Visuals aside, there is something about the design of both Summerset and Elsweyr that places them a tier below Western Skyrim: their more circular design. Even the textures appear sharper, though that hasn’t stopped Zenimax from using muddier ones to paper over the less noticeable objects and terrain. The Elder Scrolls Online has always had an impressive lighting system, and its put to good use in both zones. Blackreach is the visual star of the show, with it’s massive caverns pocked with violet geodes, pulsing orange fungi, and monstrous stalagmites and stalactites. It’s as gorgeous in The Elder Scrolls Online as it was in Skyrim, though the more stylized approach taken in ESO may turn away a few purists. Western Skyrim is exactly what you expected: snow-capped peaks, frozen northern wastes, and rolling southern hills. I want to get this disclaimer out of the way, because Western Skyrim – small as it may be – is perhaps the best new zone added to The Elder Scrolls Online since Morrowind. If you saw all the ads and stopped there, you should probably know what you are getting into. This isn’t a knock against what Greymoor is this is me setting expectations here at the start. New fans need to make peace with this if they were expecting to see all their favorite locations, and planned to seamlessly explore the entire region. With the inclusion of Western Skyrim ESO still doesn’t feature the entire country, which existing fans will be fine with. Despite all the hullabaloo, Greymoor isn’t technically a return to Skyrim, but that hasn’t stopped those excited to once again cross the frozen wastes. Eastmarch and The Rift have been in ESO since launch, featuring Windhelm and Riften respectively. While most of the advertising around The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor has focused on our return to Skyrim to defeat an insidious vampiric foe, Western Skyrim isn’t the only zone set within this country of Nords, giants, and frosted mountaintops. The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor returns to Skyrim. Fans coming into Greymoor know what to expect, and what’s on offer is all rather good, but new fans entering ESO for the first time expecting Skyrim 2.0 will need to check their expectations at the door. While the two new zones of Western Skyrim and Blackreach are perhaps some of the best among those added since Morrowind, the format hasn’t changed in as many years. The Elder Scrolls Online: Greymoor is a love-letter to those fans in some ways, and a typical The Elder Scrolls Online expansion in many others.
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