So, as you might have guessed I've gotten the Platinum in AC2 by now. Just haven't had the motivation to write about it. I also downloaded "The Battle for Forli" earlier this week and finished the new content. When doing so, I started thinking about what they might choose as a setting for the third title. I thought it might be cool if they follow the Auditore bloodline to Spain and then do a game where the main character is a conquistador in the New World. However, since AC2 ended in the late 1400's I don't think they'd have enough time pass to do a character like that. I also thought about going back to the Middle East during the Ottoman Empire circa 1850 and do an early to mid industrial setting.

I've also managed to finish one playthrough of Batman: Arkham Asylum, which I thought was a fantastic game. The only letdown IMO was the boss fights. You don't actually get to fight most of the villans per se: Harley Quinn gets locked up after you fight a bunch of thugs, you really just run away from both the Scarecrow and Killer Croc, and the fight with the Joker also revolves around beating up a lot of thugs. It might have something to do with the fact that Batman never actually kills anybody, but, c'mon, you went to all that work perfecting the freeflow battle system, you could at least make me use it on some tough bosses. Right now, I'm in the middle of playing through it again on Hard mode. I'm trying to solve all of the Riddler puzzles in this playthrough, so by the time I'm done I should have every trophy that you get in the main game. This just leaves the challenges that I downloaded and I've heard they can be pretty tough. I'm pretty good at stealth games, so I'm thinking I might have an easier time with the challenges than most, but we'll see. I'm hoping to plat the game in mid February. At which point I'm either going to pick up BioShock 2 or Dante's Inferno. I played the demo for Dante's Inferno and it absolutely blew me away, but at the same time I really want to see how the story continues in BioShock 2. Right now I'm leaning towards BioShock 2, but reviews will certainly play a factor and I might have changed my mind for a ton of other reasons by that point.