Netfrost

So, afteryears of waiting it’s finally here. Was it worth the wait? So far, yes.

The graphics are amazing, vibrant colours, great textures and phenominal models. Even thought the graphics are vastly improved from the first one, you can still make out areas, buildings and such from the first game.

The music… well, it’s a fantasy RPG, and I’ve yet to find one with a good score, it’s cheesy and it gets annouing fast.

The story line is actually pretty good, the game is based 500 years after the original, where you and your sister are homeless and dream of a better life… I won’t spoil the story for anyone who may actually read this, but take my word, it’s pretty good.

Now, there are some things that drive me nuts about this game… First off, the damn load times… everytime you transition from one area to an other, there’s several seconds of load times… this is increased ten fold if you’re playing Co-op. Secondly, Co-Op, Fable 2 is one of those games where if you or your Co-Op partner tries to venture off too far, you’re stuck waiting for them… this gets annoying, especially when the damn voice chat isn’t working properly. The third thing that annoyed me, was the dog… you have a dog following you around the game, and he’ll occasionally bark, growl, howl or cry… well when you’re in a house with 2 dogs… they tend to imitate this annoying pet. The last thing that I wish they would of done differently is the actual movement controls… they aren’t so bad when you’re just walking around, but when you start runnin
g, yeah… forget it.

Now, some of the really cool features in this game include buying realestate, character development, chicken kicking.

All in all, I think I have to say this is probably my favorite game this year and probably my favorite sequel ever.

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So we started building the new decorations for this year’s Halloween.

I’ve built 4 Tombstones out of pink insulation foam, carved cracks in them and decorative tops for them. Then we painted them with textured paint… next step is to write the sayings from Disney’s Haunted Mantion on them and puncture the holes for the steaks that will keep them in place.

Other then that, I’ll have to find a good spot for Marge (our 6′ tall animatronic Mummy) and find out if there’s a way I can secure one of our witches to the roof of the garage.

Then it’s the simple stuff, like cob webs, place orange bulbs in the garage lights, place pumpkin lights on the banister for the entrance.

Hopefully we’ll have a better turn out this year then last… concidering it looks like our neighbours will have the lights on this year.

Can’t wait… and to top it off, I get to decorate a house for a kids Halloween party too… MWAHHAHAHAHA!!!

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So yesterday was our company golf tournament. Wow I suck…

I was teamed up with an other non-golfer and one other guy who’s played a few times. We ended up wining the ‘Most honest golfers’ prize (read: Highest score). But all in all we had fun. But man oh man am I ever sore today…

In other news, my we noticed that my iPhone could not send or recieve SMS messages anymore, and then noticed that it was no longer connecting to either the 3G or Edge networks, yet it could detect them. So, after tons of futsing around with it, I decided to format it and it’s still doing that. BLAH!

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An other weekend goes by, at least I feel like I’ve achieved quite a bit.

On the home front, we cleaned up the house, as we have an installer coming in on Monday to give us a quote for the installation of new floors in both the living room and the family room. We got the liners up for the curtains in the master bedroom (pictures to come soon). We started painting the kitchen. We drained the pool, took the ladder out, put the pool stuff and the patio chairs in the shed, and brought the smoker into the garage (if only the garage door installer could come :P)

We also got to go see our friends’ new house, which is practically next door… beautiful house, cool layout… only thing I don’t like is the lack of a backyard… they have maybe 10′ 

Ange and I also went out for dinner at our favorite restaurant, Trattoria Caffe Italia. We started with the antipasto which was composed of Prosciutto, Salami, Capicola Ham, olives, bocconcini, parmigiano  and provolone cheeses, pepperoncinis and marinated vegetables. Ange had their lasagna, and I had their veal parmesan with spaghetti. Amazing as usual!

On the gaming front, I bought some more skaven for my Warhammer army and for my Mordheim warband, as well as an new Dreadnaught and an other killakan for my Orks…

All in all, great weekend.

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