Well, I've pretty much lost my soul to Demon's Souls, like so many others. I've been enjoying the game, despite the bursts of fury. I only wish it had more RPG to it. Being action-based, I would have expected more, oh, i dunno, variety? More compelling equipment, and magic, not to mention attacks. Spending souls to raise your stats feels pretty arbitrary. You really don't feel a sense of progress in the character advancement sense. Yet, somehow, for some reason, when I'm playing the game, I don't care about all that. Perhaps it's that I'm too busy trying not to die. I dunno. I still rate this game fairly high.

I've gotten my teeth into Tekken 6's scenario mode. I'm happy to hear about the patch that will enable co-op mode. I'm surprised it didn't exist at launch, but that's all right. I've got a lot of work to do on that game.

Darksiders! Wow. This game has been lots of fun. Love that style, love the setting and story thus far, and the combat is satisfying. Plus, I got that cool comic/art book. I'm a big fan of Wildstorm. Also picked up Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. Love that series. I love how you have to think about how to take down your marks.

Fri & Sat I've got to try my best to marathon through Mass Effect so I have a save to port to the sequel that's right around the corner. Those two days are my only chance to finally finish it. Foolish me for deleting my saves. Ugh. Ah well.

White Knight Chronicles and Hard Rain coming soon!! I'm going to be begging my hunny for these for Valentines Day. I can only get one, so I'm hoping begging will get me the second. The other titles I'm interested in, like Star Ocean and AVP can be put off for a bit.

So there you have it. I still live, I just tend to hang out more on Playfire these days.

I've pretty much been sucked into other things apart from hype at knowing a few things I'm getting for x-mas (like Left 4 Dead 2, and Tekken 6) and knowing my dear, sweet little bro is finally getting a PS3. However, I have managed to get some game time between some manga reading (Yotsuba&! and Gamble Fish) and D&D gaming.

I finally finished Dragon Age a week or so ago. I went through the game being good and am somewhat happy with the ending. I just wished there were more cinematics involved. I'll be taking a break before I go through it again as totally evil.

I had finished Tomb Raider even further back. I can't remember if I mentioned it, but I had started in on Force Unleashed. I'm still going through the junkyard area to kill Kazdan Paratus. I had to scale the dificulty back because I was having problems with enemies pushing me to my death.

Final Fantasy Tactics A2 is a thorn in my side. I can't seem to beat the end boss. I did some leveling and got some better gear, but I haven't had the drive to give it another go. I'm nearing burnout on that with all the time I've already plugged into it. It might end up being yet another RPG I drop at the very end. I'm trying not to do that, though.

I have gotten out of my gaming funk. It wasn't anythingTorchlight and trying out a new MMO couldn't fix. It gave me the drive to sit down and gt through a massive chunk of tomb raider in a day. I was aabout halfway through the mexico site and am now going through the arctic sea. I just arrived at that drawbridge and am dealing with that simple puzzle.

Tomb Raider has been pretty fun. The locations have been beautiful and it's really sucked me in. As I said before, Mexico really frustrated me in parts and it's so massive compared to the other areas I've been. Once I got through that, the rest has pretty much been compariotavely shorter, though not without difficulty.

Once I complete it here in a bit, I'm 'oan get my sith on and enjoy The Force Unleashed. I'm really excited to see the extra content and I could do with an exciting action-adventure and cool force powers. I'd almost play through the KOTOR series again, but I've got Dragon Age going on which I spent ALL day yesterday playing. From 7am 'till about 10:30pm. I took food breaks and went to the asian supermarket for snacks and steamed buns. I finished the search for Branka, chose Harrowmond as king, got shale her memories, found the urn of sacred ashes, rescued Queen Anora, dealt with a few Denerim Chantry and Mage Circle quests, Sten beat the crap out of me, I learned some interesting things about Wynn and her spirit, and passed out before heading off to the Alienage.

That was a good run. It was so much fun. I hadn't had a long gaming session like that in ages. I got my girlfriend sucked into it as well. She was trying to play Animal Crossing and then Harvest Moon later, but has been enjoying watching me play. We spent 20 minutes decided how to deal with Jowan's fate when the Earl asks you if you have anything to say on his behalf. Fun stuff. I think I'll play through Mass Effect with her when I've finished. She'll likely enjoy that one as well, and also the Witcher.

Thanksgiving was tasty. I had to cook it since me mum's illness. TUrned out nicely. We're going to have the leftovers today. Also had to help drag out some decorations for them. Since all that's over-and-done-with, I'm in Tomb Raider mode. I MUST finish this today.