Assassin's Creed Brotherhood multi-player and more!

Recently I have picked up Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood for the Xbox 360 and I have to say that the multi-player is fantastic! It's such a great online game that rewards patience and style much more than just getting kills. You will get extra points for not making yourself  known to your target. Also if you stand next to your target and let this little circle around the X (murder) button prompt fill up you will get extra points for that too. So basically you are trying to hunt down a target assigned to you which may or may not have other assassins after them as well. At the same time that this is happening you may or may not have one or more people trying to kill you. So to make sure people have no idea who you are you have to blend in with NPCs (Non-Player Characters) that look like you. So if you are playing as the doctor it's a really good idea to find other doctors that look like you to walk with so if a assassin comes after you they will have to try to figure out which one is you and which one is the computer. If they kill they computer character and not you then they lose you as a target and you actually get points for that!

When I am hunting a target I am usually really careful and try to walk with a body double as described above to try to get near the target while acting like a NPC. Sometimes this can take a while but the payoff when you get a kill is so amazing. The feeling that you get for being that sneaky is really cool. This may actually be my favorite multi-player game that I have played so far. What really bugs me is that people don't seem to understand this concept and just use a gun to kill another player. They may get a lot of kills for doing that but they only get about 100 points per kill where if you are really sneaky you will get about 400 points or more. It is really neat passing everyone in points and getting first place with only 4 kills and the second place person has 9 kills. It's a very satisfying feeling doing well at that game. More text after the break!

I have also been playing some Battlefield Bad Company 2's Vietnam expansion with one of my friends. It's kinda neat playing that game in a jungle environment but I have noticed that it is hard to spot people hiding in the bushes. It's really the same game as Bad Company 2 but in the jungle with older weapons and flamethrowers. Really cool expansion and it's always fun to fire up a good game again. There are a lot of things that I really enjoy about Bad Company 2 including target spotting and spawning off squad members. I like large maps and that is what that game delivers on so I can actually be sneaky unlike when I play Call of Duty: Black Ops where the maps are usually smaller.

So I've lost a decent amount of weight since my divorce. I am down to 213lbs as of today which means that I have lost around 40 pounds. I have been eating smaller portions, trying to eat every few hours and drinking lots of water with no soda. On the weekends I am much more lax about that since if you don't give into cravings then no diet will work. This seems to be working fairly well so I'm gonna keep it up and try to get back down to about 180lbs which would make me super happy. It's also worth it to say that I get little to no real exercise so this weight loss is due to mostly just eating smaller amounts of lower calorie foods. I picked up the game Deadly Premonition recently from GameStop which I am not going to provide a link for since I think they are the devil. I have heard the game is kinda strange and has a lot of Twin Peaks type things going on. I'll write more about it in the future.