Recent reviews by oddbasket

You can play this game solo and sometimes get 3 sidekicks.

Take year long breaks from this, come back and there's still more content and plenty of players.

The FPS lock caps the game at 82 fps which is half of my refresh rate and it was choppy and made me nauseous. After trying out various settings, finally disabling g-sync made it not choppy and playable even though it's still capped at 82 fps.

Anyone playing this game with a high refresh rate monitor should disable g-sync and freesync because the lock fps doesn't work well with them and can give players vertigo.

Game engine was too outdated even by 2016 standards given that high fps will break the game.

This game earned me a badge!

Finished the prologue, seems good.

Comparing to the first game, Xenoverse 2 plays exactly the same, fighting all the DBZ villains and characters is fun, with more skills and clothes and the introduction of QQ bangs which allows you to ignore stats on clothes for customization of appearance. There are also the new and tougher expert missions and crystal raids which are cooperative battles. Hub is more developed with more side quests and a mini game to do. There is more content here, but the story is thin, first game's story mode is more developed and has a better villain and final boss fight. The other races have their own awoken skills which make them a bit more interesting to play. The parallel quests carried over all the existing ones from Xenoverse 1's including the DLCs.

Conclusion, other than the story mode, you get everything Xenoverse 1 offers and more. Xenoverse 2 is the better game especially if you haven't played Xenoverse 1 before, otherwise you'll be grinding the same parallel quests and farming the same collectibles all over again.

Fun looter shooter, better than when it was with Activision.

Quicky time killer for a few minutes. Just try for a new high score until you get frustrated from crashing.

Unless you've always wanted to be a necromancer in ESO, there's no hurry to buy this just for the class. The necromancer class isn't better than the other stamina/magicka classes, but it has potential in healing and tanking or being versatile.

Elsweyr itself has gorgeous desert like landscape but less barren and with many valleys and high ground that makes traversing challenging. Quests and story are of high quality, voice acting is top notch, not to mention two of the main NPCs being voiced by Alfred Molina and John Cleese.

Like every expansion before, Elsweyr adds a lot of lore for the players to discover. A lot of effort is put into the culture and different ethnicity of Khajiits, differentiating them by appearance.

RPG or Elder Scrolls fans will not be disappointed with this expansion.

THE MOST CASUAL AND SOLO FRIENDLY MMO OUT THERE

Is this Pay To Win? No
Is this Pay To Enjoy? No
Is this a Boring Grindfest? No

What is this game?
This game is the most extensive single player Elder Scrolls RPG experience across the whole of Tamriel, that you can also play with friends, but without the grind and pay to win elements of the usual MMOs.

Are you penalized for not subscribing?
No, not exactly. Everyone is on par performance wise, you don't lose out in skills or gear, neither does a subber's mount move faster than yours. What's notable in the subscription is access to all available DLCs (excluding Summerset), and the crafting bag. Crafting bag is only invaluable if you are into crafting for storing materials which otherwise take up your inventory, and all DLCs can be individually bought outside of a subscription.

What do you get for the entry price? (It's very often on sale for USD$10)
ESO is a game that sets heavy emphasis on freedom of play as an RPG and sets as little limit on exploration and questing as possible.

Players pick one of 3 alliances but are free to explore any parts of a zone since enemies are scaled or explore any alliance freely to pick up quests, not necessarily in any order though each zone will have a particular story quest line unfolding and 5 zones make up an alliance's story quest line. This is aside from your character's main story quest line which eventually unlocks another zone. Everything adds up to a massive amount of content for RPG players to enjoy, and that is just the base game. Like any good RPG, this game has a wide array of skill lines to progress, weapons, armor, class, race, guild and world skills. The freedom to learn abilities and passives across multiple skill lines in each of those categories allows players a lot of freedom in how to play their characters. Like previous Elder Scrolls games, you can even become a werewolf or vampire.

Cut the Crap, I mean Grind
Character progression goes hand in hand with the amount of content so you are constantly progressing as you play and don't have to actively grind. Reaching level cap of 50 unlocks a Champion's point leveling system. This system is account wide, so every character that hits 50 can access your Champion points without needing to grind all over again. This system even has a boosted experience gain daily which can accumulate for 14 days to assist progression for casual players. Unless you are the type who prefers to power level and repetitively grind dungeons to max out your character, my advice is to just do content. The character progression and content is so extensive that all you need is to play and you will eventually get there as you play through the game.

Man Hours?
You are looking at hundreds of hours just to complete everything in the base game, over 1000 hours if you play more than one character and intend to max out your champion points.

What if I only pay for the Standard Edition?
Undoubtedbly, there's the understanding of paid content expansion aside from the base game (standard edition already comes with the Morrowind expansion), and there are perks tied to a couple of these expansions in terms of crafting, but note that the game is designed that none of those are essential to playing and completing any content at all. Players can but need not be involved with trading or crafting to play the game.

Gear wise, each zone offers 3 gear sets plus 3 more from each zone's dungeon and a couple of craftable sets, so options are plentiful. The advantages of better performing sets (some exclusively in DLCs) in the hands of a min-maxer can be significant, but really anything goes. Never in my 700hrs of play did I feel handicapped for having random gear and not BIS sets.

Aside from content expansions, the other store items are purely services and cosmetics, costumes, mounts, player housing and consumable boosts. No pay to win items. Now some of these items are seasonal and comes in the form of loot crates. I have to mention the developers are big on rewarding players with some of these for free, through non-grindy events designed to be hard to not win them, or through the daily log-in bonus. I have not paid for anything other then zone content DLCs but have gotten plenty of cosmetics for free through questing, daily rewards and free loot crates.

Bravo Maestro!
MMOs often get away with mediocrity in the sound department and no voiced dialogues outside of cutscenes. The beautifully orchestrated signature musical scores of The Elder Scrolls series is subtly ever present in the background along with epic battle music and fully voiced dialogues for every NPC giving the game an immersion befitting of an Elder Scrolls game.

Which edition should I buy?
TESO Standard Edition - includes base game and Morrowind Chapter (Morrowind DLC + Warden Upgrade)
TESO Summerset - includes base game and Summerset Chapter (without Morrowind DLC + Warden Upgrade)
TESO Collection - includes the above as well as Thieve's Guild, Dark Brotherhood, Orsinium and Imperial City DLCs
TESO Elsweyr - has multiple editions, one of which includes base game, Morrowind, Summerset and Elsweyr chapters.

TESO Standard Edition has massive value when on sale for $10 considering the hundreds of hours of content, the reason also being there's no separate Morrowind upgrade on STEAM, and buying Morrowind + Warden separately on the Crown store costs 5000 crowns or $50.

Never buy TESO Summerset, you don't get Morrowind + Warden class and it only costs a few dollars more for the TESO Collection during a sale.

TESO Collection is currently the best value in early 2019 after getting a 30% permanent price reduction and when on sale for additional 40% off is ridiculously cheap at $29.99 and gives you the DLCs upfront permanently.

TESO Elsweyr is the latest chapter and commands a high price, not recommended to buy it for the base game and Morrowind + Summerset to get started in TESO as the TESO Collection has more content and value when on sale.

Final Words
ESO has been reworked and feels like a whole different game since it's release, in a good way for players. This game combines the feel of an MMO such as 4 men dungeons, 12 men trials (raids) and taking on open world bosses with a grand scale RPG that can be played completely solo or with friends.

Similar gameplay to the first game of the reboot, with some expanded gameplay requiring unlocking tools to perform certain actions. Exploration is linear but requires you to revisit past areas especially after unlocking actions later to access areas available but locked early in the game for collectibles completion.