Well, it’s two weeks into my new course and I’ve met some really cool new friends par exemple but something else has happened, something I have seen in movies and TV shows but never thought was something I myself could be susceptible to: there’s a café on campus where we go on our breaks to escape to strains of class and the guy who works there remembered what a group of us order all the time. I actually have a ‘usual’ now .It’s amazing how a small thing like someone remembering what you’ve previously ordered every time you’ve gone to a place can produce a strange high. I’ve oft read about customer service and its merits, and granted it’s not hard to impress someone who finds something they weren’t expecting, but still, I don’t think I have been quite this happy with the service at a place I go to get a drink, ever.

Assassin’s Creed still holds me, by my jugular, and forces me to save every citizen, find every flag, eradicate every bastard Templar on the streets and rooftops of the 12th century Holy Land.
I’ve been asked “have you finished it yet?’ and always my stern answer is a clear, resounding “no”.
Not until I have every Jerusalem Cross and Teutonic Flag, not until Altaïr Ibn La-Ahad and Al Mualim themselves, indeed, all of the inhabitants of The Kingdom, (including those wenches begging for money whining at me about how poor and sick and hungry they are, and the drunk leper fuckers who see fit to push me into the nearest patrolling guard whenever the city is on alert) bow down to me shall I consider this game complete. No game has ever held sway over my free time as has this one; even my obsession over Loco Roco didn’t reach the extent of my current fever pitched love affair with ‘Creed’.

Being a self confessed comic book geek (perhaps ‘junkie’ could be more appropriate) and given my longest running MMO career has taken place in City of Heroes I was saddened to hear that the upcoming Marvel Universe Online, which was being made by Cryptic Studios who are responsible for C.o.H, was cancelled. I was so eager to find out exactly what formula it would use, if players would take control of one of the existing heroes of the Marvel U. or if we were to get the chance to add our own characters to the Marvel roster.

However my sadness was eased a little after reading this [link] especially the following; “Champions Online is all about total customization – it will offer a near infinite amount of character customization so that all players will have a unique game experience. Gamers will be able to create their hero's name, back story, costume, powers and abilities as well as design their own personal arch-enemy and his or her back story”.
You create your hero’s back story, you don’t just type it into an information box, you create it. You hew their story, shaping it to become legend to your online peers, your character will actually have an origin story.
This I cannot stress my excitement about enough.


Thanks for not interupting,

- 8 Ball.