Christmas has come and gone once again

So Christmas came and it went as it does every year. For this year especially I am thankful for my family and all of their support through this year. My sister and brother in law were nice and got me Fallout: New Vegas for my 360 which I am really happy about. I have been looking forward to playing it for a while now. I started it up with Hardcore mode enabled so now I have to worry about water, food, sleep, ammo weight, and no instant health recovery. This mode just kinda calls to me because I love having stuff like that to worry about. Kinda strange but I guess that's just the way my brain works. The game seems really good but I do think that Washington D.C. was a more interesting environment (this is very minor). I'll write more once I sink my teeth into the game more. My mom and stepfather got me a little netbook for Christmas which I was not expecting at all! It was a great surprise and it will be very useful to me not only for the blog but also for programming practice as well. It is going to be great to have a computer that I can bring with me easily wherever I go. So I want to thank them once again for the little computer!

I have been playing a decent amount of Call of Duty: Black Ops lately as well. I have found a way to play the game that seems to work fairly well for me. I am using Ghost, Slight of Hand, Hacker, and a silenced weapon. All of the perks are pro now which is pretty nice. This makes it so I don't appear on the radar (even when firing my gun). I can see the enemy equipment like motion detectors, claymores, and turrets through walls. It's neat to sneak around knowing that you aren't appearing on the mini map in the game. I really like pace of Black Ops, it's fast but not quite as fast as Modern Warfare 2. I want to tell everyone that reads this to see Scott Pilgrim vs. the World! The movie is amazing and I think more people need to see it! Not too much else to report as of right now so have a great New Year everyone!

Assassin's Creed 2 finished!

So with this update I bring the news that I have finished Assassin's Creed 2. It is a pretty fantastic game and it improves almost every aspect of the first game. There were a few minor annoyances in the game which I think I will just get out of the way right now. The race events just suck in my opinion. If you mess up one little thing while racing it can potentially screw you. Like you can be running along and just barely face the wrong way then all of a sudden you are either jump the complete wrong way or just fall. The time it takes to get re-situated can potentially just ruin the run. And if you fail you have to restart and the game likes to point you in a different unintuitive direction at the start of the race which can potentially mess up the start.

The other complaint I have revolves around a very particular mission where you have to grab a flag and bring it back. You are against a NPC player and if they get it you have to tackle them to get it back. Tackling in this game just kinda sucks in my opinion and I'm glad they don't usually use it because it feels really crappy. Another very minor complaint is that it's hard to target assassination targets while dealing with guards. There is a specific mission where you have to kill like 4 guys in a courtyard and once you kill 1 or 2 of them guards come after you. The way my mind works is that I want to kill the targets then either deal with the guards or run away. I think this is a sound plan and try to do this but every time a guard takes a swing at me he is auto-targeted so I can't just go after the assassination target. Kinda annoying but a very specific problem that only happens like 1 time in the game (at least from what I remember). More about Assassin's Creed 2 after the break.