Thanks! Soul Calibur 5 is nothing too far from what works in
previous SC games with an enhanced character creation
mode, though without the rewarding "travel" mode w-
here a character can wander a land region and eng-
age various opponents featuring abnormal attri-
butes and unusual situations to serve as a tu-
torial in a way. I miss such gameplay elem-
ents. Oh well. I really haven't touched Sk-
yrim at all in the past few weeks. A sh-
ame... but I had more than enough t-
o tend to (laughs). I'm sure that by
now, your character wields godly
powers and you've attained str-
onger magical abilities. A fri-
end of mine is at level 60 a-
nd mentioned about ridin-
g a dragon... now I'm in-
trigued (laughs). The d-
emo for Mass Effect 3
is now out, but I'm s-
ure you'd rather wa-
it for the actual g-
ame since you o-
nly have a littl-
e more than
a week to
wait at
this p-
oint.
Hey, B-
el! I was c-
onsidering an
investment of F-
inal Fantasy 13-2 b-
ut was lacking in funds
at the time which actually
worked in my favor since it d-
idn't seem too great a title after
reading more about it. Eventually I
probably will get it for collection purp-
oses but it's not a game that I REALLY w-
ant to play at the moment. The battle syste-
m is much improved from FF13 though. The pr-
oblem is that players can Auto-battle and get thro-
ugh a large portion of the game which takes out the
rewarding challenge. Some may argue against this opi-
nion of mine, but from what I've read, the game is dumb-
ed down considerably and the time elements serve the purp-
ose of keeping the player back-tracking to extend the length o-
f the game via artificial means (laughs); almost as if it was throw-
n in at the last minute since ultimately, they don't really make a diff-
erence in the overall play of the game. If I'm wrong, please correct me o-
n this. So Bel is a gamer now? I didn't think the kids would give you the cha-
nce to game without trying to grab the controller from your hands in an attem-
pt to play the games themselves (laughs). Are any of your kids getting into gamin-
g (or showing signs that they may remotely even be considering some kind of interest)?
I've still been playing Skyrim using my pure mage character... working on getting my enchantment skills up so I can craft some items that'll make my magic bar barely decrease. If high level enchantment is anything like the smithing was, I'm sure it's possible! Even now, the character is pretty badass... looking forward to seeing how the master level spells get 
That'll probably be all I get into until Mass Effect 3 in March.
