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Games That Travel Well

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hit-the-road-jack dept.

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.

      --
      Another one bites the dust
  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.

    --
    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 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.

    --
    "Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
    Cohen
  5. 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.