Here goes,

I've been an avid gamer sine 1986 (relax, I'm not that old) and the early days were somthing to behold. NES games came out like 30 a week, you couldn't get bored playing games then. Step up to the Genesis and SNES, two awesome systems released around the same time. Both featured the same games with each having some pretty good exclusives (I remember staying up all friday night trying to beat the rainbow road with my cousin or playing Streets of Rage 2 everyday after school). There were always the school yard arguements about which one was best, but at the end of the day everyone wanted to play the ther systems games. Move forward in time to the Sega Saturn and the Sony Playstation. Same deal, two systems, some of the same games with some great exclusives. Too bad, the Saturn had all the right hardware, and none of the great software. Sega just dropped the ball. Playtation did nothing amazing, it just didn't do anything wrong. I remember using my first paycheck during a summer job to get a PSX, driver, and final fantasy 7. I also remember having to rotate my PSX just to play it, lol. During a christmas my friends got a N64. The true beginning of true multiplayer was on it's way. Waveracer64? Goldeneye? Turok? Those were games that made gamers actually, well, game. Me and my friends played Goldeneye way into highschool. Nothing could get over the fun of playing with 3 of your friends with 6 people in the back waiting for losers to get off. At this time I became a huge Capcom fan and I pretty much played every fighting game they made. I remember the first time my friend came over to my place to play Xmen vs Street fighter and I picked Apocolypse. My friend ws mad because the only thing you could see was his hand just drop down, lol. After a school year of embarassing my friends in fighting games and FPS, I used up another Summer paycheck to get a Sega Dreamcast. That beauty was a best of a system. Street fighter III, Marvel vs. Capcom, Street Fighter Alpha 3, Grandia II, I tried them all. That system was doing well, and I was young so I didn't know about business yet, but then I heard the Dreamcast was being discontinued and Sega was doing software products for Sony and Nintendo. Sega, the company that used to go toe to toe with Nintendo, was now pretty much working for them, I didn't believe it. Well, I didn't believe it until I saw my friends playing Red Faction on the PS2. I don't think we ever beat that game, we just stood around shooting holes in the ground or wall or ceiling or wherever our rockets and grenades went, lol. But I still wanted my dreamcast, "the PS2 is good but can it go onlne?" I used to argue. Kids then would argue one thing and leave it at taht, I accepted defeat and traded my Dreamcast in to Funcoland for a PS2. Too bad I took too long to move on, because noone in my family liked me enough to help me at all I had to sell my PS2 just to get money for a haircut, bookbag, and writing utensils so I could go to Air Force Basic Training. After getting beat into shape, I got to my job training part of the Air Force training process. After rebuying a PS2, I also picked up a Gamecube (You save alot of money by doing BMT for 7 weeks without being out of a formation). I forgot the name of the game but there was a James Bond game on the Gamecube that was too wicked for multiplayer. But I noticed something, there were always these freakkin ethernet cords everywhere. One day I just traced one and it went into my friends room. It lead up to a big, black, boxy, beast of thing. I sat down on my friends bed because all the chairs were taken. I looked at the screen waiting for someone to slip out what they were playing, but the game did it for them. Slayer, then 3 beeps and the match started. What was this game where people were running around in suits, jumping off grenades, flipping these "warthogs", and buttstroking people for instant kills. Halo, dang Halo. I never could get into that game, but I didn't think it would blow up as large as it would then. After leaving Witchata falls Texas and getting to my duty station in Shreveport Louisiana, My PS2 was getting steady rotation. Breath of Fire V, Guilty Gear XX, Granda II (again). I was having way too much friend, until I met a good friend from California (My first time ever meeting a Californian, and he didn't sound like a surfer like I thought they all sound like). This guy was a die hard Xbox maniac. We had our disputes, but he always came to my room to get his face bashed in by Ky Kiske and I would go to his room to get sniped by playing as the red spartan on that snow stage in Halo. Civil, remember that word...Later, I transfered to the Army. Add alcohol and the PS2 became golden. Come my first deployment, 7 months fly by, and on the travel back home I spotted something that intrigued me. I had easily $13,000 in my checking account, so I made a bet that I can get that thing without it breaking. That thing was an xbox360 pro. Luckily somehow after watching how customs throws our bags around, I got my 360 back to my barracks room and I remember the first game I played...Call of Duty 3. We would stay up till 5 in the morning playing that game online. ONLINE! Goldeneye was always you sitting next to the guys your playing with, but now you could play some guy in Maine when your in Tennessee. Plus instead of 4 people you were playing 16 people games. And a friends list, it was like an evolution from walking to a friends house to just waiting for him to come online. Also, there was something else coming that year, a Sony system. Everybody was expecting this thing to come out, at the same time bluray players were costing $1000 for the cheap Sharp ones and Sony was releasing a GAME system that also played blurays for $600 max? Who wouldn't jump on it. Me, because evey game used that sixaxis gimic. I hated that thing, while playing resistance I would sneeze and move with the controller and my guy would stare down in the middle of a boss fight. SOB! PS3 in the closet, 360 back on. Sadly, after some time it was time for another deployment. 15 months they say, whatever. Time to save some money and hopefully when I get back there will be a PS4 or Xbox720 waiting in stores (pfft, didn't happen). After this deployment though, there was something strange on the net. There were seriously heated debates online. Sony is this and Microsoft is this. Where did this come from? People would seriously not go over someones house or barracks room because they had the opposite system. To add fire to the wood, Battlefield Bad Company 2 came out after MW2. I never played MW1 before, so part 2 was the start for me. But BFBC2 was a whole other beast, being Active Army when you play a game with soldiers in it you kinda ant the full experience. MW2 was good for an arcade good old fashion Goldeneye style shooter, but BFBC2 hat vehicles and goofy situations. I feel towards the BF side, I was always made when people started talking about MW2. Yet again, another deployment comes up. And yet again we come back safely (a little mad though). Nothing special yet, I say yet because we all knew what was coming. MW3 was setting up to be the biggest thing this side of the planet. Everyone was all up on the wiki trying to set up in their minds how they wanted their character loadout to be, lol. But then a little game snuck out from the corner, Battlefield 3. I've never played a BF game before (Bad Company apparently isn't consirdered a Battlefield game) so I wanted to give this thing a try. What a crappy bug filled demo/beta. Falling through the floor, pausing like I hit a wall, people using flashlights in broad daylight. WTF? Delete, MW3 here I come. But here we get the meat and finality of my blog, I've been using Gamefaqs for a long time, I mean I was printing off the walkthrough to beating the Omega weapons back in the 1990's. I was on the board for MW3 one day, and what term do I see? Troll. The bickering got so bad, people were going out of their way to piss people off, people were actually creating second accounts just to piss people off. Why would they do this? MW3 boards would be filled with BF fans saying "MW doesn't have vehicles, who care about killstreaks, killstreaks mean you can't play for real" all over the boards. Some comments were funny, but then I realized something, when I was younger we never complained like this, what use is there in compaining about something that you won't buy? Or dont want? Or have no interest in? I tried to be like a medium, stating that it was ok to like both or it's ok to like one and not have any hate for the other. No effect, I've been ignored. Mostly because people just want to be heard, they don't even care if they aren't making any sense or posting information that has been proven false already, as long as they can see their name on the left and see their post on the right they could care less. But, luckily it didn't last more than a month...or so I thought. Something was announced, somthing that I havent really thought about. A new portable systems, the answer to my delima of needing a portable system to play while going to college finally. Sony was releasing their next handheld, the PS Vita. Last time I heard anything about this it was a NGP, which at that time I had no interest. I wanted a 3DS, I had one fully paid off, but there were NO games for it, I hate mario games with a passion. Where was the Zelda they said they were gonna release? So, I decided to jump on the boards for more info, so that way I wouldn't be buying a handheld with no media. And guess what? The board is flooded with not only trolls, but with people that just didn't want the Vita. All of a sudden people just hated Sony and anything Sony did they were wrong and deserved to die. Everybody on the board thinks they're some sort on analytical genius, posting links that have been proven wrong or saying because it sold bad in Japan it failed for life (reminds me of 2 games recently that had a troll war...MW3 vs BF3?). Every monday I see a "Media Sales week" post or a post talking about "Sony will lose sales if they do this" topics. Yet again I ask, why do you all care? WHy do you have to devote so much of your time casting hate on omething you won't get or have any part of? Why not just admit there's some good games on the Vita and the 3DS? I want to play the resident evil revelations on the 3DS, does that mean the 3DS is the better system? Or does it mean I have the brains to understand that each system has it's own merits. I looked at the 3DS board one time just to be fair and see if there were any Sony boys on there, I found one topic within the first 7 pages. But on the Vita board? Normally withing the first page there's a doom and gloom topic. Dear God, where did we as gamers go wrong? Even the reviews are getting in on the trolling business, apparently they thing Apple and Android will be the death of big company handhelds. I would have thought that a professional reviewer/writer would have the dignity to actually leave any bias out the window. Nope, they keep posting this garbage because these kids (physically and mentally) keep eating it up and that;s how they get paid. We as gamers need to understand that we are a different group, we aren't the same as people that always play sports or go around taking pictures everywhere, or Facebooking every stupid thing that happens to you that day. We play games, the only games we need to judge are the garbage ones that don't deserve our money. Why are some of you trying to act all high an mighty over another fellow gamer that enjoys the same past time as you? I dunno, I'm just rambling...