Posted on 12/31/2008 4:47:43 PM PST by NinoFan
I developed a little trick in Starfleet Command. I go superduper fast and use the phasers as single shot cannon. It becomes almost like Asteroids on steroids with Star Trek theme music in the background. It’s a blast even if you don’t win.
Second the mention of Left4Dead. Awesome game. I liked the fact that I could play on a team with my son—he’s very good at these things, so he was able to take up any slack in my performance, but we still got to play together. Actually, he said I was pretty good at it, at least compared to my performance in Call of Duty.
We got a Wii for Christmas, and I downloaded World of Goo from WiiWare. You have to build structures out of these sticky blobs to get from one place to another, but your structures are subject to gravity and general wobbliness (since they’re just made out of sticky blobs). The level I completed tonight required me to alternate building the structure horizontally while attaching balloons to it to keep it from falling down. Excellent puzzle game.
My all-time favorite, though, is Rayman 2 for the Nintendo 64. If they ever make that available through Virtual Console, I’m all over it.
A nice fun game I just bought is Monopoly on the XBOX 360.
Best games of the year for me was Halo 3, Gears of War Two.
Then came:
-PJ
LOL!!
Glad you liked it. See my next post for a 90% way of winning Monopoly.
A nice fun game I just bought is Monopoly on the XBOX 360.
***I have a strategy that wins 90% of the time on my computer. When all the players have almost all of the property, you offer one of the players a free monopoly for all of the rest of his pieces and as much cash as he will depart with. Then you do the same thing with the next player. On the 3rd player in a 4player scenario, you’ll be trading monopolies, so you go for the cheaper ones versus his expensive ones or whatever he’ll trade with you. At this point, everyone has monopolies but you have most of the cash. Then you build. Now here’s the key: There’s only 32 houses in the game, so you build 32 houses. Cheaper properties are better with a strategy like this 32 houses is 2 monopolies of 3 and 1 monopoly of 2. If you can’t build all 32 houses, you make sure that no one else can add enough houses to go to hotels. Then you collect your cash — the other guys can’t build because there’s no houses. They’re sitting on beautiful monopolies like Marvin Gardens but with one or 2 houses while you have 12 houses on your properties.
This only works against computers. It will work against humans — once. But the cool thing is that after that, you’ll find the humans to be much more willing to trade than before.
Another excellent family game during cold winter days is Scene-it, they have a second edition out now.
Madoff 09 is the best game of all.
I made it to Super Pong, which is a surprisingly violent game, given that the two controllers are connected. This gives a distinct advantage to the stronger, more ruthless, player.
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