I finally caved. Said I'd skip it after the crap fest that was 3, but since I got a couple gift cards for Christmas I ended up using one on Black Flag. It beat out BF4 and all its issues. Wasn't expecting much, but I've gotta say I'm kinda surprised how much I've been enjoying it so far. I'm not even that far in (Act 3), but just sailing around is fantastically awesome. Capturing forts, hunting sharks, sinking pirate hunters, collecting treasures and shanties is all really fun. The fact that you can sale around the Caribbean, sink a couple ships, then dive overboard and swim to an island to explore a city or ruin, with no loading screens is pretty great. Even the parts outside the animus are keeping me intrigued with the QR code sticky notes to collect. Its basically done what Elderscrolls games always do to me. I've completely forgotten about the main questline and have just gone off exploring, doing side quests and building up my ship. (Gotta add in that it looks flipping gorgeous on the Vita.) So what are your thoughts on Black Flag so far? I can't be the only one playing the shit out of this.