Escaped an inter-dimensional prison
Spawned at town
Saw a chicken
Killed the chicken
City guard arrested me
He asked me to pay 17 gold
I didn't have enough gold to pay
Was sentenced to death

9/10 would recommend

I would only recommend this game at a steep discount, which it is often priced at. I love this game and easily have 100's if not 1000 hours on the PS4 edition. However, the game has many glaring problems, most glaring of which is the game's horrendous monetization. I would describe the monetization simply as OPPRESSIVE for it seeps into practically every aspect of the game. You cannot change your appearance at any point in the game after character creation, you MUST pay for a character edit token, and this includes your hairstyles. Seriously? I have to pay real money because the idea of a barber shop is too crazy a concept for Zenimax (the devs) to comprehend? Items in the crown store, the premium currency store, are priced at genuinely ridiculous costs. Some of the in-game houses easily cost $100 in premium currency WITHOUT FURNITURE INCLUDED. The most insanely priced items in the store are the DLCs, of which I found 37 listed online.

Let me just rant about the DLC pricing for a moment, because it ties into their premium subscription, ESO Plus, very heavily. The cheapest DLCs are ones that only include dungeons generally, and they are priced at $15 USD worth of premium currency at the cheapest, assuming you don't somehow find a sale for their currency. These dungeon DLCs include rare and highly sought out crafting styles which look very good compared to base-game styles (generally) and often sell for a very, very, high price on the player guild auction houses. Some are priced at $20ish and some are $30, those of which are usually the large expansion level DLCs. That's an insane amount of money considering how little content is honestly in them compared to expansions for other MMOs.

So how does anyone afford this? Well, they just go and subscribe to the premium subscription, ESO Plus. ESO Plus gives access to all DLC so long as the subscription is active. This is THE way to get the most out of the game, which is ironic considering this game prides itself on not requiring a subscription unlike most other MMOs such as World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy 14. Sure, it isn't required, but it's the best way to have fun. ESO Plus includes several other benefits such as: an UNLIMITED extra inventory for crafting materials, 1650 in premium currency (crowns in ESO) every month, +10% gold, experience, and crafting research, and double the amount of furnishings allowed to be placed in player housing. There's a few other minor benefits besides those that I don't feel are worth mentioning.

The Crown Store (premium currency store) also includes a massive amount of costumes, hairstyles, mounts + pets, and other things that are simply unobtainable otherwise, and they all have an absolutely ridiculous price. The only justification for these prices that I can come up with is that the developers expect you to have an active ESO Plus membership, which, over enough months, would give you enough currency to buy many of the items listed. For an example of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insane pricing, you can only buy ONE loot box (yes there's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lootboxes) with $8 worth of crowns because they are priced at 400 crowns and the $8 pack of crowns only gives 750. I should also point out that these loot boxes give fairly worthless items most of the time, like you're going to be getting straight up garbage out of a lootbox worth roughly FOUR DOLLARS EACH in USD.

Again, I love this game, but I'm also a legit hater because of the monetization and would advise you to do your due diligence before buying because you might as well be paying for WoW or FFXIV, and they are honestly far better at being MMOs than this game. It's not all bad with this game though. The combat is pretty fun and rather hands-on for a game of this type. Enemies can be interrupted with shield bashes, staggered and knocked down with heavy attacks, and you can Dark Souls roll out of danger. A huge amount of the world can be interacted with like in previous Elder Scrolls games, in the sense that most drawers and barrels and etc can be looted. The character customization is pretty good, if simple, but the models are 100x better than the abominations everyone was in Oblivion and the freaks elves were in Skyrim. This game can honestly be played as a straight up singleplayer game if you'd like, the story is fully voice acted (the voice acting is far from great though) and every zone has its own storyline.