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Shooting Up

By apocralyptic 3 Comments

I recently jumped on the Call of Duty: Black Ops bandwagon. (Or maybe just I fell off of the “I’m too cool to play the new CoD game” bandwagon—either way, I’m certain there was a wagon involved.) Regardless, the irony of this choice is threefold, because that’s as many fold as I feel like discussing right now. 
 
Irony the First: I typically avoid first-person shooters, largely because I’m not very good at them. I feel like there was some special gym class in high school or something where they taught everyone how to be good at shooters, and I happened to be absent that day. (I was probably pretending to be sick so I could play Final Fantasy II.) Sometimes in multiplayer my opponents don’t even shoot at me; they just point and laugh. In past years, however, games like Half-Life and Bioshock have worked to subvert my disdain by exploiting my love of RPG’s and trying to win me over with their amazing characters, environments, and story arcs. Slowly but surely, these games have paved the way for me toward more typical FPS’s.
    
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I prefer the "Coward's way out", which in my case involves pressing pressing the center button and Quick-Launching Peggle.    
Irony the Second: whenever my ego is feeling robust enough that I’m willing to subject myself to an FPS, I usually tend towards ones with more of a sci-fi flare. To me, games like Call of Duty seem like little more than the following: choose one from a collection of nearly identical guns, and then use it to murder a bunch of nearly identical guys in a series of nearly identical environments. I prefer the greater variety offered by games like Halo (where you fight against an invading alien force called the Covenant, which is trying to wipe out all of mankind), or Half-Life (where you fight against an invading alien force called the Combine, which is trying to wipe out all of mankind), or Gears of War (where you fight against an invading alien force called the Locusts... okay, so maybe the variety argument isn’t a good one).

Irony the Third: I only just got Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 a few weeks ago, despite repeatedly telling my friends I wasn’t really interested. I actually only got the game because a friend of mine saw it in a used games store in mailed it to me. After a few days though, I was hooked. Now, instead of not playing MW2 with them because I don’t own it, I’m not playing MW2 with them because I’ve moved on to Black Ops. What a dick move.

Anyways, I have to admit that the Black Ops multiplayer is addictive enough that I foresee myself playing it for quite some time. Maybe with enough practice I can graduate from “guy who gets knifed in the back while running around like a jackass” to “guy who gets knifed in the back while hiding in the corner trying to drive a stupid exploding RC car”.
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Hey, Me! Welcome to Giant Bomb!

By apocralyptic 57 Comments

I'm a long-time gamer, and I've always enjoyed talking about (and criticizing) games.  After years of boring the hell out of my non-gamer friends and family, I finally decided I would man up and start contributing online.  Unfortunately, this is easier said than done, because apparently there are a ton of gaming sites out there.  After shopping around a bit, it looked like this place and Destructoid were the most fun and laid back.  I really liked the vibe at Destructoid and the community seemed really nice, but the site definitely had some technical issues.  Giant Bomb seems to have a similar vibe, but I like the site a lot better, so I'm going to try to make my home here.
 
So, if you're reading this, check out my first contribution!  It's a review of Fable III.  Also, as a noob, I welcome any suggestions of how to best contribute here at GB.

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