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Some miscellaneous gaming chatter:

Heptonian's Game Reviews

Based on a potential 5 Happy Turtles [@] system where more happy turtles equals a better game!

For now, I'll yammer about games that I play on the X-Box.  Caveat: All Heptonian reviews are basically worthless as they reflect only what games he personally liked or didn't like.  Go out and play 'em for yourself! 

Knights of the Old Republic
Rating @@@@ + 9/10 @

The best thing to happen to Star Wars since A New Hope!  This game is one of the top ten reasons to own an X-Box.  Great story meshed with good game-play.  The only reason that I don't give it 5 happy turtles is that the two "paths" Light-Side and Dark-Side that you can take the protagonist down are (until the end) essentially identical.  It's exactly the same story with two different endings.  Although the plot twist had me up out of my chair and cheering the first time I hit it.

Halo
Rating @@@@@

Wow.  Just wow.  And I don't even like First Person Shooters!  This game is one of the top ten reasons to own an X-Box.  Probably up there at number 1.  And Halo II is coming out soon.

Armed and Dangerous
Rating: @@@@ + 3/4 @

So now there are two First Person Shooters I like.  Imagine if Monty Python, Douglas Adams, and the guys who do South Park all got together and developed a shooter.  This give you an idea of the strange, bizarre, twisted, and just plain wrong humor that litters this game like some littery thing.  Game play is simple ... perhaps a little too simple in places.  Not a lot of interaction with the world other than shooting things.  A lot.

Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy
Rating @@@@

A fun puzzle-solver/fighting game mix.  I found the story to be a lot of fun.  Unfortunately they didn't get around to getting voice actors (although the cut scenes are clearly modeled for speech) so it's all sub-titled.  Likewise the save-game system is a little wierd (in that you can only have 3 games active at a time and can't go back to an earlier "save" point in a particular game.)  However, these were but minor detractions from a game that I really enjoyed.  If you have a choice between Prince of Persia and Sphinx ... get Sphinx first.

More games reviewed later.

Currently in play -- Prince of Persia and Goblin Commander.

yeah, magenight pretty much killed it, it ruled though, i still have mosto my mogs, stuck gathering dust most of them

Hey, now we have two gamerooms! :) (More games is a good thing.)

Yalahii.

Hat? not Me always the Car...zoom! Can't charge me rent if you can't catch me!

C'mon. the hat is so carefree. it just blows doen the street with the wind.

as for charging rent, you have to run out of gas sometime.

as for projectiles, i use the boot.

i choose option C: the rabid dog. sic 'em boy!

Anyone else here a fan of the Monster Rancher games for Play Station? I finally beat the Ubermonster for MR3 a few days ago. Now aiting to get my hands on MR4!

okay, i'm thinking of getting an x-box or ps2 so i can play football and /or hockey on it. any suggestions as to which unit to buy and then which game?

Has anyone seen that TV show on MTV2 that animates game characters and has them dance and lip synch to a top 40 hit?

I'm not really a fan of the show, but I did see it while flipping through the channels last Saturday.  I never realized how frightening the SSX 3 characters could be until they showed an interview with "Moby Jones".  And, of course having Zoe (whose original voice is alternative artist Biff Naked) get voiced by someone who sounds like L'il Kim.  Truly, truly disturbing.

Sad, too, since SSX 3 is an awesome game.  I kinda miss the "Tricky" theme when ubertricks become available, though.

If you want to play sports online, it might (might) be best to stick with the PS2.  EA, who in general make the best sport games around, don't have a real happy relationship going with Microsoft, and to my knowledge have no intention of making any Xbox sports game online.

If online isn't a huge priority, then you can't go wrong with either, really.

Seconds for Hepner - Knights and Halo are the only two reasons you need to buy an Xbox.  (Got Knights for Christmas.  Wheee!)

Xenogears!

fear the disc 2. Fear it. Nonetheless,

I want  to marry Citan Uzuki.


*sobs*