{"id":1560,"date":"2008-11-26T17:55:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T23:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2008-11-26T17:55:39","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T23:55:39","slug":"thanksgiving-my-week-in-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/26\/thanksgiving-my-week-in-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving 08, My Week in Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday and I’m not sure why. It doesn’t come from my childhood, I mean then Christmas was pretty hard to beat. I think it probably comes from the time I shared a Thanksgiving with about 25 weirdos at a pot luck in the Haight back in College and from my kids. Now it’s deepened in meaning because of the Heart Attack. I love my family and my life, Happy Thanksgiving to my volunteers and readers. Ok, now lets talk about some games.<\/p>\n

Short week this week and my play has been very consistent lately. Mostly I’ve been playing Left 4 Dead. I also noodled around with the new Wii Monopoly and that might see some time tomorrow. It’s a crowded field though, at Thanksgiving we can play Outdoor Challenge, Wii Fit, Wii Sports and I’m thinking about throwing in Carnival Games Mini-Golf and the Wii version of a boxing\u00a0game I didn’t like, Facebreaker. That one should be world’s better on Wii. The Xbox 360 and PS3 are dusty lately, so is the DS. Weird with Gears of War 2 sitting here looking all petulant.<\/p>\n

Another game I want to try with the family is Hasbro Game Night. It includes Connect Four, Sorry, Boggle, and Battleship. I wonder if it’ll be more or less fun playing these games on a TV – where no peices can be lost and everything is on the up and up – or will it just be less fun not being able to bonk and opponent and yell “SORRY!”<\/p>\n

As mentioned, still playing Left 4 Dead and still finding it a different experience every time I play. The way \"\"<\/a><\/a>you have to work together is genius and I seem to like losing more than most. See I don’t like Left 4 Dead <\/a>as an Aliens clone (though that sounds like an incredible game). I don’t want to be Rambo. I want to be vulnerable. I want it to be hard and scary and I love a good pan out when everyone’s died. So cinematic and visceral. The game really packs a punch. It’s far more than a zombie game, it’s the dawn of an online gameplay style I can really get into.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ok, that wasn’t very Thanksgiving-ey was it? How about this, when playing Left 4 Dead I feel like these Internet strangers are like a family. Zombies bring people together and make\u00a0siblings of us all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday and I’m not sure why. It doesn’t come from my childhood, I mean then Christmas was pretty hard to beat. I think it probably comes from the time I shared a Thanksgiving with about 25 weirdos at a pot luck in the Haight back in College and from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}