When I first played Halo I thought it was a good game. I thought it had some really good potential. At the time I bought the big bulky black ex-box I needed a game to buy for it. Well I played Halo, and it was good. I did'nt play it to completion. heck come to think of it I think I played the first two levels and that was it. I thought it was cool though. At the time I was'nt into f.p.s. type games (first person shooters). Infact you could say I was totaly against them. I bought the X-box to play Shenmue 2. It was a pretty innovative game for its time. It really had alot of ideas which a lot of Game developers seem to have fleshed out since waaay back then. Yu Sazuki is a man that in my opinion is right up there with Hideo Kojima, and Shigeru Miyamoto. Either way I think I've gotten away from the subject at hand.
Halo2.... I borrowed a copy from my 2nd cousin who is about the biggest halo fan I've ever known, I wanted to see what the big deal was. Well after "Return to sender" mission I was hooked! I got so immersed into the world of Halo that thats all I wanted to do for a long while was just play Halo over and over again. I remember what I thought when I saw a bunch of excited people walking in to buy groceries late at night 'because they were going to get down on Halo 2. I thought they were a bunch of geeks with no life. (saying that I want you to know I'm a big fan of Final Fantasy, olbivion, games which require alot of time.)
three years later I was in line waiting for Halo 3. I even scheduled my two week vacation from work just so I could play Halo 3 without having any form of interruptions. From the get go I started on Legendary. I loved everything about that game! Every single little thing. I do have my gripes, but they're not that big in comparison to the big picture. I played it from when I woke up to when I went to sleep. It took me about six months to play Halo 3 on live., I was hooked! lol! if thats even possible. I played it more than when I went on vacation. I showed up to work often more tired bacause I only had three hours of sleep in two days. It got so bad that for a while there I had to sleep all day after a week. I was just so tired.
I love Halo 3. Its hard for me to go out and buy a new game at all. Even when I boot up the new game (be what ever it might be.) I find myself wishing that I was playing Halo 3. I have'nt even finished Silent Hill 5, Dead Space, Grand Theft auto 4, (I just barely finished playing Fable 2.) When a game gets so good its hard to replace it.
I think that part of it might be is that this year I got married, and I bought a house. I notice its a lot tougher for me to get lost in a game with all the damn interruptions I get all day. When i play Halo 3 on live its only for 1o minutes at a time. I love Halo... I hope they make another aside from Halo 3 :Recon. I miss master Chief already.
What is it about games? What is it about the enteractive entertainment industry that I find so appealing? What drives me to spend my time playing a forty plus hour game? What is that drives me to orchestrate my time off from work to coincide with the release of certain game? What is it that makes me be so adamant about having my own game room in my house? (believe me, I had to fight my wife to get my own game room, and make our girls share a room?
I love to just sit there in a darkened room with the surround sound blaring. I love the feeling a game can evoke. Whether its fear, rage, sadness, and so on... I just love games!
one of the coolest things about games is the fact that they are getting better and better all the time. I look at the first games like Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, and so on, and it just seems like they get better and better. By no means I'm not sitter here telling you that they are perfect, but that always seem to improve. I guess thats why I keep coming back. Since 1996 I have spent over 20,000.00 dollars on my game collection. I buy all the magazines. I'm not partial to anyone game magazine I just buy them because they might have something the others don't. I dont think I'll ever stop buying games. I hope that never happens. I've helped many friends, and saved many worlds, and had a fun ride doing it.
