Christmas

Christmas was uneventful. Nothing really special, just a simple Christmas with all of the families. Roy's nephew got a Wii from everyone, and he was pretty excited. Roy's brother bought the Wii like 4 or 5 months ago...and he was dang lucky.

I didn't get too much, so that's the good thing! I got Super Paper Mario, which I have been wanting for months. I was hoping to get Super Mario Galaxy...no biggie, I got enough gift certificates to buy a bunch of stuff that I want off Amazon. :-)

I'm playing Elder Scrolls: Morrowind. I'm giving this another shot. It's a helluva intensive game to play (200+ hours), plus you're not just stuck with one character, you can create dozen of others. First character I created was something that I found off the internet that sounded good. WRONG. She could do shit with melee stuff, and awful with people, it was just dumb. I started over again, after I put in about 4 to 5 hours in the first one. This time I thought was a little bit better, however, the skills were slightly better, but the major/minor skills were crap. I got a great weapon, Steel Sparkmauler (who the hell comes up with these names?!). Did very well, but for the life of me, I could not figure out why I couldn't slash and chop...I was just thrusting my weapons. Duh. Figured it out later. I was not satisfied with this character as well as I hated the major/minor skills system because I knew it would take me quite a long time just to raise my level. I put in about 10 to 12 hours total in this one.
Third time is a charm. I found a GREAT user guide to explore every single skill, every birth sign, every class, every race in detail. Because I like my character to be involved with Magic, but I also like to have some combat. The first thing the game asks me is a name. I wanted a fantasy name. Then I thought, Kahlan from Sword of Truth series. *sound of a light bulb turning on* I decided to mold my character to be just as similar as her. I had to modify my skills set slightly.
She is an Imperial Race, under the sign of Astronach, with good combat skills and good magic skills.
So far, I played about 4 hours, and she is fabulous. She kills mudcrabs very easily with one shot (while my other characters took about 3 or 4 shots to kill), and she will level up pretty quickly.

There are cheats out there to level up easily, but I ain't doing that! There are some players that can finish the game in 10 minutes. I ain't doing that either. Some hard core players will join every guild, every faction, and complete Main quests, and Misc quests, and THAT my dah-lings, I'm doing. :-) I ought to keep track of my hours....

If you're curious what this game looks like, just go to youtube.com, and search for Morrowind. Simple.
Hope everyone had a good Christmas.