I've played some board and card games I hadn't played before in the last week. Here are super-brief minireviews ( Read more... )

So I'm like two months late saying this, but I definitely fall into the whole Mid-Core gamer idea, which had a bit of a surge in the blogs back in February. Looks like they tried to start a community and more blogs and stuff, but it sort of petered out because midcore gamers don't have time to run that stuff. But my take on it, in case you're ( Read more... )

And hopefully, a simple poll will give me some helpful data. It's behind the cut- just a list of 30 songs, check them off if you recognize them. Even if you aren't a music person, at least give it a look- this is sort of targetted towards not music people anyway. The one thing I ask is that you not check off a song if you only know about it through ( Read more... )

I've had access to Rock Band for the last few weeks. It is, as you would expect, tons of fun. A decent part of it is that the co-op mode interleaves the separate parts just enough for everyone to have an impact on how the group does, but not so much that the skillset changes drastically from the solo version. Essentially, score is combined for ( Read more... )

Last night, I found myself playing the Age of Mythology board game for the first time, and the endgame situation was the kind of memorable transcendental moment that demands recording. I expect most of you aren't familiar with the game, but the gist of it is that it's an empire-building type game (Like the computer game it's named after) where the ( Read more... )

A game that some of my friends play when we go out for Chinese food is that everyone gets a fortune cookie, and whoever's is the closest to an actual fortune wins. Well, maybe we don't treat it as a game just yet, but I can read a fortune with a sigh and a "Proverb," and people know what that means ( Read more... )

So a CRPG (Rant on not actually playing a role deleted for your sanity) I'm playing at the moment, which will for now remain nameless, has some interesting game mechanics, but can be trite in the plot department. Most recently, the Bad Guy's Grand and Horrible Plan was about to succeed, so we went off to the Lost Ancient Realm Of Legend to recover ( Read more... )

Well, yeah, a lot of other stuff has happened that I could write more about later, but I finally got my hands on a DS and copy of Phoenix Wright: Justice for All, borrowed from two different friends. And, of course, I shout "Objection!" at it. ("Hold it!" comes up too to the point where it's almost annoying, and I haven't gotten it to recognize " ( Read more... )

Some people were going to throw away a Trivial Pursuit set that was missing the cards, since without the questions the game's kind of silly. But I salvaged the wheels and wedges, thinking they might be useful for something (Game-related, perhaps?) someday. So now I have six little colored wheels (In brown, blue, pink, green, orange, and yellow), ( Read more... )

There are a lot of good things going for the Wii, and maybe I'll talk about them someday. One extremely aggravating one for me, though, has been its save file management. While it has an internal harddrive that makes it extremely easy if you're just one person playing games on one console and don't want to buy anything special, there are some ( Read more... )