I'm a young guy from Oregon, I love videogames, and it's my goal to get into game journalism. I'm just extremely lazy, and never get around to writing anything. I'm a huge Resident Evil fan, and I hate a ton of stuff.
My history with games started when I was a baby, I was given a controller by my dad every time he was playing games. Then later on, when I was around 5, I wanted to play Link to the Past. But my brothers wouldn't let me play it, without having played the original. So at 5 years old, I was faced with playing through the first Legend of Zelda. And while it took me over a year, and I had my brothers telling me what to do the entire time, I beat it. I then went on to play the Marios, Final Fantasy, Donkey Kong, and LttP. But my actual history began when Ocarina of Time and the first Resident Evil both came out. I became obsessed with both games immediately, and spent countless hours playing them. Then, Majora's Mask came out, and that solidified in my mind that videogames are the greatest thing ever created. After MM, I played any game my family could afford. Being homeschooled, I wasted more of my time playing Street Fighter and Resident Evil than I did doing anything else. I ran into some problems with school-work, but I realized quickly that I could play more if I just did the work properly, since I wouldn't have to redo the tests or assignments.
Once the GameCube and PS3 came out, i was playing games non-stop. Super Smash Bros. Melee remains the game that I have played more than any other to this day. The time spent playing each system was staggering. I spent every waking hour thinking about videogames, I did everything I possibly could to get more games. I read about games, I wrote games, everything I did was laced with videogames. I sound like some kind of loser who spent all of his time inside playing games as a kid, but I like to think of it as me being...A fun loving guy? Yeah, I love fun games, and games are more fun than stupid gardening and sports.
Once the 360 and PS3 came out, my brothers had both moved out, and I was left to play alone. Which sounds sad, but it's not. It's not as though I had no friends to play with, but that my brothers and I played games together every single day. We thought of ourselves as a team,. But suddenly the team was broken apart by jobs and friends. Which I think is why I haven't enjoyed a Zelda game since Wind Waker.
Currently I play mostly on Xbox 360. I have no problem with the PS3, I just prefer the controller, and online experience the 360 provides. Though the PS3 does have better first party titles, the ease of online-play along with adding friends far outweighs that. I also play Street Fighter Semi professionally (Took 11th out of 58 at a local tournament) and the 360 has better competition for that game. And since the PS3 has had built in wireless from the get go, more people have wireless as their setup than 360. While I'm not one of those elitists that won't play with someone who has a slightly bad connection, but reducing lag also reduces excuses for winning and losing. And I'll do anything to stop the endless messages blaming lag. But they don't stop...Ever. And i don't mean to toot my own horn, but I win pretty regularly online, and people who lose really don't like accepting that they got outplayed. Which I don't understand. I can't comprehend someone being in such denial about a videogame, that they'll send someone who just beat them a message calling them terrible at the game.
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