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They have their ups and downs. The first one has a protagonist who is a pretty much a total *****, so that can affect your mileage on it. The "hacking" aspects provide some interesting environmental factors, and it was a quirky feature that you could potentially have friends join in your game to act as opposing hackers and run certain missions opposite you, but that was much more of a gimmick then something that held truly solid. Apart from that it was a pretty standard open world run around and make money, increase skills, be slightly crazy and unravel corporate conspiracy around advanced technology and the nature of privacy / security and the growth of the internet. Watch Dogs 2 was a lot better all the way around, but again, it can depend on how your mileage may vary for that sort of open-world action-adventure gameplay.

I do keep meaning to do a re-run of ME Andromeda at some point. Ah well. I have now managed to spend slightly over 70 hours in Conan Exiles exploring and building. Worked out that for an engagement value of £1 an hour, it was value to pick up the DLC's and have all the added aesthetics for my building shenanigans.

I have to join the pack in mentioning Cyberpunk as the key anticipation. There is that mix of dread awaiting to see just how Vampire will turn out, hoping for more but worried it's going to crash and burn. Also, I'm a touch curious on just how well Watchdogs:Legion will shape up. The idea of no central protagonist and the multitude of potential members of le resistance.

Christopher Lee IS the center of everything important...

https://io9.gizmodo.com/battlestar-galactica-star-michael-hogan-needs-our-help-1845133658

That night time construction in the jungle...

For that fantasy RIP... Terry Goodkind passed away yesterday. "To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. It is our only life. The universe will go on, indifferent to our brief existence, but while we are here, we touch not just part of that vastness, but also the lives around us. Life is the gift each of us has been given. Each life is our own and no one else’s. It is precious beyond all counting. It is the greatest value we can have. Cherish it for what it truly is . . . Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it."

It's funny cause its true...

When you get distracted from actually exploring and just start seeing how things build...

At the moment I haven't touched any of the DLC. Most of it seems to be purely cosmetic rather than anything beyond "I want the thing I have that does x to look like this rather than that."

I can't actually say I'm playing Conan Exiles at the moment. The trouble being whenever one of those sorts of games releases huge update/expansion.... Now every time I go "Oh, I have some time to have a quick half hour / hour play before I have to deal with x" I log on.. and it then spends 50 minutes doing an update / patch and leaving me staring at the "preallocating" message from steam while nothing appears to happen. Le Sigh.

The Vodquila was an interesting experiment, and worked quite well with a dash of proper ginger beer....