Betas players can't discuss gameplay, they signed a nondisclosure agreement prohibiting that.
I think a simple "yes" is allowed. This was also one of the questions in the questionnaire. Further I suggest to lock this topic, because this is all there is to say about it. And there is allot to see about it on youtube.
I would say the correct answer, as to almost every question, and completely clear from published information without doing anything to the NDA, is "yes and no"
Similar in some ways to single player TES games. Different in other ways. It IS an MMO, with a persistent world with other people in it, and a "theme park" structure, and that DOES have consequences.
Also vital to note that the single player games are not identical to each other... this one is different from each of them, but relative to some features not really MORE different than Morrowind is to Skyrim, for instance.
As to whether it's similar in the ways YOU want it to be, that depends on what's important to you. Different people have very different impressions in this regard. So, I would suggest the OP be more specific. Bearing in mind that nobody who has played it can directly answer how it felt to them, due to the NDA
Every persons image of a TES game is different.
The answer goes something like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me0pLNnk1hM
I'll answer this as if I never played it:
Does my future girlfriend feel like my past hottest girlfriends?
GOD I hope so!
Haha, good one
Does this game makes my thighs look fat? "There is no right answer on that"
Indeed. I started with Morrowind, and one of the core components of TES was, to me, that for every action I could do in the game - hitting with your weapon, magic spells, even mundane things like running and jumping - there was a way to improve my abilities. While Oblivion still kept a lot of it, Skyrim effectively gutted the whole system for me. Yet, many people herald Skyrim as the best TES ever.
For others, TES is nothing without modding, or being able to do everything with one character.
So, you will have to be more specific when you ask if it feels like a TES game. What should that feel like?
Not a topic that can be discussed on these forums.