So What Did You Score This Year?

[Hugh Manatee]

I also scored a Slow cooker/fryer combo and an imersion blender at the walmart after christmas sales. Got a few programing books, and lots of CDs(filled out my Everclear collection) at the half priced books sale. Also got Way of the Samurai 2,there's a good action game with interesting story elements to it(maybe a little to heavy onthe story elements...). Voice acting is a little wonky but no big deal if you've seen an episode of Kenshin. I also found Earth Seige 2, but I can't get it to install... yet...

[Atrocities]

Deus Ex was a phonominal game of epic proportion. Very depressing, but still a great game.

I have noticed that the great games are gone now, games like Deus Ex, Tribes, Freespace, Decents, Balders Gate, Diablo, War Craft, System Shock 2, and many many others just have not yet been equaled.

Sure there are a few inovative games, like Farcry, Dominions 2, SEIV, Half Life, Halo, Civ2, and others, but lately most games just seem to be to bloated with code and to short in game play.

Deus Ex 2 for example took me about a fourth of the time that the original did. I think that the emphesis on graphics, and the presure to get it done and out the door ASAP, have kind of ruined the inginuity and inovation that the older games had. One only has to look to Interplay and Microprose to see how dedication to ones craft can ruin your company.

In the Last few years, well since 2001, the games that I have enjoyed the most have been Wolfenstien, MOH, Farcry, SEIV, Deus Ex IW, Tribes 2, Sim City 3 and Sim City 4 Rush Hour, Empire Earth, SOF, Halo, and a few others that I cannot remember the names of.

Farcry should be recognised as one of the best games of the year IMHO. If not, well then the academy has been bought off by advatisers and special interest Groups. Farcry is so far ahead of DOOM3 and even better than Half Life 2. (Farcry is a lot longer game, with a better story and more complete game play. It at least had multiplayer.)

[Fyron]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Civ2 test of time (Which I have already gotten annoyed with. No map editor, no scenario editor)

The scenario editor for Civ 2 was remarkably annoying... Text files are far better. Not sure why the map editor wasn't included. The Civ 2 Gold map editor should work fine with ToT... Not sure if the original Civ 2 had a map editor or not. Been a while.

[Captain Kwok]

I got the Matrix trilogy boxset, which to my suprise, contains a lot of interesting extras - even more so then the movies.

[Fyron]

They have to have some reason to con people into buying the movies as they come out, then the boxed set once it comes out.

[TurinTurambar]

Ahem... we always over-do Christmas at our house, so this list is embarrasingly decadent, but here goes:

3 sets of clothes, one of which included a totally *****in' shirt that's soft as silk and hangs like chainmail... awesome
Return of the King, Extended on DVD
StarWars Trilogy on DVD
Time/Life's "Century of War" vols.4&5 on DVD
Blue Collar Comedy Tour-2 on DVD
4 CD's: Spock's Beard's "The Light" and "Beware of Darkness", Mike Keneally's "The Universe Will Provide" with the Metropole Orchestra, and Izz's "I Move"
2 bottles of wine, one Pinot, one Cabernet
A novel called "Duel of Eagles" by P.Townsend on the Battle of Britain
A book called "The Dragon Chronicles"... looks delightful, got it from my mom, no idea what it is.
A leatherbound tome called "MARVEL: It's Characters and Their Universe"
2 GameCube games: SC Pandora Tomorrow & Starfox Adventures

And the mother of all Christmas presents - Click Here for photo A signed, numbered, framed, 30th Anniversary Tour 7-photo Andrew McNaughton print of Neil Peart. (I'm a drummer)

Also, several silly and sundry NASCAR presents cuz the whole family's "got it bad" and I'm a Kevin Harvick fan...

....and a paaaartride in a pear treeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!!
Turin
(Edit:typo)

[Atrocities]

Some one is loved.