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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 7519389" data-attributes="member: 42582">I haven't played it. I'm familiar with the concept of a MMO. Wikipedia tells me that "As in previous The Elder Scrolls titles, gameplay is mostly nonlinear, with a mixture of quests, random events, and free-roaming exploration of the world." The word fiction appears nowhere in the Wikipedia entry.I do have a general sense of the ability of computers to engage in literary criticism, because of my familiarity with experiments in AI assessment of student essays. That ability is poor. I draw on that bit of knowledge to inform my understanding of the extent to which The Elders Scrolls Online will treat the ficiton as an element in adjudication - namely, it won't.How did we get to this point in the discussion? Here's how: Given that you think I would get what I want out of RPGing from playing the Elder Scrolls online, but I know that I wouldn't, you obviously have little grasp of what I'm talking about when I talk about the way a RPG system works to generate a play experience. That you continue to insist that I will get what I want from playing a game that I know has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm looking for in RPGing is just bizarre.For extra clarity, there is zero connection between a good RPG system - which will reliably deliver awesome moments of play without needing to be ignored or "transcended" - and "consistent, expected and (at least by the goals they've set) enjoyable gameplay purely through strict adherence to their coded systems". The starting point for explaining why is the word coded (as I posted upthread in relation to The Elder Scrolls Online, it's all maths).</blockquote>

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