First off before i start my main part about this blog post i would like to make some sort of follow up to my last blog post. First off I would like to explain further and help others that read that post gain more understanding as to why i wrote what i did about the forum thread i was involved in, and clear more about my self description as a gamer. The thread I "fought" in so to speak, was more of defending myself as a individual then just doing what most guys do by saying, "your a n00b i can Pwnzor u in a minute" Ya i did say i could probably beat that guy if he played me, but that was mere confidence like any gamer has. Sure i win some and i lose some..there is no perfect gamer, and i respect that because it comes with the territory of gaming. There is no gaming "God" alive that has a 13253245 - 0 record. I believe in myself to be good...not the best, but better than average. Sure like everyone else that plays games alot I would like to be known as "one" of many that are considered great or close to the best, but thats just a dream. I could be playing in Pro gaming leagues, but my values and love for life more than fame would remind me that to every man/woman, there is ALWAYS someone better, so one could not truly become the best. I dont strive to have the best carrer, tons of money, im one man in a huge world who was given the priviledge to live on this earth like everyone else and gaming is one of my big ways to enjoy it. I respect everyone out there who plays games and tries hard each day at getting better and better at it. I also respect everyone i meet online whether it be in game or in a forum. Just because they dont have the same views about things in gaming like i do doesnt mean that i think they suck or i dislike them. I look at forums on any site as a place to speak freely and sometimes debate, and when im done talking in a thread i walk away and keep going on with my life because there is no reason to hold a grudge against someone..even if they called you bad things or made attempts at attacking you personally. At the end of the day its all words and i realize that with the fact im over here at my comp and the other guy is all the way somewhere in the world and that gives them all the power to say what they want without a physical confrontation. If they lived here i would still not be bothered..its their opinion and i respect that.
Now i wanted to clear up something about what i said about my name "Gamerman98" and how it was placed on me. Back when Doom 2 was slowly becoming a thing of the past (it never will, but i mean in terms of gaming evolution) and games like Quake and Unreal were coming out (which was AFTER 1998 when unreal was released), a few of my friends decided that they wanted to have a all night LAN party one Friday night and asked me if i would be able to come. So i went and there was about 15 ppl in that basement (it was a HUGE basement too) and they were all playing Unreal and i never played that game yet ( the weekend after the LAN party was when i was going to go pick up my copy of it) so it was my first time playing, like most of the guys that were there that night. Well to make a long story short we played on teams first then my friend Mike wanted to play me 1v1 (he had this "im the king of all games" attitude because he was the only guy in town at the time that beat both DOOM games on nightmare from start to finish..whoo hooo i said lol) so i agreed thinking it would be fun since we used to DM 1v1 on Doom all the time back when it came out and were bored of the co-op play. To make the story short again I pretty much embarrased him badly (not on purpose too might i add, I was only paying attention to how i was playing and didnt notice that he took it seriously because the other guys were laughing at him) and after we all went back to team play and one of the guys called me a Gamer man (because 1: he knew my love for games, and 2: because he thought i played awsome in that match against Mike) I never really thought nothing of the name until 2004 when i started Playing Unreal Tournament 2004 and when i went to give myself a Online name i just picked Gamerman98 (98 being my favorite number) nowadays i usually go by GmaN98 but still use the full name depending on the game. Now i dont hold it up high and be like "Im Gamerman98 and im the best and ill kill you all the time!!" Its just a name and now back home GmaN is like a nick name ppl call me (gamer friends mainly). So its not some ego booster or anything...i just wanted to use this blog as a way to explain myself as a gamer and a human being outside of the games.
Now on with the main reason for this post (I apologize for you having to read all of this)
I just wanted to say that after reading all the latest news about the new games currently being developed, i dont really have a certain game im aiming for but i do like what i see in all of them. They each have unique qualities that im very interested in seeing the finished product. Like WAR's RvR or AoC's Seige battles and in my personal opinion its a good idea that AoC is rated M. It WONT..and believe me it WONT keep the so called "WoW kiddies" from playing it, it will though (and i hope) give players a more in depth approach to roleplaying. Like from what i saw with the Siege battles. You have all these guilds making settlements and trying to claim the land over the others, its a perfect place for roleplaying where each guild can use that to create their own history for their guild so that new players can go to their website and read the lore for that guild and see the trials and tribulations that the Guild and it's members went through on that time of need. That tool of roleplaying could be used to enhance a guild so more mature serious RP players or PvP players can get the chance to play with a group of people that have the same common goal. It would be a step away from the guilds that alot of people dont like to be a part of and WoW players know what i mean because i had the unfortuante chance to be in a couple in my WoW days. The same chance can be applied to WAR too, but it would be harder to maintain. I wish the best for all the games that are being developed right now and i cant wait to see whats next and i cant wait for them to be released. But this is all for this blog Ill have another one good to go later next week. Happy gaming everyone!!!!
Gamerman98
