WRUP: Post-holiday confusion edition
Now that all the gifts have been delivered, what's Santa to do but rock out to a
Metal Xmas? Here at Joystiq HQ we're all equally discombobulated, having finally voted on our Game of the Year picks and now able to play anything we want this weekend -- except for those of us who visited their families and forgot to bring all three consoles, both portables (sorry N-Gage!) and an overclocked desktop PC. It happens.
- Alexander Sliwinski: Well, if the past couple days are any indication. I will be playing a lot more Rock Band with friends. Had a five-hour session last night and it looks like there's going to be more today. There might be some Smash Bros. Personally, when the family is gone, I'll be continuing on with Fallout 3. Although, I do want to get back into Sins of a Solar Empire.
- Christopher Grant: Enjoying some R&R, spending time in Albion, Prince of Persia's mythical universe (fun fact: nothing like Persia!), and The World Ends With You's intoxicating vision of Shibuya. Oh, and equivocating over my nominations for Joystiq's Game of the Year ...
- Griffin McElroy: While not wrestling with the massive registry errors currently tearing my computer a new USB port, I imagine I'll be playing with my holiday bounty: Chrono Trigger, MGS4 or Mirror's Edge.
- Kevin Kelly: I'm console-less while on vacation in Texas, reducing me to gaming on the iPhone. However, I'm happily playing the hilarious Amateur Surgeon game from Adult Swim. A pizza boy who does surgery on the side? Sign me up. I'm also playing the board game thrift store search. So far it's yielded me Can't Stop, Sunken Treasure, Triple Yahtzee, Othello, Ur (the Royal Game of Sumer... fancy), and this gem from 1975: Challenge the I.R.S.
- James Ransom-Wiley: AFG
- Jason Dobson: My son's fascination with Kingdom Hearts continues as we push to the end of the first game and prepare to take on the sequel. Enjoying it through his eyes makes the whole experience not quite so absurd.
- Justin McElroy: IDK
- Ludwig Kietzmann: I'm playing the Fallout 3 endurance game. Here's how it works: I put in the disc and see how long it takes until I want to play something -- anything -- else. Unfortunately, I'm getting worse at it. So much worse, in fact, that I now start playing another game before I've even inserted the disc. Oh well.
- Randy Nelson: Now that I've played through all of the GOTY contenders, my plan is to get some time in with each of my all-time top 10 games – and decide if that list needs some re-working based on the games of '08. Oh, also: MetalLittleBigPlanetGear. F. T. W.
- Ross Miller: Curious how much of an evil bastard I can be in Fable 2, and also need to return to a game I missed last generation -- Final Fantasy XII. I expect my free time to be completely eradicated.
