First blog entry here! Horray!!!
Since it's my first posting, I'll tell you about no one else than me today! (God, I sounded so selfish there ¬¬)
As some people guessed, my name's Matheus (this account is from 2006, and back there I didn't have imagination to make up a name), I'm now 18 years old, I live in Brazil, São Paulo (where the new Max Payne game will take place *-*) and, of course, I joined here because I'm so damn addicted to games and gaming news.
It all began waaaay back there in 2000's christmas, when I received my truly own video game: the Nintendo 64. At first, I just had one game, but later on I got more games to play.On 2002 onward, I began buying a Nintendo magazine called Nintendo World, which was powered by Nintendo Power, so for me it was the same thing with little changes and written in portuguese. Even though the hot topic was already the Gamecube and Gameboy Advanced, I liked to read walkthroughs of games, read previews and reviews, check out some N64 game codes once in a while....internet was crawling that time, so I found out magazines was way more fun. Also, near to my house there was a game house, where I spend lots of my saturdays playing PSX and, rarely, PS2 games, since playing on the PS2 was twice the price of playing an hour of PSX, plus, the PS2 always had queue in order to play. Of course, it wasn't that ridiculously big game house, since there were just 2 PS2 and 8 PSX, but they also had games for rent, so I rent on saturday and could play it the entire weekend. For me, there wasn't anything better. On 2002's christmas, I got an Game Boy Advance....and I really passed out when I found that out. For me, it was like living on the edge of technology, keeping up with the rest of the world in gaming terms. Although I never got that many GBA cartridges, it didn't matter to me. I was happy that way.
Later on, in 2005's christmas, I finally got my PS2, and it was there that my really hardcore gaming life began. In fact, I completed so many games until my PS2 times that I actually made a list of all the games I completed since I could remember and put the dates on it so people couldn't say I was looking or making that up, including companies that made the game, when I completed the main story and my overall score for that game. It began with some sheets of those annotation notes, but eventually I bought an ENTIRE NOTEBOOK just for that purpose, so I would never in my life bother about buying more paper or whatnot (after some months I realized it was too much in fact, so I tore off 10 sheets and they're still waiting to be fulfilled). Back to my PS2, I owned a true lot of games and I still have a box of games I've already completed. It was adrenaline every weekend, playing new games and seeking for new ones. Back there, if I do the math, there hardly was a single week I didn't completed a game, be it for my PS2 or on PC (of course, there was weeks I didn't completed any game, but on others I completed more than one in a single day, not to mention my vacation's gaming marathons).
I guess it was on 2006 to 2007 that my grandma bought a new computer with video card. She obviously didn't used it, but I sure didn't let it go to waste, and it was there that I started my PC hardcore session. I wouldn't say it was a top-notch PC, but it could play Star Wars Battlefront 2 and Empire at War and Knight of the Old Republic 1, my favorite games from that time. I confess I went to play some emulators back there, but I gave up on them easily. It just feels so different than the real deal, and by so, even if I came back to them from time to time, I just completed a few games, then I stopped forever. On 2007 I had to stop playing games for a while in order to study and reach a really neat high school I wanted to enroll. I studied a lot back there, but actually I still completed a bunch of games back there, it just was highly concentrated during vacations instead of completing games all the year. From 2008 to 2009 my parents moved up to another city closer to the place they work, so I started living with my grandma (in fact, I still live with her most part of the year). Since my PS2 stayed with my parents, I played it only on some weekends, and since my PC rapidly got archaic, but as surprisingly it may sound I still kept completing lots of games there.
On 2010 in the middle-year vacations I finally got my XBox360 and, of course, started buying quite a lot of games for it, but again, my high school was ending and I had to start studying again for college exams. Everything went even better than my high school entrance exams, so I got really happy there. This year, in 2011, nothing much happened except I still kept playing games, mostly my X360, but sometimes some games in PC. I stopped buying Nintendo World around 2006 since I never had another nintendo console except recently I decided to buy an used Gamecube and complete some ****c games I always wanted to play like Super Mario Sunshine and Zelda: Twilight Princess (still playing!). Other than that, I'm suddenly way into Visual Novels games, specially ones based on animes. For someone's wondering, I have about 60 games for my X360, but there's still a lot of titles I still want to buy and complete, but I guess it'll take some time since I have more than 15 of those games I either need to complete or haven't even played it once.
And that's me, a freak-otaku-hardcore-updated gamer in this world. I try to be as much impartial in my reviews/comments about that console war bul****t (which I still think it will soon disappear, specially if the cloud gaming industry increases as much as they're predicting). I love RPGs, survival-horror and action games mostly, FPS are just medium to me with just a few exceptions, sports games and movie-adaptations are just sad.
My next blog entry will be about something cool, I swear! If you ever have a topic or game you want me to debate (I doubt there'll be any, but whatever), PM me and I'll seriously post something about it. I don't think I can keep a long blog for more than once a week outside my vacations, so for now, whenever I feel like talking about something here, I'll post something.
Until my next entry!