Recent reviews by Jonn Westwind

A cute little game for all the crafters at heart. They finally added PVE servers so no worries about sweats ganking up on you when starting out. Very relaxing. Sometimes the simplicity of the gameplay trumps AAA productions from big companies charging $ 70 for a buggy mess.

Launch: The best MMORPG I played in 25 years.

Week 1: Masterpiece with so much potential for a decade of content. Nothing pay to win so far.

Month 1: They are fixing bugs and correcting things like localization and grievances such as not being able to follow the dialogue. Clear roadmap with many goodies ahead. No pay to win.

This is what we all wanted from Nintendo. Better than this only a real pokemmo but by the time they realize it will be too late, I stand with Palworld.

Trash survival game, boring af, annoying, anti fun, inventory doesn't save on multiplayer unless you do it, dumb, any other survival games in the history of mankind have the player info saved on the host. Janky animations, junk games. Having actually served in the Amazon forest as a military I can assure you a 60 year old grandmother can chop 5 trees with an axe before collapsing but somehow this dumbfuk character cannot. 0 realism. Trash.

It was worth the wait.

Skyrim is a masterpiece, a blank canvas where all dreams are possible. The base game itself is riddled with bugs given the magnitude of its open world and story, those can be fixed with mods and usage of in game console. To those who are not Elder Scrolls fans, this is the perfect viking adventure, with all elements from dragons to valhalla. RPG wise it is very weak compared to Bioware's stories and choices but some of it is there. Combat is fantastic, choice and/or mix of magic, stealth, warrior.

The crowning achievement of Skyrim lies on its mod potential. The entire game can be altered, landmasses added, infinite number of quests, do as you please with the textures and models, add new systems like sailing and building in real time, it is truly endless. This makes Skyrim one of the best additions to any libraries and is sure to give you thousands and thousands of hours of fun. My hours here are actually few compared to the first version of the game which I play since 2011. The only thing that can even dream of beating Skyrim on its mod potetial is the next Elder Scrolls game.

Superior to Starfield.

Bought the game to play COOP, was a wonderful experience until the ending of both the main game and dlc, that is because you are forced to play the last mission without your partner, I find that lame, there were far harder missions that they allowed coop. It does suck to play 99% of the game with your partner then says you can't the 1%.

The ending was very disappointing in my opinion but I suppose it's what you get for playing an end of world scenario game. I was very unsatisfied and felt like the entire journey was wasted. That I also suppose is part of the experience of playing games. Yet, that is enough for me not to recommend the game. Definately didn't get a good feeling after we finished it. One game comes to mind, Mass Effect 3...

This is what I expected from the Harvest Moon series, they don't come any close to Stardew. The game is charming and has more depth than one would think, you can make so many byproducts using all potential of a farm. Only bad thing is that it could have had better smooth graphics but since it is a small developer, it's forgiven.

I'm a player since launch, having an accumulated time of 8,000+ hours of playtime on my character. I bought the game again on Steam a while ago because it's pratical.

Pros

- For PVP, 3 faction war on small and large scale, there is also option to duel, sadly no arenas yet.
- There is a solo arena for those who love to test themselves on PVE.
- Also in PVE, there is dungeon and raiding content for 4 and 12 people.
- Houses and the atmosphere of the Elder Scrolls universe breeds many chances for RP.
- The community is less toxic than many other games, despite disagreements "world chat" is civilized most of the time.
- Low latency and fast fingers are a must if you want to compete at the 1% of PVE and PVP.

Cons

- Whilst having all default systems MMOs should have, ESO tries to stand out but stop halfway.
- The game mechanics for skills change so often that more than once I had my class be something different from what I choose three years ago.
- The same updates nerfs creative builds and in the end everyone gets holed up in the meta so the diversity, a main attribute of the Elder Scrolls series, slowly disappears.
- The Cash Shop got too greedy but that is the customer's own fault for purchasing. THERE IS NO PAY TO WIN though.
- The progression system is stagnant for high levels and grindy for lower levels.
- The guild system is way simplified and lack many of the features that make them great on Asian MMOs.

ESO was launched in 2014. My experience with AAA titles of big franchises going online is that they get better with time. LOTRO and SWTOR are fine examples of how they lacked on first years but now are filled with content and bandaids accumulated over time that made the game palatable. I think it will reach it's golden age in another 4 years.