Greymoor’s strength in fact, is that the side quests are excellent, often eclipsing the main questline you’re supposed to be following.Īlongside the seven story quests, there’s a large body of content in the Antiquities and Instrumental Triumph quest lines. You can’t help but be drawn into even the most banal of quests when there’s someone actually telling you why you should care. I was continually impressed by each and every NPC’s conversation, and it remains one of ESO’s strongest draws that this feels like a living, breathing, speaking world. Certainly the main characters you spend time with – Jennifer Hale’s Lyris, and vampire-scholar Fennorian – are interesting and well-rounded enough to spend a chunk of time with. Whether you’re following the main narrative or not, the characterisation, writing and voice acting in Greymoor is largely very good, barring the odd spot of faux-Germanic waffling. It’s here that the expansion comes to life, and I loved exploring the cavernous interiors, both during the central story missions and the myriad of side quests. This cavernous landscape holds some truly breath-taking sights, including the fantastic Dusktown and Greymoor Keep nestling amongst the carved-out stone walls. The real star of the Greymoor expansion is Blackreach – the underground kingdom lurking beneath Western Skyrim. Still, you’d have expected a few more differences on occasion given ESO’s position in Tamriel’s chronology. It’s a perfectly functional, if slightly underwhelming rendition of this well-known landscape, though it’s cool to visit locations that you know from Skyrim. Western Skyrim looks pretty much as you’d expect high, rocky peaks, play host to waterfalls, rivers and evergreens. Greymoor manages to pace things fairly well, and just when you might be ready to logout for the night you find you’re involved in something that just has to be seen through, or you’ll discover a new location that begs to be explored. You soon drop into the Elder Scrolls Online’s familiar rhythm of major quest-lines, interspersed with the less significant stuff, and the balance of progress and wandering off to do your own thing remains as strong here as it has ever been. So it is with great delight, that the newest Elder Scrolls Online expansion Greymoor, heads once more into Skyrim – Western Skyrim to be precise – giving you the chance to experience the frosty climes in an all-new, online-multiplayer way.Īfter a fan-baiting opening sat in the back of a horse-drawn cart, you’re soon swept up in a plot that threatens the balance of power in Skyrim, and perhaps the whole of Tamriel – isn’t that always the way? You find yourself in the company of everyone’s favourite half-giant Lyris Titanborn, and her quest becomes yours as you sweep down upon some upstart Reachmen, who are soon followed by a parade of vampires, werewolves and witches to dispatch on your way to uncovering the encircling mysteries surrounding Skyrim.

Sure, Morrowind and Oblivion undoubtedly had their moments, and various parts of Tamriel we’ve seen in Elder Scrolls Online have been memorable, but few things come close to the origins of the ‘arrow to the knee’ meme. When most people think of the Elder Scrolls, they think of Skyrim.

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