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Games That Travel Well

hipernoico writes "Wired has a summary of good portable RPG games for the end of this year. 'What better way to travel than in the company of a dragon-slaying knight? ' " I've travelled thousands of miles playing various Game Boy Pokemon titles. Although lately WarioWare Touched and Meteos have taken the place of my usual RPG travel companions. What games will you be playing while dreading arriving at your parents house?

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  1. Uuuuh... by k3v1n · · Score: 5, Funny

    What games will you be playing while dreading arriving at your parents house?

    This is Slashdot, I live at my parent's house!

    1. Re:Uuuuh... by saintp · · Score: 5, Funny

      Really, the walk upstairs isn't so long that I need my PSP for the trip, although I usually do need to stop and take a breather about halfway.

  2. Re:Well... by timster · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nethack isn't an RPG... whatever gave you that idea? It's a simulation. Just like some people call first-person shooters "murder simulators", Nethack is a suicide simulator.

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    I have seen the future, and it is inconvenient.
  3. I have a game by dada21 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The lady and I play this fun game on our drives. It basically starts with me saying something insightful or interesting or funny, and then she thinks about what I said and she replies with something contextual to what I said.

    Imagine it is like slashdot, but without moderation and only between two or 3 people. I had a feeling it would supplement and even replace gaming and web forums, but I don't think it will catch on.

    If you try it some time, remember that is might be trademarked or patented, so be cautious who you do it around.

  4. What games? by idontgno · · Score: 4, Funny
    What games will you be playing while dreading arriving at your parents house?

    Obviously, Need for Speed Underground 2 .

    No, not on a game console. I mean fighting my way through holiday interstate and city traffic.

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    Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
  5. What games will you be playing? by Quirk · · Score: 5, Funny
    I play the attentive, successful son encased in emotional armour. My mother wields guilt like a rapier cutting through any protective armour I've constructed over the years and bleeds me emotionally dry to the point of a death by a thousand cuts. My older sister plays the perfect daughter while casting down upon me a litany of aspersions recounting my every wrong doing. My father plays God, distant but willing on a moment notice to bring down justice in the voice of command.

    As always my saving strategy is to drink heavily, hopefully inconspicously, while waiting for the Good Mother, the Saintly Daughter and the Rigtheous Father to fall asleep and allow me to spark up a phat doobie on the deck and watch the ocean rock the Christmas lights strung on the masts of the sail boats.

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    "Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
    Cohen
  6. Travel Jenga by matt+me · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't knock it.

  7. Re:Break out the Pokemon by Echnin · · Score: 4, Funny

    You don't know how lucky you are, what with your straight roads. I live in Norway, and all through my upbringing I've had excrutiating experiences with car trips - there are turns all the time so I get sick trying to read, play games: doing anything other than listening to music. But then, this summer we drove just over the border to the relatively flat Sweden, and wow; I was watching DVDs on my laptop, reading books, playing Mr. Driller on my DS and all kinds of stuff without any problems. Then almost as soon as we got on this side of the border it was back to narrow, winding roads. Meh.

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    Lalala
  8. Re:Break out the Pokemon by moofdaddy · · Score: 4, Funny


    When my husband determined that


    A girl on slashdot? Or do you live in Massachusetts.

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  9. Re:I have a game - Is it called Eliza? by nzodd · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh yeah, I used to play that game too:

    How do you do. Please state your problem.
    >> I spend too much time with computers.
    Why do you mention computers ?
    >> You are one.
    Does it please you to believe I am one ?
    >> Yes.
    You seem to be quite positive.
    >> I suppose I am.
    How long have you been ?
    >> 31 years.
    I'm not sure I understand you fully.
    >> Join the club.
    Please go on.
    >> You don't make too much sense yourself.
    We were discussing you -- not me.