A lil about myself...

Alright, so I guess I could tell you all a little about myself and my background when it comes to video games.

The first video game I ever played was on a computer, I don't remember which game it was exactly, but I know our family computer had Willy Worm, Load Runner, and other Dos games. I am the youngest of 3 sons in my family, and my older brothers would play the games and I would watch them. Before I was able to read and write, I would watch my brothers and my dad play games on the computer, and I was able to figure out what key combinations led to which games, and also which keys did different things in each game.

My whole life I have been a huge devotee to computer games. Occasionally playing console games but never for a long time. Yes my family did have a Nintendo, and then Later a Sega Genesis. I did play them, but always went back to the computer to play more games. My older brothers then got their own Sega Saturn which they both split and paid for. They would not let me play it because I didn't pay for any of it. I didn't really care because now I had the computer all to myself HAHA!

Eventually I did end up getting a Playstation. I remember my favorite games for that was Final Fantasy 7 and 8, Metal Gear Solid and Medal of Honor. After a few weeks of playing my Playstation I went back to playing PC games. Later I eventually got a Playstation 2, but the only game I ever got for that was Metal Gear Solid 2, and then I sold the system to my older brother and used that money to get an X-Box which I played for 10 days before realizing I just liked playing computer games a lot more and sent the system back.

I just love playing PC games. There is no better feeling when playing video games than to have a mouse and keyboard combination and the screen right there in front of your face. I used to play almost any game I got my hands on but now thats all changing.

Before when I played video games, it was just to have fun. Before I went to High School, I had never been to a LAN Party. My first LAN party was held in the basement of one of my friend's houses and everybody was playing Counter-Strike. At this point in time, the year was 2002 and Counter-Strike was an older game with dated graphics. I thought it looked really stupid and even criticized them for playing an older game. Eventually I loaded the game onto my computer and began to play against them over the network.

At this point in time I had never played an FPS game over a network. I had played RTS games like Command & Conquerer but never an FPS. I wasn't used to the game mechanics and I was seriously getting owned. I managed to kill a few people but that was just by pure luck. Going back home I was very dissapointed with trying to play Counter-Strike on the internet because I lived semi-out in the country and we didn't have high speed internet. During my Sophmore year of High School, My parents signed up for High Speed internet and I was finally able to play Counter-Strike over the internet. The only downside was that the exact week that we signed up for it was in the middle of the huge Steam movement with Valve, so my first experience was "Oh this is gay theres no servers to play on what the hell?"

Eventually Steam became stable and I was on my way to playing Counter-Strike on the internet. I played the game non-stop for an incredibly long time, and eventually started playing against other kids from my school on the internet. I am one of those kids who has to win, and I don't like being beat. When my friends at school started killing me and shooting me through walls on the game, I didn't cry and whine like most kids starting to play the game, instead I learned the game mechanics and used them to my advantage. Within a few weeks and a lot of dedication, I was destroying almost all the kids who played Counter-Strike at my school.

So I played Counter-Strike for a long time, every once in a while trying a different game but for some reason I kept getting drawn back to CS. And then Counter-Stirke Source came out. At first I was really excited about it. I was like OMG its like CS but the graphics are awesome! Finally after waiting for so long to play CS:S I finally got my chance. The first time playing the game on de_dust2, I was booted out for being called a hacker before I had a chance to buy and guns. Yes, I did headshot the ENTIRE other team with nothing more than a USP and I was labled a Cheater. After going to a couple other servers and playing more of the game all my Hopes about a promising new game were crushed.

So lets see here... thanks to the source engine, it feels like i'm crawling along, I can run and shoot, the levels are tiny and the player models are huge... WTF! This was the begining of my anti-graphics movement. Because of CS:S I urge my friends not to judge games by their graphics. This was later reinforced when I started playing a copy of Quake 3, and then bought Quake 4 because I had so much fun with Quake 3, but now the same thing that was wrong with CS:S is wrong with Quake 4. All of a sudden with better graphics, the gameplay slows to a crawl and player models become so huge u can't miss them.

I play games because they present a challenge, not because they are easy. If I find a game too easy on the hardest difficulty, I will start making up rules in the game preventing me from doing certain things that make the game even harder. Graphics are nice, but I believe the core of gaming should be based on gameplay not how it looks. I would much rather play Quake 3 and CS, than play that new shit. Don't get me wrong HL2 was freakin awesome, but CS:S is a freakin joke.

So yeah, thats pretty much my whole history on games... I have played tons and tons of other games that I havn't listed here so don't think I only play CS, Lately I've been playing STALKER and Hitman: Blood Money.

Oh and just another note. To all of you who say "oh you don't like games w/ good graphics cuz ur computer prolly sux and ur just crying"

um... no - I can run FEAR (which was too slow paced but ultimately I enjoyed it) and Quake 4 (also really slow) and CS:S (piece of shit) and Oblivion (repetitiveness +8) and Bioshock (ROOTKIT INSTALLING *$#&#*%) on high quality just fine. I just prefer games that focused on gameplay > graphics more.