My Life Through PC and Console Games

My favorite video games are RPGs. One of my earliest memories is defeating a boss in Zelda: A Link To The Past and running next door just to tell my friend about it.

I was raised on the Final Fantasy games and played them every day as a kid. I still love them, even though I'm in my twenties now! I also really enjoy the Diablo, Metroid, and Gran Turismo series. I have so many fond memories of playing through Diablo 2 ladder resets with my friends on Battle.net.

I would play over eight hours at a stretch hoping to make it to the top of the ladder, but I never did. My favorite video game consoles are PLaystation and xbox360, but I'm really a PC gamer at heart.

One of the biggest reasons for that is because I love to mod the games I play, and you can't do that on consoles. For instance, when I play Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Skyrim, Oblivion, and other games like that, I always install at LEAST fifteen mods.

I'm hugely loyal to Bethesda Softworks for the modding tools they release with their games. I even like to install mods for older games; there are tons of awesome mods for Baldur's Gate 2 and Diablo 2, for instance. It's really nice to be able to play a very familiar game a different way.

You don't get that with consoles. I love video games and fixing them up to be my own creations because it's so interactive. I have a short attention span. I can hardly even make myself watch movies or TV shows for long periods at a stretch, because I can't just sit there staring at a TV screen, I have to be DOING something.

It's amazing to me how much video games can actually focus me. When my xbox broke I was so intent on fixing it so I could get back to gamin. I spent two days nearly non-stop figuring out an xbox ring of death fix.

When I was a kid, everything was sprites and pixels. Nowadays, games look so lifelike that it's not hard to imagine that in another decade they'll look just like movies, and I'm really excited about that. Video games take you into worlds you'll never be able to experience in real life, in a completely different way than other forms of media do. I'm certain that I'll still be playing them even when I'm in my nineties.