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    A full day put into Enemy Front chasing down achievements. I played to get all the mission based achievements, and while I was there, looked for secrets I'd missed. It was my second full playthrough of the game, with some extra levels played partially a third time for the drawing-a-resistance-logo-on-a-Warsaw-wall-14-times achievement.

     Saturday I logged another 3 hours into Enemy Front before work. A lot of the time the game seems to be asking me to stealth my way through an area, but I'm finding this really impossible. You have no silencer or throwing knives, so getting close is your only option. Thing is, they see you very quickly, and then it becomes a firefight, which is more my style anyway. Oh yeah, I finished the campaign in a very slow 9 hours total. My friend did it in 6 and HowLongToBeat.com says it can be done in under 5. Well, I like to explore as I go and not race to the end.

    I started Enemy Front on Sunday and played for about three hours or so until I got to this sniping mission that drove me nutzo. There's something about the targeting controls that I just don't like - seem too sensitive. My crosshair kept zipping too quickly across targets. Only when I quick-scoped (or quick-iron-sighted I guess you'd call it here) did I have good accuracy. Anyway it was taking me too long to aim with the controls. I repeatted the level several times before I had to take a break out of frustration. Then I lent the game to my friend sitting next to me and watched him adjust the sensitivity and then get past the area where I got stuck. Boy am I stupid.

     Today was a long one in front of the TV catching up with the games annouced at Microsoft's pre-E3 briefing and getting my gun fu on in Wolfenstein: New Order.

     I want my very own Panzerhund. A Kampfhund would do nicely as well, but a Panzerhund would be the best. . . I found out that the word "panzer" means armored, so the Panzerhunds in Wolfenstein: New Order are the big all metal ones. "kampf" means fight or struggle, so kampfhund means fighting dog. They are the partially armored real dogs in the game. The one's you have to fight most often. Oh yeah, and then there's swinehund which just means pig dogs. There are no pig dogs in the game, you just get called that frequently by the Nazi soldiers. German lesson over. Now to how I played Wolfenstein the last two days.

    Dungeon Magic is like Arabian Magic except it has a medieval setting and an isometric point of view, i.e. it’s an old school brawler. “ORC SMASH!!!” Sorry, got carried away there. . .  Your task, as one of four characters, is to save the princess from the evil magician who needs her as a sacrifice. I’m reminded of the plot to the film Your Highness, one of my favorite movies.

     I played Wolfenstein: New Order a bit on Saturday, about two and half hours, and on Sunday I started out by watching youtube epic fails and sling shot ride videos on my 360. Laughed myself to tears. Then I watched a bunch of Twitch live play of a bunch of games like: Arma III, Eve Online, World of Tanks, and Elder Scrolls Online just to see what those games look like in action. Then I watched a longer Twitch stream of Borderlands 2 and this Hunt 3.0 thing. I guess it's a challenge on Twitch to get a number of legendary equipment in the game. I watched this one guy farm for one of the weapons by beating the same boss over and over until it dropped. I can't believe people go to such lengths for this stuff. Still, the list of items was kinda neat. It shows where each item is in the world, or, where it has the chance to be dropped. I may utilize that sometime in the future.

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