Twenty four years have past since the day of my birth. Many events have shaped my growth. I feel as though one of the largest and most significant events being the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1985. Albeit I was born the same year and too young to truly understand the impact of such an event; it was the start of a relationship that would take me through ups and downs throughout life.
I spent most of my early years playing NES and SNES games. playing all of the classics and learning the basic building blocks of gameplay mechanics. Everything changed again in 1996 when Nintendo released the infamous N64. The N64 brought with it legendary classics like Mario 64, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye, and Super Smash Bros. The next few years were filled with exploration of the video game world. I delved into Sony's Playstation with it's more mature titles and it's own classics that I fell in love with.
As the years passed more titles came out and soon to follow were newer consoles. As I reached the age of fourteen I started getting into PC games and grew to appreciate their merit as well. I've tried to stay on top of my passion for the art of video games and as a result I've enrolled into the Video Game Art & Design program at the Art Institute of Vancouver starting April 2010. I'm quite excited to begin my studies and hopefully one day give back to the video game world by offering to it a game I've designed; and maybe, just maybe, I can create a legendary game that will influence someone just as games like FF7, Fallout 1&2, the Zelda games, and Resident Evil did for me.
I've been playing video games on a regular basis for a long time now and have spent time playing games in two ways. First I've spent time playing games online that have no end like World of Warcraft, Battlefield 2, Starcraft, and Warcraft 3. The second way is by playing console games as they came out like Assassin's Creed, Dead Rising, Fallout 3, Call of Duty, and Left for Dead. I found that playing games online was quite fun and challenging, like a faster, more visually stimulating game of chess, but it left me wanting. WoW never seemed to end and seemed more like work than fun. Battlefield 2 was always fun and the better I got the more I realized that I wasn't getting better, I was just spending more time playing than everyone else. The most important revelation I had was that I was missing out on playing shorter games that actually had closure. I was missing what I fell in love with, the next great adventure, the next masterpiece, the next incredible story. With my new found calling I ended my WoW account and started to focus more time into new titles.
The purpose for this blog is two fold. I went to Blockbuster and picked myself up a Game Pass. The Game Pass allows me to rent as many games as I wish and keep them as long as I wish, the catch being that I can only rent one game at a time. With my new Game Pass I've been playing anything and everything, just to sink my teeth into everything the video game industry tosses us. I've been making mental notes about each game in an effort to do some "research" for my aspiring new career. The first fold of this blog is to give me an actual format to write my findings down to keep track of them so I never forget how the environment in FarCry 2 was beautiful, immersive, and was such a vital part of the gameplay (having to be aware of where you're pointing your rocket launcher so you don't accidentally start a grass fire that inevitably burns you too). The second fold of my blog was more of a way for me to inform my friends (you) of which games are worth paying a penny for.
I've decided to call this blog "IMO" and it'll be based completely on my opinion. The format of the reviews will generally include a synopsis of the story, a critique of the gameplay, and my rating of the game. I haven't quite figured out a rating system that I don't think is completely bollocks just yet and may just be a yay or a nay. Anyway I hope you find it at least a bit interesting, and any comments are always welcome. If there's a game you think I'd like just email me, I'm always looking for the next legendary game.
Thank you for your time my friends.
Hell it's about time...
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