Ok, I just want to start by throwing it out there that in this review, I WILL SPOIL THE ENDING, SO DO NOT READ IT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS! Ok, so now that that's out of the way, let move on to the review and how I really feel about this game. First off, I know that some of you read my first couple of blogs on this title, but sorry to disappoint, but I finished the game with the Dagger Fall Covenant, not the Ebonheart Pact...sorry. Its not that I didn't like the Pact, I just have 5 characters, and I liked the Covenant better, Pact second, and well the other one just sucks...sorry Dominion fans lol. In the Covenant, most of the areas you will travel with either be nicely designed forest, or vast deserts, no where will you find floating jelly fish, still getting use to that. Pretty much in a nut shell you travel from City to Town, Town to City, helping to rebuilding the kingdom, while defending against invaders, vampires, and Molag Bal. Each city is linked really well, and the story is pretty good too. You get a lot of choices in your travels for the kingdom, and a lot of the times you get to pick whether someone lives or dies...that was a lot of fun. Eventually after many MAIN mission, and tons of endless side missions, the factions come to the realization that the alliances aren't the threat to the world, Molag Bal is. But you have a little meeting with the three kings and that turns out horribly. They all think your ideas are stupid and that each of the other leaders are full of crap and just want them to drop their man power so they can be overcome. That's where the fun kicks in, Molag Bal attacks the island that you are on and tried to kill all three leaders. You save them, they thank you, and agree to have YOU and the fighters guild and mages guild make an assault on Molag Bal in the Cold Harbor. When you get in there, you find out that everyone was separated and have to rescue pretty much everyone and gather your strength for a final assault on Molag Bal. This was the art of the game that I liked the most. Elder Scrolls takes a page out of Saints Row IV and gives you Elder Scrolls in Hell! Literally there is a really cool town in Hell and you get to shop, dress, chat with friends, trade crap, all that good stuff. There is even a fighters guild and mages guild too unlocked eventually down the line. So you eventually save everyone, break all Molag Bal's badnick toys that make his World Conquering possible and in the end you have a Horde Mode with him flinging crap at you(while you are behind an invisible force field), while you kill everything until it ends...tadda! Its over..literally. There ain't much details from the characters after that except that they want to go home and the High Elf King died...sadness lol. It was really weak...big let down. Now that was what I call the MAIN ALLIANCE STORY. The actual MAIN STORY with Varen the old Blind Emperor and all his Power Ranger friends is a lot shorter and less entertaining. Pretty much what you do is one at a time go into Cold Harbor via Blind Man portal, and rescue the Power Rangers one by one. Then you get to go through I think about 1 or 2 dungeons and Horde Mode until you get the Amulet Of Kings. You kills the King Of Worms during the last one, and then gather for one final mission into Cold Harbor to fight Molag Bal. You cannot do the FINAL MAIN MISSION unless you have beat the final mission of the alliance story...as far as I know. Once in Cold Harbor....again, you Horde Mode until you get to the torture chamber where you see the King Of Worms being whipped like a dog, and tortured by other Daedra. You know get to talk to him after killing everything and he tells you he hate you blah blah blah and you one day will join him in being tortured forever. You then get to either free him or let him suffer, I freed him and he told me I would regret it and he teleported away...lame lol, Varen said I would regret it, but he dies anyway...in my story, so screw him! At the end, you get to choose who dies as a sacrifice so you can get God Like powers to fight Molag Bal. You can choose between Snow Lily, Sci Sci, or the Varen the Blind Emperor. I chose the blind man because he is already blind anyway, so the hell with him. So he dies and you get this super groovy armor and super strength. Literally you have to now go up flights of steps and fight endless Daedra while pursuing Molag Bal, but don't worry, because no you are pretty much invisible, and can one shot everything! Yup, that right, you can't die! So eventually you get to Molag Bal and he grabs you with his Darth Vader powers and you!!!! Get to push a button to shrink him down to your size and strength lol. It was a let down. I was thinking the whole time, man this guy is huge, how am I supposed to beat someone who is like 50 stories tall.....with a bottom sequence of course! lol When he shrinks you get to fight him, he has a mace and does some magic, but you still pretty much can't die, so all you have to to is attack him until he dies. After you mortally wound him. you get teleported to the clouds whether Molag Bals ghost soul threatens you and you get your soul back. You eventually go back to the Harbridge where the rest of your allies say they are going to Disney Land! And you...well you get told by Caldwell, the Soul Shriven guy from the beginning, that if your not done adventuring you can now play in the other factions of the war and see how their story is! Yay! But just to piss you off, you don't get to choose what alliance you are in...its random, so enjoy lol.
Overall, what I would rate this game. And take it that I have played PVP, I have beat the Main Story, the Alliance Story, and played through hundreds of quests with glitches all along the way and hours of game maintenance due to servers being down lol. I would have to rate this game a...
7 Out Of 10
With the game being, as glitchy as it is, and the MAIN STORY lacking in lore, length, and excitement I can't bring myself to rate this game any higher then this. And the ending was just awful, on both the Main Story and the Alliance Story. After endless hours of quests, missions, throwing controllers, and glitches, they could of at least gave a better ending to the game! I mean this is the company that brought us Oblivion and Skyrim! So....what happened??? I understand it's their first big MMO game, but come one, you can't blame it on that. I would definitely say that if you have not played the game, get it. If you have friends you can have endless fun with them just exploring the world. But remember in the end, that this game is a work in progress, and that it does need some serious work to live up to its other previous installments before.
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