When i started on this site i was playing a PS2, now the PS4 is about to launch in Europe and it's been a long ride. I have gone through games like Battlefront 2 on the PS2 to games like Mass Effect and Tomb Raider on the 360 and PS3. There are a lot of people i have gotten to know through the years and i have pretty much seen how the site has changed through the years for bad and for worse.
I have seen and lived through two major site updates and seen the bad and the good on this site. The firing of Jeff Gerstman and many of the controversial decisions Gamespot has done over the years to the growth of the awesome community and the unions. It's had its up and downs, but i still like this site.
The one thing that first drew me in was the whole idea of the forums and interacting with people on this site. Also getting news and having debates about games and issues have been a big part of the forum life i have been part of.
The reviews have also been a big part on why i have been on the site getting informed on games i want and feeling the waters, it has changed a little lately, but i still go here for news and debate.
i have expressed my issues with the site to the staff and other users here and they mostly agree. I like this site and i have for nearly a decade. I hope the developers and managment will listen.
Since i started as i stated before i have changed my taste in games with only liking RPG's and Sports games when i was younger to growing to like racing, action/adventure, First-Person-Shooters, Third-Person-Shooters, hack and slash, mmo's, stealth games and even rythm games to an extent. I have gotten deeper into gaming in this last gen than i ever was and that is thanks to the big library developers have given us, Not only the big names, but also the smaller ones.
I started out with the 360 in late 2007 when my little brother decided he wanted to take the leap into the next generation in gaming. I was pleasently surprised how big the leap was compared to the PS2. I played a lot of games on the 360 and enjoyed my time on it. But since 2011 there were few games that really compelled me to get exclusives. There were mostly games like the arcade games from the online marketplace or games like Forza 4 and Horizon. So i decided to buy the Playstation 3 last year. I haven't had any regrets when i bought it. The reason my brother and I chose to go with the 360 in the first place was the price. Where i live it would have costed us 1000$ to get one, and we didn't have that money as teenagers. But when the price finally dropped a little and i saw it on sale last year i had to get one. I have been a fan of Sony since the early PS2 days. I have enjoyed so much of the library the both of the consoles have given me and choosing either one this generation has not been a mistake nor would i say for anyone else. They both have strong and weak sides. But i am a positive person that looks more towards the positive sides than the weak ones.
In retrospect i think this generation of gaming has been the one with most variety when it comes to games. Storytelling, gameplay, graphics, etc have all had big leaps and matured during the course of this generation.
So just wondering if anyone agrees or has some sort of input?
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