The Welcoming

Welcome everyone, to my gaming blog. I'd like to open with a brief history behind the man.

My life in the gaming world began in 1992 (when I was 6 years old)with Wolfenstein 3D. This being the game that essentially created the game genre we now know as the 'first person shooter' (or FPS). My father (a true "Original Gamer") taught me how to play, I would sit next to him and be in charge of reminding him to save before a "boss fight" (this is before the days of the "checkpoint"). So what began as spending time with Dad and genuine fascination, twenty years later turned into one of my most defining elements. As the years progressed, I generally followed Id software through Doom, Doom II, Quake, Quake 2 and other classics such as 3D Realms' Duke Nukem 3D (not the side scrollers. Side scrollers and shooting do not mix) and many more.

As the years progressed, Sony released the PlayStation and my switch from PC gamer to console gamer began. Then, like now I believed the future of gaming rests with the console. It was at that time, however that I began to play very little in the way of shooters. I would play Gran Turismo or any number of "Action" games. We then went from the PlayStation to the legendary PS2. Again my game genres were mainly racing Sims and action games. Nothing very notable until the Microsoft Xbox and the release of Halo: Combat Evolved that plunged me back into the world of first person shooters, but this time it was for good. Halo reminded me of all the reasons I loved hardcore shooters, and on top if it all, defined multiplayer shooters for the console. (some say, however it was Perfect Dark or Goldeneye on the N64. I believe they are to thank for split screen multiplayer, however Halo: CE defined the multiplayer experience) Once Halo 2 was released and online shooters were perfected, it was all fun and games from there. The Xbox 360 was released, followed by Halo 3, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, the Battlefield games and so on. It wasn't all shooters all the time, other staples such as Grand Theft Auto, Portal, Arkham Asylum (Batman fanboy as well) and others.

Today, I primarily game on my Xbox 360, and currently still obsessing over Modern Warfare 2. It seems my pattern is to play games as they come out (or get cheap enough for my broke ass to buy) and play them until my friends get online, then whatever is in the disc drive gets tossed out and in goes the most current game from our favorite series' (CoD, Halo, Battlefield etc.). Currently being played in the background from Modern Warfare 2 is Prototype, which has been a fun mixture of GTA and crackdown.

In the future I hope to link my readers to current gaming news articles with my own thoughts on the subject matter, address pros and cons in the gaming world, review games and equipment as well as add perspective to the genre as a whole.

Thank you for reading and I will post soon

-Goosie