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      I just bought Uncharted 3 for under $10, and with that, I am finally feeling pretty satisfied with my games collection as it stands. I have a handful of titles from this and last year that I have to get, but they are not in any danger of being hard to find, and the longer I wait, the cheaper they will get. I can bide my time with them and watch for sales. In the mean time, I have plenty to do with what I have.

    Today I started the second half of the Mages Guild Quests in Oblivion but had some trouble because I contracted Prophyric Hemophila or Vampirism. OMFG!!!

    Ok, so here's a great video review of the movie Aliens by James Rolfe in his Monster Madness series for the month of October. It shows the connection and influence of this movie to video games very well. I never really thought about it too much but this movie was and is a huge influence on video games (Contra and Metroid especially) and vice versa. 

     Finally Microsoft has locations on the map for the Xbox One Tour here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/onetour. They have a van go 'round with X1 decks to try out. I missed the early October dates in my city, but they're coming back later in the month.

     Most of the week, I played Etrian Odyssey Untold. I’m up to level 34 in experience and down to level 12 in the dungeons. I’m playing on easy. Nothing has seriously challenged me except for this one Golem. It was on what I thought was a pretty routine side quest back to one of the earlier levels (the game periodically sends you back to earlier levels to fulfill a request by a townsperson). I was supposed to pick up a treasure but instead got suckered into confronting this giant Golem creature. It tasked me by healing itself every time I got it down to a low level of health. Persistence won out though. I used up all my items to keep my TP (magic points) up so I could activate skills to do the big damage. The fight got me to search in my skills for the highest damage ones for each character. So it helped me focus on the most valuable skills to level up. I almost wanted to raise the difficulty level in the game, but I know everything will get much harder and my progress will slow to a crawl.

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