Favorites 2004

Games (you can find details on these where I order them from, http://www.funagain.com/):

• Settlers of Catan and the Seafarers of Catan expansion pack

• Aladdin’s Dragons

• Elfenland

• Carcassonne

Books:

• I just finished re-reading the book "Dragon" by Stephen Brust (after buying "Issola" I actually went through the entire series again, except for "Teckla" which I hated and "Pheonix" which I don't have).  Dragon is the best of the series, which is saying alot... great set of books.

Computer games: 

• Halo – finally, a worthy competitor to “half life.”  Interesting story line (Halo is a Ringworld), smart AI, interesting levels, lots of mission variety, a fair amount of humor and some fairly nasty looking bad guys.

• Tribes 2 - still the best massive team-play game out there in my opinion. 

• Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness - on the Playstation II; not what I was hoping for but still fun to play. 

• Serious Sam II:  Standard frenzied Doom-style shooter with one of the coolest levels’ I’ve ever seen.   

Movies/Television:

• LOTR, the entire series.

• Tomb Raider on DVD; I know, I know, not classic film making but I have to admit I loved that movie.  Didn’t really like TRII, tho

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer… no sneering, it’s really quite good.

• Curse of the Black Pearl