First off, I would like to say that I have no idea how the hill giant seems to always have so much to write. I'll say right away that have have no intentions of matching him.
On another note, I figured I'd take this time to do a quick rant on the games I've been playing recently since I've got the time.
1: Digimon World: Dawn
Honestly it seems a lot like Pokemon since you get to bring a party of six monsters with you to fight other monsters that are either wild or following other tamers. Just like Pokemon, the battle system is turned based and awards experience so that you can turn your monsters into stronger monsters. This is about where the similarities end. One of the biggest differences, and possibly the most important, is the ability to degenerate your monsters, or return them to a previous form. Degenerating and digivovling both reset the monster's level to one but keep some semblence of its level-up stats, so its possible to max out the stats of a digimon by chaning its form as much as possible. The downside to this is each form has a level prereq. and it can take a long time to get the high level forms multiple times. The game also has a farm system that allows the player to raise another 32 digimon alongside the ones in his/her party. It's true that the ones on the farm don't grow very fast, but at least its something.
2: Pokemon White
Since I mentioned it in the last post, I figured this would be a good follow-up. I haven't touched the game too much after taking out the Elite four and completing the main plot, but I at least took the effort to visit every area at least once. I will say that I like the changes that were made to the machanics and enjoyed many of the new species. I was really regreting that I could only bring six of them with me. On the other hand, I found that many of the final forms had this annoying tendancy to be a different color from the rest of the line. For example, I felt that axew and fraxure were a great shade of green. It was completely unessecary to follow it up by making haxorus yellow. I didn't stop me from using it, but being a person who chooses his Pokemon mainly by looks, it really is annoying. There was also the issue of the Elite four/ Champion battles capping at level 54 and having my first post game battle be a rotation battle against three level 65s (My highest at that point was 51-51), but I still haven't lost any of those battles so it might be better that way anyway. (Hurray for serperior)
3: Portal
I know this game has been out for forever, but I got a chance to pre-order Portal 2 and got Portal with it, so I took the time to beat it. And then I beat it again. And again... The game really is short, but it is a very well made game with great puzzles and nice dark humor. For anyone that hasn't played/heard of it, I would highly recomend giving it a try, or at least checking out the trailors for Portal 2.
4: Blood Bowl
Completely different from every other game I've mentioned, but just as fun. I don't play much in the way of sports games, but there's something to be said about a bunch of lizardmen beating elves into the ground just to get thier claws on a spike covered ball (5 casulties and 1 death FTW). This game really does take a lot of pratice and studying to get good at it, but with the 20 different races in the legendary edition, there is room for you to pick and choose the strategy that fits you best.
That's all I have for now, so I'm going to end it before I reach Hill Giant length. Good luck and happy gaming.
-Shunloselo
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