It's pretty buggy, expect server crashes and random resets, glitchy mobs/quests etc. But it's not literally unplayable. If there had been a better game here then you could probably stomach most of the technical issues, but as it is there's nothing of value beneath all the bugs.
It certainly feels like the buggiest game Bethesda has ever put out, easily the buggiest major game release this year, and I'd say it only has a fraction of the quality content its predecessors have.
You must be trolling because Bethesda's games past Morrowind are the definition of dumbing down a genre and a genre not living up to what they could be, outside of offering expansive 3d worlds to explore (even then, I think Bethesda's world design is pretty poor outside of "they're big & open"). Stats that matter less and less with each subsequent game they make, storytelling and choice & consequences that just keeps getting simpler and simpler, character development with no real choice involved because you can be awesome at everything, combat that requires zero thought, poor writing etc. Compare Fallout 2 vs. Bethesda Fallouts & how it handles RPG mechanics and choice and consequence in the game and there's a drastic drop in depth in how you can handle situations & people.
I've had tons of crashes, tons of glitchy encounters, tons of broken quests, tons of graphical glitches. It's the bare minimum of playable, though. Whether or not the game is even worth experiencing looking past all that.... I don't think so.
He was obviously being sarcastic lol. I know it's hard to tell because it's so close to what the apologists actually say.
TESO had design issues, but the game itself at least worked. And it wasn't such a departure from some boring standard MMO stuff that the game was unplayable. It wasn't an elder scrolls style game, but it was a game. It was more an issue of 'this isn't the game our fanbase wants'
Someone just got done reading the latest Joseph Anderson thread.
"We used to be able to forgive these games for being completely broken because it offered sub par combat, rpg mechanics, and npc quests!"
No one wanted to subscribe because it was a pretty bad game at launch. It's doing great today. Remember when they first revealed the game? It had a cartoon art direction, comically sized body proportions, and they were confused when people kept asking if you could play in first person. It was a linear progression game that split the races of Tamriel neatly into a three v three faction storyline, despite that not making any sense within the established world.
