Sunday, December 30, 2007

Christmas Loot

Inspired by Mike I decided to do a loot post. I started a thread on the message board I frequent most, and it seems only fair to do it here. Be warned it is a video game Christmas.

The wife and I have been saving change, and putting aside money since March to get a next gen console and some games. So we got a next gen system, and I gave the wife a bunch of my budgeted fun money over a couple of months to get me games. So without further ado*:

Christmas Candy box. My new years resolution last year to give up candy. I had the leftover Halloween candy, a chocolate bar on Thanksgiving, and I'm giving myself 2 weeks of candy eating from Christmas to my Birthday (Jan 10th). This had a 330 pice red vines, chocolate of many types (notably chocolate oranges, and chocolate covered peanuts and raisins. Starting the day after my birthday, back to no candy.

A complete set of Bruce R McConkie's Messiah Series (The Promised Messiah, the Mortal Messiah Vol 1-4 and the Millennial Messiah. This was purchased with Christmas money - Our Gospel Doctrine (Sunday School) teacher has been using bits from these books and I wanted to read them. Hard to find online (at collector's prices). Found it at a local bookstore, their last copy. They said it was a tough one to get in. Reading now, and it is really really cool. :)

X-box 360 came with the unit, 2 controllers, a recharge pack and two games, listed below.
Games:
360:
Forza Motor Sports (came with the unit) - Driving game
Marvel Ultimate Alliance (with the unit) - Multi-player Gauntlet type
Ninety Nine Nights - A Dynasty Warriors beat up handfuls targets game.
Mass Affect - Space based Action RPG.
Bioshock - Really Atmopheric FPS. Very very well done.
Earth Defnse Force 2017 - Run around and blast thing game (car sized bugs so far)
Bullet Witch - 3rd Person action game.
Halo 3 - First Person Shooter
Live Arcade Unplugged - 6 smaller games that started life as Live Arcade Downloads. Pretty fun.

Xbox
Panzer Dragoon Orta - Shooter where you fly on the back of a dragon. Sequel to a Saturn series, which I loved.
007 Nightfire - Bond Adventure game.
Crimson Skies - Pulp style fighter - Biplanes with jet engine enhancemets.
Dead to Rights - Adventure game in Hong Kong mode - you can do slow mo jumps firing guns in both hands.
Conker - Platformer with the main character a drunk foul mouthed Squirrel
Halo
Ninja Gaiden - Action game.
Incredible Hulk Ultimate Destruction - Action adventure - you have to capability to destroy just about anything that shows up in the game
Call of Duty 2 - Military FPS
Red Dead Revovler - Western 3rd person shooter
Shadow Ops Red Mercury - Military FPS
Robottech Battlecry - Action Adventure in giant robots
Phantom Crash - Action Adventure
Phasntom Dust - Action Adventure
Sonic Heroes - 3-D Platfomer
Kingdom Under Fire: Crusaders - Action adventure. Medieval/Fantasy
Mechassault 2: Lone World - First person Mecha adventure
Samurai Warriors - Dynasty Warriors spin off with Japanese characters
Star Wars: Knight of the old Republic - action RPG
Quantumn Redshift - Hovercar racing game
Shenmue II - Adventure Drama.
Kabuki Warriors - Fighter with Kabuki people. Interesting
Dead or Alive Ultimate 1&2 - Fighter
Incredibles Rise of the Underminer - 2 player action adventure. Fun fun stuff

PS2
Nina Williams: Death by Degrees - action adventure
Justice League Heroes - Action Adventure
Spyro: The Legend Begins - 3d platformer
Vexx - 3d Platformer

And I don't think a single one of those was purchased at full price - there were discounted, on sale, used or any combination of the above. The Xbox (not 360) games ran about 5 bucks apiece. :)

* I got the wife a number of Video games too, but this is a post for my loot.

3 comments:

Michael said...

So with all of these new games, plus work and the Hero writing thing, the possibility of you GMing anytime soon is pretty much out the window....

:-)

Lord Mhoram said...

:)
I have some stuff planned. I have pretty much taken the last month off writing. Gonna start again after my birthday. :)
But yeah - 2 jobs, writing, video games, and a leadership calling - not a lot of extra time.

The Mistress of the Dark said...

Now that's a lot of Christmas loot!