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I went for my first ever gaming convention! The noobness in me overflows to an epic scale. All that I knew was, that I knew the game existed, but I never really dared playing those games.

As a kid, I always stood behind my brother, watching him play games like Need For Speed, World of Warcraft? Starcraft? COUNTER STRIKE! I can't really remember what are those that he played, but I only remember watching him play, and I could just stand there for hours watching, until he finally shoos me away. hehe. I never dared playing because I knew if I play something, I would actually ruin his saved file or some sort, and would get a scolding out of it. Trying to play the game on my own was terrifying, knowing that my bro could just yell me off anytime, or that I didn't know where I should navigate or do in the game. XD

My friend had a PS2 or PS1, if I am not mistaken. He also had some other hand held gaming console, aside from the computer which he used to play Pokemon on. His brother too, was a gamer. Everytime I would pop up at his place, I could see his brother, plonked up at a corner, in front of the computer with a headphone on his head, gaming away. I have always been a nood for playing games, but this was the only place where I could actually play a proper game. LOL

When I was 10, I finally got my own gaming console, a Nintendo advanced SP. All I played, was one of the Need For Speed series, and Harvest Moon. I also discovered that I liked playing Racing games as it doesn't really requires brains, or knowing where to navigate. Your only objective was to drive and beat the crap out of everyone else in the game. Also, you will never die. Simply the reason why I could never finish Super Mario. or any arcade games, really. I just got bored and couldn't bother continuing or trying again. Besides that, NFS got me learning about awesome cars. I seriously thought those cars were fictional, until my guy friends started pointing out those car names on the roads. The visuals on screen seriously looks nothing like the real thing, with the pixels and all. Well, that was YEARS AGO!

Then my brother bought me Sims to play on the desktop. OH SO MUCH LOVE! He bought me the pirated ones though, but he did buy me a few extension packs along with it. :D The moment I got it functioning, I would sit there for hours upon hours, just managing my sims doing 'humane' things. It was also near impossible for me to demand a PlayStation from my mother, as I know I should be focusing on studies and I suck at gaming anyways. But I had always thought that it would be cool to have one.

It wasn't until last year that I got actively excited about the gaming world. My friend brought a laptop to uni, and somehow made me play Call of Duty. If I am not mistaken, it was Modern Warfare 1? That was my first time ever, playing FPS game on my own. Despite me watching my brother playing it all those time, I finally had my chance in trying it out. HAHAHAHAHA! Prior to that, I had people teaching me how to play Dota. I still couldn't understand how to play it on my own, so I couldn't bother nor dared playing it on my own. But FPS, had somehow became my favourite genre of games ever since.

My first experience on COD was pretty cool. I actually got to play the whole thing on my own too! Thank god for that awesome friend who actually carried that crap heavy load of a laptop to uni almost everyday. It came to a point where I would just ask him, 'DID YOU BRING YOUR LAPTOP?!'. It gave me a mild headache after playing for about 2hours. Then it got my attention on the improvements of graphics that I have missed throughout the years of studying. Somewhere about the end of last year, I found out that Team Fortress 2 was actually free to play. Where it was absolutely free to be downloaded and to be played.

Friends of AusMat even made the whole room in the library into a CS community. Whenever there was a group of people who are having their breaks, they would just gather, and play CS right there in the library against each other. I, got to join too! My first experience of gaming online with other people. Which got me hooked to TF2, almost immediately. Playing online was so much more interesting than playing on my own. Soon after the CS craze died out, I switched to TF2. I have been hooked ever since. :P They occasionally have game sessions at the CC near uni, playing CS, Dota? and Left 4 Dead. YEAPPP! LOVE!

Also cause I got my own laptop, I could easily play TF2 whenever I like. Besides the fact that TF2 has constant awesome updates (at least recently). The improvement that they have been doing for the past whole year had been massive, making me treasure TF2 as my only source of gaming, ever more.

Exposure to gaming has brought me to a point where I would follow youtubers who uploads commentary gameplays on youtube. A place where I get updates on whatever new games that could come up anytime soon, or if the game is epic enough that they would talk about it, eventhough it is a pretty big distance away. This year, we had Diablo3. Which instantly died out after some korean beat the game within 24 hours or something. :P Upcoming games, Assassin's Creed III, Borderlands 2 and COD: Black Ops 2. HAHAHAHAHAH! I now know my gaming things, so much more than I used to. :P

#somuchwin

As of my first gaming convention, I guess I had my expectations a little too high on this one, but I guess it was good enough as my first time (also epic noobness). I had my hands on Diablo3 like FINALLY!!! yesssssssssssssssssssssss! I feel satisfied now. :)

I also like going to the arcade whenever I could. Though I sometimes wished that this place wouldn't have to appear sort of DODGY, as though people would just do drugs there or something. It is completely healthy to game! WHY DO YOU NEED TO SMOKE THERE, and also make the lighting extremely dim. As a kid, I really thought it was a bad thing to go there. tsktsktsk. Also the games, WHY YOU SO EXPENSIVE?!

I wish I had a better computer, so that I could play better games.
Or get a PS3, or Xbox360. :/