The gameplay was good though it did seem a little like a button masher to me than a role playing game, and when I say button masher I mean literally one button, well occasionally you might throw in a special power that is mapped to one of the other three buttons on the game controller. In fairness however I know there are some tactics that you can program the other team mates to do and that you can sorta pause the battle to issue commands.  Call me impatient or whatever but I didn’t feel like taking the time to figure out what tactics worked with what character and issuing commands.  It just didn’t seem harmonious with the way battles played out, but I did finish the game the way I played it and still enjoyed it.

The graphics were quite nice, however after playing the demo on the pc and then getting the game on the PS3 it was kind of a let down.  The graphics on the PS3 were great but just not on the same level as the PC.  I would of gotten the game on the PC, but I didn’t like the controls as well.  There wasn’t much of a variety on the dungeons either in this game.  Each new area you went to looked the same with maybe a door or passage shut off that wasn’t in a previous area.

It was also refreshing to play a game that took more than 6 hours to play.  I miss the day long gone when games took you a couple of weeks of nonstop play.  However in fairness this game is single player only so the developers were able to concentrate solely on the single player aspect of the game therefore giving it some length.  However this is where I have some letdowns of this game.  I don’t know what it was exactly but the story just didn’t seem to do much for me.  The first DA story seemed to be on a grand scale.  This one seemed to be about a few mundane things that the Champion of the game had done in the recent past.  The happenings just didn’t seem larger than life that you would think a Champion of a story would face.  Don’t get me wrong I don’t hate this game but I think it lacked a little in the story department.

All in all, even though it sounds like I don’t like this game, I did, and I would recommend it to anybody that likes Role Playing Games.  Despite the faults that I mentioned I enjoyed it enough that it kept my attention, and I tried to play it every night that I could and hated when I had to stop.  If I had to give it a rating out of ten I would give it a seven.

This time however I believe I may very well consider the prestige edition of Call of Duty Modern Warefare 2. This edition will come with a fully functional set of Night Vision Goggles.

I know, I know these goggles may be considered useless to the average Joe, but this time it isn’t about whether they are useless or will be put on a shelf to collect dust, but the cool factor. I haven’t however seen a price for this edition, so there is the possibility that I may just have to settle for the regular edition, but if the price of the prestige edition isn’t astronomical I will try my best to get that edition.

You can find out a little more about this edition over at Engadget.

Anyway I found this new desktop blog editor for the mac and thought I would try it out. One thing I am not liking at the first is that you can’t tab from one field to the next, you have to use your mouse to move from one text field to the other. However this is my first post using this software so I don’t have an in depth review at this time, but if I post some more to my blog I will use this program and have a better update at a later time.

The blog editor is Bloggchen which can be found at myownapp.com

In this day and age every thing is hurry, hurry, hurry, and no time for anything. We there fore neglect the things God would have us do and we push Him to the side until we get in trouble or need help in some way. We don’t take the time to realize that He must be first in our lives and that there is no room for anything else to be first. We try so hard to make the things of this world so important that we don’t have time to read our Bible or to pray like we ought.

I think Jim over at “standing in the gap” puts what I am saying into a better perspective than what I have said so far.

What we need to do is slow down, put God back to being first in our lives and pick up the Bible, blow the dust off of it and seek His guidance, and to pray the effectual, fervent prayers that we should be doing.

Of course I have been working a lot on my church’s website which you can find here Landmark Baptist Church.  For me it is an ongoing process because I am trying to learn web development.  Or rather I guess I should say I am trying to teach myself.

Well anyway here is to a new year so lets make the best of it, and try not to break too many of those resolutions.