Thanksgiving gaming

[Gary Whitta]

Okay people, four days of gaming nirvana FTW. What's on your list? Here's mine

Rainbow Six Vegas
Viva Pinata
Gears of War
Sneak King
Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07
Wii Sports
Zelda: Twilight Princess
Red Steel
Trauma Center: Second Opinion
Rayman Ravin Rabbids
Okami

Fortunately there's no family or anything to complicate things this year, it's just me and the gf so the TV is ALL MINE. Bwaahaha.

[scharmers]

I get to make dinner for a house full of guests, then I immediately get to turn around and fly to Utah for my mother-in-law's wedding.

Worst 4-day weekend evar.

[Kevin Grey]

Rainbow Six Vegas (single player isn't grabbing me, hope that changes)
NFS Carbon (same as above)
FFXII
Yoshi's Island DS
Guitar Hero 2

Maybe some Final Fanasty 3 and NWN 2 (though I think I'm waiting on 1.03 patch for that one).

[Crater]

I'm taking my Wii over to the GF's place tomorrow for a big T-Day party with other friends who don't have any place to go. Party games all day, and not all of them even need to be electronic.

I look forward to testing out the Wii while liquored up. If nothing else, she does live close to a hospital.

[ElGuapo]

I'll be at the in-laws, sitting in their quiet, quiet house, chatting with my mother in law, the retired English teacher. Listening to the grandfather clock tick.

If things get extra super wild, we might play bridge.

Play a little extra harder for me.

[TriggerHappy]

In order:

Various drinking games

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Guitar Hero 2
FFXII

[charmtrap]

In between stuffing food in my mouth at as high a rate as possible, Company of Heroes and my new project: finishing all 4 Ratchet & Clanks 100%...all the secrets, titanium bolts and skill points...and no goddam faqs.

[Rorschach]

Gears of War
Small Arms
Caesar IV
Company of Heroes (Finishing the campaign)
Sword of the Stars (hopefully the update will be released soon)

[Alan Au]

For several years, I had a Thanksgiving tradition of burning through an entire game during the extended break. This year, coursework is going to be eating into my gaming time, but I'm up for a couple rounds of Company of Heroes. Other than that, I'm need to go back and actually finish Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones.

- Alan

[RepoMan]

I'm going up to the mother-in-law's (geez, a lot of that going around!) for three days -- gonna spend Thanksgiving with my disabled father-in-law. (Though my daughter just got diarrhea so we may have to tweak that plan, don't want all the old folks in the home getting the runs :-P ) Then a couple days with the mom-in-law -- maybe we'll have to bring some board games along, see if we can get her into Ticket to Ride....

Back late Saturday night, probably too late to play anything. Then on Sunday I'll be probably doing housework with my wife and entertaining my baby daughter.

The only gaming time I may get is a couple hours of NWN2 tonight and MAYBE some on Sunday night, TBD.

C'est la vie when you've got kids. Whitta, are you gonna marry your girlfriend and pop some tots so you can find out how the other half lives, or what??? :-D

[Ryan Markel]

I'm planning on whipping through Marvel Ultimate Alliance - probably tonight as long as people don't invite me into eleventy Gears multi matches like they have been.

After that, I have to work on co-op'ing the Gears campaign on Hardcore, then maybe Insane if I feel bored.

I would love to get rolling on R6 Vegas and Viva, but I just plain don't have $120 right now. I might get rolling on my PS2 backlog over the weekend, but ever since I've had a 360, I have psychological problems with playing anything that's not attached to Live.

I know, it's a problem.

[ElGuapo]

Does it make me a bad person to be having fantasies of telling my wife I got food poisoning/I'm sick/my Grandmother died and let her go to Thanksgiving with the in-laws, and stay home and play games for 5 days?

Of course, the next time she saw my Grandma she'd be a little pissed.

[tromik]

I'm not jealous of your four-day-super-sale-no-work-all-play-and-party-a-month-before-Christmas weekend. No sir.

*Sniff*

I'll be playing RB6 Vegas, though.

[Gordon Cameron]

NWN2 probably, although I'm finding the fussiness of the interface is slowly wearing on me.

There's always WoW as a fallback, but the last few days I have felt a sudden lack of desire to play it, and am trying to preserve that feeling like a delicate flower.

I also have a daring scheme of trying to finally clear up this logjam of Pretentious Foreign Movies in my Netflix queue.

[Alan Au]

I also have a daring scheme of trying to finally clear up this logjam of Pretentious Foreign Movies in my Netflix queue.
That's easy; watch them while drunk and make up your own subtitles.

- Alan

[Qenan]

Currently, my daughter and I are playing

Lego Star Wars (XBox)
Bully (PS2)
Final Fantasy XII (PS2)
Kingdom Hearts (PS2)

I think we also are in the middle of Wind Waker, but it's been so long since we last played it that it barely counts.

I imagine FF XII and Star Wars will get most of our attention this weekend.

[BDGE]

Just bringing my DS and a pile of games to LA to visit family.

I think it'll be mostly FFV and Yoshi DS. I'll be wishing to play Zelda most of this trip though.

[spiffy]

I'm going to try and finish off the single player campaign of Company of Heroes and get some missions of MSFSX in, but realistically Medieval Total War 2 will probably have me stuck in "one more turn" mode for the entire 4 day stretch-- when I can get away from dang social duties that is. If the new Mount and Blade version is finally released this week, I might give that a spin too.

[Ryan Markel]

BTW, friends requests are welcome for weekend action.

[fuzzyslug]

I'll be home for Thanksgiving and gone the rest of the weekend. My list reflects that switch.

Guitar Hero 2 -- crowd pleaser after eating
Viva Pinata -- the new kid of my collection
Tiger Woods 2007 -- must improve character so I can deliver beat downs in multiplayer
Okami -- calling to me; I will attempt to ignore it
Dungeon Siege PSP -- continue with the character I built up during a weekend of co-op play
Loco Roco -- only 1/2 done
Trama Center DS -- attempt to avoid cussing
Advance Wars DS -- revisit an old war horse in the form of a new purchase

[delirium]

Gears of War
Tiger Woods
Enchanted Arms
Saints Row
Lumines
Small Arms, if I like the demo

maybe I'll even find time to finish Chibi Robo or start the gamecube Fire Emblem game, which I've had for months and haven't touched.

[Robert Sharp]

Kingdom Hearts 2, Titan Quest (I got both of these late...kind of recently, actually). Oh, and the wife and I are thinking about getting an HDTV on Friday (finally!). So I'll probably play a bunch of console games just to see how good they look.

[Moore]

In no apparent order:
Splinter Cell DA
Oblivion
Burnout Revenge
Rainbow Six Vegas
Gears of War
Saints Row
Small Arms
Pocketbike racer, maybe
Table Tennis
Hitman: BM
Dead Rising
Vice City (replaying it)

[Al]

None My wife would crucify me if I even thought about picking up a controller for the next five days. Maybe I can sneak in some Dragon Quest Heroes on the can.

[Moore]

I'll be at the in-laws, sitting in their quiet, quiet house, chatting with my mother in law, the retired English teacher. Listening to the grandfather clock tick.

If things get extra super wild, we might play bridge.

Play a little extra harder for me.

I'll find some way to brutally headshot myself in gears for you. I swear!

[Qenan]

My wife would crucify me if I even thought about picking up a controller for the next five days. Maybe I can sneak in some Dragon Quest Heroes on the can.

Wow. What does she expect you to do instead?

[Dean]

I've been playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance on the Wii, even though I've got Zelda on the coffee table. I'll probably keep playing that. I'm really getting the hang of it and starting to have fun with the superpowers.

Oblivion on the PC when the wife wants to watch TV. Maybe get an evening of City of Heroes in.

Friends are coming over Friday night and it looks like Wii Sports and some board games that night.

And all day Sunday is Dungeons and Dragons around the dining room table.

After years of traveling every Thanksgiving, I'm loving this whole "stay at home, cook yourself" thing.

[Al]

Wow. What does she expect you to do instead?

Tomorrow: Cook and eat.
The rest of the time: Do family stuff.

Stay single forever kids!

[Jupiter Jones]

FFF III only.

This will be on little breaks between family requests, on the toilet, in the back room of Mother-In-Law's house, and generally when no one lese is around or looking.

Yes, it is true. My masturbation scheme and plans from my teenage years have morphed into my gaming plans as an adult with wife and kids on Thanksgiving weekend.

[Mark Crump]

I'm in deadline for reviews. Which means "No, honey, I can't do that, I have to work." is considered valid.

[Slainte Mhath]

Stay single forever kids!

Ain't that the goddamn truth!

Since I am also married with kids, I have family obligations most of tomorrow, part of Friday, most of Saturday, and so far not at all on Sunday.

In between all that, I plan to make time for some brief forrays into Company of Heroes and Guild Wars Nightfall.

Man, it's weekends like this that make me long for my single days, I envy those of you who only need to make a token appearance for a free meal at your relative house tomorrow, then have 3 days of pure gaming goodness to look forward to. Bastards.

[Sean Hargraves]

The last time I didn't have to work Thanksgiving weekend was '95.

On the one hand, I envy you guys.

On the other, getting paid twice my normal wage and avoiding inevitable family drama at the Thanksgiving table makes it worth it.

[Reed]

Definitely no shortage of excellent gaming this week.

Gears of War
Rainbow Six Vegas
Viva Pinata
Company of Heroes

And hopefully Zelda, Monkey Ball, Wii Sports if I can snag a Wii at some point.

[Athryn]

Thanksgiving day -- family stuff with the boyfriend. I'm gonna carry a pack of cards in case things get boring, and we'll play Rummy.

The rest of the weekend -- same as usual, which means burning crusade beta, viva pinata, uno, and stuff like that.

We have 2 Wii games wating for a wii (Zelda and the Rayman rabbit game) but we need the wii first :(

[Kevin Grey]

Ain't that the goddamn truth!

Since I am also married with kids, I have family obligations most of tomorrow, part of Friday, most of Saturday, and so far not at all on Sunday.

In between all that, I plan to make time for some brief forrays into Company of Heroes and Guild Wars Nightfall.

Man, it's weekends like this that make me long for my single days, I envy those of you who only need to make a token appearance for a free meal at your relative house tomorrow, then have 3 days of pure gaming goodness to look forward to. Bastards.

I'm married with a one year old and I plan to get tons of gaming over the next four days. We're hosting Thanksgiving at our house but we're pretty much ready for that, so it won't be too time consuming. The rest of the time my wife will be out shopping with the baby which leaves me home and plenty of time for gaming.

I can honestly say I get a helluva lot more gaming time in while married versus when we were dating. Obviously being single provided the most free time, but I still get more than enough now.

[Al]

They're so adoreable when they still have hope.

[Slainte Mhath]

I'm married with a one year old...

That's "Married with Kids" Level One, and if she takes the baby shopping, then it's Level One on Easy mode. Enjoy it while you can brother...

[Kevin Grey]

That's "Married with Kids" Level One, and if she takes the baby shopping, then it's Level One on Easy mode. Enjoy it while you can brother...

That's why I'm hoping when we have a second kid it's another girl. If we have a boy then he's got to stay home while mommy and daughter go shopping and then the gaming time gets cut.

I should also ad that I'm probably fortunate in that my wife goes to bed at about 9pm. With baby in bed at 8pm, I pretty much have the house to myself for the additional three to four hours or so until I go to bed.

[Lorini]

T-day is spent with family, good news is that cousin bought 65" HDTV so at least I get to watch some good football.

Friday is shopping day and Casino Royale in the afternoon. Then gaming starts and will include:

Heroes V expansion
Medieval Total War 2
Viva Pinata
EQ2
1701 AD
Caesar IV

This will go on through Sunday, with short breaks for meals.

Lorini

[Dave Long]

Blackrock Depths tonight with the B Squad in WoW. The rest of the weekend will be Gears, Age III Xpack, CoH and ATV Off Road Fury 4.

[Jab2565]

Zelda TP
Trauma center SO
Coh( if anyone is setting up matches)
and trying to get thru Phantasy Star 2-4 on sega genesis collection.

[Qenan]

Tomorrow: Cook and eat.
The rest of the time: Do family stuff.

Stay single forever kids!

Heh. I play games with my daughter. Which is "family stuff".

[WarrenM]

The rest of the time my wife will be out shopping with the baby which leaves me home and plenty of time for gaming.
The fact that she's going shopping alone with the baby (and this, I'm guessing, isn't an isolated incident) you won't have to worry about this much longer. Heh.

[metta]

Tomorrow: Cook and eat.
The rest of the time: Do family stuff.

Stay single forever kids!

Alternatively, find a partner better suited to your habits and tastes :p

We had our Thanksgiving last month, but Sula and I will be working our co-op way through Marvel Ultimate Alliance and Gears of War on our new 360. No kids for us (that's a choice too, you know) so we get all the toys.

[Kevin Grey]

The fact that she's going shopping alone with the baby (and this, I'm guessing, isn't an isolated incident) you won't have to worry about this much longer. Heh.

Shopping is a social experience with my wife. She goes out with a large group of friends and family, all of whom bring their kids along too. It's basically her hobby. Good for my gaming time, less good on the bank account. Plus, the baby loves going out. She's very social and actually easier to deal with when we take her out.

[Slainte Mhath]

I should also ad that I'm probably fortunate in that my wife goes to bed at about 9pm. With baby in bed at 8pm, I pretty much have the house to myself for the additional three to four hours or so until I go to bed.

My wife usually goes to bed between 9:00pm and 10:00pm depending on what's on TV (she is NOT a gamer at all). So 10:00pm-12:00am three to four nights a week becomes the sum total of my gaming time. With two kids in the 3-7 age range, daytime gaming is a rarity unless I'm home sick on a weekday or a miracle occurs and the wife takes both kids someplace without me. I've found my situation to be the norm for most married gamers with more than one small child.

[WarrenM]

(that's a choice too, you know)
Amen! My wife and I have no desire to spawn.

[Robert Sharp]

Exactly. The marriage isn't the problem. It's the kids. I'm married and have just as much free time for gaming as I did when single.

[Jeff Green]

My experience is kinda similar to Slainte's, except I just have one kid (she's 12, and kind of a gamer). The Wife hates games EVEN THOUGH THEY PAID FOR OUR GODDAMN HOUSE. But she crashes around 10 pm, so I get a nice chunk of guilt-free gaming from about 10-1 every night.

On topic--Thanksgiving gaming:

In LA for three days for the (grrr) family, but I will take my DS and get crackin' on FF III.

Tonight and Sunday it will be:
1701 A.D.
AOE III
Gears o' War
Viva Pinata

[RepoMan]

Currently, my daughter and I are playing
OH HOT DAMN. How old is your daughter? You mean that when my daughter's old enough I can spend whole days playing video games WITH HER??? She's only two now so it's kind of a distant vision on the horizon....

[Qenan]

She's almost 7. At the moment she's playing Lego Star Wars by herself (she has a close friend who also plays it).

[Xaroc]

Gears
RB6: Vegas
NWN2
NHL 2007/2k7

Oh and marry a gamer or convert your wife to be a gamer. That is what I did.

[Lorini]

I'm a woman and I really like gaming. But having been married (now divorced) to a computer game producer, sharing gaming interests is not the end-all and be-all. Right now, if I go out with a guy, he doesn't have to be a gamer for me to be interested in him.

You are better off with a good marriage to someone who doesn't care for gaming than being in a bad marriage with a gamer, I can promise you that. What it's really about is respect for each other's interests, whether it be gaming or knitting or whatever.

Lorini

[RepoMan]

Yeah, my wife is mostly OK with the gamingness, though she also likes falling asleep next to me -- and I like falling asleep next to her too! -- so can't do late nights every night. Plus you have to have a couple nights a week when you, I dunno, watch a movie together or something. She's not a gamer so co-op is not on, which is somewhat of a bummer but totally livable. She definitely doesn't HATE games!

[Jeff Green]

I'm a woman and I really like gaming. But having been married (now divorced) to a computer game producer, sharing gaming interests is not the end-all and be-all. Right now, if I go out with a guy, he doesn't have to be a gamer for me to be interested in him.

You are better off with a good marriage to someone who doesn't care for gaming than being in a bad marriage with a gamer, I can promise you that. What it's really about is respect for each other's interests, whether it be gaming or knitting or whatever.

Lorini

Amen. Fortunately I have enough good things going on with The Missus that it makes up for the non-compatibility with gaming. However, since gaming *is* obviously a big part of my life, it *does* suck on occasion to be get the "why do you waste your time with that shit?" vibe. That's usually when I hit her.

OH HOT DAMN. How old is your daughter? You mean that when my daughter's old enough I can spend whole days playing video games WITH HER??? She's only two now so it's kind of a distant vision on the horizon....

Totally, dude! It's up to you to start on the brainwashing early though. I got Sarah going in her younger years with all those awesome Humungous adventure games (Putt Putt, Sly Fox, etc)....and now we spend lotsa time playing games together like WoW, Guitar Hero (though she is a bit embarrassed for me with that one), and currently Viva Pinata. And, frighteningly, she was also one of the leaders of her WoW guild for awhile.

And to counter the GAMES ARE BAD FOR KIDS argument, she's also a straight A student at her very academic middle school, and is active in sports, music, and community service stuff. Plus she brushes regularly and calls me Sir.

[Jeff Green]

Yeah, my wife is mostly OK with the gamingness, though she also likes falling asleep next to me -- and I like falling asleep next to her too! -- so can't do late nights every night. Plus you have to have a couple nights a week when you, I dunno, watch a movie together or something. She's not a gamer so co-op is not on, which is somewhat of a bummer but totally livable. She definitely doesn't HATE games!

What I do in that case is go to bed with her and stay until she's asleep, and then get up and play games :)

And we hang out, watch TV, talk (*shudder*), read together every night.

Teh gaming is my reward for all that sensitive shit.

[unbongwah]

I'll be gamin' it old-school:

Turkey Baster
Scullery Lad
Family Feud

Thankfully, no Black Friday Runner this year.

[Kadath]

Gears
Everquest 1
Wii Sports and whatever else my sisters family has stocked up on while I'm over there.

[Ranulf]

First time in a while that I'm not spending turkey day with some family somewhere. Kinda bummed but mom is sick and plans have been cancelled so its 4 days of gaming mania. Maybe I'll cook up a stew, maybe frozen pizza, who knows. I finally got all of the GITS season 2 dvds so its marathon time there.

Games wise its:

WoW + Burning crusade beta. Time to level my druid to 70 and see how gimp tree of lol is.
DoW: Dark Crusade
SW Empire at war expansion
If I'm feeling adventurous I'll finally install NWN2 and maybe Company of Heroes.. I think CoH's demo wouldnt even run because of my processor being too low (AMD 2100+ aka 1.7ghz) Neither of them will run well on the desktop but maybe on the laptop with the funky nvidia quadro that they never seem to bother releasing new drivers for.

[Patrick]

Well I'm going shooting clays with the guys in the morning. Then Friday morning we are loading up in the car and heading up the coast. First stop Hearst Castle, then on up to the Aquarium in Monterey. We will head home on Sunday. I also took monday and tuesday off. Ive been on kind of a vintage kick. So starting either Sunday night or Monday morning Ill finish KOTOR again and probably install BG2.

[Marcin]

I haven't decided. Space Rangers is finally calling me (I bought it almost on day 1, didn't click) and I think I might answer. Gothics 2 and 3, likewise.

I think I have a hankering for something big, open, epic, only vaguely directed, with um, loot and upgrades and missions and whatnot. I almost reinstalled X3, but then I remembered those utterly boring sectors of nothingness ...

Anything like this on the 360? I honestly can't think of anything that would fit.

[fuzzyslug]

What I do in that case is go to bed with her and stay until she's asleep, and then get up and play games :)

This is so my technique as well.

[Midnight Son]

Guitar Hero 2 with a bunch of folks. Food. Football. Drinking, whoring and fornication. Oblivion too.

[Demon G Sides]

I haven't decided. Space Rangers is finally calling me (I bought it almost on day 1, didn't click) and I think I might answer. Gothics 2 and 3, likewise.

I think I have a hankering for something big, open, epic, only vaguely directed, with um, loot and upgrades and missions and whatnot. I almost reinstalled X3, but then I remembered those utterly boring sectors of nothingness ...

Anything like this on the 360? I honestly can't think of anything that would fit.

new Oblivion expansion for the 360 on the marketplace from what I gather.

Otherwise, not really much in the way of HUGE games.



I plan on playing Small Arms if it will ever download. That, and some Lost Planet Multiplayer Demo after the Turkey is eaten.

[Slothrop]

Guitar Hero 2 with a bunch of folks. Food. Football. Drinking, whoring and fornication. Oblivion too.
So the whoring and the fornication will be separate events? I'm not sure what to make of that.

[Thomas Wilde]

I've got review code on Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.

Weekend: set.

[Thrag]

I'm going to be playing Medieval II: Total War up until I leave for Ixtapa for a whole week at which point I will experience severe video game withdrawal (fortunately in Mexico they have a medication for that called Negra Modello). Whoo hoo! A week and a half without work! Makes me happy just thinking about it.

[SamF7]

They're so adoreable when they still have hope.

When are they going to realize that the TV Show, "Married with Children" is NOT a comedy....

It's a Documentary.....

SamF7

[Ryan Markel]

My wife usually goes to bed between 9:00pm and 10:00pm depending on what's on TV (she is NOT a gamer at all). So 10:00pm-12:00am three to four nights a week becomes the sum total of my gaming time. With two kids in the 3-7 age range, daytime gaming is a rarity unless I'm home sick on a weekday or a miracle occurs and the wife takes both kids someplace without me. I've found my situation to be the norm for most married gamers with more than one small child.

It's like I'm meeting my long-lost best friends around here.

All you West Coasters who see me on around normal times in your neck of the woods - it's exactly because my situation is this very one. It was almost untenable until recently, when we finally bought a house that has more than one level, so the noise doesn't completely bother the wife.

I also sympathize with those whose wives ask them to go to bed with them on a semi-regular basis. There are just some night I don't get anything in at all simply because I'm doing my part to keep my wife happy (not that I complain often, because I don't).

I would game more during the day, but this doesn't work for two main reasons: (1) I have three kids under four, and most games I've discovered aren't appropriate for them in my eyes - though I get them working on what I can find works, and (2) my wife would freak if she saw something like the Gears ultraviolence.

She's already told me that she hoped once upon a time that the video games were something that would go away as I became older and more mature. Imagine her disappointment that I do nothing in my free time but play games, talk about games, write about games, and participate in forum discussions about games.

[Marcus]

Well I have to work Thursday and Friday but I do plan on playing Titan Quest and a whole lot of WoW.

[deccan]

What I do in that case is go to bed with her and stay until she's asleep, and then get up and play games :)

In my case, I play on the bed on the laptop until she falls asleep. ;)

[Crater]

I've got review code on Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin.

Weekend: set.

I hate you. I'm just hoping that EB doesn't screw up my preorder again.

[RepoMan]

This is so my technique as well.
Yeah, it's a nice thought, but she tends to wake up when I get out of bed. Actually usually I cuddle her until she's ABOUT to fall asleep and so tired she doesn't want me to be draped over her anymore (we don't spoon while we're sleeping), then I split, which is generally totally fine.

... Except when 1) she wants to wake up next to me (because I've crashed in the spare bedroom two nights running), and 2) she's sick enough that she will probably wake up when I come to bed late (she doesn't sleep well when she's sick).

Sick wife = fall asleep together FTW.

Generally on a late night I sleep in the spare bedroom just to avoid the chance of waking her accidentally; usually I don't, but every now and then I trip over something, or something, and I would rather not risk it at all. (Plus the damned cats tend to wake up when I come to bed and walk all over her head, which doesn't do anybody any good.)

Ah, married life! Wouldn't have it any other way though, really :-) And the spare bedroom has flannel sheets....

[jfletch]

I have work on friday (stock market open FTL) so it's all a wash to me.

[RepoMan]

we finally bought a house that has more than one level, so the noise doesn't completely bother the wife.
Noise? What noise? Headphones, man.

Plus I (apparently) snore, so my wife sleeps with earplugs every night anyway, which definitely helps.

[Lorini]

Isn't it disappointing that people think that liking games=immaturity? It's ok to like a game like Chess or something, but forget a game that has more than 4 colors :).

People who aren't into games just don't realize where the hobby has gone in the last 20 years, both in board games and computer/video games. We are way past both Candyland and Pac-man :)

That's the thing, something like Ticket to Ride or Carcasonne would be a great way for many extended families to end Turkey Day, but at least in my family, I'd get laughed out of the house if I suggested such a thing tomorrow ("Haven't you outgrown that yet? You're nearly 50 years old!!")

Lorini

[squaddie]

I may fire up Medieval:Total War, the first one. Been trying to find some time to spend on it since gameplay is in-depth. Will play thru a practice game then try to play a serious one, starting off as the Spainards, or whatever the proper faction name is. Also using the Total War XL Mod since I heard it made the game more interesting.

I was going to play Splinter Cell 4 for the PC but it runs slow and the control issues are annoying. I had installed the first SC while waiting for SC4 and found SC1 to be more enjoyable so may continue with that.

Also hoping to finish SMod:Tactical, which is a single-player mod for Half-Life 2 that incorporates many modern-day weapons like in Counterstrike.
Think about having all the CS weapons in single-player Half-Life 2, and having more enemies who are twice as hard to fight, and that's the mod in a nut-shell. I may post a new thread about it if I have time.

Speaking of tactical games I still need to finish SWAT 4, so that's another game on the list.

Also want to finally try the demos for the FEAR expansion and the GRAW for the PC. I heard the helper AI in GRAW was dumb so I held off on being dissappointed.

[RepoMan]

Fortunately I grew up playing Sorry! and Clue and Boggle with my folks, so when they came out this summer I whipped out Kill Dr. Lucky and people actually had a really good time with it. Might do some Ticket to Ride at Christmas this year... or maybe BattleLore! My wife and I could play it and we could enlist the parents-in-law as (cough) senior advisers / kibbitzers :-D

[Thrrrpptt!]

I've got kind of a weird weekend. My wife and daughter drove out of town for a family gathering earlier today (Wednesday). I worked today and had tonight to myself, which I spent mostly on FF XII. I'm driving out to join them tomorrow, then driving back into town on Friday to work while they stay out there for the rest of the weekend. I'll have Friday night alone again (more FF XII, maybe zelda and guitar hero 2), then I'm driving back out AGAIN on Saturday to join them again and coming back Sunday evening. It's fortunatly only about an hour and a half drive each way, but it's still kind of goofy.

I'll probably end up taking my DS with me if I can find the thing. I think I have Meteos and Guilty Gear to check out on that.

[Qenan]

People who aren't into games just don't realize where the hobby has gone in the last 20 years, both in board games and computer/video games. We are way past both Candyland and Pac-man :)

Well, in all honesty, few games I play are remotely as challenging as chess. I think they are more akin to reading science fiction novels or watching Star Trek. What I don't understand is why they are sometimes considered worse than other lightweight entertainments.

[Ranulf]

Well, in all honesty, few games I play are remotely as challenging as chess. I think they are more akin to reading science fiction novels or watching Star Trek. What I don't understand is why they are sometimes considered worse than other lightweight entertainments.


You mean like when my old man would drop hints about my gaming and growing up etc., yet he was well known to spend all of Sundays watching the nfl? :)

[John Doyle]

The Wife hates games EVEN THOUGH THEY PAID FOR OUR GODDAMN HOUSE.


Laughed my ass off at that! I have the very same issue. Now that all 3 of my boys are playing all the time the poor woman is in hell.

She's flying to Phoenix with the baby for Thanksgiving, so the boys and I will be playing:

-Viva Pinata
-Marvel UA
-NFS Carbon

and I'll certainly get in some Gears and finish up NWN2

[Ezdaar]

No PC for me since I'm visiting the relatives, but I plan to play their Gamecube as well as my DS. My other gaming related goal is to assemble four box sets of Warmachine/Hordes figures so I can paint them when I get home.