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I, too, reinstalled Far Cry 2. The intro is not that bad actually. Played for an hour or so and now I remember why I never finished it. Corridor-map, outposts everywhere, plenty boring fetch quest, etc.... No thanks.

My second SSD arrived today. Cloned my windows drive and now I have 130gb of free space on c:\ left to use. Yay. \o/ The days of space scrapping are over for now.

One of my new SSDs arrived yesterday. Took a couple hours to copy all the files over. My PC is so crazy silent now... I guess it really was about time to replace the HDD.

The world itself. There ain't much besides the jackal audio tapes and diamonds but the world is so well built that it makes you want to traverse and see every little hill, waterfall, hut etc. The emptiness gives you a sense of solitude that you don't get with other Far Cry games and it is also closer to 'reality' because there ain't much to do or see in a savanna except for the savanna itself. Such things never spark my interest. I need something to do in a game. Just getting on the top of a hill and then looking around in all the empty just isn't enough for me. Maybe it's because I'm doing too much world building, etc. by myself, so I'll see empty space for what it is, no matter the pretty graphics. There might be a nice view, but I'll turn around in 10 seconds anyway.

Game doesn't have to be an MMO to be a grind. What to explore? The stuff I remember from playing it is pretty much go from x to y, destroy outposts, get past checkpoints (with quickly respawning enemies) and collect whatever it was (money?) to unlock weapons.

Fire was a primary gameplay element in FC2 and it's super dry area, while it's apparently not in FC5. Makes sense that FC2 has a bigger focus on it. /Edit: maybe I should give FC2 another try. Never finished it because of the tedious grind. That video above makes it looks pretty cool, though.

Bought two new SSDs yesterday. One 250gb to replace my 120gb windows drive, and one 500gb to replace my 320gb secondary HDD. Should be enough for a while. Maybe I should have bought a 1TB drive right away but... ehhh, not sure and it did cost a lot more than just double.

Watched this X-Man Future past or something. Was better than I expected, but I had a hard time with liking the new cast. Felt like this movie only existed to introduce the new characters with the help of the old ones. Got that confirmed in the next movie, Apocalypse, where there had been only the new ones, with a couple seconds of Wolverine appearing. But.. wasn't this laboratory stuff already shown in a different movie? I have this uncanny feeling of having seen it already years ago, but in a sandy and not snowy landscape. Movie was ok too. Again, better than expected... but it took me a long time to remember who is who

And that tape wasn't even any good if I remember right.

Well, weapon gear is in, big vehicles are in, big explosions are in. Everything else in that video is highly scripted and probably wouldn't be fun for long.

Played some The Division again, just to see what has changed... It became really big. Lots of stuff added. Pretty hard to get back into it with my old character. Still plays pretty smooth though and does have its fun moments. In singleplayer it gets quite boring quickly, though.

Finished a replay of Dishonored 2 - Death of the Outsider. Was a lot faster this time, but still a good game. In the last two missions I just killed everyone. Should have done this way more often. Thinking about trying out Hunt: Showdown, but eh... I bet it's one of them games I will only play a couple hours and then never touch again.

I thought DoW2 was quite fun. Liked most of the campaigns, even if they were a tad simple. DoW3 sparked like no interest in me at all.

Logic tells me, payment upfront. Everything else would be kinda stupid, I'd say. I mean, you know how people are. Suddenly they start to bargain or don't want to pay up, etc.

Just noticed today that season 3 of Hap and Leonard already started. Yay. \o/ Just sucks that it's not fully out yet. I hate how they still have to keep up with this annoying one-episode-a-week thing.

It's pretty dangerous, actually. There's plenty lunatics on the internet, as probably everyone knows (or should know). Even if it doesn't have a direct effect on you, suddenly all your friends and family will be spammed with messages about crap.

So what you're saying is superman is a nazi, huh?

And here I thought they were Romans, hailing caesar.

It's a grind right from the start. The first two outposts will be kinda fun, but then you'll beginning to tire out already. I am a bit tempted as well, but I know Ubisoft formula and I know that I get super annoyed by them a couple hours in and I know that I never finish any of their games ever. Heck, even at a price of 10 euros I'd feel like it wasn't worth it.

Pizza Funghi is my jam.

Man, they really like climbing their ladders.

Would sadden me a lot to see Teheran getting bombed to rubble. It'd be such a waste and stupid act.

Well, that article says guardians 2 got a score of 100/100, and that movie was a boring turd, imo. :>

Wasn't there a thread about it already? Also, uhm, publishing deal signed by the author? If I understood it correctly, this thing was written by a truckton of different people. How the hell should this work out?

Didn't read that far, because this news bit crazed me too much. :> Nothing good can come out of such a system.