Well today August 1st 2007 marks the first year that I have owned an Xbox 360 and it has been one hell of a ride and a ton of fun along the way
Little did I know that when August 1st last year around 6pm, the moment that I left the store that I would become a hardcore gamer again and here I am 1 year later, I have not stopped playing my 360 since the day, that I have had it and I am more passioniate about gaming then I ever have been
I remember when I first got my 360 home I opened it up and called the Xbox hotline and registered my console and after that I began my free trial of Xbox live gold and I started playing GRAW and I met a lot of cool people and I was playing it everyday and was having fun with it and those relationships that I established on Xbox live spread to other games and I have met a lot of cool people along the way and of course a lot of idiots as well
I had a lot of fun on Saints Row as well and that game and GRAW kept me busy until the month of November
Though the best time that I have had on Xbox live came during the fall and Winter months of this past year, when I had to feed my addiction to Gears of War at every hour of the day and night whenever possible and I met most of the people from my friends list in Ranked Matches and we had a ton of fun there playing Ranked Matches on Execution and to this day, I still play Ranked Matches some, despite what I said in my last blog about retiring from Ranked Matches, but soon I will be done with the game in general
No game has ever given me as much fun or as much fulfillment as a gamer the way that Gears of War has and this game really kept me playing nonstop
Of course I have exprienced other great games along the way and when I got sick of Gears of War, I turned to those games, like Call of Duty 3 and Forza 2
Despite all that you may hear about the 360's hardware problems, give the console a chance, because I never let the bad news of Xbox 360's dying keep me from buying a 360 and I am still on my first one and it should not keep you from buying one either
Also do not say that online gaming does not matter to you either, you need to give it a chance, because it is much more gratifying and fun to play againist real opponents instead of some computer A.I bots and it keeps things from getting boring and also when you have friends online, it makes you look more forward to playing a game and the interactivity just only enriches that exprience
I can honestly say that when I had my PS2, I know now what kept me from being a hardcore gamer, it is the fact that there was no interactivity on the console and the only thing I was facing was the A.I and it bored the hell out of me and not having any interactivity or anybody to look forward to playing with is what kept me from playing games during that time, there were times where I bought a game and I would play it for a few days or a week and then I would not even touch the game console again for 6 months, because I felt like I had nothing to look forward to by playing
Now with that being said after 1 year of nonstop gaming on my 360, that is not going to change for a long time either, I have plenty of games to keep me busy and plenty more to look forward to and a lot of great people to play games with online on Xbox live