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I continue to play Pirates!, which suits my 1...
January 10, 2005 by Adam in Adam's Games
 I continue to play Pirates!, which suits my 15-minute play times these days. I can go for a quick couple of sea battles or perhaps searching for buried treasure. I'm pretty much doing the same things over and over, though they're generally fun.
I managed to win me a Dutch wife through gifts of ruby rings and diamond necklaces, along with a lot of fancy footwork on the dance floor. I had to rescue her from some evil pirate captain along the way, but she finally agreed to be married.
I've also avenged my family, which I suppose ends one of the main quests of the game. The villian is now serving in the galley, the scoundrel. Still, there's part of a map to a lost city of gold that needs finding. I could also work on maximizing my piratey loot. I'm still quite young and the sea is full of booty.
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I haven't had as much time to play my new gam...
January 06, 2005 by Adam in Adam's Games
 I haven't had as much time to play my new games as I would have liked. I'm too busy fiddling with my Neverwinter Nights projects or playing with kids. Pirates! is something that can easily be picked up, played for ten minutes, and put away. The only negative aspect about that is that since there isn't much of a plot, there's not really a driving reason to press on.
I played through the prologue for Rome: Total War, which was mostly a learning experience. The big downside was that I couldn't save the game until ten turns had passed. This sounds quick, but some of the turns had twenty minute long battles that you also can't save in the middle of. Still, it's shaping up to be a fairly interesting game. The combat is pretty amazing looking, very epic with the huge numbers of men crashing into each other. Capturing a town is pretty entertaining, with catapults to smash down the gates, troops streaming chaotically into the town center. It all has a very cinematic feel.
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I treated myself to a couple new games with m...
January 01, 2005 by Adam in Adam's Games
 I treated myself to a couple new games with my Christmas money - Pirates! and Rome: Total War. So far I've only loaded up Pirates!, a remake of the classic game from years gone by. Though there's a certain amount of repetition that might make it eventually boring, so far it seems like a truly great game. I love the ship battles, finding buried treasure, invading towns, and generally sailing the Caribbean. There's even a dancing game where you can woo the governor's daughters. That's the one game that's difficult to the point of frustration at times.
I'm hearing very good things about Rome: Total War as well, so I'll stop typing and see if I can play it a little while the kids are still asleep.
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