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LinkMarioSamus posted...

Just to ask Exdeath, what was your favorite civ to use in Civ5?

I've played the game so long that I've had different favorites at different points in my life, but when I first started I had the most fun with The Huns and Mongolia because they had such ultra-aggressive playstyles. I remember thinking it was a riot just destroying someone's city within the first 20 turns of the game with the Hunnic battering rams, and also having that fun feeling of "Okay, this is overpowered" with the Keshiks. My first Mongolia game ended up being a decent replication of how the horde worked in real life, where I just had a huge mounted force that went from city to city looting and burning and then immediately moved on.

These days I'd probably say Venice. You can't build settlers early on so you get to just focus on building up a massive capital and then you kind of recover the benefits of having 4 well-developed cities with your Merchants of Venice, and you have so many trade routes that you get super rich.

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That sidequest surrounding Malik investigating the murder of her friend ends in a pretty cool way. You have to confront the guy pretending to be a blackmailer and get him to confess to the killing by proving that you know all the details of the crime, which you turned up earlier by searching his apartment. I like the more investigative side of this game. It's a nice touch how they get rid of the objective markers at certain points.

That was the last sidequest I did in China before heading off to the next major story quest, which has you infiltrating a base that belongs to Tai Yong Medical, which is connected to the guys who ganked Sarif Industries. It's a medical lab and not a military base, so the mission is pretty easy with most of the NPCs being scientists who won't bother you even if they spot you. You have to break into their server room where the security is heaviest, but most of it is automated with infrared lazers and security cameras being the only threats, and it turns out you can really trivialize those parts with the invisibility because it prevents the lazers from seeing you. I would literally just turn invisible and sprint straight through entire rooms. What you find in that data center is a recording where some of the guys from the evil organization claim that they actually kidnapped Megan and her crew instead of killing them. Adam does not have a very strong emotional reaction to finding out his ex-GF is still alive. One of the higher-ups in that gang is staying in the building you're infiltrating, so you go and confront her. She's wearing a ridiculous Elizabethan ruff. I was hoping for another boss fight but she just badly fails to confront you and then tricks Jensen with the old feminine wiles in a cutscene and then shuts herself into a panic room and calls an army of guards. Unfortunately there are no dialog options to not fall for that trick or anything like that, so all I could do is impotently yell at the screen while Adam sank into the obvious trap.

Then you have to escape while an absolutely huge swarm of guards pour into the room. Now, even one of those guys can kill Jensen with a single spray of ammunition, so I imagine that part could've been incredibly tough with a different skill build, but I once again just turned invisible and sprinted to the elevator, and that was that.

The next part of the game has you going to Montreal, which would've made me very happy under different circumstances, but it seems like there's no Montreal city hub and it's just one self-contained mission to attack a news anchor there.

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