So, here I am writing a blog on a site that I haven't logged into since the ordeal with Jeff Gerstmann. I think that it was time to come back to GameSpot and see if there are still others like me on here. I got to know many people from watching video blogs, reading other's blog posts and playing games with them through the years. This site was more than just a video game news source, it was a community, a community where I belonged.
Since starting college, my life was changing drastically and I was having trouble keeping up. My close friends knew what they wanted to do with their life and I was still deciding. I felt lost and alone for a long time until I decided to become apart of GameSpot back in 2006. It was here where I started to meet others with a similar passion for gaming that I didn't share anymore with my close friends.
Moving forward, at the age of 20, people start to play video games less and less and focus on their careers more and more. That's understandable, but for a person like me, who had trouble picking a major and was completely stressed every single day, video games were able to take my mind off the stress and bring a certain comfort to me. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and wound up switching my major four times. It was around this time where I seriously thought that college wasn't for me and that I'm just wasting money for nothing, until I started watching video blogs.
Getting deeper into the GameSpot community, I started to see that there were people who were able to make videos for their profiles. What a neat little feature huh? So I started watching some from EightBitWarrior, Mars188 and TheWesker to name a few and saw that they enjoyed showing off their collections or what they've been playing. So when I finally hit level 10, I thought I would make my own.
My first videos were atrocious. I had no structure or any idea what I should be talking about. To me, it was embarrassing to say the least, but I also started to notice that by doing these blogs, I started to get something out of it, perspective. It made me remember the times I had fun making stupid movies for class projects with my friends and made me search for a major that had a focus on something similar to that, communications.
Being in college now didn't seem so bad. I had my major picked, I was learning skills in editing, producing, technical operations and directing on the production side, as well as learning how to better communicate through writing (don't judge by this blog), group communication and broadcasting. I was even involved with the campus radio station that gave be more skills on the broadcast side of media and met some people who I can call true friends. Almost four years after I graduated high school, my life was finally on track and I am lucky enough to have found something that I love to do and that I am able to pursue it.
Fast forward to today, I'm on spring break, so I get to play games again! I'm set to graduate with a bachelors in Communication - Media in May (right when Diablo 3 comes out). I'm scared and excited to get out into the real world and try to land a job in what I went to school for. In the meantime, I've been looking at alternative ways to make some money through the internet (that are legit) that I'll be able to take what I've learned to connect, entertain and educate others.
Who would have thought that I would have made my future career choice based on some videos I watched on the internet? You never know where inspiration will come from, but when it comes to you, embrace it. It will take you places that you may have denied yourself access or would never attempt. It may sound corny, but if it wasn't for you bloggers that I've met through GameSpot, I would have never found that spark of inspiration.
Thank you!
. But what if I wanted to get Rock Band 2 also?
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