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I am taking a break from posting to Godheval.net due to a precipitous decline in the things I usually write about.  I’ve been trying to give my mind a break by detaching myself completely from “worldly” concerns and just enjoying myself.  Playing video games, reading fantasy novels, etc…

Video Games

I’ve put a lot of time into Infamous for Playstation 3 – which while it’s a solid open-world game with a comic-book feel, leaves much to be desired in terms of storyline.  After tackling the “heroic” path, I’ve been playing through the “infamous” path to see how the story changes.  So far there isn’t much of a difference, except for a few minor dialogue differences with Cole’s girlfriend and best friend.  I couldn’t care less about those two, anyway.  Sucker Punch could stand to take some lessons in branching storylines from Bioware.

Took a few looks at what was happening over at E3 and can finally say that the horizon looks bright for this generation of games.  God of War III tops the most anticipated list, followed by Heavy Rain, Assassin’s Creed 2, Mass Effect 2, and Uncharted 2.

And speaking of Uncharted 2, I’ve been dabbling in the Multiplayer Beta, which while fun only reinforces the fact that I am a total scrub in competitive play.  I do well enough in single-player games – I think – but put me online with a bunch of 13 year olds and they’ll kick my ass everytime.  The cooperative mode is interesting, but it’d be even better if the regular story mode had that co-op option as well.

Books

Tore through the 12 book Everworld series by K.A. Applegate only to find out that it ends rather abruptly.  It’s pretty obvious that the series was intended to go further, but something happened along the way – maybe a dispute with the publishers, bad sales, who knows.  But I highly advise everyone to stay clear of this series, as it completely fails to come to any resolution of the conflict.  After so much suspense and build up, you never find out what happens to the main characters or whether or not they defeat the main enemy.  Worst ending for a book series ever.

So, on a mythology high, I turned to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan, and so far he has not disappointed me.  Applegate left me even more wary than I usually am about endings, so we’ll see how Riordan fares in that department.  An ending really can make or break a story.  Once I’m done there, I’ll get back into the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull.

That’s what I’ve been up to – in addition to a few personal projects for intellectual stimulation and cash flow.  Expect this draught to continue for awhile, because save some great controversy or disaster – not that I’m wishing for either – I couldn’t be any less interested right now in politics or current events.

So if you’ll excuse me, my cave awaits…

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