1. The Exies Head for the Door on CD:
These guys rawk! Sic a liontamer on Stabbing Westward and throw in a small pinch of Live, and you have these guys. Listen to "Ugly" and "Baptize Me," and you'll feel it too.
These guys rawk! Sic a liontamer on Stabbing Westward and throw in a small pinch of Live, and you have these guys. Listen to "Ugly" and "Baptize Me," and you'll feel it too.
2. Napoleon: Total War:
I really tried to get into Empire: Total War, but the game was just too damn hard. It was no fun leaving the loved ones home to go out and battle, and to return home to find your citizenry had revolted and lost your fair city to the enemy territory! This isn't nearly an issue in Napoleon, and like in all Total War warfare the battles are simply gorgeous to behold. I'm playing on Easy and to be honest, I can't imagine playing this on anything but Easy.
I really tried to get into Empire: Total War, but the game was just too damn hard. It was no fun leaving the loved ones home to go out and battle, and to return home to find your citizenry had revolted and lost your fair city to the enemy territory! This isn't nearly an issue in Napoleon, and like in all Total War warfare the battles are simply gorgeous to behold. I'm playing on Easy and to be honest, I can't imagine playing this on anything but Easy.
3. Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault:
From the first mission where I was driving a PT boat like a bat out of hell through a maze of broken and firebombed battleships on December 7, 1941 as the Japanese were attacking, I was filled with regret for having let this game float under my radar back in 2004 when it was released. This game is a tour de force of Spielbergian production values.
From the first mission where I was driving a PT boat like a bat out of hell through a maze of broken and firebombed battleships on December 7, 1941 as the Japanese were attacking, I was filled with regret for having let this game float under my radar back in 2004 when it was released. This game is a tour de force of Spielbergian production values.
4. Fallout 3: Operation Anchorage:
Completed another trip to post apocalyptic Washington D.C. to hang out with the Broken Steel gang. This was actually a game within a game. The whole duration you are strapped, er . .uh . .jacked into rather, a dentist type chair military simulator. And just when you reach down to collect that uber looking sniper rifle the enemy drops, he disappears like Star Trek bridge crew utilizing the transporter room. This was a fun quick romp DLC addition that took me about 5 hours to beat, and guess what? 111 hours into the game now, and I have still only uncovered one fourth of the map. I'll probably uncover the whole map about the time I get checked in all comfy cozy in a nursing home.
Completed another trip to post apocalyptic Washington D.C. to hang out with the Broken Steel gang. This was actually a game within a game. The whole duration you are strapped, er . .uh . .jacked into rather, a dentist type chair military simulator. And just when you reach down to collect that uber looking sniper rifle the enemy drops, he disappears like Star Trek bridge crew utilizing the transporter room. This was a fun quick romp DLC addition that took me about 5 hours to beat, and guess what? 111 hours into the game now, and I have still only uncovered one fourth of the map. I'll probably uncover the whole map about the time I get checked in all comfy cozy in a nursing home.
5. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson:
This guy has won a Santa toybag full of awards from his writing and inspired Dean Koontz and Stephen King to become writers. This story must hold the record for screenplays written from it, the original I Am Legend with (the legendary) Vincent Price, The Omega Man with Charlton Heston, and the flashy remake, I am Legend with Will Smith.
This guy has won a Santa toybag full of awards from his writing and inspired Dean Koontz and Stephen King to become writers. This story must hold the record for screenplays written from it, the original I Am Legend with (the legendary) Vincent Price, The Omega Man with Charlton Heston, and the flashy remake, I am Legend with Will Smith.
6. Seinfeld Season 4 on DVD:
I blew through the first three seasons of this remarkably funny sitcom. Season 4 is where the show began to develop a real following, there were some emmy awards won, and Seinfeld and crew knew at this point they were onto something big.
I blew through the first three seasons of this remarkably funny sitcom. Season 4 is where the show began to develop a real following, there were some emmy awards won, and Seinfeld and crew knew at this point they were onto something big.
7. Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
Yes, it's true, I'd never seen it until a week ago. I hated it. Downright abhored it. Please don't get me wrong, I LOVE Terry Gilliam's works, but we all had to cut our teeth somewhere, right? This was like watching a high school play done with last minute understudies. For a TG fix, I recommend Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, (one of my favorite movies) or 12 Monkeys. I do not recommend this.
Yes, it's true, I'd never seen it until a week ago. I hated it. Downright abhored it. Please don't get me wrong, I LOVE Terry Gilliam's works, but we all had to cut our teeth somewhere, right? This was like watching a high school play done with last minute understudies. For a TG fix, I recommend Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, (one of my favorite movies) or 12 Monkeys. I do not recommend this.
8. Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert Heinlein:
Just started this a few days ago and I'm well into it. It's wonderful to make a return to Heinlein's vintage stories. This is the stuff to make lonely farmboys reading in haylofts and under shade trees want to become astronauts and explorers. This story concerns a boy with no memory on an Earthlike planet, sold as a slave to a local town beggar who ends up being much more than meets the eye. I can almost hear cliffhanger dirges at the end of each chapter.
Just started this a few days ago and I'm well into it. It's wonderful to make a return to Heinlein's vintage stories. This is the stuff to make lonely farmboys reading in haylofts and under shade trees want to become astronauts and explorers. This story concerns a boy with no memory on an Earthlike planet, sold as a slave to a local town beggar who ends up being much more than meets the eye. I can almost hear cliffhanger dirges at the end of each chapter.
