I’ve played no less than 1000 hrs on Skyrim alone, between XBO and PC w/200 mods. My wife and I logged over 600 hrs on Oblivion, and even more on Morrowind on OG Xbox. We’ve been playing TESO together on XBO since launch, as well as our gaming PCs. 200 hrs? Pfft…we did that much while she was on her 10-day vacation last month.

Actually, I played ~200 hours of Oblivion, ~200 hours of Skyrim, and (so far, still counting) ~350 hours of ESO. I only play the SP content. If you think there’s very little difference in the combat, you are quite insane. The offline games are much more grounded and realistic (which, IMO, makes them superior).

Add in the fact that everything in the offline games is affected by the laws of physics (right down to random things on tables), vastly superior graphics, and how immensely varied the gameplay is (I once did a Skyrim playthrough as nothing more than a hunter/gatherer who sold what he found to survive), and it’s not even close.

There’s nothing “sandbox” about TES games…especially the last 2 entries. It’s pretty obvious also that you’ve not spent much time with ESO…particularly the SP content and definitely not in the last year. There is very little difference, gameplay-wise between the 2, other than the option to do group and/or PvP in ESO…of which my wife and I do neither. Calling a TES game “sandbox” is like calling Gran Turismo a “racing sim” (sorry Sony fanboys, but it’s true).

If you think ESO has better content than a main-entry Elder Scrolls game…well, I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree…I just can’t fathom that opinion.

A main-entry Elder Scrolls game is a SANDBOX. It is a SIMULATED WORLD. That’s what ESO is missing. ESO is open-world, with lots of quests, but that’s it.

It does, if it IS actually better.

More content != better content.

a “snack”? Content-wise, it’s easily 10 times the size of any SP TES game Beth ever made…and getting bigger. It’s evolved so much since launch on PC almost 3 years ago (counting closed BETA), it literally doesn’t even look like the same game, and it’s far less buggy than any game Beth’s ever made.

TESO is a pretty good game. But, it’s still just a snack while we wait for ES6.