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hmm don't know that game and since even fall out '2 coulnd't keep me interested with fall out 3 around I don't think I'll even try.

Just finished 3 btw, did about 95% of quests as a good guy. I really love the setting, the sound and the feel of really being in a desert wasteland.

Hate Giant Radscorpions that refuse to die.

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are there any games from the last 1-2 years you'd advice playing?

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If you like FPS, and you seem to, TimeShift is an often overlooked title that I really enjoyed. At first glance it's very "gimicky" in that "oh yay I can stop time" sort of way, but it is really well implemented, and while there are many little puzzles that you have to alter time to complete, you are also left wide open to use your time powers in combat, and you can (sometimes totally accidentally!) create some very incredibly amazing effects.

To be honest, when you talk about "recent games", and not the blockbuster titles like Fallout3, or BioShock, or Crysis..... Most that I've tried, really did not hold my interest for long, either from being totally bland, or from gaping wide design flaws. God I'm glad I get most of mine used..... Sword of the Stars for example, I barely got my $10 worth, I would have been PISSED if I had paid full price for it - but same goes for most games. Even Fallout3 we bought new, but my roomie and I split it, cause I can't shell out $60 for a game (cept Dominions, we had to buy 2 copies to get unique CD keys :p).

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Portal is pretty good as well, heck the whole Orange Box is pretty good.

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Hmm... I kind of like sword of the stars actually. I had the misfortune of getting it at around the same time as I got dominions though, and I've not played terribly much else of my own volition since I started playing dominions :P There are definitely things I dislike about sword of the stars, but I thought it had some good ideas.

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Oh it certainly has some good ideas. In fact there were a number of things that I did like about it. But there are enormous, and I mean "can fly a battlecruiser through them" enormous flaws in the tactical combat. Also, the expansion introduces a race that plays a little like Ermor, and they are completely obnoxious, they make the game non-fun.

I started out kind of liking it. Then I started to not like it much. Then I learned some of the more advanced concepts in the game, and I started to like it a lot more. Then I hit the wall. :p

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I never got born of blood, but I can certainly see them making the game a lot less fun. I'd heard about the issues with the heavy beams, but I never really had much opportunity to test them. I never got past playing easy mode, so I never had to fight enemy dreadnaughts or even many cruisers :P. So I never really got acquainted well acquainted with the bad parts I guess.

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I love the Sword of the Stars series. I think it does a great job in many different areas. The designing your own ships is fun, and every technology is useful...as well, I enjoy the whole random tech tree as it eliminates the blandness of builds to an extent.

That being said, the game goes on WAY too long after you pretty much know You Won.

The random encounters are also cool :) Puppet Master...whew

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Haha. Well I agree, there were a lot of cool aspects, and I love how even though the tech tree is somewhat small, it isn't burdened by fluff, and it just feels like there's enough content - just slimmed down for a faster paced game. And yes, I liked all the wasp things, and the crazy asteroid battle stations and whatnot. What I didn't like was how hard it was to give meaningful orders in combat half the time, and how unintelligent my ships were about facing and ranging, yet the computer, using the same AI, could cause me terrible attrition with inferior ships. And the expansion race (can't remember their name) just pushed it over the top, with their whole "yay, 1 shot and half your fleet is gone" weaponry.

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There is no fleet, there is only Zuul?