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                 Since I have beat Last of Us (best game of the year) I have been playing mostly three games. Skyrim, NCAA Football 2014 and Crusader Kings 2. Skyrim these last two weeks has had a front seat in my gaming life. The visuals and ability to envelope me into the world and make me really feel like I am my avatar. Nothing more satisfying than wrecking an entire dungeon with epic spells and weapons.  This game will continue to be great and amazing for a long time. Whenever it gets old and I tire of it I will simply shelve it for a few months then come back to it and feel all the emotions I originally did the first time I turned it on. I am excited to see the next Gen Elder Scrolls game. We all know it is coming. For now my current play through I am trying a Necromancer that uses some swords and poisons and Illusions. Makes for a very interesting play through. Oh you can wreck me? FEAR! Now let me and my zombies hunt you down as you run and cower. Get too close and I will finish you off with my sword.

         As for Crusader Kings 2. The family stories and ability to make a tapestry of a family line and see the ebb and flow of your power grow and decline. With all the little story events and intrigue plots and politics and fighting this game is just so much fun. Grand Strategy done at its finest. Currently I started with just West Iceland. Quickly was able to swallow all the Islands North of Scotland and South of Iceland. Shortly after creating a Petty Kingdom and controlling all the Islands in the area my 41 year old King and First of House Pinkley died. Creating a fractured kingdom due to gavelkind succession which splits all holdings up between your kids. I spent the first 5 years of my new controlled character reconquering half of what my father had just conquered. To end the civil war in a battle between me and my half-brother (Born from a concubine) in West Iceland. That is why Crusader kings is fun. I knew the kingdom would split like that but I hadn't the time or money to change it before it happened. Having known my Leader was only 41 I assumed I had time to change laws and consolidate power for my first born son. Nope!
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