Why I enjoy gaming.

Games have always been a part of my life, video games in particular.  I honestly cannot remember the first video game I ever played, it goes that far back.  The earliest memory I have is when I played Sonic The Hedgehog on my dads Sega console back when I was about five or so years old.  It wasn't until I was about eight or nine when I really started to get into games.



I remember the first console I ever owned myself was a Nintendo 64, and boy did I play the crap out of that thing!




        Video games for me is a great way to relax after a long day, they are an escape from the busy and stressful real world into a completely different and exciting new world, filled with fun and enjoyment.  And they still serve that purpose for me today.

When I was younger I mostly played arcade style games with my friends, it was all about competition to see who can get the highest score, and that was all good and fun when you had others to play with, but what about when your friends had to go home to do their homework or chores?   Those games for me got boring pretty fast, so that's when I started diving into more story driven games that were more for solo players and I had a good hand full of those on my Nintendo 64, but it wasn't until after I discovered a game called Halo: Combat Evolved back in 2001 that I saw the potential for video games in a whole different way.  My Dad had bought me an Xbox for Christmas that year and I remember my Dad had got Halo for himself.  Well after a little while I finally decided to give the game at try and I immediately became hooked.  That was the first game I had ever played where I actually felt like I was immersed in a deep and emotional story.  It came to a point where I played the game not just to play it, but to continue the story and find out what happened next.  Just the overall combination of great voice acting, stunning visuals and setting, exciting and dramatic story, and mood boosting soundtrack completely blew me away!  It was something I had only seen in movies at the time.

Ever since then I considered myself a gamer and I have expanded my variety of games immensely because it was only later discovered just how many of them like Halo that there actually were out there.  Games that present such unique and original ideas and story, as well as great execution of telling the story.  For some games it can be like watching a movie that you can control and interact with in many ways.  So on this blog I will be reviewing games I have played in my life that have really impressed me and showed just how much greatness and potential there is in video games, that allot of people don't see at first glance.