Nolan Ritchey – Gaming Profile

Throughout the course of my life I have played just about every type of game from an 8-bit MMO I found to mobile games. Obviously, as I have grown older, my taste in video games has changed. However, there are somethings that have not for example I would still go back and play some of the original Nintendo games, such as the original Mario and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. If I had to choose three particular genres to be my favorites, they would have to be first-person shooters, mobile games, and RPG’s.

My favorite types of games would probably be a toss up between first-person shooters and RPG’s, and it will change back and forth between the two based on what games are out at the time. I leaned more towards RPG’s for the past couple years because the FPS’s that were coming out were sub-par in my opinion. During this time I was playing games such as Dark Souls 1 and 2 to and extent that some of my friends wondered if I just hated myself from the constant struggling to fight boss after boss. However, if I had to pick a favorite game series it would by far be the Fallout series. war_never_changes__by_atryl-d8w1kwl

Between Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas I probably put in upwards of 500 hours and maxed out both games achievements for the Xbox 360 (all DLC included). However, my first video game that really sparked my habitual gaming would have to be Call of Duty 4. When I bought my first Xbox 360, I bought it for the sole purpose of playing COD 4 with my friends online, and from there a massive desire to play good first-person shooters arose.

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With the releases of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and Ghosts, I turned to the Battlefield series to get my FPS fix, however, Black Ops 3 has been fairly entertaining and is a step in the right direction for where the Call of Duty franchise was heading.

However when I inevitably get bored/annoyed with these games I will turn to something different which is where mobile games come into the picture. Mobile games are nice because they are the solid balance of entertaining and distracting. This distraction can be both a good thing and a bad thing for example, it is nice if you just want to kill some time wherever you are. However, it is not so nice when you find yourself constantly playing it and not even thinking about it, and that is the reason I had to delete Clash of Clans from my phone. I would randomly find myself just logging on to collect my gold and elixer, and then about an hour later I would be wondering how I just wasted an hour. For a while, I was playing the first two Infinity Blade games on my iPod touch because it was one of those games where you could fight through to the final boss, lose (most of the time), and then put it down either out of frustration or just defeat. In any circumstance, this is a clear third place as far as genres go.

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