When I posted an article on myself lacking the ability and will-power to be a gamer, much less a console one, little did I know I was already in the process of becoming one. I can’t claim full-out “gamer” status because I am very much a casual gamer and still not very good. It’s a process.
I hate to give credit to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, but I don’t really have a choice if I want to keep our relationship an honest one. It’s a good game and I don’t mean to bash it, but I just don’t like the multiplayer or the fact that all my friends are obsessed with the multiplayer. I played through the single player campaign and it was good enough to get me to play it over in a harder difficulty. That’s a good side note: I always play the single player first on easy mode. Judge me if you must, but I’m not wasting my time trying to prove that I can jump/crouch/shoot backwards/360 spin to get past the third level only to find out on the fourth level the game sucks. Forgive me.
Anyway, the important thing to focus on is that here I am playing a console game not once, but twice through. When Battlefield: Bad Company 2 came out I grabbed it since it seemed like basically the same game. Went through it twice on the different difficulties and loved it. It’s just so much better than Call of Duty. At least the single player. I care not about online play.
OK so here is the thing. I don’t like to play online with console games because I hate listening to kids lecturing me on the fundamentals of the Medic class while simultaneously screaming about supposed cheats. Yes, I know there is a mute feature, but just because I can’t hear them doesn’t mean I don’t know they’re there. Know what I mean?
The basic rule to becoming a gamer is repetition. The more you play the better you’ll be and the better you are the more you’ll enjoy it and the more you enjoy it the more you’ll play. This continues until you either become addicted or you family and friends have an intervention by taking away your controller. Then you think you will just buy another controller, but when you walk in the door with a Best Buy bag in hand there is a circle of family, friends, and a stranger to greet you.
Maybe it won’t come to that, but just keep an eye on how much you play. Don’t forget that girls/guys are more important than beating the level.
Alright fellow gamers. Game on and I will see you around. I just finished Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and have no idea what to play now. Suggestions welcome. Kids…not so much.
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