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Blog Banter: What’s the real meaning of life…

Welcome, welcome to the 3rd installment of Blog Banter, the monthly blogging extravaganza headed by bs angel! Blog Banter involves our cozy community of enthusiastic gaming bloggers, a common topic, and a week to post articles pertaining to said topic. The results are quite entertaining and can range from deep insight to ROFLMAO. Any questions about Blog Banter should be directed here. Check out other Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post! This month’s topic: “What games would you suggest someone play if they wanted to get to know you better?”:

What game represents who I am as a person…this is deep! Unlike BSB belpers, I enjoy playing a bunch of different types of games, however: LIKE BSB belpers, I have only played COD4 since I got it at Christmas. After much thought I decided I’m very similar to Command & Conquer 3. I love the strategy games, where you build cities, towers, civilizations and even take over other empires on occasion. I am a very quiet and patient person and enjoy games that you have to take your time, come up with a strategy and implement.

My business life is very much the same: I want to own everything. I don’t want to work for someone else and see them take all the glory. C&C3 takes it a little far…the whole point is to destroy everything in your path, which I am completely against. In fact I am the exact opposite, I want to take everything in my path and build it bigger and make it stronger. The point is not to make enemies, but friends wherever possible. Life is so much more fun when everyone is making money or having success. I do enjoy the war aspects of C&C or COD4, but am against war if its avoidable, but that is the whole point of playing video games. Playing games is a way to escape reality and do things that you’ve never done before, or be someone that you aren’t normally. How cool is it that I can build my own city or tower the way I want without anyone telling me how to do it? So I say…play whatever you want to play, escape reality and have FUN!

Thanks for listening…

BSB boffman

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Posted in Blog Banter on February 12th, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Blog Banter: Who’s Your Daddy?

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When I was asked about this months subject… what game best describes who you are?… my reaction was, “Crap, I’m going to have to do homework.” I play one game, well, now two since I recently tried out my son’s Christmas gift COD4.

Sidenote: COD4 should be called COD$ cuz that game is money!

So since I only play two games, how would I know what games best describe who I am… cuz shooting aliens, driving SUVs with oversize tires, and fighting political wars are not what I’m about in reality.

The first thing I did was break down a list of what type of games there are? You have: action, fighting, shooter, sports, strategy, puzzle, rpg, simulation, and finally music & party. One of these words jumped out at me right away… strategy. So, I looked into what a strategy game is and what types of games there are. Here’s what I found… not me! It was all about building empires and ruling. Pass! So then I tried RPG, and this time I got a little closer, but the catagory lacked the light-hearted, fun character at the heart of my nature. On my third try I finally found what I was looking for. When I looked under the action catagory, I found a game that I immediately new represented my life (I guess). Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga. I’m all about Star Wars. I believe that even though the saga was based off many myths of our past, there is more truth in those myths than we now understand and believe. Also, one of the lines in Star Wars stuck with me from the first moment I ever saw the original trilogy; it was the line Obi-Wan said to Luke about beliefs being based on perspectives. I have held beliefs before with conviction that were all changed simply because I saw reality from a different perspective. That one point has helped me open my mind up tremendously and see so much more truth in this world. Finally, the game is perfect for me because it’s Lego… which is like saying… hey, this isn’t real or serious. It’s fun, it’s creative, it’s enjoyable!I enjoy a first person shoooter more than anything when I’m playing video games, but that’s not who I am as a real person. I’m all about fun, creativity, and Star Wars.

Game on!

BSB belpers