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I see now why most RPGs are easy. The reason to my understanding is none other than my nephew.

Having played Oblivion for most of the day, he's gotten to the end of the Thieves Guild questline. All quests involved stealing things, as high level as his character is and how "unbalanced" that game is when it comes to magic it's no surprise that he got through it in one sitting. Him being invicible and being able to interact with any object without being caught makes the Thieves Guild an easy side line mission.

Then BAM, a series of small challenges appear and immediatley the "near crying whining" begins. When I say small, I mean really small. Explore a ruin for a nearby button, have a bow available and be able to use it.

Oblivion has everything served on a silver plate for the player, but it's obviously not easy enough.

RROD and not RROD

Apparently my xbox has a hard time deciding wether or not it should be dead. A really big thuderstorm passed for quite some time so me, my nephews and the oldest of my newphew's girlfriend decided to play Dungeon and Dragons, the pen and paper version.

This was fun, I even think I got some sort of mood in with a dark forest in the middle of the night and the undead. Then a thunderstorm on the outside, awesome. Then again I can't tell much how it felt for the players since I was the dungeon master.

After the storm had passed we ate and decided to go play some on my Xbox. I wasn't glad to learn that it had RROD on me. After many trials and errors I gave up to boot up my old friend and we watched some TV instead.

Now when we went to bed, I decided to test it once more, and it works? I'm more confused than happy, but really happy. It really was worth trying.

Sudden massive lag peaks???

What happened to my connection?

No hit registration what so ever in SWAT at all.

Swat Magnums on Sword Base: Blood comes out of their heads when I shoot, but I end up dead and they don't? Even stranger was their auto magnums. Twice the RotF of my magnum, yes, there's a limit to how fast it can be fired. The next match was even worse. Then the lag was so bad I got around a corner after one shot to their head before they died. Then again, they did die there. After five minutes the game decided it was time to find a new host. Boy did it work.

Think I'm going to pre-order Battlefield 3 and Halo CE Anniversery tomorrow, if I find the right place. I want the Grunt Funeral skull.

Swat 'n Objective

Firefight, with an Amerian and a Britt (Crossfire and Downfall) does not work well with my connection, at all. Laggy as it can get, without lagging out.

When my girlfriend joined, we jumped to Swat but Crossfire didn't want to join as she's not as hardcore ad my girlfriend. Her own words. If I remember correctly, we won all matches we played, even when we were under by a few points. Then we moved on to Multi Team, because we were three. Three Crazy king matches, and what do you know? Yet more people who really don't have the guts to tread into the hill, unless they are chasing someone or it moves to their location.

Then again, the sad thing was that most of them didn't get as many kills as some of those who went for the hill, even less deaths as well on some points. Care to shed some light upon this matter?

New New New

Today I've tested "Warhammer 40k: Kill Team" and "Dead Rising 2 Case: WEST". Both are arcade games.

Warhammer 40k: Kill Team is some sort of prequel or teaser for the big Space Marine game. I'm not a fan of the "good" races in the Warhammer world but I downloaded the trial to see how it was. To be honest, it wasn't that good, at all. I don't want to play as the self centered, over confident iron blobs that the Space Marines are. They are by far one of the most boring races in any game and somehow they seem to pop up everywhere in every game.

Why not make a game with only the "evil" races? There are plenty of those like the Tyranid, Necrons and Chaos Space Marines.Yes, Chaos Space Marines, they are different than the regular ones, and they are fun. They've got plenty to work with. Then again, Evil vs Evil would have the story end with "Space Marines saving the day" anyway.

The gameplay was more or less a point and shoot, didn't even hold a trigger. A lot like Diablo but without the clicking and less skills. Playing it Co-Op could be fun though.

I have Case 0 for Dead Rising 2, and now Case West, not sure if the game carried over from Case 0 to Case West in terms of level, or if it just started from Level 40. Case West was really fun, but not really as fun as Case 0. The only thing you really were doing was running from place to place getting shot at and killing zombies. Not really much room for exploration or testing out which is what made the previous game so interesting. Overall it was a short game and slightly predictable.

I'm considering ordering Dead Rising 2 at the momentm.

A whole week

During the week I've been playing two games. Namely Magic The Gathering 2012 and Battlefield Bad Company 2.

Both had their ups and downs.

Magic The Gathering is a card game and thus extremely random and "luck" oriented, so why they hold championships in it is beyond me. Sure it's fun and all, but it gets quite frustrating when the game decides to either only give you land, or only high price creatures you can't do anything with because you don't get any land. Then the Ally AI is down the drain as well. There's not a single line of code in them for any self preservation.

If I have four creature cards, I'm at two health and the next attacking monster will kill me, I will sacrifice one of those four cards to block the damage. The AI won't.

In Bad Company 2 I tested Hardcore mode with a friend. It means that you have no HUD and can take less damage, in other words "more realistic". It sure was fun getting spawn killed about 20 times by an Apache and a Hind. That is why I miss a good RTS, you can't get spawn killed. Sure, you can get rushed but if you're good you'll counter it. I should play more Starcraft 2 again.

I should also complete the Vietnam download for Bad Company 2.