Dragon Ball Xenoverse Review!

After beating the main story and reaching level 80 within 2 days, putting hours of my life into a game created from one my favorite series in existence, It’s time for my review of Dragon Ball Xenoverse!

So for those of you who may not know, in Xenoverse you can create your own character based on one of the races from the series (Saiyan, Human, Namekian, Majin & Frieza clan). You can go through the iconic story of Dragon Ball Z with a few twists that keep the story mode fresh unlike most Dragon Ball games in the past. The story mode can be completed within a few hours if you’re somehow really good at the game and never stop to grind on parallel quest! To complete all the parallel quests is gonna take some time, with their being over 50 of them in the game and most likely more to come with the 3 DLC packs that are going to be released this year, you’re going to have a lot to do in the game. In my opinion it’s a fantastic game and I definitely recommend it if you’re a Dragon Ball fan.

For the most part gameplay is smooth, playing on PC with an Xbox 360 controller feels nice, its visually stunning and runs at 60FPS @ 1080P. There are a few instances where the game feels slow & clunky especially in TokiToki city, considering that the combat is mostly smooth I wished they had put a bit more effort into the hub world allowing people to fly around or even run around, hopefully those will be options if they decide to make a sequel to the game which would be nice but I honestly can’t think about where they would be able to take the story mode.

Certain parallel quests bring time patrol officers who sometimes drop Dragon Balls, the Dragon Balls can be used for a variety of things like wishing for money, characters, rare armor, the power pole, techniques or stuff like changing your characters looks, resetting attributes, etc.

Now for what I didn’t like, the fact that there is content already in the game that is being pushed as DLC, and the fact that we’re having DLC in the first place. I don’t want to have to pay an extra $30 for DLC when the game already costs $50. Also there are a few voice syncing inssues  for the english dub, sometimes the characters lips dont move at all and other times there sync is as a bad as an old godzilla movie

If you’re a Dragon Ball Z fan, I’m sure you’re excited for the upcoming Fukatsu No F movie. Stay up to date on here to check out my review of the movie when it comes out.

Check out some screens from the game & my characters below!

Putting together my Future rig.

Computer Build project	Current Pc Specs:	Future Portable Pc Build
CPU	I7-3770K	I5-4690K
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z77x-UD3H	Gigabyte GA-H97N-Wifi
Memory	16GB GDDR3	8GB GDDR3
SSD/HDD	120GB Samsung SSD 3TB Seagate Barracuda	1TB Seagate Barracuda 500GB HDD
GPU	MSI GTX 770 TwinFrozr Gaming	EVGA GTX 960
PSU	750W Semi Modular Corsair	550W Fully Modular Corsair
Case	NZXT Phantom 410 Mid tower	BitFenix Prodigy Mini ITX Tower

As you have probably already guessed, I’m a PC enthusiast. I built my first computer a few years back, at the time I was so excited to be joining the “PC Master race”. Playing all the newest games on high or ultra at 60 FPS on 1080P was the dream, although at the time I wasn't completely aware at how unnecessarily demanding some games could be, after all I was basically a computer noob.

Now I wish for a more portable build, hence the mini ATX form factor.

I go for the I5-4690K since its slightly faster than the 4670 and almost the same price, it may not have hyper threading like the 3770k in my current build but for gaming, web browsing and watching movies, it can even be considered over kill for what intend to use it for.

The motherboard I opted for is still up for debate, I may go with the Z97 version of it even though I have no plans for overclocking or using a GPU in SLI. I hear the build quality on the Z97 platform may be better than the H97 version.

For what I will be using it for, 8GB of ram will be more than enough, if I run into any problems I can easily stick another stick of ram in to make it 16GB. For now I go with 8 due to the insane prices that RAM is currently going for.

I opted for an additional 1TB HDD, I already have a 500GB HDD from my laptop that no longer works, it has Windows 8 already installed on it so it saves me money from buying an OS key.

The GTX 960 is a pretty good mid-range GPU, which is why I went for it. I don’t need anything overly powerful for this build, the TV in my room is only 720P unfortunately so the 960 should kill at what I’ll be using it for.

The BitFenix prodigy case is one I’ve wanted for a while now, it’s nice & small which is what I want in a case! In orange of course because it looks really sexy in that color. 

Finally I opted for a small 550W PSU since that’s about all I need.

Now I won’t be getting rid of my current rig or anything, but I started sharing it with people in my household so I don’t get as much time to use it. The next build I make will be more portable to go in my room & use it as something I can bring over to my friends’ houses when I get together with them! 

Quick Recap: Windows 10 Event!

Microsoft recently held their Windows 10 event, we learned quite a few things about the future of windows and its effects on the Xbox one console. I won’t go into full detail, but give a brief recap on some of the things I found interesting from the event.

So first off, the best piece of news is the fact that those who have Win 7, Win 8 & 8.1 will be given a year to upgrade to Win 10 for free! In an effort to defragment the windows user base, Microsoft has decided to give a temporary upgrade path. With Direct X12 coming, games and other programs will be able to run smoother if they don’t have to be optimized for previous iterations of windows.

It was announced that people will be able to play their Xbox one games on their PCs that run Win 10, they also showed off their new holo lens which is essentially similar to google glass, except better. Holo lens will allow integration with the world around you via augmented reality.

I would recommend reading up on these a bit more as well as upgrading to Win 10 when it comes out (wait a month or two to see if there are issues).