Nintendo DS & Sony PSP

In San Diego, we have a local tv cook named Sam the Cooking Guy, who is totally awesome (watch as he tells a couple of jackals to be quite):



Anyway, he makes a really simple buffalo chicken pizza which is ridiculously delicious:

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Ingredients

* 2 cups cooked chicken, shredded (one of those deli roasted ones perfect)
* 2 tablespoons butter
* 6 ounces hot sauce
* 1 cup blue cheese dressing, any kind but chunkier is better
* 1-10" ready-made pizza crust like Boboli, or fresh pizza dough spread out to be about that size
* 1 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella

Steps

1. Preheat oven to 425
2. Melt butter with hot sauce in small pot, remove from heat
3. Add sauce to chicken and set aside
4. Spread blue cheese on crust, then chicken mixture - don't worry if it's messy because it will be
5. Top with cheese
6. Bake until bubbly, brown and awesome looking - about 15 minutes

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It's literally the most basic pizza you can make, but it's great.

I love it. Even *softer* men can't stand a couple of hens chattering into each ear.

God I hate Kathie Lee Gifford

Back to the Advance Wars thing: I know I've said this before, but I can't stress enough how awesome Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon was. Many said it was a "watered down" version of the other games, but since I've never played any of them I didn't know the difference. :D

Replay value isn't so high, but I actually enjoyed the strategy elements as much (if not more) than AW's

A game I found that I like sort of like Fire Emblem is Rondo of Swords. It's an Atlus agme, so it's very niche.

So Shadow Dragon over Days of Ruin?

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Originally Posted by RowdyRodimus

A game I found that I like sort of like Fire Emblem is Rondo of Swords. It's an Atlus agme, so it's very niche.

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That sounds familiar. I'll have to check it out. On a side note Atlus really seems to be making an effort lately to be one of the top third-party developers on the DS. I can't remember their other games off the top of my head, but Atlus is a name that seems to have grown synonomous with "critical acclaim."

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Originally Posted by InternalPrimate

So Shadow Dragon over Days of Ruin?

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*wince*

I don't know, man. You've played Path of Radiance, right? And I assume you've played the original Advance Wars. If you played and liked any of the games in either series, it's a safe bet that you'll like the others.

Better play it safe and just get all three.

Growlanser is headed to the PSP in a month, and it's one of the best strategy games around.

No word on a US release yet, but still hoping.

I've been kinda-sorta keeping my eye on Overlord: Minions for a while lately, because it looks like a potentially cool mixture of Lost Vikings & Zelda.

But after reading this interview and seeing what a douche the producer is, I think I'm going to cross it off my list:

http://ds.ign.com/articles/970/970585p1.html


But one game I've decided I'm going to get is Disgea DS. Has anyone else played this?

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Originally Posted by MrMatthews

I love it. Even *softer* men can't stand a couple of hens chattering into each ear.

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You misunderstand, sir. Sam the Cooking Guy is Hard as Hell.

Just to clear this "soft" business up, Sam the Cooking guy is one hell of a cook, and a man's man. Very manly. Other men cower in his presence.

MrMatthews:

I've wanted to play Disgaea for years now. And from what I've heard, the DS version is right about equal to the PSP version, and just above the PS2 version (apparently there's added content). As always, let me know how it goes!

On an unrelated note, I went to Portugal over a year ago, and I had a case of DS games that were either lost or stolen at a New Jersey airport. So I wrote off a bunch of games. Today I found one game - Rayman DS (a port of Rayman 2) - in my suitcase. Of all the games that I lost, Rayman DS was the game I least cared about. Still, one more game to add to the collection!

Settle down, gentlemen. I in no way meant to imply that there was anything wrong with being a little . . . hmmm . . . sexually ambiguous. I just liked how quickly he told those broads to shut it.

And cooking is manly, and I'll scratch out the eyes and pull the hair of anyone who says different!

@ IP: I've developed a sudden craving for tactical RPGs. I've already added Final Fantasy Tactics A2 to my collection and I can't wait to start playing it

And didn't you say you also found Contra 4? Isn't that more noteworthy than Rayman?

Wait a minute now. Being an avid Sam the Cooking Guy viewer, I have to inform everyone here that he is, in fact, married to a gorgeous woman. So he's not gay... not that there's anything wrong with that. Of course.

I found Contra 4 a little while back, today was an entirely new discovery! But yes. Contra 4 is one of the best games on the DS.

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Originally Posted by InternalPrimate

I found Contra 4 a little while back, today was an entirely new discovery! But yes. Contra 4 is one of the best games on the DS.

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I'm a huge Contra fan. Absolutely retarded about it.

Contra 4 sucks dog balls for the fact that it's too easy a title, and relies on the bullet space between screens for cheap-death-challenge. The fact that they moved the Weapon swap from X to L and replaced it with a grapple button that pretty much removes your ability to move for a second, was just a slap in the face to anyone bred on C3.

I probably would have liked it a lot more if by default it had everything unlocked to let me play the better games, but then I probably wouldn't have forced myself to play it much at all.

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Originally Posted by InternalPrimate

Wait a minute now. Being an avid Sam the Cooking Guy viewer, I have to inform everyone here that he is, in fact, married to a gorgeous woman. So he's not gay... not that there's anything wrong with that. Of course.

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Now, I didn't say "gay." I was very careful about that. I said "sexually ambiguous," which meant I was still unsure about his sexual orientation but he still acted a little swishy. But thank you for educating me - I now know that he is 100% MAN

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Originally Posted by Knuckle Duster

I'm a huge Contra fan. Absolutely retarded about it.

Contra 4 sucks dog balls for the fact that it's too easy a title, and relies on the bullet space between screens for cheap-death-challenge. The fact that they moved the Weapon swap from X to L and replaced it with a grapple button that pretty much removes your ability to move for a second, was just a slap in the face to anyone bred on C3.

I probably would have liked it a lot more if by default it had everything unlocked to let me play the better games, but then I probably wouldn't have forced myself to play it much at all.

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*frown*

I like this game a lot. I haven't spent a whole lot of time with Contra 3, so I don't know how favorably it does or doesn't compare. But I think it's still a lot of fun. And you thought it was too easy? Wow. Now I'm wondering what kinds of games you find "challenging."