A few thoughts

I tend to blog better at night, for some reason.  Anyway, here's a few things going on, gaming-related:
 
1.  Beat Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.  I really enjoyed the end, where you're basically jumping around in Tron-land.  I didn't 100% the game or anything crazy like that, I  think I got somewhere around 65% done.  I didn't like it as much as AC2, despite recognizing it's a better game.  The economy is loads better, combat is swifter (especially with kill streaks), the parachute is fun, and the crossbow is extremely cheap and useful.  I mainly just didn't like Rome that much, it felt like a small place.  I liked AC2's world a lot more, because you had 4 or 5 (I think even more) locations to visit at your whim.  But, that's just me.
 
2.  I'm nearing the end of my first Eternal Sonata playthough.  I just got to the optional dungeon (Mysterious Unison), and haven't explored much of it.  I really like that game, which is a bit surprising.  The only thing I don't really like is how Polka looks like a reject from a Disney-made anime.  She's just too cutesy and JRPG-looking for her own good.  I love, LOVE Salsa though, and she is frankly adorable.  The economy in the game is very odd, because the money you get from photography pretty much breaks the game.  I also think the battle system is fairly fun, if a bit on the easy side at times.  I hope to finish it soon, and begin my 2nd (and achievement fulfilling) playthrough.
 
3.  I fired up Two Worlds 2 and....yeah, that game is janky as all hell.  It just feels kind of sloppy, controlling your character, like something is oily, or slippery about him.  I do really admire the game though for it's open-ended nature, and customization it allows.  You can do a LOT of interesting stuff with magic, if you dig deep into it.  There's two interesting things about it.  One, the game lets you straight up  buy items/materials/spells from the Xbox Live marketplace.  It's an interesting approach, because it's not super-expensive (160 points, per item), and I wish more games did it.  The second thing is, the game has console commands in it.  In a CONSOLE game.  This is unheard of (to me, at least), that a console game has this.  PC games sure, and console games do have stuff like that, but it requires a bit of hacking to do.  This is just "press a few buttons, open the console, and type stuff", which is odd.
 
4.  I think it was two weekends ago when the Fallout DLC went on sale?  I grabbed "Old World Blues" for New Vegas (partially based on reviews), and beat it that day.  The game crashed 16 times.  Nice to see that game is as stable as ever.  It would mainly occur  when I was trying to fast-travel in the big MT.  Oh, also, the boss (the giant Robo-scorpion) didn't load.  Well, it loaded, but the model didn't.  It flashed in twice, and that was it (then I killed it).  Again, stability is key.
 
5.  I got Toy Soldiers: Cold War a few weeks ago (from the generosity of Justin Calvert).  I don't really like Tower Defense, at all, but this one is ok.  Mainly because it lets you have manual control over your guys.  I ended up doing a survival mode with a friend, getting up to wave 14, which was a lot of fun.
 
6.  Was able to get Deus Ex: HR also (by a generous gift by Johnny V, and over-drafting my bank card....don't ask).  Yeah, it seems ok.  The guns don't feel right to me, for some reason.  I don't like it when you're in cover, and you have a targeting reticule.  When you lean up to shoot, the reticule goes away, so it's luck if you're aiming for the guy you want to or not.  We'll have to see if I can get into it, because it's not super-grabbing me at this point.  It makes me feel a LOT like playing Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, for some reason.
 
7.  I also didn't do the Fable 3/Witcher 2 comparison blog, and I'm debating whether or not to.  Considering I got about 30+ comments basically amounting to "Fable 3 is shit, Witcher 2 is good!" which is kind of missing the point.  "YES", Witcher 2 is better game, on almost every level, and "YES" Fable 3 has a few problems (but not as many as other Lionhead games).  That wasn't the point.  My point was just to compare/contrast the two in most of their facets, and see how the designers approached things.
 
8.  I hit a brick wall (metaphorically speaking) in Dirt 3, with the Gymkhana events.  I can drift, circle the pillar, crash through stuff, and jump fine.  But I can't do a doughnut to save my life, and it just really frustrated me.
 
9.  Stopped playing WoW again.  Thank god.
 
Ah well, that's about it for now.  Hopefully I'll finish up Eternal Sonata soon.  I also got surgery in a few weeks on my ankle.  So, hopefully I can get it repaired, and start walking again like a normal person.  It's ONLY been....20 months so far.  ugh, not cool.