But The Elder Scrolls Online might just be the exception to the rule.

I started my quest by getting parped out of a portal on Skingrad’s outskirts.

Still, the Necrom preamble aside, Gold Road makes a very amenable first impression.

Two warriors fight monsters in the Gold Road area of The Elder Scrolls Online

It’s a place that screams, ‘Yes, nothing bad could possibly happen here, no sirree.’

First, though, some fingers are being pointed at me, which means it’s fight time.

How’s your week?

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clangYeah, not bad, thanks.

klunkYou been watching Succession/3 Body Problem/current streaming show of the moment delete as appropriate?

everything screeches in an ear-curdling death rattleYou know how it goes.

An opulent castle manor in the Gold Road Chapter of The Elder Scrolls Online

Ultimately, I came away quite buoyed by my experience with it, thinking you know what?

It might finally be time to take the plunge on this old MMO lark.

Who needsThe Elder Scrolls 6when this is right here?

The player holds a staff in one hand as they walk through the streets of a city in The Elder Scrolls Online’s Gold Road chapter

A man juggles knives in front of some pigs in the Gold Road chapter of The Elder Scrolls Online

A chimera monster readies to pounce in the Gold Road chapter of The Elder Scrolls Online

An archer walks through a forest with a huge statue built into the trunk of a tree in the Gold Road Chapter of The Elder Scrolls Online

An artist paints a house uprooted into the sky by a massive tree in the Gold Road chapter of The Elder Scrolls Online

An archer leans over a scribing table with a large blue crystal at the centre in the Gold Road chapter of The Elder Scrolls Online