Chapters: 0:00 - Introduction 0:32 - Gameplay and Comparisons to Fallout Shelter 3:16 - Art Style and Aesthetic 4:20 - Character Dialogue and Unique Features 5:03 - Customization and Castle Decor 5:35 - Looking Ahead - Future Content 6:44 - Final Thoughts - Should YOU Play? 7:35 - Comment Below and Happy Adventuring (outro)
You technically can actually. You just have to do it very slowly haha it will be difficult. Especially as a free player. Banish all the non-dunmer, keep argonians and khajiit to work & produce more people but banish them when they turn out non-dunmer. Quite Difficult but possible haha
@@roozbeh6999 now that I think of it it wouldn’t be as hard as I thought. Manage your people well enough you can reproduce with anyone just eliminate the mongrel dogs of the empire and name them such while you still have some. Slowly banish them & try not to get killed. Use argonians and khajiit for the bulk of the labor force so the great houses (ideally the sixth house and tribe unmourned) can do the things they want to do.
Lv 75 here. It's fun for what it is, what i've notice is that at some point, Orders , decisions , events will repeat itself . Its not game breaking but it can get boring and you'll find yourself avoiding certain events by not gettimg involved.
Multiplayer could kill off a lot of players. It would ruin the game and become basically a pay 2 win where those that spend money will ruin thegame forthose that can't afford to pay. @wolf5161
I've played it for about an hour. I have criticisms about Fallout: Shelter. For Elder Scrolls: Castles, I wish you could send people out in the world to fight and retrieve weapons, armor, food, wealth, etc., like you could in Fallout: Shelter.
I’ve also played both and understand the desire to send subjects out on quests. While there isn’t quite that (yet), there are quests you can do to get items, armor and gold. They’re just not the “set it and forget it” type.
I feel like a lot of people forget how fallout shelter was when it came out. I do think fallout shelter came out feeling more complete, and was added on to in a way that made it a huge time sink for me. But there was still a little bit if time when the game was new that you couldnt do so much. Elder scrolls castles is still that same fun feel, albeit lacking in content and i hope it gets expanded upon. In shelter i remember always expanding and not having enough people to make the space feel lived in, but in castles you can have so many people, but you cant build multiple of the rooms until what im assuming to be late game. Im level 55 and cant make repeat rooms and am getting to 5he point of having lots oj jobless people. To make it work lore wise i have nobles jobless and commoners doing all the work, very castle like. But i would like to see more in the way of building and customizing the castle and would also realy like shelters wasteland and quest styling. I love the risk of sending your biggest boy out om days long adventures and risk them dying if you forget to check in on them over time. And with the way time progresses in game this sounds more fun but doesn't happen yet. All in all a very fun game and i hope it gets more over time
Level 64 so far here, I loved Fallout Shelter and spent countless hours on it, I'm also a huge fan of the Fallout and Tes series, so I admit that I have already spent so MUCH fucking hours in this game in so few days, and even if I have to pause more (don't worry for me I will get out from this isolation, I'm only really happy for this game ahahaha) I have to say that the lore you can build is a drug that I didn't know I needed, I have many little stories in my mind about the personality and relationships between single characters or families, a lot of good and bad stuff happening (like the father of my king fucking the queen), it's also nice to decorate and like seeing each other doing their stuff. I like the combat system, but I prefer the Fallout Shelter way for doing sidequests (hope there will be something lore based and better unique prizes), also the way you make materials and stuff is a bit confusing but still works, I enjoy it. So far I'm really glad for this game, let's see what they will do in next updates
I’m glad you’ve had a great experience with it so far! I’m really excited to learn more about the family trees and stuff and see what happens when I crown a new ruler and whether they are in/outside the family that I originally picked. That’s so wild to hear about the king’s father, 😭 I bet that dialogue is wild. I still need to get familiar with making materials since I haven’t unlocked everything yet, but hopefully if I can get a good understanding on them, I can make a video better explaining them!
@@hannah_the_hermit speaking about that I think dialogues or/and plot dinamics are one of the weakest points this game presents so far (as I saw), like, sadly it wasn't so wild like I also tought, the king and his father only have became rivals each other... Nothing more. At least my imagination works for itself 😄 btw I'll follow future content about this game, so if you wanna do something more about it like you said, I'm on it 🙌
I always get annoyed when people get annoyed about the graphics. It’s a free to play mobile game, and the graphics don’t get in the way of the game itself, so why are you complaining?
I just wish I could choose which land I was starting in. However, it makes me now want such a feature built into ES6. The game overall is great, but I don't like is if supposed to be Hammerfell. Should be mostly just Redguards. Which man I have so many Orcs. Ironically, the recent ruler is Breton mainly due to a Breton killing the Imperial ruler who started the game. Which I didn't realize that if you make someone mad enough they will kill you. That was so unexpected. So I liked the idea that your character legit could be killed at any given point if someone didn't like you at all. It would be interesting to see that thrown in as a mechanic. Perhaps start off as an adventure, but this time one who actually settles into the lands we will be living in for 6. The player then even with god mode on they can still be killed as it is a cut scene in the event that character has come to hate you and you hadn't killed or exiled them. Which, my first ruler was pretty bad. I had people working as their ghost. So they couldn't even get time off if they died.
I liked Fallout Shelter, so I'm def going to check this out. Blades was a little too involved for me to play on the phone, I'm a huge sucker for being able to decorate and customize town layouts lol
Absolutely! I enjoyed Blades in the beginning when it first came out, but once all of my decorations and upgrades became super time-based and very grind-y, I fell off of it quickly. I played it on my iPad back then and had a bit better of an experience versus my phone; but I enjoyed the option to play it both vertically and horizontally on the iPhone
I wish it told you what the decision you make is going to do. There's some quest where you can either burn down a farm infested with fire or make the forest off limits. Didn't know the right one to pick but got everyone mad when I picked to close it off. Also maybe I'm asking too much but I wish the armor looked different instead of all looking like the same plate armor. Like the Dawnguard armor just looks like the plate armor. The music is really relaxing though, reminds me of oblivion
I totally get where you're coming from! It's tough when the choices aren't clear, and it can definitely affect your experience. Hopefully, future updates will offer more variety in armor design too! I agree, the music is really nice
Its a new game. Not pay to win so far (that ive noticed) and fun enough to pop in, do a few things, then move on. Im definitely not offended at the game personally.
I got to lvl 77 and 10 years into my reign. Spent 7 dollars or so. It started great but becomes increasingly tedious. Got old having to keep people happy. Everything becomes very much just more of the same without anything changing in the game. The way they monetize is awful too. Half the huge hard earned rewards for leveling up are locked behind a pay wall. This reviewer didn't play it nearly enough and it sounded like a spokesperson for Bethesda.
It is fun at first, gwts repetitive pretty fast, but it is early days. Amd just like fallout shelter i can see that more will come to this game. It definitely needs much more depth as it is very easy right now. Needs more customisation options, added features, and more variety of choices. Id hope they dont move to a pvp mode at any point as it would kill off a lot of players that dont pay to play. But as for now its fun, it definitely isnt a pay to win game, everything is easy to get, upgrade and level up early days. Level 63 and haven't spent a penny or a gem. If it improves drastically id be willing to support it financially.
That's what I was thinking! I've heard a lot of people saying it's pay-to-win, but I hadn't had any issues personally (I am still low-level though). Just needing to spend more time dedicating to the game, and that's fair if that's something that people don't want to do. I don't personally love PVP so I hope it doesn't shift to that, here's to hoping that you can continue to enjoy the game (for free, too!)
It reaches its boring point very fast. It becomes something you log into to click a few things for 2 minutes and then close down for the day. So it is missing something. Its ok, but yeah, missing something.
That’s fair, good to know! Hopefully they’ll end up toning down the paywalls. I noticed once I hit level 15 or so, I kept getting in-game advertisements for the store. They weren’t too in-your-face on my end, but I hope they don’t increase in frequency.
Level 62 here and haven't come across anything as yet that has made me require spending any money on the game and haven't used gems. Enjoying it so far. Although it does get repetitive quickly.
They really fumbled the ball on this one. They could've made a 3D open world game that was at least a little closer to that of the actual elder scrolls game series.
I wish it had more of TES: Blades style. Blades was very structured in the sense that it only had so many generated dungeons, outdoor environments, etc., but it still felt way more open than the 2D experience. It all comes down to preference though, I know some people really love the 2D style!
I enjoyed it way better than Fallout Shelter, mainly for the flavor and environment. The ruling events were really fun but like others have said repeat very often. It's actually funny, if you choose the most "socialist" choice, it's very easy to keep your entire populace (both races and class levels) happy and healthy. Probably the most annoying part for me was the material gated behind the fight quests (which was the most boring and repetitive part of the game for me). Finding out i needed to finish 50 (50!) quest missions before unlocking steel ingots made me quit very fast. All in all: a fun, albeit repetitive, time suck.
I totally get what you mean! It feels like they really wanted to test our patience with some of the games' quest demands. That sounds daunting, and I don't blame you for quitting.
Elder Scrolls: Castles has endless possibilities, from making kingly decisions, to decorating your castle in any style you choose, while also allowing you the ability to live through the lives of countless generations, unfolding from beginning, to end, as you hone your very own playstyle and forge a destiny worthy of imagination.
Unless one spends money on it then it is p2w. Can't reach the end of the first event w/o buying resources etc. I don't have a job that I can sit on my ass all day and keep the game running and clicking on completions.
Reached the end of both events without having to spend a penny or a gem. Haven't cone across any aspect of the game yet that would mean I'd have to spend money on it. Time will tell.
I agree! I know people are really trying to put pressure on Bethesda to release TES6, but for now, I'll accept pretty much anything. That's what I get for loving their games so much haha
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:32 - Gameplay and Comparisons to Fallout Shelter
3:16 - Art Style and Aesthetic
4:20 - Character Dialogue and Unique Features
5:03 - Customization and Castle Decor
5:35 - Looking Ahead - Future Content
6:44 - Final Thoughts - Should YOU Play?
7:35 - Comment Below and Happy Adventuring (outro)
As a new subscriber, thank you for posting the time stamps. 🎉
This I like.
If I can't make a dunmer ethnostate than I'm not interested lol
You technically can actually. You just have to do it very slowly haha it will be difficult. Especially as a free player.
Banish all the non-dunmer, keep argonians and khajiit to work & produce more people but banish them when they turn out non-dunmer.
Quite Difficult but possible haha
Dagoth ur would be proud
@@roozbeh6999 now that I think of it it wouldn’t be as hard as I thought. Manage your people well enough you can reproduce with anyone just eliminate the mongrel dogs of the empire and name them such while you still have some. Slowly banish them & try not to get killed.
Use argonians and khajiit for the bulk of the labor force so the great houses (ideally the sixth house and tribe unmourned) can do the things they want to do.
Lv 75 here. It's fun for what it is, what i've notice is that at some point, Orders , decisions , events will repeat itself . Its not game breaking but it can get boring and you'll find yourself avoiding certain events by not gettimg involved.
That’s fair! Thank you for your input, hopefully they will add more decisions and events in the future to help keep it fresh
Same! I want to spend more money innit (i already spended 6$) but i dont want to pay more for a single player. Maybe if they add some multiplayer
Multiplayer could kill off a lot of players. It would ruin the game and become basically a pay 2 win where those that spend money will ruin thegame forthose that can't afford to pay. @wolf5161
@@truthseeker1867 i want an arena. Not classic pvp where u take my resources
@@wolf5161that too would be pay2win. Especially since their is no real combat that allows for a skill impact.
I've played it for about an hour. I have criticisms about Fallout: Shelter. For Elder Scrolls: Castles, I wish you could send people out in the world to fight and retrieve weapons, armor, food, wealth, etc., like you could in Fallout: Shelter.
I’ve also played both and understand the desire to send subjects out on quests. While there isn’t quite that (yet), there are quests you can do to get items, armor and gold. They’re just not the “set it and forget it” type.
I feel like a lot of people forget how fallout shelter was when it came out. I do think fallout shelter came out feeling more complete, and was added on to in a way that made it a huge time sink for me. But there was still a little bit if time when the game was new that you couldnt do so much. Elder scrolls castles is still that same fun feel, albeit lacking in content and i hope it gets expanded upon. In shelter i remember always expanding and not having enough people to make the space feel lived in, but in castles you can have so many people, but you cant build multiple of the rooms until what im assuming to be late game. Im level 55 and cant make repeat rooms and am getting to 5he point of having lots oj jobless people. To make it work lore wise i have nobles jobless and commoners doing all the work, very castle like. But i would like to see more in the way of building and customizing the castle and would also realy like shelters wasteland and quest styling. I love the risk of sending your biggest boy out om days long adventures and risk them dying if you forget to check in on them over time. And with the way time progresses in game this sounds more fun but doesn't happen yet. All in all a very fun game and i hope it gets more over time
Level 64 so far here, I loved Fallout Shelter and spent countless hours on it, I'm also a huge fan of the Fallout and Tes series, so I admit that I have already spent so MUCH fucking hours in this game in so few days, and even if I have to pause more (don't worry for me I will get out from this isolation, I'm only really happy for this game ahahaha) I have to say that the lore you can build is a drug that I didn't know I needed, I have many little stories in my mind about the personality and relationships between single characters or families, a lot of good and bad stuff happening (like the father of my king fucking the queen), it's also nice to decorate and like seeing each other doing their stuff. I like the combat system, but I prefer the Fallout Shelter way for doing sidequests (hope there will be something lore based and better unique prizes), also the way you make materials and stuff is a bit confusing but still works, I enjoy it. So far I'm really glad for this game, let's see what they will do in next updates
I’m glad you’ve had a great experience with it so far! I’m really excited to learn more about the family trees and stuff and see what happens when I crown a new ruler and whether they are in/outside the family that I originally picked. That’s so wild to hear about the king’s father, 😭 I bet that dialogue is wild.
I still need to get familiar with making materials since I haven’t unlocked everything yet, but hopefully if I can get a good understanding on them, I can make a video better explaining them!
@@hannah_the_hermit speaking about that I think dialogues or/and plot dinamics are one of the weakest points this game presents so far (as I saw), like, sadly it wasn't so wild like I also tought, the king and his father only have became rivals each other... Nothing more. At least my imagination works for itself 😄 btw I'll follow future content about this game, so if you wanna do something more about it like you said, I'm on it 🙌
Where is Ramstitch keep? Is there Discord? Where do i find the quest?
I always get annoyed when people get annoyed about the graphics. It’s a free to play mobile game, and the graphics don’t get in the way of the game itself, so why are you complaining?
I just wish I could choose which land I was starting in. However, it makes me now want such a feature built into ES6. The game overall is great, but I don't like is if supposed to be Hammerfell. Should be mostly just Redguards. Which man I have so many Orcs. Ironically, the recent ruler is Breton mainly due to a Breton killing the Imperial ruler who started the game. Which I didn't realize that if you make someone mad enough they will kill you. That was so unexpected. So I liked the idea that your character legit could be killed at any given point if someone didn't like you at all. It would be interesting to see that thrown in as a mechanic. Perhaps start off as an adventure, but this time one who actually settles into the lands we will be living in for 6. The player then even with god mode on they can still be killed as it is a cut scene in the event that character has come to hate you and you hadn't killed or exiled them. Which, my first ruler was pretty bad. I had people working as their ghost. So they couldn't even get time off if they died.
This game is not for everyone but love it. Hope they add more stuff similar to fallout shelter
I liked Fallout Shelter, so I'm def going to check this out. Blades was a little too involved for me to play on the phone, I'm a huge sucker for being able to decorate and customize town layouts lol
Absolutely! I enjoyed Blades in the beginning when it first came out, but once all of my decorations and upgrades became super time-based and very grind-y, I fell off of it quickly. I played it on my iPad back then and had a bit better of an experience versus my phone; but I enjoyed the option to play it both vertically and horizontally on the iPhone
Seems fun, I'll need to check it out :)
I wish it told you what the decision you make is going to do. There's some quest where you can either burn down a farm infested with fire or make the forest off limits. Didn't know the right one to pick but got everyone mad when I picked to close it off. Also maybe I'm asking too much but I wish the armor looked different instead of all looking like the same plate armor. Like the Dawnguard armor just looks like the plate armor. The music is really relaxing though, reminds me of oblivion
I totally get where you're coming from! It's tough when the choices aren't clear, and it can definitely affect your experience. Hopefully, future updates will offer more variety in armor design too! I agree, the music is really nice
Its a new game. Not pay to win so far (that ive noticed) and fun enough to pop in, do a few things, then move on. Im definitely not offended at the game personally.
03:28 do I spot an arrow to the knee
Indeed!
I got to lvl 77 and 10 years into my reign. Spent 7 dollars or so. It started great but becomes increasingly tedious. Got old having to keep people happy. Everything becomes very much just more of the same without anything changing in the game. The way they monetize is awful too. Half the huge hard earned rewards for leveling up are locked behind a pay wall.
This reviewer didn't play it nearly enough and it sounded like a spokesperson for Bethesda.
It is fun at first, gwts repetitive pretty fast, but it is early days. Amd just like fallout shelter i can see that more will come to this game.
It definitely needs much more depth as it is very easy right now.
Needs more customisation options, added features, and more variety of choices.
Id hope they dont move to a pvp mode at any point as it would kill off a lot of players that dont pay to play. But as for now its fun, it definitely isnt a pay to win game, everything is easy to get, upgrade and level up early days.
Level 63 and haven't spent a penny or a gem. If it improves drastically id be willing to support it financially.
That's what I was thinking! I've heard a lot of people saying it's pay-to-win, but I hadn't had any issues personally (I am still low-level though). Just needing to spend more time dedicating to the game, and that's fair if that's something that people don't want to do. I don't personally love PVP so I hope it doesn't shift to that, here's to hoping that you can continue to enjoy the game (for free, too!)
It's a huge shame this isn't on PC, like FO Shelter was. But I understand that modding is to blame for that.
I don't think shelter was pc initially either. I may be wrong
@nathanshepherd7027 it wasn't initially on computer. You're correct.
It reaches its boring point very fast. It becomes something you log into to click a few things for 2 minutes and then close down for the day. So it is missing something. Its ok, but yeah, missing something.
short answer, NO.
lvl34 here and i already see everything is a paywall or a gem farm situation.
That’s fair, good to know! Hopefully they’ll end up toning down the paywalls. I noticed once I hit level 15 or so, I kept getting in-game advertisements for the store. They weren’t too in-your-face on my end, but I hope they don’t increase in frequency.
Yeah this is where I'm at. It's not near as fun or deep as fallout shelter to me. That game was awesome in everything but the forced invasion crud.
Level 62 here and haven't come across anything as yet that has made me require spending any money on the game and haven't used gems.
Enjoying it so far. Although it does get repetitive quickly.
They really fumbled the ball on this one. They could've made a 3D open world game that was at least a little closer to that of the actual elder scrolls game series.
I wish it had more of TES: Blades style. Blades was very structured in the sense that it only had so many generated dungeons, outdoor environments, etc., but it still felt way more open than the 2D experience. It all comes down to preference though, I know some people really love the 2D style!
I enjoyed it way better than Fallout Shelter, mainly for the flavor and environment. The ruling events were really fun but like others have said repeat very often. It's actually funny, if you choose the most "socialist" choice, it's very easy to keep your entire populace (both races and class levels) happy and healthy. Probably the most annoying part for me was the material gated behind the fight quests (which was the most boring and repetitive part of the game for me). Finding out i needed to finish 50 (50!) quest missions before unlocking steel ingots made me quit very fast.
All in all: a fun, albeit repetitive, time suck.
I totally get what you mean! It feels like they really wanted to test our patience with some of the games' quest demands. That sounds daunting, and I don't blame you for quitting.
Elder Scrolls: Castles has endless possibilities, from making kingly decisions, to decorating your castle in any style you choose, while also allowing you the ability to live through the lives of countless generations, unfolding from beginning, to end, as you hone your very own playstyle and forge a destiny worthy of imagination.
that sounds like bot ai comment
Get out of here, ChatGPT
@@ericrios-r3y Na, that's just how I talk.
@@grandmasteryoda6717 I'm a writer, what can I say?
Its oddly enjoyable
the worst part about the game is that the khajiit dont even talk about themselves in third person
Weirdly that in french they does
They have in my game
They do in my game
I like it but its bug like hell🤭
A simple and resounding no, from my experience.
I have no life so...
Same, so might as well..
Unless one spends money on it then it is p2w. Can't reach the end of the first event w/o buying resources etc. I don't have a job that I can sit on my ass all day and keep the game running and clicking on completions.
Reached the end of both events without having to spend a penny or a gem. Haven't cone across any aspect of the game yet that would mean I'd have to spend money on it. Time will tell.
It's just a fun, casual, time wasting game. I don't know why people are expecting some complex, graphics-heavy game on a mobile phone.
I agree! I know people are really trying to put pressure on Bethesda to release TES6, but for now, I'll accept pretty much anything. That's what I get for loving their games so much haha
I didn't like this game. Good video, though! 😊
Fair enough! I'm glad you enjoyed the video regardless
Its boring