Listen, I get that you want your intro cinematic to look fancy and be filled with awesome folks doing badass things.  But there’s a certain point where it gets ridiculous.  This dude’s riding bridges and murdering an entire floor of soldiers, then swinging down to confront others by slicing a rope and riding it like Tarzan.  It’s all super exciting.  But you know damn well that two minutes after watching this video you’ll be playing the game proper where the combat will be “Right Click On That Guy Until He Dies.”

Obviously this isn’t exclusive to this game.  Pretty much every MMO suffers from the same issue.  The Old Republic had a giant Jedi battle, pulling the kind of Jedi tricks that only a couple of cartoons had really done before, but the game was just your standard Attack, Attack, Power Attack, Attack.  WoW has a new one of these for every new release, and the core gameplay in that one’s been the same for close to a decade.  But it’s still a little silly to sell your game using this stuff when the actual game resembles it in almost no way.

Still, if the desire to visit Tamriel with friends is powerful enough to deal with a combat system even less exciting than your average Elder Scrolls game (entirely possible, the desire to visit Tamriel alone is powerful enough to deal with Skyrim’s combat system) you can sign up for the beta over at the official website right now.  There’s no word on when it actually starts, but you can at least get that ball rolling.