Hello again. It has been quite some time since my last post (almost eight months to be exact) and a lot has happened since then. The two main reasons that I stopped contributing to this blog are because the class I was taking, which required me to regularly update and post to the blog, ended and my fiancé and I also had our first child back in May, which has kept the both of us quite busy. During that time I always had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to return to this blog and keep posting because I enjoyed the experience so much. All I had to do was find a suitable topic that I wanted to write about and then I could get back to blogging AND be inspired by a wealth of material that directly pertained to my passion.
Well as of recently, the opportunity to find a suitable topic to keep this blog alive has come to me and I have found lots of inspiration to go along with this topic. Over the past few days I have been reading the book "Paid to Play: An Insider's Guide to Video Game Careers", which has not only managed to crush my dreams of working in the video game industry as well as depress me (not really, but the book mentions a lot of the down sides as well as the perks), but has also managed to keep me intrigued and dedicated to finishing it as soon as I can. I am definitely not here to plug this book, but I do recommend that it be read by anyone considering a career in said industry so they know what to expect. If nothing else there are some useful suggestions, guidelines, and tips that could benefit anyone looking to get a job or be more professional in their line of work. Now that I have finished hyping it up (the check better be in the mail like you promised Prima Games) I'll get back to what I plan to do with this blog.
If you haven't been able to figure this out already, I'll just flat out tell you. My passion is for video games. Always has been (at least since getting my first NES at age four, which is about as far back as I can remember) and, no matter how hard I try to grow up and be more responsible, it seems that it always will be. Not that I think gamers are immature and irresponsible. Being a gamer I would take offense to that myself, but it is no mystery that gaming requires time dedication and the more that you contribute, the less time you have to devote to other goals and responsibilities in your life. So my inspiration for blogging will be video games. In particular the review of recently released video games. Although I'm still not sure if anyone is actually reading this (four months and fourteen posts without one single comment) I will continue to contribute and maybe someone out there in the vast expanse of the internet will actually catch on to what I am doing and find my input useful. With a little networking and word of mouth who knows, it might catch on and be a small cog in the massive video game industry machine. If nothing else at least I will get some experience critiquing games and be able to polish my writing skills some.
So, as the topic indicates, I will be changing this blog for the New Year from a scheduled publishing of school assignments to a dedicated, truthful, and passion driven chronicle of newly released popular video games and my take on whether or not they make the grade. Some of you might be saying who are you and why should I care what you think and my answers are, in order, "Nobody in particular....yet, and you should care because I am going to thoroughly play games in my own free time and give honest and unbiased opinion about them and what I feel could have been improved upon. Hopefully this will inspire others to comment and give their two cents, creating a public discourse about video games that might grow enough that developers take notice and give the people what they want, so to speak.
So bear with me as I continue to update the face of this blog, play and review games (while also trying to work, go to school full time, raise my daughter, spend time with my family, and maintain some smidgen of a social life), and try to get the word out so more of you web crawler....um, I mean web surfers can read about and participate with this blog. And if you have any ideas feel free to shoot me an e-mail. My e-mail address is Crabby0525@aol.com. Also, tell your friends about this site if they are interested in video games. The more people that participate the better our chance of having a voice that will reach developers and the more likely it will be that we actually get more of what we want from the latest game. Oh, and before I forget there is one more thing......
Happy New Year Everyone!!!
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