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TheBrownDog said:
Damn, no Black Flag. Have wanted it for a while.
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Yeah they are smart enough to leave that one out. I still fire that game up just to have a bit of pirate fun now and then. They really do need to start up a new pirate IP based around that engine and game play, because it was pretty good.
 
chopperduck said:
Yeah they are smart enough to leave that one out. I still fire that game up just to have a bit of pirate fun now and then. They really do need to start up a new pirate IP based around that engine and game play, because it was pretty good.
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Yeah I dislike the Assassin's Creed series tbh but one day at school I saw a student playing a badass looking pirate ship game on his laptop that turned out to be Black Flag. Looked cool. I'd love a new remake of Sid Meier's Pirates too. The 2004 one was great.
 

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I've been eyeing the remastered Ezio collection on Xbone but probably need it to come in under $30 for me to consider. I have started several AC games, never finished them but Renaissance Italy is just my bag.

Enjoyed what I played of Black Flag but like most big open world games I got distracted before getting anywhere near the middle of the main story.
 
TheBrownDog said:
Yeah I dislike the Assassin's Creed series tbh but one day at school I saw a student playing a badass looking pirate ship game on his laptop that turned out to be Black Flag. Looked cool. I'd love a new remake of Sid Meier's Pirates too. The 2004 one was great.
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The 2004 one felt too mini-gamey to me. Still think Pirates! Gold is the best version.
 
Black Flag is a bit like Mad Max:
* Interesting, big open worlds but not all that varied, despite their size.
* A focus on upgrading and customising the vehicles you use to get around (ships v cars) and some really interesting combat in those vehicles
* Reasonable storylines, but too linear to make you want to play the game again, at least in my case.

Both definitely worth playing once. Both had some flaws that could probably be fixed in a sequel.
 
Ironmonger said:
Black Flag is a bit like Mad Max:
* Interesting, big open worlds but not all that varied, despite their size.
* A focus on upgrading and customising the vehicles you use to get around (ships v cars) and some really interesting combat in those vehicles
* Reasonable storylines, but too linear to make you want to play the game again, at least in my case.

Both definitely worth playing once. Both had some flaws that could probably be fixed in a sequel.
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I had a hard time with some of the "Australian accents" in Mad Max (Dinky Dee anyone?), but my old PC choked up on it as well. It is installed on the new beastie so looking forward to trying it again.
 
TheBrownDog said:
Yeah I dislike the Assassin's Creed series tbh but one day at school I saw a student playing a badass looking pirate ship game on his laptop that turned out to be Black Flag. Looked cool. I'd love a new remake of Sid Meier's Pirates too. The 2004 one was great.
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Yeah the AC series is way overrated, but Black Flag is a great game and should be a must have on most gamers collecction. Unity was pretty good as well I thought (got it for free off my brother). Most teh others were pretty average
 

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Anyone else playing Rimworld? I'm 80+ hours in and on about my 4th or 5th colony. Such a wonderful little ant farm (if said ants were also developing new tech, getting raided by the neighbours and occasionally setting fire to everything). I was never able to penetrate the ASCII world of Dwarf Fortress but this little story generator is a lot of cool fun. Still in Alpha but highly playable and there are a tonne of mods. Check it out.
 
Davemonkey said:
Anyone else playing Rimworld? I'm 80+ hours in and on about my 4th or 5th colony. Such a wonderful little ant farm (if said ants were also developing new tech, getting raided by the neighbours and occasionally setting fire to everything). I was never able to penetrate the ASCII world of Dwarf Fortress but this little story generator is a lot of cool fun. Still in Alpha but highly playable and there are a tonne of mods. Check it out.
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It's on my wishlist but I haven't commited yet.

That said, I have enjoyed watching a fair bit of it on Twitch. It seems like it might be one of those games that I enjoy watching others play more than actually playing myself (same with the latest Hitman game).
 
TheBrownDog said:
It's on my wishlist but I haven't commited yet.

That said, I have enjoyed watching a fair bit of it on Twitch. It seems like it might be one of those games that I enjoy watching others play more than actually playing myself (same with the latest Hitman game).
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It has been surprisingly all consuming for me (as you may have seen on Steam). I have Dishonored 2 on XBOne and DOOM on PC waiting for me and I have no interest in either at the moment. I just want to see if my merry band of colonists are going to be murdered by a roving band of man hunting wild boar or not.
 
Cooties said:
Xcom is great - just a shame they don't have 3440x1440 resolution support. I could play it in a window but... it's just not the same
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Originally played it on the 360 but it's much nicer to play on the PC.

I like the stuff they added with the expansion. The MELD/Gene Therapy stuff is cool. I do suspect I have made some poor decisions though and it will come back to bite me. Have spread my resources a bit thin instead of specialising.
 
TheBrownDog said:
Originally played it on the 360 but it's much nicer to play on the PC.

I like the stuff they added with the expansion. The MELD/Gene Therapy stuff is cool. I do suspect I have made some poor decisions though and it will come back to bite me. Have spread my resources a bit thin instead of specialising.
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Yeah I played Enemy Unknown a fair bit before getting Within later on and it had enough new content with the same story to keep it fresh. Was always fun having a giant robot man bash down some walls and start flamethrowing but I'm a huge turtler so having a giant robot man that couldn't take cover never sat right.

Always enjoyed building those RPG elements and backstories with the soldiers to take it to another level - still remember ol' Sarge, the white haired long in the tooth ex-Marine that was the first to volunteer to have his legs chopped off and replaced with giant robot ones to keep on fighting with the young kids and their lack of arthritis... it was a sad day when he bashed down the wrong wall and found a Sectopod on the other side.

Haven't found the time to fully dig into Endless Legend yet
 
TheBrownDog said:
Wow, why didn't I get a mechanical keyboard earlier. The difference is amazing.
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TheBrownDog said:
Wow, why didn't I get a mechanical keyboard earlier. The difference is amazing.
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Linear or tactile? I love my blue switches for typing and gaming but haven't tried linear switches yet.
 
TheBrownDog said:
I'm not sure!

http://www.aorus.com/Product/Features/THUNDER K7
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Looks like a great board, I've been thinking about moving to a kb with switches like that.

Cherry MX reds in that board are linear so they feel the same from the top to the point in which they bottom out from what I've read and activate fairly high so you barely need to press them at all. Blues like in my board have a loud audible click as well as a tactile snap feeling when they hit their actuation point and make it impossible to game late at night without waking light sleepers. There are also blacks, which are linear like reds but take a little more force to activate and then the browns are tactile like the blues but with some sound dampening so the click isn't as audible. There are even some new mechanical switches that try to simulate the feel of typing on a membrane keyboard.
 
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