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Erik spends his night and weekends saving worlds, slaying beasts and organizing mismatch shapes into straight lines. While First-person shooters (FPS),
survival horror and platformers are some of his favorite, there are no genre of game he won't play. From PC to PSP, Xbox to Wii. Erik is just as passionate
with playing games as he is talking about them.
J.R. is the sorta-completionist gamer. He almost always completes the main story arc in all games he plays, but seldom plays the "gamer's game" to complete everything. He'll never get all 120 stars or fight Emerald Weapon, but he will save the day. His favorite genres are RPG, Action/Adventure, Platformer, and MMO. He doesn't like fighting games and is rather picky about FPSs.
Ted has been hooked on gaming since the birth of the Atari 2600, when high fantasy adventure consisted of maneuvering a colored square through a castle maze while dodging pesky dragons that looked like 2D seahorses with beaks and wacky bats that took great pleasure in stealing your keys. To this day, while he enjoys platformers, first-person shooters and puzzlers, he is most passionate about RPGs and any other games which weave great stories into the overall experience.
Amethyst, a gamer that giggles at calling herself a gamer because she fits none of the glamorous stereotypes of female gamers, has been gaming since her father brought home the sparkly new Nintendo Entertainment System back in '89. Up until then she had dabbled with the Atari at a cousin's, but it was Super Mario Brothers, Duck Hunt and pounding with her hands on the Power Pad in World Class Track Meet that sealed her fate. Despite a three year stint that she doesn't talk about, she has been playing video games and other nerdly activities with enthusiasm. She enjoys puzzlers, RPGs, MMORPGs, certain shooters/fighters, platformers, magic carpet rides and um, mechanical pencil sharpeners. She hates, despite a couple of exceptions, racing games and sports games. Amethyst is married to Erik and is friends with J.R. and Ted.
A First Time For Everything
Spyderbyte
| 6/27/2008 9:00 am |
Game On
It was bound to happen eventually, but you may question why it took so long. Still, I've done it. Mark your calendars, ladies and germs - I finished my very first PS3 game.
I know, I know - I've owned my PS3 for how long now? And how many months has it been since I purchased Heavenly Sword? For that matter, how many months ago did I start the game? And isn't it like six hours long?
I recall a conversation I had with Erik about our shared approach to gaming. We both have a tendency to at best juggle multiple games simultaneously, setting down one incomplete game temporarily to try another. It might grow overwhelming to reflect upon a pile of unfinished games, but the benefit is that every now and then we can go on streaks where we finish several games in rapid succession. (Credit goes to Erik for that perspective - I like it!)
I suppose my point is this - poke fun at me all you wish, but I'm proud to have finished this game and unashamed that it took me as long as it did. And now you have learned a trick from me of how to savor a game you know from all the reviews to be much too short. Take one hour each month to play said title and a six hour game can last half a year. I knew there was a good reason for my approach. I simply wanted my first time to last.
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