Gave my little girl her first teddy today, as well as renovated the house. Looks a lot nicer now.
I went to go look for the Hero of Will, but wouldn’t you know that Lucien got there first? Honestly, that guy is a real pain.
Not much else to report on today. Still saving for a new house to rent.
Ladies and gentleman, it’s official. I am married to a beautiful woman by the name of Alex and we have a beautiful bouncing baby girl. That is, in the game of course. The story of how we met is actually kind of intresting, but I’ll get to that later. The point is I’m a father!
Of course, that means a step up in work. I bought another stall and started renting out my caravan. The house we live in was a gift from a Demon Door, which was a very nice gift indeed.
Finally got around to recruiting a new hero to my cause, that large Abbot’s daughter I mentioned earlier. her father was killed shortly after we completed the ritual and she swore to avenge his death. Makes my job that much easier I guess…
Went into Bowerstone to put in more time as a blacksmith. I was getting lonely and I, well, had relations with another woman. I admitedly feel a bit guilty about cheating on Alex, but I don’t think she’ll ever find out. Not that that’s any excuse, of course!
I’m fed up with these measely market stalls. I’m going to try and buy a house tomorrow. We’ll see how that goes.
So I started on my game of Fable 2 today, and I did everything right until that fateful decission to hop into a carriage with a creepy old man. The good thing was, that needed to happen to continue the story. The bad thing was, the guy’s boss kills my sister and throughs me out the window of his horrendously elavated castle.
Well turns out all that good-will-towards men stuff I did in the beggining paid off as I returned to the “slum” of my youth to find the area had prospered because of my actions and the Sherrif even recognised me, saying he’d get me a 50% discount on all goods in the Old Bowerstone! Pretty good deal if you ask me! The only bad thing was they tore down my old shack and replaced it with beehives. The nerve of some people!
I began work as a blacksmith and managed to increase my skill a fair bit, earned some small amounts of cash. Then it was time to get on with my quest.
I took off for Rookridge from old bowerstone during the night and came across a wrecked carage and a man looting the corpses. Naturally, i assumed he was a bandit. He lived, and manage to convince me of his innocence, so I helped myself to the leavings of the poor, dead couple.
There were a lot of bandits up ahead, but I had taken the time to purchase a better gun while in Bowerstone and it served me well in sniping them from the cliffs. I encountered a Demon Door on this path (my second), and, to be quite honest, he didn’t sound that smart. Some nasty bandits had gone and destroyed the bridge that would have taken me straight to Oakfield, so I had to dive into the river below and find another way around. that way came through Hobbe cave. i probably would have found the place rather pleasing if it wasn’t for the axewielding midgets from hell shouting in their high pitched voices while trying to remove my head.
I finaly got to Oakfield to talk with the Abbot (which Theressa, the Gypsey woman who saved my life as a child, had been shouting at me to do for some time now), but apparently I wasn’t famous enough to accompany his rather large daughter on a sacred ritual.
So, in order to aquire more fame I went off and drove the bandits out of Rookridge. But was that good enough? Nope. Apparently taking out an entire bandit clan with nothign but an axe, a flintlock rifle, and a faithful dog is not fame-worthy material. Just what does a guy have to do to get noticed around here.
And then there’s the gargoyoles. Don’t even get me started on them. Somethign about their ugly demeanor and snide remarks about my masculenity and weapon prowess rubs me the wrong way. Good thing all it takes is a single rifle shot to prove to them shut how WRONG they are about my skills with a gun.
As of today I am changing the topic of my blog to something I can update on a little more often. Starting tomarrow, I will be blogging on my experience with the game Fable2. i will try and update everytime I have a chance to play, which whould up the frequency of the posts by quite alot.
I’ll still provide posts on the original topic ocasionally, but don’t expect to see very many!
So my 18th birthday just rolled around (yes ladies, I’m legal), and I got quite a few good games to go with it.
Mass Effect: Bioware’s epic Scifi roleplaying masterpiece, it really shows how far the company has come since the Knights of the Old Republic. The dialouge is well scripted and flows smootly, making for epic interactive cutscenes and intresting situations. The graphics are spot on beautiful and the gameplay is rock solid.
9/10
The Orange Box: A collection of five well made Valve games. I honestly don’t see the appeal in the Half Life games, but Portal nad Team Fortress 2 both make up for it. Portal is a perfect fusion of dark humor, puzzling, and first person shooting. Team Fortress 2 offers the absolute best online multiplayer experiences I have witnessed to date (FYI I am a spy/engineer!)
Half life-6/10
Portal-10/10
TF2-11/10
Metroid Prime 3: Haven’t played it much yet, I’ll get back to you on it.
Star Wars The Force Unleashed: A massive display of power never before seen. However the gameplay often grows simple, with you finding a working combo and spamming it over and over again. The graphics are sub par, but overall this an enjoyable experience.
8/10
Here is the list of shows, movies, and games that I plan on picking up or watching.
Heroes Villains (Superhero/TV): The third installment of the Heroes TV series, it is set to introduce a whole cadre of new characters and should redeem itself from a dissapointing second act.
Howl’s Moving Castle (Anime/Movie): One of Hayo Miyazaki’s masterpieces from Japan, it folows the story of Sophie, a woman cursed into old age, as she discovers a friend in the mysterious and hndsome wizard Howl.
Fable 2 (RPG/Video Game): The much anticipated sequel to the popular 2003 RPG, Fable 2 expands on the ideas presented in the last game, taking them to a whole new level while introducing several new and exciting features.
House (Medical/Comedy/TV): If you haven’t heard of this show, you’ve been living under a rock.
Monster (Crime/Anime): A gritty anime dealing with a doctor’s pursuit of a serial killer that he unwittingly spared the life of.
Dune (Book/Science Fiction): Frank Herbert’s definitive Science fiction series chronicling the life of Paul on the desert planet Arakkis, known to most as Dune.
Johnothan Strange & Mr. Norrel (Book/Fantasy): A book of magic and comedy recommended to me by a friend.
Tales of Vespiria (Fantasy RPG/Video Game): The next installment in the popular Tales series.
An older movie by today’s standards, The Boondock Saints offers a thrilling action/comedy adventure while incorporating deep religious themes and asking questions that will keep the viewer thinking.
The story centers around a set of Irish Catholic twins. After they killed three Russian Mafia soldiers in self defense, they experience what they believe to be a message from God to eradicate the filth of the city, with guns.
The one thing I must caution you against is the language in the movie. A certain four letter word beggining with “F” and ending in “k” is used in at least every other sentence.
Rated R for extreme use of vulgar language, lots of blood, and sexual situations.
I’ve had my hands on Spore for quite a while now, and I have to say it is one of the most interesting games I’ve had the pleasure of playing. The charm is undeniable, and the customization is at a level that I didn’t even think was even possible in a video game.
For those of you who haven’t been paying attention, Spore is the ultimate God game. In it you lead a species up from the depths of the primordial soup and through cell, creature, tribe, civilization, and space stages.
There is not a single thing in this game that is not customizable. The plants, animals, buildings, vehicles, and even the planets are yours to mold. However, that’s probably the only highlight of the game that I’ve experienced at this point. Each stage seems to have it’s own genre of gaming, and they’ve all been done better. The cell stage plays like a top down arcade game while the creature stage is a third person action theme, and the tribe and civilization phases are merely dumbed down RTS’s. The Space stage is the only one that really stands out on it’s own, the closest thing I can compare it to is the master piece that is Sid Meier’s Pirates. Just a fair warning that the difficulty curve spikes to an incredible degree when you achieve liftoff.
The graphics aren’t stellar, but that allows it to be played on lower level systems that you would find in an average, non-gaming household. The sound is beautiful and fun, giving a fair amount of life to this game.
Despite it’s flaws, the pieces all really come together well and create a fun, easy to play game that is sure to draw in a large new audience of casual gamers, introducing them to several more advanced genre’s out there. That, and the traits system used as a consequece sstem to how you act is quite ingenious.
I don’t know what it is about this game that keeps me playing, but I like it.
I give spore 7.5/10
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