't played the questline involving Nocturnal trying to invade Nirn or something, but i also find that to be kind of hard to swallow that Nocturnal would do something like that.

[@MLPDethDealr32]

Both of those are the reasons i also refuse to deem it canon. In Skyrim, thanks to mods, my character is a vampire that works as an enforcer of sorts for CLAVICUS. Some cheats him on a deal or pact, he sends my vamp after them.

[@joaovitorreisdasilva9573]

I had an amazing time with ESO, but the first time I played, I had no idea I was talking with THE Veloth because I wasn't paying that much attention to him, lmao Oh yeah, ESO also had the nicest mmo community I have ever experienced. A lot of really wholesome people playing this game.

[@jpaych7617]

Thank you for solidifying my resolve to continue not playing ESO

[@Bh0807-]

Well imo you’re missing out if you like the elder scrolls

[@otakuju]

Came back from a WoW vacation. I cant shake this game.

[@yigitdemir3723]

I will comment my thoughts about this video when I finish it, like 2 weeks later

[@Amaryryry]

Any thoughts?

[@yigitdemir3723]

@@Amaryryry its good

[@swtorscrub3839]

Babe wake up, Cotho uploaded.

[@grzegorzflorek5623]

Hell yeah!

[@NinjasticFlare]

It’s such a shame. I’ve played Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim (everyone has played Skyrim lmao). I tried ESO when Tamriel Unlimited came out, and I was shocked at how little it felt like an elder scrolls game. There wasn’t that “seeing a ruin off in the distance and then encountering 10 different places/random encounters on your way to it”. It felt like a theme park, for lacking a better way to put it.

[@LIZZINHELL]

wait, so it takes 41ish weeks (being generous) to get the highest tier of rewards in the endeavor store. the gestation period for horses (how long they're pregnant for) is 50ish weeks. it actually takes almost as much time to make an ACTUAL HORSE as it does to earn one of these fuckin things.

[@Azuraaaaaaaaa]

amazing video, you hit the nail on the head perfectly. love the dedication!

[@cotho.]

Thank you! I think your videos are awesome!

[@Azuraaaaaaaaa]

@@cotho. aww thanks so much!

[@blueeyeswhitemoron4488]

New cotho video to binge while modding skyrim on my day off? Sign me up!

[@huntsmancj8771]

A nice concept that would be fun but break the lore, Time travel, you head to the future to fight the Neravarine(put him in exile for the supposed disappearance of Vivic and causing the meteor to fall and cause the eruption, Champion of Cyrodil(after mantling sheo, he needs put away in his realm, and the last dragon born (for either being a vampire lord or being herma champion who he has "plans with". Since they are player characters they should have random abilities or be a warrior thief mage werewolf(maybe werebear for tldb) vampire. Could be specific could be mixed. And of course it would be a trail because the vestige may be strong but not that (ikik all the feats of vestige is probably higher with all those dlc content added) -tired and not worried about spelling rn

[@hideousruin]

I have enough experience with single player games and with MMOs to know that if you love a single player game franchise you should generally avoid an MMO version like the plague. Balancing for teams and PVP always makes the PVE game unrecognizable from single player anyway. Also I don't generally like mixed PvP-PvE. I enjoyed it in some of the early generation MMOs but today's players would literally die if they experienced how "real" the internet was back then. My favorite comment from back then is from a guy I had just pkd telling me he hoped my mother would get cancer.

[@grzegorzflorek5623]

I was asked once, what out of numerous issues you have made you quit the game? My answer was: "Yes".

[@KuroSan97]

As always highly appreciated Cotho video! I thought we were gonna get ESO Online lore analysis, but a review analysis is good as well. Hope we get some chunks some day, I have like no time to invest now in getting into a MMORPG for just lore.

[@shorts4bots]

The Dev's mom wham wham is iconic

[@Zevexor]

WOO, YEAH BABY! THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR! THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!... I mean, new Cotho video, what a delight, I will consume this piece of media while I treat myself to some modded Skyrim Cheers!

[@lakkakka]

I can't deal with the inventory fuckery. It is so clearly made to force you to pay or chase you off as inconvenient as it gets.

[@d-pod_L]

Just 2 hours? When I read the title I was ready for a 12 hour video :(

[@jkcubed7913]

“A house for the price of 5 AAA games…” Yup! Can’t buy a house irl or in game! :) thanks ZeniMax 👍🏼

[@AyBee9725]

What if I define winning as completing every main story quest without having to repeat any of them or grains for anything? Should I play this game then? I just wanna get through the story.

[@cotho.]

you are fine, just stay away from the psijic order, scrying and companion stories 💀☠💀

[@grzegorzflorek5623]

Do you know who Andrew Young is? He's one of the people who wrote lore for ESO and the expansions, and they all HATE how Zenimax turns it into generic garbage? The lore about Dagon in Blackwood is amazing, but in gameplay he is generic moustache-twirling villain of the week nr.16849. From what I've heard on Reddit, he allegedly "did a rant about how the editors turn a lot of their writing into some generic stuff, or how he needed to personally threaten the directors that he will quit if they don't let him do the solemn dialogue with Sotha Sil in Clockwork City instead of the usual "ewok party" we always get at the end of the DLC". So he fought tooth and nail to give us one of the best conversations in the history of the franchise. What do you think, boss? Could you see this actually happening? 🤔

[@cotho.]

Thank you for bringing this to my attention, seriously. I was aware of him, but I didn't know he got fired. This is the biggest "L" I can imagine for eso story writing. He wrote "the nine coruscation" and yes the story you mentioned about him putting his foot down to get the Sotha Sil monologue at the end of Clockwork city is true. Right now my focus is 100% on Nehrim since it is the biggest mod ever made for oblivion and I felt like I had to do it justice, but when I am done (in about 3-4 weeks if we are lucky), ama gonna have to talk about this. To answer your question: I think the developers value quantity over quality. This attracts people who don't care about quality, which is the player base they are currently stack with. None of the big elder scrolls KZbinrs talked about Ithelia, no one cares about any of the stories of the dungeon and players who buy the expansions and DLC only buy them for the new systems and meta gear. With all that said, why would anyone invest into storytelling? Of course they are also careless and ignorant, which only leaves eso worse off. Thanks again for telling me about this!

[@grzegorzflorek5623]

​@@cotho.Sounds good, can't wait for Nehrim!

[@johnjninja8969]

Spot on, great video

[@lainiwakura999]

do you play on EU or NA? im guessing EU but just making sure lmao i wanted to add you but then i realized you're prob on EU, great vid!

[@Lupinemancer87]

I've been playing this game since it came out, actually a litte before that since I was in the Beta, and I love it. It's my favorite MMO, even better then WoW at the moment, and I have been enjoying every day of this game for the past 10 years. It's absolutely amazing.

[@mortecai222]

yup, I have learned more about the elder scrolls world playing ESO than all the other single player games combined

[@The_Dreamless616]

Grow up then, clown.

[@The_Gravemind]

Literal bot 🤡

[@Lupinemancer87]

@@mortecai222 So have I. My first Elder Scrolls game was Skyrim, prior to that I had never even heard of Elder Scrolls, not sure how, but I hadn't. So I had no idea what was going on when I played and they referenced past events. I did some research but it wasn't until I played ESO that I really began to learn about this incredible world.

[@Lupinemancer87]

@@The_Gravemind Huh? Why are you a bot?

[@hissinsidemyhead8195]

Hoy shit, Two hours? HELL YEA!

[@minakatahizuru]

HOpe this is like one of these shitting on and calling out corpo shit like on Starfield

[@HeilSol]

To that final question, to me, TES is the lore and the potential your characters have within it. It started as a tabletop setting, it should continue honoring that superior origin. A linear story is great, especially in a detailed/dynamic sandbox. TES since Oblivion is trite rubbish, for the most part. I love what's called "generic" fantasy, that's just European. I like when it puts an original spin on itself, as TES did initially. Now, we can count on the same tired ideas being reused. As for ESO, people play and pay for it. That's all needs be said. It's making boatloads of money, even if people complain. And, TES will continue ever downwards due to how consumers have tolerated increasingly boring, general, simplistic stories and effort. Let them call canon whatever they want. I trust in my imagination, not some pasty effeminate doughboy's. Ofc, this is in relation to TES as a worldscape. ESO has fun gameplay, but then, so does basically every single MMO. I don't particularly play TES for gameplay, or graphics. I don't finish reading a book because of its cover.

[@camerongriffiths8875]

Here I am selling crowns for 100:1 and being happy with that as a fair price for some in game currency lol

[@rafaelprado7156]

I really feel like ESO is that toxic partner that has lots of amazing things but is also a serial killer on their free time 🤔

[@ac2.024]

I have to disagree with the issue you brought up with item sets and housing. Short version of it, no they're not nerfing old sets so you buy the new expansion that has busted sets. Pillar of Nirn has been one of the best sets in this game for years, same with aegis caller coral riptide, whirl of the depths, and more. Mother's sorrow is a treat magika DPS set and it's base game. And when it comes to housing, you can have some amazing houses just from using gold items. You don't need any crown furnishings for that, let's be honest. The rest of the stuff about the crown store and how it's shitty I do completely agree with. I have 4k hours in this game, so I love playing it, but the game would be so much better with more in-game rewards and less cash shop items, that I can 100% agree with.

[@boywithearing]

In defense of Tales of Tribute, not all card games are of the Trading or Collectible nature. I personally don't really like it when trading card games are in my fantasy games. There are a lot of inventions, both cultural and technological, that would need to exist in those worlds before a trading card game can be lucrative and regulated. It feels like a "twitter OC" moment to me because the world starts seeming like a fan-fictionalized version of itself. So I'd much rather a game within a game not be a whole separate game, but rather an extension of the culture being portrayed. I know the devs probably did not do it that way for this reason -- the lore for the game being shaky is evidence enough for me -- but I like the result nonetheless.

[@therogueserafim271]

Here we go

[@rainbowstay]

Buying crowns with gold makes it enjoyable lol I don't have to break the bank but I do buy crowns during sales

[@averagebohemian5791]

Great video

[@Twilight5007]

eso combat just felt weightless, spammy, and like the abilities didnt do much because you just cast them a ton instead.

[@jonweaver2696]

BRO i did not expect to see a Chris Chan clip here lol

[@sweethurtbyreona5671]

finally some good content on youtube

[@doctorsavage5925]

ESO which is a game you have to buy anyway, somehow has worse monetization than paladins…and people defend it 😂

[@Agumon5]

I've been playing ESO for 5 years. I still don't like the combat. If there's one thing that has kept a lot of my friends away from the game it actually is the combat not the crown store. Light attack and heavy attack weaving should not be a thing. I would like to see that system replaced with something else that is also engaging / challenging, but doesn't take away from the immersion and fluidity of the combat visuals. The animation canceling as a result of light attack and heavy attack weaving just makes your character look like he's tweaking the f*** out. It's stupid and it should not be the standard in an MMO.

[@venepskeuten9206]

Eso's ability to make the most interesting of lore appear mundane continues to amaze me

[@minakatahizuru]

Dude coming out as furry and not even sexy one.

[@minakatahizuru]

If game is good enough you sub for it but eso is most monetized game in history.

[@anwarabdullah9776]

cool video

[@TheRealKiRBEY]

Im starting to get annoyed at how little views your vids get

[@minakatahizuru]

Jarr Europe

[@MLPDethDealr32]

The intro is why i refuse to deem ESO canon. The unreliable narrator was an excuse cooked up to get out of critising the stupidity of Emil Pagliarulo. We had consistent events between Arena , Daggerfall, and Battlespire. They could have done something with that and a game connecting to Shadowkey. Nope, We get a f*cking MMO that im sure most of us hate with a passion. As soon as im done remodding Skyrim, im reinstalling Arena and Oblivion. The only 2 missing from my Steam collection are Daggerfall and Battlespire. Im still waiting for someone to recreate in Skyrim's Engine. We have Daggerfalls Mainquest thanks to the Skygerfall mod.

[@mauroquinones5145]

Good video. Also, *imagine* putting that much effort into the crown store but not addding capes into the game even in the year of our lord 2024. (yes i know they caused perfomance issues from before the start, they a decade to fix that, much older games have them and if you're gonna sell shit on a store at least give me something i want)

[@yharnamiyhill787]

I subscribed to this game for 3 years (did not play) because I wanted to support their progress. When I log back on and found out they didn't do shit and created Loot Boxes..., I unsub.

[@The_Gravemind]

You are incompetent 🤡

[@minakatahizuru]

Chris Chan reference xDDDD

[@jonaszpawlacz756]

The concept of ESO just doesn't sit with me. I mean, imagine you're in charge of a video game company. You have a successful IP the most popular game of which is still alive and well fuck knows how many years after release mainly (if not solely) thanks to its modding scene. And you decide that an MMO is the way to go? Also, Cotho, you're the Bard from Vigilant. Just as he couldn't come to terms with what he's done, you can't come to terms with missing Belharza. Keep an eye out for a Dragonborn, will you?

[@mortecai222]

yea it was so dumb of them to make one of the more popular cash cows in games, swimming in money is such a stupid decision, why do people like money am I right?

[@jonaszpawlacz756]

@@mortecai222 spare me the reddit irony. They could have put all that effort towards TES VI. Expanding into the MMO territory was a diceroll.

[@roozbeh6999]

​@@jonaszpawlacz756eso isn't made by Bethesda

[@jonaszpawlacz756]

@@roozbeh6999 IP is Bethesda's, you know what I mean. Zenimax doesn't decide the direction of the franchise.

[@zimattack9994]

And thats why i cant get in to ESO it doesn't matter we know how it ends we know the good guy will win so it doesn't matter because it's canon

[@MLPDethDealr32]

I treat ESO as not canon to Arena , and Daggerfall all the way through Skyrim.

[@michellgutierrez3937]

Hehe this game is garbage