Recent reviews by Bud

I bought the Supporter Pack to support the game. This game is amazing, I have not officially written a review on it yet but felt I needed to about this DLC. The Tattoo is only for a male, the weenie warmer obviously too. I got the blue chip, but I had to delete my character because it was a female (wanted to see how they played and I like them, well done) but the hairstyle (I had to bring 6 different ones, I rolled 6 toons!) covers the light coming from the blue-chip and is not noticeable. I have died several times and I spawn in with an orange shirt and no Black Gamepires dev shirt. I am very confused about what this DLC does for me other than grant me the satisfaction that I supported an early access game. I guess the watch adds some RP value but I have been playing for 3 years and the Sun works fine. Help these guys if you enjoy the game!

The newest addition to ESO, Elswyer, is a fascinating journey around every corner. Windswept deserts lie on either side of the bridge-crossed canyons known as the Stitches while untamed jungles flourish to the south. Elsweyr is a worthy successor to last year’s Summerset chapter. It’s the excellent storytelling and exploration in the side quests that outshines the dragons with heartfelt drama.

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I have been playing ESO since it was first available as a live retail game on Steam. The game is beautifully constructed. Most of the main story quests are brilliantly voice acted, providing a deep immersion into the storied world of Tamriel. I have purchased this game 4 times as a gift for friends over the last 4 years. I felt it was a great value for the 100's of quests, an alliance versus alliance PVP battlefield map and a full-featured crafting system to keep the creative or harvester types of gamers busy for endless hours of game time. The ESO Plus membership is a special VIP program that gives you access to loads of in-game benefits and perks, including access to all DLC game packs in the in-game Crown Store. The free Crowns you get are worth the same value as the ESO Plus members alone. You get a special crafting bag that holds every collectible resource and material used for the extensive crafting system the game has. This frees valuable bank space for you. Besides, you get two times as much bank space for all your account shared items.

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The new Necromancer class is by far one of the best additions to ESO since the early days. It has some very clever unique mechanics that work in any role. The land of Elsweyr itself is one of the best and most visually interesting areas to explore.

Necromancy is a sensitive subject in The Elder Scrolls world because it has been outlawed by both the Psijic Order and the Mages Guild. Characters treated me differently based on the fact I practiced necromancy. I remember Abnur Tharn specifically vilify the Necromancers we were working against. I’m someone who appreciates a little Role-playing in my MMORPGs. Knowing that most of Tamriel wouldn’t approve of the way I was working to save them brought satisfaction as I worked through the individual questlines.

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I highly recommend this game to anyone that loves to play online games. Whether is solo, restful and explorative gaming you enjoy or instanced based dungeons where you work as a team to defeat bosses and complete objectives, this game will provide 1000's of hours of enjoyment.

As returning monster hunter, Geralt of Rivia, you are faced with the ongoing work of problem solver and fell creature slayer, as you search for your daughter-figure and one time ward Ciri who is in danger.

I started playing The Witcher series years ago and felt that the first two games were worthy of praise and provided an extensive amount of lore based content as well as a riveting combat style. The major difference between this game and its Witcher predecessors is the introduction of a colossal open world with such stunning attention to detail.

The world in which the story takes place has a thematic approach to the extraordinary amounts of turbulence, starting with the excellent character development, excellent lore base story, an excellent fluid combat system, and fascinating exploration style. This turbulence draws players into an immersive experience based upon conflict and choices.

The Witcher 3 is brilliantly designed to strike a balance between complicated struggles and problems that allows a good amount of breathing room to engage in crafting, exploring and side-quests.

The women of Witcher 3 play a vital and familiar role in this story. We remember many of them from past chronicles, the most powerful of them are former members of the Lodge of Sorceresses. In addition to these barely likable characters' is the stories' main plot female, Ciri, who has been missing for a long time and is now in peril from an otherworldly faction. The game takes the role-playing experience with Ciri to another level as it periodically lets you take control of her and engage in combat using a slim but powerful combat style.

KIlling, problem-solving, exploring and treasure hunting round out the experience as you progress through a choices-matter story. It is so detailed that entire chunks of content could be skipped unintentionally if you make a wrong decision, barring you from succeeding quests further along in the chain. Geralt himself sometimes feels akin to some monsters that display qualities of reasoning, intelligence, emotions and a desire to be part of the human-dominated world they live in.

I highly recommend this game to anyone who can stomach a fair amount of blood and gore, is not offended by brief female chest nudity and a rather large commitment of time to unravel the story. In addition to a compelling rich, choices-matter story is the massive scope of main and side quests that are available. The world is environmentally and atmospherically stunning. The game is performance friendly to most PC's that have been manufactured with within the last five years. The developers made a jewel of a role-playing game that should provide at least 200 hours of spent solving the main story. Additional side quests and downloadable content, as well as a growing mod base, make this game a well-priced game for your library.

A fantastic game with a wealth of content to keep you interested. The game draws upon the rich story content of the timeless Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien. The epic story is engaging. Long before I was a Steam user I went to a store like Best Buy and bought my game software off the shelf. 11 Years ago I bought my copy of Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar, I still have it and still display the map poster that came with it in my gaming room.

This game has wealth of role-playing opportunities due to the rich story that guides the developers. The quests themselves are engaging and dramatic, although at times you feel more like a delivery person or messenger than a hero or adventurer.

The game still looks good despite the fact that the graphics engine is almost 18 years old that drives the game. They have done a wonderful job at improving the quality of the textures and meshes, including a complete revamping of the player character models.

This game has much to do if you are in a kinship that does things because the party matching and instance matching is rarely used, if ever. It is easy to make friends though and find players like your self and that match your needs as a gamer in Middle Earth.

The developers do a good amount of creating new content due to the foundation of the game, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which has a wealth of information to draw upon.

I recommend this game to anyone who loves the Middle Earth Legacy created by JRR Tolkien and wish to feel like they are shaping the events that unfold as you move through the epic story content. It is not really designed for hardcore players and power gamers but is more likely to attract casual gamers, roleplayers and event goers. Every month a new event or festival takes place and gives the participant an opportunity to earn some fabulous rewards.

One thing I do not like about the game, in recent years the cash shop items have become sellable to other players, tilting the economy towards a pay to win style that makes an unfair advantage to either player with real life money or players who do nothing but farm LOTRO Points, the cash shop currency.

It is not really very difficult to obtain gold (game money) in LOTRO if you have a group of friends or kin mates that can farm some of the more lucrative instances. In the past, MOST content is unachievable or out of reach without a fellowship. Now, most of the landscape (open world) content is solo-able. Many years ago Turbine introduced an instance finder that may as well be removed because it never gets used, Instead, the new World Chat model takes the place of any party matching system. This I feel is a bad substitute because many players filter this channel due to a large number of trolls and inappropriate chat topics.

I still play this game although not as often as I did in years past, in fact, the 200 + hours I have while it was available to me on Steam in the last 3 years is maybe 1/10th of the time I have played LOTRO when Turbine and Warner Brothers were producing the game.

In essence, the story-driven content of Lord of the Rings Online is well worth checking out. If you do like the game I suggest spending the 14.95$ for a month of VIP access, it enables many features of the game that if you had to buy with LOTRO points would be well over that 1-month price tag as well as allowing you to receive yearly anniversary gifts.

It's a well put together game as far as gameplay mechanics and has a rich customizable user interface. Developers do a good job at fixing glitches and bugs as well. I think you will be surprised at how much fun you can have playing the MMORPG version of such a timeless group of stories.

I have been a long time fan of the Conan franchise since I first saw the movies back in the 1980's. Since then, I discovered Age of Conan about 5 years ago and fell in love with the non-auto-attack combat system.

Conan Exiles in Early Access has been a wonderful experience as a gamer and as a fan of the Conan syndicate. Below is a brief explanation of why I feel this game will be a huge success when it launches and why early access has been in my opinion greatly successful in achieving its goals.

1. Competitive price. I have been on Steam for almost 3 years and as far as I can see the price of this software is not only competitive but offers far more than other MMO's do with no monthly subscription. That is a huge plus, recurring fees to play games are very unattractive for many of us.

2. No paywalls or cash shop purchases for content. The content for this game is largely driven by the Steam workshop and the developers at Funcom. There is no cash shop or special coins, crowns or other virtual currency needed to purchase access to content.

3.Outstanding communication between end users and community leaders/devs. I have had a great pleasure taking part in the development of this game by submitting suggestions on Steam as wells as bug reports on the official Funcom managed forums for the game. It is really exciting when a developer sends you a personal message and asks for your help with something. It has been a pleasure to work with the mod builders and devs at Funcom for Conan Exiles.

4.Amazing living biospheres. The exiled lands you spend your game time in are in an ever evolving, non-static world. You can watch as clouds form in the sky and a thunderstorm rolls in. See the rage of the deadly sandstorms taking shape and find shelter before you are devoured in the abrasive torent. No matter where you are the climate and weather have a huge impact on your gameplay and survival skills.

5.Visually appealing. In every aspect of the game, the visual content, whether its the character model or the armor and weapon skins or the landscape of the world around you, the visual appeal will keep you interested in the game and giver you a desire to explore.

6. Rich crafting and building system. The craft and build systems in Conan Exiles is so full feature I could write a review based only on this aspect. Let me just say that if you enjoy collecting and building without many limitations, this game will indulge your imagination.

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I have over 2000 hours of game-play. Yes, there have been bugs and crashes. Yes, I got frustrated with game-play issues. But I have beta-tested a few games in my years of gaming and always feel it's a privilege to have access to a game before it's released. I salute the Steam Workshop Mod developers and the whole team of Community Support and Developers at Funcom for making this game, in my opinion, a huge success.

I recommend this game. I has a lot of action in the combat system. Lots of beautiful skill effects and weapon effects. The atmosphere is enchanting in some areas. I dont lag at all either on a PC that is 4 years old. I love the instance (dungeon) finder and the daily missions. The economy is favorable for earning gold and the market is decent for what a casual gamer can afford for upgrades. Most of the best equipment if not all of it is a quest reward so anyone who plays has access to the same items with out a pay to win upgrade wall. I love this game and play it alot and once you have your characters' at cap the subscription is not even necessary becasue it really only gives you an EXP buff. ++try it out its fun and friendly for all ages.