As it used to be

I did get Skyrim, and I find it very entertaining. The economy isn't broken with high level armors and weapons available like the numerous flowers in the forest, shops doesn't get all their money back in a second and it's actually difficult from time to time.

Then again I don't know if half the stuff they did was any good. Reduction in number of spells, less skills, no more signs, only stones that work the same way. Sure I can now go adapt my character the way I want whenever I want, but doesn't that defeat the purpose of important early choices?

Time will tell though.

What is as it used to be is Battlefield 3 and Reach.

Battlefield 3: My favourite map is Grand Bazaar, it's a somewhat close quarter map with open streets and small alleys. It's intense and the action is ongoing all the time.

Two maps I hate are Tehran Highway and Caspian Border. Tehran Highway is a nightmap with long distances from spawn to objectives and some vehicles with very restricted manouvering options due to the nature of the map.There is some urban combat later on in the map but there something with the start of the map that just puts me off.

Caspian Border is a full blown daylight huge vehicle map, with not that many vehicles. I find myself running for two minutes towards and objective only to get sniped, killed by a helicopter or tank, or my favourite, be halfway to the last objective, it gets captured and it moves even further away. Being in a tank is fun on the other hand but they're most of the time occupied and I find myself on my feet, getting bullets in my head, alone, in the forest.

I did play with Marie, Cal and... Cris? Anyhow, I don't know if it was Cal or just random, but we did get into a Grand Bazaar game, one that we played for, 7 minutes perhaps. So I don't count the first game. Now, the last map I played before getting suspended was Tehran Highway, the first map I did get to play from the start, Tehran Highway. Maybe halfway through the first stage, I got so mad with the game that I simply shut the xbox down. Sorry Cal, Marie... Cris. But I can't handle a new shiny game that has two maps in rotation, Tehran Highway and Caspian Border, then throws in the occasional random "small" map like Operation Metro.

There are what? Nine maps? I think I haven't played one of the maps, then I've played Tehran Highway the most, second is Caspian Border, then Operation Metro, fourth would be Grand Bazaar and all the other maps a maximum amount of three times, from what I remember.

Gf then started playing Reach, and after a couple of matches I did join in. What did I find? Not that many players online so search times was long, wouldn't venture into the smaller populated playlists because I suspect they're populated by tryhards. Tried some BTB and not so much luck. After being out for a year, people STILL don't know that shooting the Banshee with the DMR works wonders. There was a Banshee that only me and my gf shot. The other's ran around like headless chickens.

The full version of Minecraft will be released tomorrow, will see how that works, and then I hope I'll get my copy of H: CEA as well. Don't even know if they shipped it since Microsoft is putting me in a loop when I try to unlock my hotmail account. They gave me back my Xbox Live account but couldn't be bothered to unlock my mail. Thank you very much, seems like I have to make a phone call today...