This afternoon Carolyn and I will be taking a flight down to Los Angeles. I'll be out of town for a few days but will have my laptop with me. Won't keep me from hacking away, so just drop me an email if you need to get ahold of me.
Plans: Mutaytor show, touching base with Eric and Amanda, stopping by my old place on Sunset, getting all of my old stuff out of storage, picking up the Grand Am and road tripping up to the bay.
Even better this would all be if we could take everything strait to the new apartment. *crosses fingers*
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(You commented on my blog about the DS) I was wondering: do you have any game suggestions? I'm a puzzle/RTS/RPG-type person, and I'm not quite sure what I would play on it...
Supposedly Advance Wars DS is really good but the RTS genre isn't really my thing. In terms of puzzle games, I bought Polarium and Puyo Pop Fever and I enjoyed them for a little while. Unfortunately, there aren't any great RPGs for the DS yet. I was playing a GBA game, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, on the DS for a while which I thought was pretty good. A new RPG, Lost Magic, is coming out for the DS soon too which I'm a little on the fence about.
I don't have one myself, but Carolyn had mentioned getting either a DS or a PSP. It really depends on the game selection for me, and I don't know what either of them really offer.
For puzzle games, Tetris DS is coming out later this month; it looks to be the best version of Tetris in quite a while. I've heard both good and bad things about Meteos. There are also Bust-A-Move DS and Mr Driller: Drill Spirits, though I haven't played Bust-A-Move DS and played Mr Driller only a little.
For other RPGs, Children of Mana is in development but there's no announced date for an English version.
I had a blast with Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan, a cool Japanese rhythm game from the creator of Gitaroo Man for PS2. Here's a video of what the game looks like from IGN on YouTube; looks like if you click the leftmost of the three sizing options, it'll show in the right dimensions. It's a Japanese import (there's no region control on the DS) but there's little enough text that I totally enjoyed the game without being able to read a thing. It's rumored that there will be a UK release in English, but there's no date for it yet.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney is highly recommended. It's a Maniac Mansion kind of interactive fiction; you could almost call it a reading comprehension game. As it has only the set stories, it's not really replayable. (In Japan it's a series, Gyakuten Saiban.) This subtitled ad shows the humorous flavor and some of the mechanics of the game (though the characters don't talk).
WarioWare: Touched! is fun. All the rapid motion will make it much more likely to scratch the touch screen, so you need a plastic screen cover. (Good for Ouendan too.) I use some cheap PDA screen covers that I cut down to size.
Lately I mostly play Animal Crossing: Wild World, Mario Kart DS, and Kirby Canvas Curse (I like platformers). And of course you can play any GBA game (including WarioWare: Twisted) on it.
I love tetris almost as much as I love bust-a-move. Frozen Bubbles is pretty good as well. When I had a sidekick2 I had a game that was like bejeweled, but not really, that was very entertaining as well.
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