Figure I'd start off by introducing myself and what I'm all about...
"Sumadamus" is a form of my psuedonym that I ue for pretty much everything online/in video games these days, and in cae people are looking for what it means, it's derived from Sumada, which is what I usually use when it's not taken, which is in turn derived from Adamus, which was the "latin name" my high-school latin teacher gave me, which caught on with my friends in high school for some reason, and I ended up using it online a lot. Sumadamus sort of fuses them both together, and it's a palindrome, which is kind of neat I guess.
Video games are a pretty big deal to me, and while I don't like to chase arguments (especially x vs. y arguments of the console/genre/game variety), I enjoy talking with other people who love video games as much as I do. I own a DS, 360, a Wii, and counless stuff from older generations, and really the only reason I don't own a PS3 is because I just can't afford it. I'm not adverse to computer gaming, but I don't keep my computer up-to-date and so a lot of games I just can't run. Some of my favorite genres are RPGs (of all types), adventure games (by which I'm referring to stuff like point and click adventure games), and action/adventure games (by which I'm referring to that sort of catchall genre stuff like Zelda and Assassin's Creed fall into), but I enjoy a wide variety of games, lately I've been playing a good deal of shooters just because there are so many of them around, even though it's not my favorite.
I'm very optimistic about the future of gaming, and while I like the idea of video games as art, what I'm really hoping will emerge is sort of the maturation of gaming from being all about stuff that is roughly equivalent to action movies to a medium that can accomodate a deep emotional experience--not necessarily an "artisitc" experience, but something akin to dramatic movies--games that draw their power not just from adrenaline-pumping action sequences, but from tense emotional situations.
That's enough of me blabbering about myself for now. :)