WRUP: 'Precious' family moments edition

by Alexander Sliwinski on Nov 25th 2009 9:00PM

My family is awesome, especially Uncle Jame! He's a really nice guy and makes my sister some of the best dresses we've ever seen, the guy should totally be on Project Runway. He's got this adorable dog, Precious, but she's a bit yappy and smells like mothballs -- she also has this weird thing about holes in the ground. Come to think of it, Uncle Jame is a little weird. He always tells us to rub more juices over the turkey so that it's easier to cut later, and at the dinner table he always wants more gravy or "else we'll get the hose again." I don't quite get it, but he's a little eccentric. Nice guy, though ... I think.

Have a happy Thanksgiving and safe travels from all of us here at Joystiq. What's everyone playing this long weekend?

Alexander Sliwinski (@XanderSliwinski): Seeing if I can get over the difficulty curve of Left 4 Dead 2 and playing Ratchet and Clank.
Andrew Yoon (@scxzor): I will take this long weekend to play every GOTY candidate possible. (Translation: I'll probably finish my Crushing playthrough of Uncharted 2, play PixelJunk Monsters Deluxe, and sleep all weekend.)
Ben Gilbert (@BigBossBgilbert): Aside from my quest to follow Dave's Cheevo insanity in Assassin's Creed 2, I'll be gritting my teeth through Demon's Souls and (with any luck) getting back into Brütal Legend. I'll likely be capping fools in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 as well – add "Enormina" on PSN if you want to join me!
Christopher Grant (@ChrisGrant): The plan: Assassin's Creed 2 and Dragon Age: Origins. The reality: Turkey, raking mom's capacious yard, and driving a lot. Oh, and Cobra Command on iPhone!
David Hinkle (@DaveHinkle): Now that I've done every single quest and collected every feather in Assassin's Creed 2 (and every Achievement!), I'll probably be hitting the Zombie Island of Dr. Ned in Borderlands and, possibly, finally getting back to this Brütal Legend game I started what seems to be many, many moons ago. I'm also hoping to get to the coconut custard pie DLC for Thanksgiving, though I'm concerned there won't be enough storage space in my tummy drive.
Griffin McElroy (@griffinmcelroy): Between Assassin's Creed 2, the truly wonderful Phantasy Star Zero and a large bucket of sweet potato casserole, I plan on having the greatest weekend of my life. Hold my calls.
James Ransom-Wiley: I'll be scaling walls, dashing across rooftops and, of course, nimbly stabbing fools! That is, if I ever awake from that food coma ...
JC Fletcher (@jcfletcher): I'm giving my consoles the weekend off as I visit family. So it's just me and Phantasy Star Zero for a while. Oh, and my family. And, like Chris, I'm totally packing my headphones so I can play Cobra Command.
Justin McElroy (@JustinMcElroy): I'm going to be exclusively sticking to Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer, a little L4D2 and Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective on the Sega CD (Thanks Patrick!)
Kevin Kelly (@gadgetguy): ...
Ludwig Kietzmann (@LudwigK): It's just a regular weekend for me, but I'll be thankful enough to continue my quest in Dragon Age: Origins. I'm also playing Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines, which only excels at proving what a big fan I am of the franchise.
Randy Nelson (@DangerPenguin) ...
Richard Mitchell (@SenseiRAM): Now that MW2 is done, it's nothing but Torchlight and New Super Mario Bros. Wii with the Mrs. We've gotten really, really good. Like The Wizard good. And probably some with the in-laws. Oh, and SingStarHotel Dusk, for some reason. And maybe BlazBlue, Uncharted 2 or L4D2 if GameFly wills it.
Xav de Matos (@Xav): It's time to finish off potential Game of the Year candidates, and that means spending time with Assassin's Creed 2, Borderlands, Uncharted 2, Torchlight and Dragon Age: Origins. Also, what's this Thankgiving thing everyone is talking about? Wasn't that in October?
Justin Glow (@justinglow): (Spending some time driving around in his van.)

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Reader Comments (79)

/cranks "Goodbye Horses" and tucks

Jay's take on Goodbye Horses is great. I miss Clerks 2.

Shiren the Wanderer and probably some The World Ends With You for me. I love TWEWY's soundtrack.

Oh, and Melty Blood: Actress Again on PS2. Just got my import copy from PlayAsia. Someone really needs to localize this game. It's great.

Hey, playing TWEWY for my first time as of a week or so ago. Having a blast with the game, and enjoying the soundtrack. At first I wasn't sure if I liked the game... but then I noticed I kept playing. and playing. and playing. Been listening to Jpop internet radio stations now thanks to this damn game.

Also playing Final Fantasy 7: Dirge of Cerberus for my first time. Still got over a dozen backlog games to kill before 2010 starts, but my xbox E74'd so now I'm back to playing games on my PS3 (even if it's a PS2 game)

As far as good J-Pop goes, may I suggest Koda Kumi?

You may suggest anything and everything. Will check them out this weekend.

I'll throw Shiina Ringo, BoA, Chemistry, m-flo (more j-rap, but they do a lot of songs with pop stars) and YMCK into the hat.

Can't really offer much else, as Jpop is just too damn broad nowadays.

It puts the lotion in the basket...

...or else it gets the hose again!

PUT IT IN THE FUCKING BASKET!

Trying to finish Dragon Age Origins (epic game!) and get into Assassin's Creed II for me... love this time of year :)

AGREED.

Ive put aside every other lifely concern and locked myself in my room with days worth of snapple and pretzels to blaze through as many games as possible. Im going to try and finish AC2, Quantum of Solace on 007, Left 4 Dead 2 versus mode achievements, another Dragon Age origin playthrough, and Star Wars Republic Heroes for achievements and because i love the show. To top it off ill be playing MW2 with friends and some Gay Tony in between

if anyone wants to play MW2 or L4D2 my gamertag is Mandalorian63. Please tell me if you're from joystiq though because i usually just deny requests

Quantum of Solace multi-player is amazing, mainly with the gorgeous maps and the awesome weapons

Quantum was very underrated. A satisfying title.

O God how could you possibly love the show?!?!?

I mean, the one by Genndy Tartakovsky was awesome but this new one is absolutely terrible (especially the character design).

"O God how could you possibly love the show?!?!?"

Did you only watch the movie or early first season? Watch the last few episodes of Season 1 and Season 2. It's a great show.

I cant agree with any of that. I really enjoy the character and world design, it's very clear that they are intended to resemble marionets and while some might call it a cop out, when viewed in HD it's very clear the detail they put into them. Bongoes had it right as well, the first season was VERY rocky, except for a few select episodes particularly Rookies, but it's really grown into it's own and greatly matured. There's barely any comic relief droids anymore and the characterization is very deep. It will certainly never hold a candle to the jizz fest that was Gendy Tartavosky's Clone Wars, but it's a really great show.

I guess I'll go watch some episodes then.

I sort of found the character design sort of "flattened" though. Maybe i just loved the other cartoon too much though.

I dont fucking believe this! Im on the final fucking mission and whenever I try to travel to montreiggoni it crashes and says the disc is unreadble! Fuck me! I was so close! And blockbuster is sure to be out of all their copies! NAuuuuuuggggghhh!!

Prepare for friend request in 3, 2, 1!

Always looking for more people to play Versus with... :D

I'll be playing MW2 until I lose 20 games in a row, and throw my controller out the window.

I just got a Wii for my birthday, and I'll be playing NSMB Wii, and Punch-Out. If I decide to do some Black Friday shopping, I'll pick up Dead Space: Extraction, possibly MadWorld, and a few Gamecube games.

Then... I'll try some Uncharted 2 MP with the new map, and probably Killzone 2 MP as well for the double XP weekend.

Oh, that reminds me, I got to finish Zombie Island of Dr Ned...

Too bad-Amazon had Extraction for 15 today.

Not looking forward to tomorrow, dealing with several people I can't stand but thankfully only see maybe twice a year. Tomorrow to me just means two months away from Mass Effect 2 :P

Assassin's Creed 2 and MW2 will have to hold me until then. Darkest of Days came in today from Gamefly but I can't muster the patience to achievement whore that game yet.

Melee a horse in the intro level for 150 points. That should calm your urge a bit

God of War Collection and Red Faction" Guerrilla. Yes, it's an old game, but I've always wanted to play it. Sadly, there was absolutely no one online :(

disappointed to hear that, I put it aside during the summer to catch up on games i hadnt finished from 08 and favorite classics. I really hoped id still be able to get the achievements : /

Heh, Red Faction: Guerrilla is considered an old game? That's 5 months...

Not really an old game, but I suspect it is because a lot of people will be playing newer games in WRUP and because there was no one online. Another game that took me by surprise that has no one online is the Tenage Mutant Ninja Turtles HD port. I was kind of sad there was no one around to co-op with. *sigh* Oh well

New Super Mario Bros Wii. Beat the game back on Sunday (with what has to be the most epic final fight for a 2D Mario period), and my focus has been on unlocking stages i skipped, and then unlocking World 9 stages, which deviously means getting every single star coin in every stage

Not something i ever bothered to do in the original NSMB, but they've put the very compelling reward of world 9 ahead of me. Thus i am compelled.

Since I've been working two jobs for the past year and a half, this will be the first weekend I have three consecutive days off in a row - which is crazy to me. I'll be icing so many chumps in MW2 multiplayer and probably stepping into some more exquisite L4D2.

I might get back into Dragon Age some more - it has, thus far, left me feeling a little underwhelmed. I certainly don't hate it. All I can think is that it feels like Bioware's B-Team put it together; and that they've been working on it way too long. Perhaps a quiet weekend morning will be just the thing for the Age of Dragons.

I just got Boarderlands and I'm tearing through that and messing up everybody elses online games. I also found XIII for the Gamecube and I'm both loving and hating it. Follow that up with Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance (GCN), Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, Persona PSP, Shadow Hearts Covenant, Oblivion, Demon's Souls, and I just might go see Ninja Assassin. The movie looks cool and I'm sort of a fan of the Wachowski Bros. I'm really pissed that not a single theater in my area is showing The Road. What the hell? I've been looking forward to that movie for almost a year and I come to find out that no theater within a hundred miles will be showing it. As Charlie Brown once said: "Aaarrrggg!!!"

XIII!!! Now THAT is a pretty okay game I totally forgot about. It tried to do a lot of neat things, and pulled off some of them. I had a good amount of fun with that piece.

I've always been a believer that XIII is one of the most underrated games ever. It's one of my all time favourites, the local multiplayer is some of the best I've ever played, and the campaign is awesome too.

Finishing up Uncharted 2 first, then switching between Modern Warfare 1, God of War 2 in the collection, Super Paper Mario, and Dragon Quest: Rocket Slime.

Richard Mitchell:"Oh, and SingStarHotel Dusk, for some reason"

Is this a typo or is there really a Sing Star: Hotel Dusk?

I think it would be a good idea.

I'll mostly be playing the incredible Assassins Creed 2. Other than that I'll probably crack open that copy of NSMBWii with the family and some multiplayer sessions of Killzone 2 & Uncharted 2. Other than those games I might also be playing Sigma 2 & the GOW collection. Between watching sports and not going to any dumb 3 AM sales I'll have more than enough to be thankful for this year.

I might go check out that new Ninja Assassin movie tomorrow as well.

Good choices for the weekend. Assassin's Creed II is truly incredible. I need to check out Ninja Assassin as well.

Well, I've got Ape Escape 3, Dragon Age: Origins, Kameo, Final Fantasy X, and, with luck, some Bowser's Inside Story.

I LOVE Final Fantasy X. Probably my favorite after VIII.

Kameo is underrated. I thought it was the best launch title on the 360 hands down.

I played it a long time ago, sold it, but I've been rebuying a lot of old titles (Kameo was one) and going through them.

And I always love me some Ape Escape.

Ape Escape is the shit. I know they are doing a new one to go with the motion control thingy for ps3 but I hope it can be played with the classic dual shock controller too. The controls were incredible for the first one on ps1, and still hold up today.

MW2, BC2 Beta, GOW:C and finishing up A Crack in Time. Might try out some more of the MAG beta but my initial impression is that it is absolutely horrid.

MAG was horrible. The long guns look like miniature shotguns and it somewhat resembles the trench shotgun from Call of Duty: World at War. The pop in was also surprisingly bad and the graphics... ugh, where do I begin. I am disappointed, to say the least because MAG feels and looks like a last year shooter (or even farther). I think it's time for Zipper to continue what's rightfully theirs - the SOCOM series

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