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Dark Souls

Platted Brave, It's Ok some bosses are annoying on hard.

Sure. We still have to do the Arena in Dead Island too.

I felt the same way about Amalur. It's just so dull. I think you have to be one of those freaks who love Fable to get into it. The combat is fun enough but the world, characters, and story just don't inspire a fuck to be given.

Pretty much been a week full of Dark Souls. I never would have guessed 2 years on that I would love this game so much. I tried to get into it 3 or 4 times over its lifespan and it is only its resurgence here on this site and over on Giant bomb that urged me to give it another shot. Before I managed o make it to the Gargoyles become frustrated and give up. Now I have rang the first bell nearly ringing the second and loving my hour or two I spend with the game each day. 

HearthStone

Been doing most daily quests to get enough gold to do Arena runs more easily. Slow progress however on the actual card rewards. Having tough but satisfying games against people who have better cards than me. (Especially when I win, however desperate the means.)

Dark Souls

Continued my new character and I'm glad that for Dark Souls 2 the devs decided to let us progress through the game more to how we want. One problem I had a couple of times went like "Oh, I can't access this area yet because I haven't gotten this particular item, and I can't get that item unless I get another item from waaay back there......" And blah di blah di blah. It's not a huge problem because the world ain't too big, but when I was planning to go somewhere and I couldn't so I had to take a detour, it felt a bit of a downer.

Still, I think this character may go far and he definitely has my favourite build so far. Still undecided where to take it though, faith/int, I dunno. I was thinking of going down a quality path (which is str and dex build) and buffing intelligence just a bit so I can use non-offensive spells. Might be fun.

Haven't played a ton this week. My launch 60GB PS3 died on me last week, typical YLOD error. I tried to fix it myself, and managed to get the console to live for about 10 minutes, but it promptly died again (I was at least able to get my disk out though).

So, there were a few days off from Xillia, but I've been back at it. The story in that game is explaining less and less, moving really quickly, and kind of becoming less interesting as a result. I'd thought it was pretty solid up to a point, but they're skipping a ton of story and expecting me to completely understand what's going on. At the beginning of the game they let you pick which character you want to play as, Jude or Milla. Before getting the game I'd seen a little gameplay and liked Milla better, so I ended up picking her when I got my copy. I don't know if the game expects players have played as Jude first or what the deal is, but it basically seems like a lot happens to the other character when I'm not around and then the game kind of expects that I'm fully aware of what happened, so it never bothers to explain anything. I'm also having difficulty with the rationale and motives behind some characters' actions not matching up with their previously presented personalities. At this point I'm sure I'll ride it out to the end, but the story was kind of the thing holding my attention and it's gone totally off the rails at this point. Kind of just hoping it ends soon so I can move onto Yakuza 3.

LittleG there's a Blue Slab down in those caves but the path to get to it is completely invisible. Have fun!