I'm pretty jam packed at work today, so I won't post a long article.

I love console games, and the first games I ever played were on the console. I'm also an avid fan of first person shooters, but combining the two has been pretty difficult for me. I'm not a bad gamer by any standard, but I feel like the learning curve of switching from a shooter on the PC to a console is just incredibly high. When I was 15-16 or so, I used to hang with the best of the best on old school Counter-Strike beta, and I distinctly remember killing 5-6 people with one AK-47 clip in a competitive match. Now, in Rainbow Six Vegas on the 360, which is a much slower game than Counter-Strike is, I'll be lucky to kill 2-3 people with a clip. When someone gets in my face, I can empty an entire clip into them and hit nothing but air (just like the Matrix, except it's due to my suckage).

I have to say that going from a top notch player on PC shooters to a mediocre player on console shooters is a hard pill to swallow, and the only way for me to get better is to get endless hours of practice in. I'd like to think that I haven't lost my reflex and edge at the tender age of 22.