I used to run a stand alone gaming blog, and I really enjoyed it. Writing something about an interesting topic every day was a ton of fun. I got pretty decent; my cross posts to BitMob were featured a few weeks in a row. Eventually the real world got in the way of things. I lost the time and financing required to play and review a game a week, and I was never very interested in reading video game news. As a result I stopped making regular posts, which is immediate death to any website. Still, I enjoy writing about games, I just lack a venue to do it. Well, this GiantBomb blog exists, so I may as well use it.
Right now I'm playing an odd potpourri of games. My wife was excited for Fable 3, so we picked that up. I didn't have a game to play with an old friend, so I bought both of us a copy of Dead Rising 2 (pc) for his birthday. My friends at work are playing Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (pc) and Civ5. I started Fallout: New Vegas (pc), since it came with the Bethesda pack sale on Steam last summer. I nabbed Minecraft last month. I'm also trying to finish the last game I bought to review for my site, Assassin's Creed 2.
This mishmash of game styles is something I never would have experienced while I was reviewing a game a week. It was simply impossible to play more than one or two games in my free time with a weekly deadline. As a result I think I lost sight of something very important about video games: diversity. One night, I may be packing up my PC to play BFBC2 and get wasted with friends at a LAN party. The next I might be alone, building a unique world that only I will see. Maybe I hop on Steam to pick off zombies while bullshitting with an old friend. Maybe I experience a "unique" story, one that's likely to be different from anyone else I know. Or maybe the story isn't all that unique, and my friends and I can chat about the story around the proverbial water cooler at work. Nearly any type of entertainment experience I want to have can be found in a video game. I'm not sure I could have said that ten years ago; and that's pretty damn cool.
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