PixlBit

i bought a silvercat ring, took off all my armor, and made my way down the well.

I ended up summoning help.  We dusted the Pursuer!

Scratchy is the cat

i've seen some of your forum posts..glad you beat DS2!

I've yet to finish a Splinter Cell game, though I had fun playing Conviction

i believe this is on the psn as well

excellent!  

and samey-enemies doesn't bother me at all.

I've been playing for at least 5-6 hours...and was having an alright time with the game.  After that first blitzball match I've tried to get myself back into it twice without success.  I'm not going to say throw an opinion on the game yet as I've surely not experienced enough of it to get a feel for the package on the whole.

worth mentioning though is the levelling.... the sphere grid system doesn't grab me like I was expecting it to.

And that blitzball defeat is the worst possible way to introduce someone to a minigame.  I think one of you fellas said so in the podcast.  You hit the nail on the head there, for sure.

Then again....Dark Souls 2 is soaking up lots of my attention.  Hard to play anything else.

I'm making my way through Dark Souls 2 still, though to be fair I've been putting in some good time with it.  I just finished up the Royal Rat boss...not sure where to head from there.  Lost Bastille?

My son seems to have a ravenous sweeth tooth for the simple Duncan Hines brownies.  That reminds me, I gotta get more vegetable oil.

I didn't get to play the first two Max Payne games...but MP3 doesn't really deliver in the 3rd person shooting/action genre.  I'd recommend Uncharted over MP3 any day

if you say it clears up after a couple hours, I'll give it a whirl just as soon as i make it through Dark Souls 2.  

Dragon's Dogma seems to me like the closest thing I'll get to playing Monster Hunter on the PS3.  Is that a fair assumption?