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I recently got a new PS3 game that I am hooooked on and it got me thinking about this interest I have.

What Type of Gamer am I?

I thought I’d firstly talk about what kind of gamer I am. I’m a bit strange in this regard, I can go for months and months and never play a single game and then play one like a maniac for a while. I’d say i’m a casual gamer with hardcore hundreds an thousands sprinkled on.

I love playing retro games from my childhood. Mainly because my folks were not exactly loaded so although I didn’t go without I did not get (like some i know) every single thing I wanted, so the games I did have I played and played and played! To this day I still load them up an go though one of my crazy gaming binges. Games like: The Settlers, Simcity 2000, UFO:Enemy Unknown, Elite, Frontier Elite Two (lost days to these two), Doom 2, Age of Empires are some of the older games that you can reallllly spend a lot of time on. It’s one of my ambitions to own a classic arcade machine which plays a really retro game called Rampage, you can play it online for free these days but its not the same! It was a game I found as a tiny tiny young lad at the sea side and I loved it!

Sweet link: There is this guy called the angry video game nerd, he reviews old ‘crap’ video games, check him out.

That is not to say I only play older games, I am very much into new games but seem to rarely buy them. I have had a ps3 for a year or so but only own like 5-6 games, something I intend to change. I love first person shootery games and also racey type games, anything with a lot of action in it is all good. Although I don’t mind a bit of role play I really don’t ‘get’ games like world of warcraft, why people dedicate them selves to it I have no idea, having skills and levels is cool an all but that game is just on its own level of weird.  I’d say the GTA games are the most ‘me’ I’v loved playing everyone of them and GTA IV (the reason I bought a ps3!) is simply amazing.

Best value for money

I really should buy more games as personally next to my geeky(er)  hobby of war gaming, video games are simply the best return for your investment. Seeing a film at the cinema is like 6-7 quid and lasts what a couple of hours? Going out drinking is the same, few hours and if ya like me its 50-100 quid spent on a night.  You spend 30-40 quid on a video game and as long as its a good one you get 20 to unlimited hours of fun from it! The best thing about the good ones is the re-playability, you can’t really read a book or watch a film over and over again but you can play a game like GTA IV forever and it (for me) never gets boring.

PC or Console?

I used to be a huge supporter of PC gaming, I’v never really owned a console other than a master system way back when. It wasn’t until GTA IV came out that I broke this trend and forked out some cash on a ps3. I’v not been disappointed! I always preferred a mouse an keyboard to play games, especially since I was a bit of an FPS fiend (and still am) but there is much to be said for the likes of the latest generation of consoles. For one the games are just ‘fun’, they may not be as complicated control wise and a little bit more simple with game-play but they’re just so much fun to play! I’m really looking forward to the motion sensor controller Sony are working on, they demoed a protype at e3 this year and it looks awesome.

What i’m playing at the minute

I recently have been playing a game called inFamous on ps3 and I’m hooked on it, its like a cross between spider man, gta iv and assassin’s creed. If you have a ps3 go and check it out, you will not be disappointed trust me. There is a similar game called prototype which i’m gonna check out after this one. Before inFamous i’v been spamming Sid Meier’s Pirates from 2005, I love pirates and this game is rather addictive. Also on PC i’m still very much into Left4Dead which is a multi-player zombie FPS game, I also love zombies so this game gets a lot of play. If there is ever a game of zombie pirates driving sports cars and firing ak47′s i’ll be buying that shit!

Anyhoo just thought i’d share a bit about on of my pass times with ya’ll, take care.

p.s i’m watching flight plan on the tele as I write this, Jodie Foster needs a punch in the face! gawd she’s an annoying actor.