Confessions of a gaymer #1 Confessions of a gaymer #1: I have both a Nintendo 3DS and a 360, and I'm not a pro.

I honestly believe that every single gamer needs to have at least a home console and a portable one. OK, OK, don't jump on my neck, I know a PC is vital, but if you're reading this, I can safely assume that you have at least something to navigate through the Internet, surely a PC. Doesn't need to be very powerful, though. Just something that helps you with your everyday routine. Some people call themselves pro-gamers. They're pro because they have some kind of EXTREMELY expensive gear in order to play some games (Mostly wheels to play racing games and Arcade Pads to play fighting ones), but I don't think all that stuff is really needed to enjoy a good game. Just a pad and whatever the game requires it's OK (A Guitar Hero special pad, or maybe Nintendo's Megazord The I-can't-believe-theyalready-use-an-AA-battery-to-empower-it-instead-ofadding-a-second-battery-which-would-enlarge-the-lifeof-the-main-one Circle Pad Pro). Even Nintendo says that you need special equipment, hush... I think that being a Pro (I'm not one, by the way) means that you're capable enough to professionally play and and earn your living that way. Look at the Magic Trading Card Game Pro Tours. They only need a deck and some sleeves to protect their cards Something that Quick! Into the Megazord! We need more anyone can easily have as work tools. Of course they power! can be carrying around an extremely large folder with their spare cards, or a special playing mat, or a personal life counter, or God knows what kind of additional gadget they can use. It's just that they don't need it. Another example: Let's say that I buy whatever Street Fighter IV edition is now on sale for Xbox 360 and I start playing, learning from the game and other people, and training until I become extremely good, enough to start winning championships all over the world. All with my white console and my white remote controller (I promise you, they can't be whiter), plugged in my small TV, the one I have in my bedroom. And with that little equipment and the magical connection of my ISP, I beat all those Japanese kids with their expensive arcade machines and pads and enormous screens and stuff. Who's the pro now? I firmly believe that the real and I mean it, REAL purpose of gaming it's not competition, just enjoying the games you play. Or maybe it WAS the real purpose, because companies encourage too much the competition factor. Come on, where's the Solo Mode? The games that make you stay stick to the console until you finally beat the game. The true fun in gaming. That's why I have 360 and 3DS. I'll put you some examples: Both Xbox 360 and 3DS have all those games that rely in something more than graphics or online modes to make you play. Call it Portal 2 (Best-Puzzle-Game-Ever), Fable II, Brtal Legend (I can't stress enough how much did I enjoy this beautiful masterpiece), Guitar Hero, Alan Wake, or even the old SEGA remakes that are available in the Bazar. And the list goes on indefinitely. And for 3DS, you can play Mario 3DS Land, Ocarina of Time, One Piece (I'll say a few things about this one later), Tetris 3DS How the hell do they manage to get every single Tetris edition to be THAT fun? - the never-coming-to-Europe Shin Megami Tensei Devil's Survivor
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Confessions of a gaymer #1 Overclocked, Cooking Mama 4 and all that stuff, not counting the oncoming games (Did I heard Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance, or maybe it was Professor Layton VS Phoenix Wright?). Hey now, I'm not saying anything bad about online gaming I do play myself. It's just that you need games to attract you in more aspects, mainly storytelling or just being funny, addictive or enjoyable, beyond the Online one (For example, Halo: Reach, Battlefield 4, Call of Duty...whichever you play, or Gran Bugismo 5) We're starting the social consoles generation, and that's good, next step will be voice-talking through our consoles with our friends while we play any game. I can easily imagine myself talking with my friend Carlos while he plays Portal 2 and I play Space Marine, through Xbox Live, and telling him where to put the portals while ripping apart some Orks. And for free, of course! Stop making us pay for something that your competitors give us for free, you ball-touching, redheads, gaming bankers of Microsoft! Didn't you learn from the Japanese market? By the way, did you notice that the titles I mentioned above as examples of games that only sell because of their online modes are heavily focused on graphics too? And they're top-selling, for some reason... I told that I would talk about One Piece: Unlimited Cruise SP. The 3DS one, for the non-Nintendo people. In Japan, they have two Wii games, a Survival Mode, a new mode, which tell us the Marineford chapter of the anime, and six new characters All for the price of one game. And they threw in a figurine, too. That's not a game. That's just gaming pornography. BUT what do we have in Europe? Only the first Wii One Piece game with the newly-added extras (Which means we have practically half the game), only limited Ash figurines, a translation (at least the Spanish one) made by some monkey with a typewriter who didn't translate from Japanese, but from English, and having absolutely no knowledge about that language at all. I swear to you, if someone comes and tells me that this game has been translated by Google Translation, I would believe him. But Google engine would surely do Really, don't you have a spelling check system in your word processor? a better job translating... I'm not done yet. We do have ortography errors in the case (It says One Piece Unlimlited Cruise SP), the subtitles font are wrotten for a Lilliputian reader, and...it's more expensive than his older and complete brother, the Japanese counterpart! That's because the Japanese copy costs about 6000 Yens (About 55, or $73)...while the European one costs 46 per chapter, which is 92 Euro in the end. Come on, Namco Bandai and Nintendo...would you be kind enough to stop trying to steal me? I'm European, but I'm not stupid. And bring the damn Shin Megami Tensei to Europe, for God's sake! Or at least unlock our consoles to allow people to import games, so I can play Gundam the 3D Battle in my PAL 3DS! And yes, I confess it: I'm a gaymer. My Fable II male hero was married to the male tailor of Bowerstone (Until he was killed by Lucien and since that Bowerstone have no tailor at all), I
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Confessions of a gaymer #1 encouraged men to lay with another men in The Sims, and I believe in Sephiroth to be in love with Cloud. And if you're not, stop stalking him, damnit! I've had enough of your nonsense and ridiculous battles just for deciding who's top and who's bottom. I'm tired of you two being the ambiguously gay duo! Same goes for Zell, in FF8... And just for the records: If Cloud was really straight, he would have kicked every single arse and cut his way with his huge sword (No comments about the size here, please) to safe Tifa, at the beginning of the game, instead of becoming a drag queen (I clearly remember Aerith telling him that he looked great crossdresed). Well, here ends the first chapter of a gaymer's confession. Wrotten in a crappy English and with probably no readers at all, but waiting, always waiting for some feedback. Thank you for reading me and please comment if you like it.

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