Soul Nomad

Besides that Halo game, Soul Nomad comes out this week. It’s the latest Nippon Ichi strategy-RPG thing. You know, like the superlative Disgaea, the object-oriented Phantom Brave, the less-than-superlative-yet-still-pretty-cool Makai Kingdom, and the convoluted sequel Disgaea 2. Oh, and La Pucelle, which technically came out first and has some really annoying interface features.

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Halo? Is there anybody in there?

You may have heard of this game coming out this week, a little jobbie called “Halo 3″. I’ve preordered it, thanks to a minor windfall that involved a Coinstar machine, but I’m not all that excited about it. I played Halo on my PC a little bit, and found it kind of inferior to other shooters on my PC. I played through the first part of Halo 2 co-op at a friend’s, and that was fun, but I didn’t own an XBox so that was the extent of it. This time, I’ve got my 360 primed and ready, and I’m looking forward to seeing what the hubbub is about. We’ll see if it’s really much better than BF2042, or Team Fortress 2.

So long as it doesn’t distract me from all that rocking I still have to do.

We who are about to rock salute you.

New Mexican Strat

Um, once we’re plugged in. And learn to play.

- Nathan

LANtasm 2: Electric Boogaloo

Some more thoughts on games for the LAN.

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