So What Did You Score This Year?

[Fyron]

Atrocities said:
Everquest is EVIL... Pure unadultrated Ferengi EVIL.

How dare you slander the (relatively) good name of the Ferengi with such an unholy reference! Everquest is its own brand of evil, far removed from Ferengi!

[David E. Gervais]

It was a Local store, "Librairie Boyer" not a big chain, just a few stores in the local area.

I played the demo of Deus Ex 2, and liked it very much, I absolutely loved the first game, so I'm not surprised that the second is good too.

Cheers!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Civ2 test of time (Which I have already gotten annoyed with. No map editor, no scenario editor) and some books:
The Other Human Race, Federation, Fuzzy Sapiens, H. Beam Piper (Because our old copies are worn out and lost)

The Holmes-Dracula File, The First&Second Book Of Swords, Berserker, The Frankenstein Papers, Fred Saberhagen (Because he's never boring)

The Martian Way, The Robots Of Dawn, Isaac Asimov (Because he's almost never boring)

Hidden In Sight, Julie E. Czerneda (For a protagonist you can really cheer for and like. Plus, the protagonist is >nothing< like >anything< you'd think of if I told you what that protagonist was)

The Tar-Aiym Krang, Alen Dean Foster (Foster, Flinx and Pip!)

Some of these I've read before, but I re-read books and read them in odd orders. I've read two series backwards because that was how I found the books. A series reads different like that. Not bad, not better, different

[Atrocities]

Well I guess I can add a few things to the list. My step brother gave me some money to rebuild my Quad. (Beings how it was he and his freinds who blew it up.) And my mother pitched in funds to help keep the AST web site open.

I am a happy camper now.

[Fyron]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Civ2 test of time (Which I have already gotten annoyed with. No map editor, no scenario editor)

The scenario editor for Civ 2 was remarkably annoying... Text files are far better. Not sure why the map editor wasn't included. The Civ 2 Gold map editor should work fine with ToT... Not sure if the original Civ 2 had a map editor or not. Been a while.

[Captain Kwok]

I got the Matrix trilogy boxset, which to my suprise, contains a lot of interesting extras - even more so then the movies.

[Fyron]

They have to have some reason to con people into buying the movies as they come out, then the boxed set once it comes out.

[TurinTurambar]

Ahem... we always over-do Christmas at our house, so this list is embarrasingly decadent, but here goes:

3 sets of clothes, one of which included a totally *****in' shirt that's soft as silk and hangs like chainmail... awesome
Return of the King, Extended on DVD
StarWars Trilogy on DVD
Time/Life's "Century of War" vols.4&5 on DVD
Blue Collar Comedy Tour-2 on DVD
4 CD's: Spock's Beard's "The Light" and "Beware of Darkness", Mike Keneally's "The Universe Will Provide" with the Metropole Orchestra, and Izz's "I Move"
2 bottles of wine, one Pinot, one Cabernet
A novel called "Duel of Eagles" by P.Townsend on the Battle of Britain
A book called "The Dragon Chronicles"... looks delightful, got it from my mom, no idea what it is.
A leatherbound tome called "MARVEL: It's Characters and Their Universe"
2 GameCube games: SC Pandora Tomorrow & Starfox Adventures

And the mother of all Christmas presents - Click Here for photo A signed, numbered, framed, 30th Anniversary Tour 7-photo Andrew McNaughton print of Neil Peart. (I'm a drummer)

Also, several silly and sundry NASCAR presents cuz the whole family's "got it bad" and I'm a Kevin Harvick fan...

....and a paaaartride in a pear treeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!!
Turin
(Edit:typo)

[Atrocities]

David E. Gervais said:
It was a Local store, "Librairie Boyer" not a big chain, just a few stores in the local area.

I played the demo of Deus Ex 2, and liked it very much, I absolutely loved the first game, so I'm not surprised that the second is good too.

Cheers!

The second game is one of the best sequals I have ever played. You do need a good graphics card to play it though, and there are differances in game play from the first game.

You should see that in the demo. The game is, should have been, listed as one of the best of the year.

Gamespot rated it an 8.0 Deus Ex IW

But to be honest, this game pails in comparesson to the fine games offered here at Shrapnel. Shrapnel games are amoung the finest games in the market and I strongly recommend any shrapnel game.

[Raging Deadstar]

I didn't really like Deus EX Invisible War... But the Original game....well, it was incredible. There's very few games I've played since that are In that genre with that sort of depth and notice to detail. Ok, the graphics are ancient now and such, but It still remains one of my favourite games