A Few More Notes

OK, a little bit more before we get into the action.

So, like the last post said I'm going to be looking mostly at old and/or semi-obscure PC games. I'm choosing PC games because it's something I'm familiar with, I can readily get screen shots and the like for the blog by myself, and most importantly there's digital distribution.

Digital distribution is the important part, because not only can I tell you about a game, I can link to where you can readily get a copy of it for yourself, likely for very cheap in most instances.

Also, I'll be talking about old and obscure stuff because there's Already PLENTY of people talking about the big stuff. You don't need me to tell you about the latest Dark Souls or Assassin's Creed. Plenty of people do that already, you've likely got a favorite source to read about that. No need for me to add to the noise.

Plus, like I said in the previous post, I likely can't run most of those newer games anyway. Ihis is one of the things I like about older/indie games, They generally have very low system requirements, so no need to worry about having the latest tech installed.

For now at least, you can consider this a review blog, I'll be playing games, grabbing a few screenshots, and writing about my thoughts on them. I will do my best to take as through a look at any game I write on as I can manage. However, full disclosure: I'm doing this alone, unpaid and in my spare time. I can't guarantee I'll explore every game 100% especially the larger ones. playing a 100+ hour epic in it's entirety AND making a full blog post in a timely manner is a bit outside my capabilities. I will however, make sure I've played long enough that I feel I can give some solid thoughts on it.

I also may use of mods on a game, particularity for older games that have unofficial patches to deal with bugs or help the game work on newer operating systems, I'll make note of these in a review.

Also, while this is essentially a review blog, I will not be giving out scores. I can't even begin to quantify a game and everything in it in a single number and I personally don't think anyone care about scores much beyond "is this game any good?" Instead, I will sum up what I know of the game, weigh in on it's features and flaws and give some final thoughts on who, if anyone might want to try the game.

In truth, while this is technically a review blog, it's less about separating the good from the bad, or talking about artistic merit and more "Hey, I know of this game that's kinda cool, maybe you should take a look at it."

With that said, I hope anyone reading this enjoys the blog, and I'll try to have the first review up soon.

Hello World

Welcome to "Confessions of a Crap Gamer", yet another gaming blog in a sea of gaming blogs.

I'll be up front about this. I know there's millions of gaming blogs out there. Just about anyone who can play a video game is trying to run one.

I'm doing this for two reasons. First: as someone with, I'm embarrassed to admit, an insane number of games, I'm hoping this blog with give me a good reason to go through my collection, share my findings and maybe show people something interesting they haven't seen before.  I have way too many games, I might as well try to make something people would get use out of from it.

The second is that I'm currently between jobs and have nothing better to do.  So I might as well start a project like this to pass the time. If I do a good enough job, it might even make for some resume fodder.

With this in mind I'm not going to waste time chasing fame and fortune. Hopefully I'll get at least a couple readers who find my ramblings informative or at least entertaining. But I'm not going to go too far out of my way to try and increase the size of my audience or make myself some sort of net celebrity, deliberately trying to become famous rarely works out anyway.

As for what I'll be doing. Mostly I'll be looking at older PC games and indie titles. This is because I have an older computer, and while I'm hoping to one day upgrade it, that's not likely to happen any time soon. So that means I can't really play a lot of newer AAA stuff.

Whatever happens, I just hope someone enjoys this.

But before we get started, a bit about myself. To start, I'm not going to waste time going over a detailed list of every system I've ever owned or name dropping every major classic game I have. I'm not looking to establish myself as some sort of "True gamer". This post isn't meant to impress people, so I'm just going to say I've been playing video games for a very long time and leave the history section at that.

More important would be what interests me. I've played all sorts of games, but my interests lean more towards RPG and strategy games. Partially because I like tinkering with all the little upgrades and stats found in those kinds of games and partially because while I do enjoy some action games, I don't quite have the dexterity and lightening fast reflexes needed for them.

On the same note, I tend to have a preference for single player games. Though I do like co-op as well. Competitive multiplayer is... not my interest. The communities for most competitive multiplayer games are often worrying at best, and I lack the competitive streak that would have me excited at the idea of totally dominating the competition, or "pwning the noobs" or whatever it was the game's ads promised.

I do like a decent story where I can get one, though I don't strictly need it. As for challenge... like I said before I'm not really here to prove anything, I can enjoy a good challenge, but I don't NEED a game to be hard. I'm more interested in enjoying the ride then trying to master anything.

This is confessions of a CRAP gamer, not a master one. I'm just some random idiot, playing games and putting his thoughts on a blog. no point in trying to hide that