I thought it would be cool/fun/awesome to introduce myself to the blogosphere with a rap a la Donkey Kong 64, but then I remembered that DK64 sucked a fatty wad-o-shit and the rap is one of the Earths worst creations. A quick tangent, one of my high school buddies actually played through DK64 and beat everything. He got all 2,000,000,000,000 bananas with all 75 characters. I still to this day weep for time.
Sorry about that first paragraph, but the name of the blog is Random Gaming Babel, so off topic muttering should be expected. So I’m Jesse. I’m 25 years of age, married with two daughters and currently live in Hidden Valley, CA (near Clearlake). We moved here for my job, which is in Construction Management. While I enjoy my job (for the most part) I dream of working in the Gaming Industry in some capacity, but who knows if this will ever come to fruition.
If you are still reading this, you probably would like to know about the gaming aspect of my life. I mean that is the whole objective of this little blog I’ve created… to share in the world of games.
My gaming roots start with the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda. I currently own the Wii (where are my Classic Nintendo franchises), Xbox 360 (love playing over Live) and PS3 (Blu-ray player rocks).
I not only enjoy playing games, but am also very interested in the industry as a whole. I follow sites like 1UP, ign.com, Game Trailers, Joystiq, Kotaku, and Newsweek’s Level UP as well as insider blogs such as IAMfourzerotwo, Sexy Videogameland, and Sore Thumbs.
Right now I am really interested to see how this generation of consoles finishes. Nintendo and the Wii have a brand new market with casual gamers. Now I’m a big Nintendo fan, but right now I feel pushed aside. None of the Wii games this year interest me (while I do like the franchise Animal Crossing is not a new game, it is the same damn game as the last two… horrible), and there is nothing announced on the horizon that interests me. Microsoft and XBOX 360 have the core gamer. The 360 is the system I play the most, because it has the games and the services (Live and achievements). The PS3 really disappointed me at first. I didn’t buy one right away and when I did it was because of the Blu-ray player. However this year the PS3 is starting to pick up steam, as there are several games (Resistance 2, MotorStorm Pacific Rift, LittleBigPlant) that are on my radar.
I am also very excited about the independent game movement. PSN, XBLA and Wii Ware are great for giving small upstart developers the opportunity to show their talents. So right now the industry is a very diverse market. A crazy mesh of casual and hardcore games being developed by large and small developers all coming together to create the best time in the history of gaming to be a gamer.
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