Interesting Links for 08-02-2014

[andrewducker]

• Group of real life Michigan superheroes fractured by crime-fighting feud
  (tags: viaTheFerrett superheroes WTF )
• A Linguist Explains the Grammar of Doge. Wow.
  (tags: language meme viaDrJon )
• Nottingham pub's 'bag a slag' poster ban criticised
  (tags: freespeech uk )
• Elder Scrolls Online sounds pretty rubbish
  (tags: games mmorpg review )
• Calvin & Muad'Dib is absolute genius.
  (tags: comics scifi calvinandhobbes funny viaSoonLee )
• The 22 Easiest Ways To Destroy Any Friendship with Board Games
  (tags: boardgames games funny )
• Creationist Questions Translated (Hilariously!)
  (tags: creationism science funny )
• BREAKING: Is the Government Spraying the Entire City of Portland with Crystaline DHMO?
  (tags: snow weather usa funny )

Comments

[dalglir]

Elder Scrolls Online sounds fairly generic, not groundbreaking, and I think their decision to not offer a F2P model at the outset will really hurt them. Often as not, the quality of the online experience can be largely judged on how well _groups_ are handled. Without a significant volume of players boosting the grouping opportunities, this has the likelihood of going the same way as SWtOR. Yes, as a MMO solo experience, it's basically just questing in (what will be) THE WHOLE OF TAMRIEL which offers for some pretty damn wide scope if exploring is your thing.

I'll wait and see.

[andrewducker]

Yeah. I haven't seen many innovations in MMOs in a while. The ability to dodge attacks is about the only one that I've encountered.