There’s millions (well, 100′s of thousands) of other apps available on the iPhone as well ranging anywhere from free dating apps to video game price guides to silly games. I’ve picked up a few apps that should make life a little easier when out and about and will research the GPS apps a little more before our next trip. As nice as the maps feature is, I think actual GPS software would be even better.

I’m finding it pretty fun so far, but as I’ve heard from other people, the game seems to be pretty short if you just want to play through the main story quests. You can waste a lot of time if you do a lot of side stuff though, or if you try to get the various achievements. Lots of things to collect and apparently some of them require trading with other players on Xbox live, so by now I’m probably too late to the party.

Also seems to be a variety of clothes/hair dyes to customize your character with, but the variety is somewhat limited so if you want some Cherokee scrubs, good luck, but if you want to make a stereotypical Goth toon, you can do that.

I was considering an LG home theatre system since the sound is a lot better, but I’d still have the same problem with delay when it comes to music gaming.

I’ll likely end up with a standalone receiver that supports HDMI switching and has 1 button access to Stereo mode. That way I can have great 7.1 sound, have better & easier control over the volume of each speaker, and it will still be easy to control it all because there’s only one cable going out to the TV.

I rolled up a fresh level 1 and was about to get in a duel with another level 1. Kicked his ass but then couldn’t get any more so I put away Soccer Socks, I actually named him that, and went back to the single player campaign to work on the Giriza questline. I screwed up on my first play through and was only able to get 90/100 faction with the thieves. So, I’ve had to play though again in order to re-do those quests.

Next I think I’ll play something different, Saints Row maybe, I keep starting it but never get very far before something else takes my attention.

There’s lots of stuff to make you cringe, like sticking your arm into a toilet full of back acne treatment syringes, or when you’re not paying full attention running down a hallway and suddenly your head vaporizes due to a shotgun trap.

A copy for PS3 just came into my store the other day and I’m thinking of playing through it again on that just for the easy trophies. But that fucking curb stomping, ugh, maybe not. But I do want a platinum trophy, haven’t managed to get one yet!

Like the first one, I find that my inventory is full of stuff I don’t care about and will never bother to use. Tons of plants I’ve picked up, animal parts, vitamins, gems and spell components. At least there are separate inventory pages this time around so I don’t even have to look at this stuff if I don’t want to.

I will get into the spell system later though, either after I’ve finished the game, or maybe start a fresh game with a new wizardly guy. Archery too I guess, a little, although I didn’t find it to be all that much fun with the little bit of shooting I took part in. Hacking and slashing is just more satisfying.

I’m trying to build an MTGO version of it but I don’t have any Dominus’s online and they seem rarer than hoodia diet pills on there. More expensive than I was expecting too, over 2 tix each, but I still have some tix left to spend so hopefully I can find 4.

First match is over and it was definitely more fun than reading diet pill reviews, I won the match 2-0. Here’s to hoping rounds 2 and 3 go just as well. I suppose it’s not the greatest, playing swiss, since even if I win all 3 rounds I get 3 packs whereas with regular drafts you have a chance to win as many as 8 packs. Gotta come in first to do that though and if you lose a match you’re done, so your chances are much better with Swiss.

Looks like my deck was too fast, the other games in round 1 aren’t even done yet.

I originally had it configured with mostly red since that’s the common land destruction color and gives you the best fat burners like Incinerate, Lightning Bolt and Fireball. But it felt too generic and that’s why I went with the green/blue combo instead. It’s also an enchantress deck, since there’s so many blue land enchants I figured some Verdurans for drawing power and Yavimaya’s for killing would be the way to go. It’s fun regardless though and I’ll keep tweaking it as I go.

Having said that though, the system does have a few good exclusives that make it worth owning. I’ve long been a fan of the Ratchet & Clank series and you just can’t get it a non-Sony console. There’s a few interesting looking RPG’s that I haven’t played yet, but plan to some day, those being Folklore, Dark Kingdom and Valkyria Chronicles.