The Elder Scrolls Online
Check it out... if you appreciated the more subtle, tranquil moments from both Oblivion and Skyrim, and enjoy thematically deep, evolving material.
Skip it... if 2 and a half hours of new Elder Scrolls music is simply too much awesome for your ears to handle
Without doubt, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one of the most acclaimed games of this present generation; it combined harrowing, emotional and intelligent story telling with sensational game-play, and sowed it all together with some of the best graphics seen in a game, period. You could sink 50 hours into the game, and barely scratch the surface of the abundance of quests and individual story lines available to the player. It's still a defining gaming experience for myself as an average gamer, and I still consider my 100 hours or so spent playing, well spent. Skyrim's soundtrack, composed by Jeremy Soule, is undoubtedly one of the more recognizable soundtracks of the past decade, thanks to it's glorious and technically adventurous presence, and the wonderful aura it provided for the game. It seems to transport you back to Tamriel every listen, as it the intention. The sequel to the game, an online experience this time around, The Elder Scrolls Online, has it's score composed by relatively unknown composers Brad Derrick and Rik Schaffer. They have been given the immense task of providing 2 and a half hours of music to a video game which has had an immense following, leading up until it's release, for the good portion of a year and a half. Will Derrick and Schaffer's combined efforts to produce something that can call itself a worthy sequel to Soule's Skyrim be worth it, or shall the score fall short as a boring, senseless effort at recreating the magic from the 2011 release? Let us find out! 