The same to everyone else... have a safe and happy Christmas/New Year/InsertHolidayOfChoiceHere
anyone playing anything new? I sort of accidentally got an Xbox 360 and have been fooling around w/ Assassin's Creed... not multiplayer, but still pretty cool.
All the best to all for 2008
(except tydd of course :P)
Been playing Hellgate London and I picked up the The Witcher as well. Hellgate's fun; only played a little bit of the Witcher, but first impression is that it's a cool game.
I'm currently playing EvE and waiting for WAR to hook back up with you all in game. Hope everyone has a good New Year. :D
I'm sort of taking a break from PC gaming and mostly just do the console thing now. I've been playing a lot of rock band and halo 3 with my roommates.
Went to the Monday Night game and had a hangover all day on Xmas.
Taking Friday off to play golf, though. What's that? You guys in the North/Northeast can't play golf right now? You poor bishes!
I was playing some Guitar Hero 3 with the family until I went up to visit our extended family during Christmas. All the kids played 24/7 while I was up there. My brother in law beat "In the Fire and Flames" on expert with 92%. I kinda stopped playing after that.
Got a sausage grinding machine for xmas. It's true what they say about sausage - it tastes good, but you don't want to know how it's made. VERY messy.
QuoteQuote: from Rosslyn on 3:16 pm on Dec. 26, 2007
I knew there was some reason a 3k sq. ft. house here doesn't cost 8 million bucks!
Don't tell anyone it was 70 degrees on xmas, especially the canadians.
QuoteQuote: from Axecleaver on 1:03 pm on Dec. 28, 2007
It's true what they say about sausage - it tastes good.
There's got to be a joke in there somewhere...
Speaking of Guitar Hero, I have been messing around w/ Rockband... it's pretty cool so far. That Bladestorm sounds interesting, I'll have to check to see if they have it for the 360.
Weather here sucks. No riding in this stuff. :(
And I'm still waiting on parts for my Busa. So I don't even have a shiny new bike to look at in my garage.
Too bad all i do is sled.
I played through the Orange Box, and shortly therafter TimeShift. Both are fun, but I had one of those unappealing gaming epiphanies: I'm not good at FPSes. I mean, I enjoy them, and when I play multiplayer I usually am comfortably near the middle of the scoreboards. I've beaten just about every one I've spent any serious amount of time playing in the last couple years (except Jericho, which was just too shitty).
But I don't really hold myself to any kind of standard of competence. I rely heavily on the ubquitous quicksave systems and stubbornness to get through shooters these days, rather than any kind of skill. Never was this more apparrent than playing through TimeShift, which grafts Prince of Persia-style time manipulation onto standard fps gameply. I got about halfway through the game when I realized that even with the ability to rewind time, I was still using quicksaves to act as my own expendable scout, like so:
1) Rush into a room either full of enemies, or trigger a scripted event so the enemies rush you.
2) Make a half-hearted effort to fight my way through, but really just study the lay of the land and enemy positions.
3) Die.
4) Load quicksave.
5) Repeat 1, but this time take advantage of prior knowledge to kill the baddies.
So halfway through TimeShift I started over on Expert difficulty. I mean, if I'm going to be reloading from quicksave every 5-10 minutes anyways, why not unlock all the bonus content in one playthrough?
It made me feel kind of dirty. Still, despite the above rant, TimeShift was pretty fun. Lots of opportunites to slow down time and snipe whole squads of guys before they realize the first shot has been fired. Or execute whole rooms full of troops with shotgun blasts to the head while time is stopped, only to have them all collapse at once when time starts up again. Only complaint is that you can't abuse your time powers nearly as much as I'd like.
I'll probably pick it up for keeps at some point - I didn't have a chance to really get into the multiplayer.
Final Fantasy II (Super Nintendo) : $15.50
Final Fantasy III (Super Nintendo) : $21.51
Chrono Trigger (Super Nintendo) : $64.00
Final Fantasy VII (Playstation) : $61.00
Final Fantasy IX (Playstation) : $15.50
Final Fantasy Tactics (Playstation) : $31.00
Final Fantasy Chronicles (Playstation) : $51.00
Final Fantasy Anthology (Playstation) : $56.00
Suikoden (Playstation) : $29.00
Suikoden II (Playstation) : $102.50
The only one that didn't sell was Final Fantasy VIII for the Playstation. Not suprised, it was a crappy game. I was kinda suprised that I made a profit on 5 of the games, getting more than I paid for them way-back-when.
It was my wife that convinced me to sell stuff on ebay, because people pay WAY more than you'd think for stuff. For example, my wife never returns old cellphones when she decides to upgrade to a new model. She takes her old one and fucks it up so she can get a new warranty replacement, then throws it on ebay. She sold her White Chocolate Verizon cell that she paid $25 for with contract for $150 on ebay.
(Edited by Sodom at 12:02 pm on Jan. 9, 2008)