I’ll
be 50 years auld this year and some people find it weird that I still love
playing ‘video games’. Hooked on Space
Invaders* and Defender*, to name
but two, as a kid I was barely out of the amusement arcades in my home town of
Burntisland in Fife. I remember a fantastic KISS* pinball machine
from those days too. I never pumped my pocket money or wages (from paper round
or being the delivery boy for the local butchers) into slot machines. No, it
was the video games I loved. And there were a few I was bloody good at too!
Many
years later I got a SEGA Megadrive* &
continued gaming; although admittedly alcohol (& to a lesser extent, drugs)
were taking more prominence in my life.
Eventually,
after coming out of a decades-long haze of alcohol and drug abuse I met someone
who had a Playstation* who showed me
a game called Call of Duty* – World At
War. That was it. I was hooked again. I had never seen anything like it;
the graphics, the gameplay. Everything about it was ‘awesome’ as the kids used
to say. I got an X Box* and now have
an X Box One*. I’ve been through
different gamertags too incl. scotsgeoff
and Dr Jekyll before finally settling
on Auld
Scotsman.
I
love being able to run around online pwning (gaming speak for ‘owning’) other
players (admittedly that doesn’t happen very often unless it’s Titanfall*) but you get the point.
For
me it is fun; a game. I want to ‘socialise’ with people from other countries –
the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Brazil. Wherever. And I certainly can’t
afford to go there so it’s the next best thing in some ways. How cool is it to
be sitting playing a game live online and be chatting to someone from Texas at
the same time! It’s no Space Invaders*!
I
was blown away by the graphics too, the ‘gaming community’ and camaraderie, shocked
at how serious some people take it all and how they can lose their temper and
end up cussing to high heaven; but most of all I love the competitive aspect.
And now, as you’ve seen you can publish your own clips.
I’m
not really one for Campaign modes; I never finished any of the COD* ones and didn’t even start some of
them. It’s multiplayer for me!
My
favourite titles/franchises are (currently, lol) Read Dead Redemption* (still no new one announced for X Box One* – Hurry up Rockstar
Games*!), Titanfall* and Sniper Elite III*
Rebellion* that make
Sniper Elite III* are based in
England (in Oxfordshire) so all the more reason to be supporting them but there
is no extra reason needed as the game is excellent. And believe me I ‘hate’
snipers in games; generally I’m rubbish at it too. This game is different. It,
for me, is a ‘must buy’ which I never thought I would say. I didn’t like Sniper Elite II* or whatever it was
called. Played about 5 minutes or so and I just didn’t like it. So I wasn’t
even interested or keeping an eye out for Sniper
Elite III*.
I
just happened upon some YouTube* clips of it; trailers,
campaign gameplay and multiplayer gameplay and became quite impressed. So after
trading some stuff in I got it. And I haven’t stopped playing since.
My
name is Auld Scotsman and I’m a big kid and proud gamer.
All names marked * are Copyright or Trademarks of the
respective owners
