Yo ho ho and a bottle of--puzzle solving action!
Wes is right about Puzzle Pirates; it is like mind-blowing pirate orgy! That was how he described it, wasn’t it?
I spent a couple hours dinking around with it yesterday afternoon and found it hard to pull myself away. It isn’t quite as addictive as Nirvana (yet) but there seems to be almost as wide a variety of fun things to play with. A lot of them require more money than I’ve been able to make, but they sure do sound cool! Instead of disemboweling demons and elementals and Simpson’s characters you have to solve different kinds of puzzles.
So one might think the disemboweling would have the advantage, but I’m not so sure. Puzzle Pirates has graphics, for one thing. It also has the awesome piratey theme with jobs that vary from bilge pumping to rum distilling. I spent about half of the time I played distilling rum. I am a rum-making wizard now, for sure.
This game couldn’t have come along at a more opportune time either. Friday night I played what might amount to be my last Halo 2 online game for a few weeks.
I am totally fed up with the cheating. If someone on the other team wasn’t cheating, then it was someone on my team! No one wants to play the game anymore; apparently they just want to see who can best manipulate their modem. It’s all about rank, you know.
More good news: Doom 3 is coming out for the Xbox at the beginning of April, and if it lives up to the first couple games (which it probably won’t), should be a demon-blasting barn dance of a good time.
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is also supposed to be really good…and would probably be more mentally engaging. The Metal Gear-style sneaking around and silently strangling your opponents does take a few more brain cells than arming yourself with a rocket launcher and firing at anything that moves. But with the latter you get those satisfying exploding sounds followed by the squish of exploding demon bodies.
Ahh… decisions decisions.
I'll run all of my gaming decisions through these girls from now on.
I spent a couple hours dinking around with it yesterday afternoon and found it hard to pull myself away. It isn’t quite as addictive as Nirvana (yet) but there seems to be almost as wide a variety of fun things to play with. A lot of them require more money than I’ve been able to make, but they sure do sound cool! Instead of disemboweling demons and elementals and Simpson’s characters you have to solve different kinds of puzzles.
So one might think the disemboweling would have the advantage, but I’m not so sure. Puzzle Pirates has graphics, for one thing. It also has the awesome piratey theme with jobs that vary from bilge pumping to rum distilling. I spent about half of the time I played distilling rum. I am a rum-making wizard now, for sure.
This game couldn’t have come along at a more opportune time either. Friday night I played what might amount to be my last Halo 2 online game for a few weeks.
I am totally fed up with the cheating. If someone on the other team wasn’t cheating, then it was someone on my team! No one wants to play the game anymore; apparently they just want to see who can best manipulate their modem. It’s all about rank, you know.
More good news: Doom 3 is coming out for the Xbox at the beginning of April, and if it lives up to the first couple games (which it probably won’t), should be a demon-blasting barn dance of a good time.
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is also supposed to be really good…and would probably be more mentally engaging. The Metal Gear-style sneaking around and silently strangling your opponents does take a few more brain cells than arming yourself with a rocket launcher and firing at anything that moves. But with the latter you get those satisfying exploding sounds followed by the squish of exploding demon bodies.
Ahh… decisions decisions.
I'll run all of my gaming decisions through these girls from now on.
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