What Is A True Gamer?

 The day is sunny, the clouds are blowing in the wind, I stand outside on my doorstep, and you know what I say to myself... I think I'm going to go to Gamestop today. Yeah!, no fucking picnics, ohhh nooo, non of that going to the beach shit, to go get my Guido tan on, fuck NO!, I'm going to Gamestop. Little to my surprise while I'm there talking to a friend who is the Manager there, my friend and I get into a discussion with a Gramer. If you don't know what a Gramer is, go over to screwattack.com, and watch episode two of a online show called Nametags it will explain it all. Anyway we get into this pointless conversation about Call of Duty Black Ops 2, and Medal of Honor Warfighter, and the whole time I'm just thinking to myself, WHY... THE FUCK!. Are we really talking about this? So I try to change the subject, and mention F-Zero... yea I know Random!.
The look on his face was as if he just got mind fucked by a headcrab. " What game is that?, is it on the PS3" he says. My jaw almost dropped so far to the floor, I could practically pick it up and throw it over my head, and wear it as a face mask and hat. For almost Thirty-five minutes this guy has been telling me how much of a Gamer he is, and explainning his K/D ratio like I'm suppost to fucking care.

So this raised my eyebrow, and I asked him. What else do you play?, He actually Responded by telling me every modern Call of Duty game, and the slight mention of Gears of War and Halo. I laughed, rolled my eyes and said, " Ha! YOUR NOT A TRUE GAMER!" turned around walked away and continued my search on purchasing a game for my mid day enjoyment. Then I got to thinking later in the day, What is a true gamer?, someone who has beaten the first Castlevania?, someone who knows what the fuck F-Zero is?. Now I asked some friends of mine, this question and they just laughed at the guy from me telling them the story, but it doesn't even end there, why do some! not all, but some Gamers of my generation look down on the ones who love to play Call of Duty?. Does a person have to know every fucking old school game libary to be called a Gamer?, Do they need to know what Tri-Force is, and know it's linked to Zelda?, FUCK NO!!!. If you play games, and enjoy doing it, your a Gamer. If you enjoy playing Call of Duty all the time, your a fucking gamer... just not the kind I like to get into a conversation with.

And just because you play Call of Duty, or Battlefield or any other first person shooter, that doesn't mean your a FUCKING GUN EXPERT!. GEEZ!!!

Gaming!? What ever happened to the fun???

Now don't get your panties all in a bunch, games are still fun... some are... for a little while I mean. With all the big budget titles coming out, and asshole Gamers already judging games before they even hit store shelves. I've been keeping my eyes open to the Gaming Community, and all the games coming out since Resident Evil 5. Capcom spent shit tons of money to get this game made, instead of using it to feed a hungry child in Ethiopia, and what happens, the game gets bad mouthed saying how it sucks. Now if I remember correctly, the game had good graphics, soundtrack was movie quality, and it worked when you popped it into your Console or PC, and it was quite entertaining.

What ever happened to the game just being plain ol fun?

 I grew up in the Nintendo era, after the Atari 5200, the gaming crash, and all that other exciting shitacular gaming epidemic stuff. What ever happened to playing a game, and even though it sucked all ass... You played through it anyway. Now I remember playing a game called Rival Turf... Now understand this, I played this game a couple of weeks after I got my taste of Final Fight 2, so to me at the time, this game was complete ASS!. But dispite that the game sucked, I still played it, and had a good time doing so. The era of the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis was my favorite era. To this day I still have those machines hooked up to my TV, and I play those games more now than I do my Xbox and PS3 (PS3's lucky if it gets any love at all).

Now a days it seems I'm just playing the games, just to play them. I'm not having that fun that I used to anymore. When I'm done with a game I have this look on my face like, "yep knew that was coming." or my personal favorite "guess I'll go and try multi-player now.". WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED!, I mean games are still fun, but not like how they used to be. Now it's seems it has become the equivalent to channel surfing... It's there to just past the time.