Hi, I'm Entropy and I live in Germany. I grew up in East Germany, but since I was born 88 I actually didn't experience anything of the socialist world. I like to think that I actually grew up in a western country - I received a good (or at least good enough) education, got to play video and computer games and got access to the internet in a timely manner. We received a SNES around 96 I believe (still have it, still works :D) and a N64 (still works, too) around 2000. I also got a GameBoy and when that broke, a GameBoy color later.
I basically grew up playing Nintendo games on the SNES (Super Mario World, Yoshies Island, Donkey Kong Country 2, F-Zero, Mario Kart), later on N64 (got it for Pokemon Stadium actually because my friends and I were crazy into Pokemon; but we also got Donkey Kong 64, Mario Kart 64 and F-Zero X). My friends introduced me to most of my early PC games, like Starcraft and Quake 3 (we regularly played mostly those 2 games on LAN parties in on of our homes... those were such blasts :D), but also Need For Speed 3 + 4 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein and Battlefield 1942.
I skipped the whole next console generation and focused more on PC games then, and after my school was finished in 2006 (in the state where I lived we only had 12 years total for graduation) I moved to the Saarland (thats about 600 km to the west of where I grew up btw.) to study computer science, and since 2011 I work as a software developer at a small company.
In my studies years my girlfriend and I moved together and we bought a Wii around 2007. She had a GameCube and brought my in contact with Zelda the first time. My first Zelda game was actually The Wind Waker, and I loved it, but I was bad at it compared to my girlfriend (she had a head start with that, so... :D). Then I played Twilight Princess, and some years later I eventually played Ocarina of Time. I realize that this completely backwards, and my favorite of all Zelda games I played so far is Twilight Princess... weird, I know :D But since we skipped the Wii U and still have no Switch (planed for next year...) we haven't had a chance to play Breath of the Wild, but I expect it to become my new favorite.
Since I had start working ~8 hours a day by 2011, my gaming hours obviously were reduced. I was really in to Starcraft 2 in those days, and I played a lot of 1v1 on the ladder. I took it quite seriously and spent nearly all of my spare time on this - eventually I got in the Masters league... but then my motivation just plummeted. I realized that I spent all my spare time on one activity - a game, that can get quite frustrating in fact. So I stopped playing it and haven't looked back since. I am now more in to story based singleplayer games: my favorites now are the Mass Effect Games, The Witcher Games and Life is Strange. My Steam library has now over 60 games thanks to some nice Humble Bundles :D
I'm currently playing PUBG (only for 5 days now... still learning...) and Antichamber, and I'm seriously considering buying Life is Strange Before the Storm right now, even though the third episode is not out yet... its just itching me sooo much x.x
Some other random stuff:
- learning to play guitar for 14 months now
- music taste: rock and metal without constant screaming/growling
- the only sport I'm having fun at is indoor climbing
- I am NOT into Anime or Mangas or JRPGS AT ALL... the whole style just screams "I AM FOR CHILDREN" to me... can't help it - not judging though; metal isn't for everyone either ^^
Well, that was way more than I thought I would write here in my first post... if this thread is meant for short intros only, I'm sorry ^^.
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