One of the most popular questions any PC or online gamer asks at some point in their gaming journey is always “What’s the best MMO out there right now?” Whether you asked it in 2006, 2014, or this year in 2019, you’ve asked it. I’ve asked it, my editor’s asked it, and you’ve probably done so yourself.To get more news about WoW Classic Items, you can visit lootwowgold news official website.
MMORPG’s have been around for a long, long time, first coming into mainstream popularity with EverQuest in 1999 and blossoming into the boom of World of Warcraft and Runescape in the early 2000s. If you’re one of the people out there that hasn’t asked the question yet, or you’re just starting to look into it this year, in 2019, we want to give you a bit of advice. Two games that will undoubtedly show up when you type your question into Google are The Elder Scrolls Online and still, even 15 years later, World of Warcraft. Games such as Guild Wars 2 and Final Fantasy XIV will likely also make appearances, but ESO and WoW are the big two.
So, to help you on your quest to find your next game, we’re going to compare the two in a couple of different articles. One, titled “Why ESO is better than WoW” will focus on what ESO does well and WoW does poorly, and the other, “Why WoW is better than ESO,” will focus on the opposite.
As someone who’s played more than 1,000 hours in both over the years, I have too many rambling thoughts to put into a single article, so read each as if a fan of both games was simply debating with themselves. Because, well, that’s what’s happening. Whichever one sounds better to you based on your gut feeling, start with that one. This article will focus on what ESO does better than WoW, and how that may affect your decision.
Elder Scrolls Online was made and updated over the years with one person in mind—fans of the Elder Scrolls universe. This game is packed with more interactive lore than any former Elder Scrolls title, including Skyrim and Oblivion. Morrowind is one of my favorite games of all time, so this is high praise.
So, if you like lore in the form of readable books, artifacts, ruins, side quests, NPCs, and more, this game does it the best. And with each major DLC, even more is added and baked into the game. It’s heaven for lore nerds everywhere in terms of sheer quality, and the writing is icing on top of the cake.Like any other title in the Elder Scrolls portfolio, the storytelling of this MMO is superb. In fact, it reigns supreme over any other major MMO on the market. Whether you stumble across a side quest involving a random Khajiit vacationing on his family farm after a long and exciting career as a spy of the Dominion queen, or you embark on a sprawling, massive storyline involving Daedra, gods, and saving a continent, you can expect consistent, well-written, fully voice-acted storytelling.
We’ll get into bad examples of storytelling in MMOs in a bit, but for now, just take solace in the fact that the storytelling from Skyrim (aside from the main quest, barf) didn’t magically vanish for this online title, despite the difference in studio. There’s clearly a standard that Bethesda and ZeniMax plan on meeting with each expansion.