Christmas Prezzies
This Christmas I got quite a few games from my parents. What's pretty awesome is that they're a really good mix and all ones I want to play.
My father noticed I had Anno 1404 and, having read some reviews, decided that buying the other Anno games would be a waste of time, but did buy me Anno 2070, which is quite radically different in content, if not gameplay so far.
He also got me Supreme Commander 2. I wasn't going to buy this game myself, as they removed most of the really fun elements from the original, but it's nice to have and I can at least enjoy the plot of the campaign missions, which carry on the story of the original.
My mother, on the other hand, got me Just Dance 2 with extra songs and Just Dance 3. There are many awesome songs on there that I would actually like to dance to, and the one I'm most looking forwards to is Satellite by the two year's ago Eurovision winner from Germany. Mambo No 5, Scissor Sister's "I don't feel like dancing" (which, as herringprincess once pointed out, really is a song that makes you want to get on up and dance) and Donna Summer's "I feel love" are all some of the awesome songs I'm so looking forwards to.
Not only that, but she got me Zumba 2. This we have played and, well, *pants*. My mother got me to try it first and told me to do the short class. Halfway through as I'm on the third song, panting and desperately praying it will end so I can collapse, she notes that short Zumba workouts are usually half an hour. Gee, thanks for telling me that then. I threatened suitable forms of slow and painful death as I launched into the fourth song, but settled for watching my mum trying the short program, since it amounted to pretty much the same thing.
I also have a full Harry potter box set, which is awesome, and we all wanted to watch it over Christmas. Of course, that meant I hired Seven part 1 from LoveFilm and my parents couldn't tell me not to.
Granddad also gave me £100, which is pretty useful. If I spend it carefully, I can achieve a lot with it, but I really have to think carefully.
I got my parents a coffee grinder, which my mum had asked me to get after talking to me about how she was going to buy a new one as the old was breaking, shortly after we had a conversation about how hard it is to have any ideas about Christmas gifts when I only have Argos vouchers. We then put one and one together to get two, for we are clever. *nods*
Unfortunately, my other present, an espresso machine, didn't go down so well. They liked the idea, liked the machine and everything just, my mother doesn't wish to sacrifice any more space in the kitchen to gadgets. So I have to take it back :(
My father noticed I had Anno 1404 and, having read some reviews, decided that buying the other Anno games would be a waste of time, but did buy me Anno 2070, which is quite radically different in content, if not gameplay so far.
He also got me Supreme Commander 2. I wasn't going to buy this game myself, as they removed most of the really fun elements from the original, but it's nice to have and I can at least enjoy the plot of the campaign missions, which carry on the story of the original.
My mother, on the other hand, got me Just Dance 2 with extra songs and Just Dance 3. There are many awesome songs on there that I would actually like to dance to, and the one I'm most looking forwards to is Satellite by the two year's ago Eurovision winner from Germany. Mambo No 5, Scissor Sister's "I don't feel like dancing" (which, as herringprincess once pointed out, really is a song that makes you want to get on up and dance) and Donna Summer's "I feel love" are all some of the awesome songs I'm so looking forwards to.
Not only that, but she got me Zumba 2. This we have played and, well, *pants*. My mother got me to try it first and told me to do the short class. Halfway through as I'm on the third song, panting and desperately praying it will end so I can collapse, she notes that short Zumba workouts are usually half an hour. Gee, thanks for telling me that then. I threatened suitable forms of slow and painful death as I launched into the fourth song, but settled for watching my mum trying the short program, since it amounted to pretty much the same thing.
I also have a full Harry potter box set, which is awesome, and we all wanted to watch it over Christmas. Of course, that meant I hired Seven part 1 from LoveFilm and my parents couldn't tell me not to.
Granddad also gave me £100, which is pretty useful. If I spend it carefully, I can achieve a lot with it, but I really have to think carefully.
I got my parents a coffee grinder, which my mum had asked me to get after talking to me about how she was going to buy a new one as the old was breaking, shortly after we had a conversation about how hard it is to have any ideas about Christmas gifts when I only have Argos vouchers. We then put one and one together to get two, for we are clever. *nods*
Unfortunately, my other present, an espresso machine, didn't go down so well. They liked the idea, liked the machine and everything just, my mother doesn't wish to sacrifice any more space in the kitchen to gadgets. So I have to take it back :(