Ty’s Weblog

I finished Assassin’s Creed last night (mostly, I still have some achievements to finish, but I finished the main part of the game).  It was quite an amazing game.  The only complaints I have about it are that it was a little repetitive at times.  I would have like more variety in the information gathering parts of the missions.  Also, I would have liked the guard to have been a bit smarter.  I could do some pretty extreme stuff right in from of them and they would only make snarky comments about it.  Still, those things aside, the game was amazing.  It had a great feel and the controls worked very well most of the time.  The combat system, while starting out a little simple, does develop a little depth as the game goes on.

It is also a game that is what you make of it.  You don’t have to be super stealthy with your kills if you don’t want to.  I chose to go the stealthy/planning route, and I think the game was more fun because of it, but you don’t have to play it that way.  I also took a lot of time to explore the story of the game.  The game has a very strong plot and an ending that provides lots of fuel for speculation for the hoped for Assassin’s Creed 2.  I had a great time playing it.  Now I just need to finish finding all the flags so that I can get all my achievements for it.

A few years back we started counting how many Christmas trees we saw on the road around this time of year. It’s become a yearly game for us which we all enjoy.

Well, Kate saw the first tree of the season today.

Well, Thanksgiving didn’t go as planned this year.  Between Kate and me being sick over the last few weeks, we didn’t end up going on our normal family trips this year.  We were sad to not be able to go, but we still managed to have a good time here at home.

We ran out this morning and got some food.  We had a turkey dinner for lunch, and I made meat loaf for supper, both of which were very good.  It wasn’t the spread we’d have seen at my parents, but it was still very nice.

Most importantly, we were together and able to enjoy each others company.  We have a lot to be thankful for, the greatest of which is each other.

I went back down a level to finish Guitar Hero on Easy to get the achievements involved.  I finished that on the 16th and finished them all with 5 stars a couple days later.  Now I’m trying to get all the songs with 5 stars on Medium before I make a serious effort on trying Hard, which in my experiments has been an ego crushing experience.  Hopefully I’ll get better with practice.  Xander is starting up trying the Medium difficulty today.

In other Guitar Hero related news, today the Halo Theme was released for free on Xbox Live.  A very nice surprise for those of us that are fans of both games.  It’s a lot of fun to be able to play.

Just finished Guitar Hero 3 on medium.  It was a ton of fun.  I’ve still got to try to get 5 stars on all the songs, which is easier said than done.  Then I’ve got to ramp up for Hard.  I might go ahead and play Easy first just to get it out of the way for the achievement.