John2290 said:
Your ellipsis was sexy and I stand by that... Perhaps I'm only seeing your joke content. Pay no heed to me, I'm cranky from pain. Terrible day. |
No no. To tell you the truth, I thought so myself this morning.
Everything from a month ago and beyond was more or less 73% serious and 27% joking, now it's like 60% joking and 40% serious. I was about to put links to all my recent serious comments, but I realized that'd be dishonest. I agree with you.
It comes from being disillusioned by the site in the sense that serious discussion tends to go nowhere (although that's not really pertinent here)
Although in this case I was being somewhat truthful.
I actually did have an Xbox 360 that I cherished. It was pretty much my gateway to the internet. Yes, as an 10/11 year old, I was extremely late to the party. But before, I hardly used the internet at all.
I played Halo:Reach and I loved it. Then one day I realized that I loved the campaign so much, I couldn't help but want to play online multiplayer. I remember at the time my mother was like "Why do you want to play online? Isn't the point of this game to shoot aliens? Why would you want to shoot other people." It's so odd to think about because she's not that kind of a parent at all. Still, it took a while to get used to Halo, and then later Gears of War (a bit more understandable).
Halo:Reach and Gears of War 3 were the pinnacle of online gaming for me, and even gaming as a whole. I've had very few experiences afterwards that were as good (really just Dark Souls and Metroid:Prime have come close to benefiting my outlook on gaming as much). I remember I was proud of being in a "clan", practically being one of the most respected members of it despite being the youngest member there (being a squeaker among people who were 2-4 years older was a hard life). Gears 3 still has the best unlock system of any multiplayer game.
Then one day, my disc drive stopped working. I had an original XBox 360 that had supposedly been refurbished 2 or 3 times (that's a second hand account so who knows how exaggerated that is). At the time though, I didn't understand that. I got what a refurbished console was, but I didn't get how lucky I was to even have something that damaged that changed my life for a year or slightly more. I was so mad I basically said "fuck Microsoft!" and got a PS3 to replace it instead. It came with the Uncharted trilogy for FREE. Say whatever you want about Gamestop, the fact that they took a shitty broken Xbox 360 White that had already been refurbished multiple times with only like five or six physical games and gave me an entire 320 GB PS3 Slim with 3 Uncharted games, when Uncharted 3 was only a few months old (maybe even less)? Fucking awesome.
Of course I had a honeymoon period with the PS3 but it wasn't the same. It wasn't Xbox. Yes, now I'm aware of Demon's Souls, God of War Trilogy (which my uncle gave to me only for me to end up selling it), Ratchet and Clank (same as God of War), InFamous (also same as God of War ... I made bad decisions), etc. But it wasn't the multiplayer environment I craved.
I got an Xbox 360 later that year, but it wasn't the same. I still had some great experiences (Dark Souls), but tons of disappointments (Halo 4, Gears of War:Judgment, Dark Souls 2).
My gaming life has never been the same.
...Wait a minute... you tried to make the same sexual joke before you criticized me for making it? Ugh. Screw you, John! At least I know the OP!
