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About Me

Hi, Destructoid! It's nice to actually have words on this sidebar for once. Anyway, I enjoy a wide variety of genres in games on a multitude of consoles. So generally I'm not blatantly biased towards Corporation A over Corporation B, just because I might own one system and not the other.

Aside from games, I read only a few novels and comics, and I also watch anime and read manga from time to time, my favorite anime series thus far being Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Japanese culture fascinates me with its many quirks and oddities.

I'm surprised I've even gone this long without mentioning that Metal Gear Solid is my favorite game series of all time. I've never loved a series more than I love this one. I love the characters, the story, the gameplay, and of course, the actors (here's to you, Mr. Hayter). I will jump on anything MGS related if I get the chance. I'm pretty much obsessed. In terms of the old Metal Gear games, however, I'm not such a huge fan. I tried to get into them, but they were just too different for me to get used to.

Without further ado, here are The Systems I Currently Own: DS Lite, PS3, PSP, Wii

My Favorite Game Genres: Platformer, Action/Adventure, Shooter, RPG (Kinda)

My Favorite Games:

From the Playstation Brand:
Final Fantasy VII, IX, and X
Crash Bandicoot 2
Sly 3
The Spyro Trilogy (Insomniac's games)
Ratchet and Clank Series
Anything MGS (you should know this by now)
Patapon (undeniably adorable)
Valkyria Chronicles (Yes, a Sega game, but on Playstation)

From the Nintendo Brand:
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (one of the greatest games I have ever played)
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Starfox 64
Super Smash Bros. Series
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (This was Silicon Knights, but I thought it was presented incredibly well and the new features made it a better game)
Metroid: Fusion
The Metroid Prime Series
The Paper Mario Series (Spiritual successors to Super Mario RPG, but worthy nonetheless)
Kirby Super Star (Ultra just made it 10x better)

From the Microsoft Brand (Ex-Bawx):
The Halo Trilogy
Gears of War
...haven't played much more than that

For PC:
Starcraft (probably the only RTS I really liked)
Half-Life Series (even though I really have these on playstation, it still belongs here)
Team Fortress 2 (have this on both PS3 and PC, you can probably guess which I play 100% more)
Audiosurf (such a sweet game)
Left 4 Dead (What can I say? I do like me some Valve games)

Favorite Psycho Genius: Hideo Kojima

From all this information, you can probably tell I was primarily exposed to the PS1-N64 era, and that I also buy into Sony's big titles more. They tend to appeal to me more than others.

My PSN is Benefactor. Friend me if you'd like. My Steam ID is Mr. L if you want to friend me on Steam, too.

Gamer Profile

3DS friend code:
Steam:
Battle:
PSN:
Mii: 7188 6877 0079 5046
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Following (10)

That Awkward First Introduction Benefactor | 12:32 PM on 09.06.2008 22 comments

Hey guys, I'm sorta new here and...ok, not really. To be honest, I've been lurking around this site for a good year now and only started posting comments a few months ago. Since I've been the one commenting on what you guys write all the time, it only seems fair that I should finally introduce myself. So to kick things off, my name is Kiefer and I am a high school senior who happens to love video games (go figure, right?). You can thank your great friend Necros (psst...all the rumors are true) for introducing me to this site in the first place, and I'll take this opportunity to thank him myself . Destructoid is a great site and I hope I can become a greater contributor to it, which brings me to my next point. Writing. I can do it, but I need serious motivation to pump out something extensive enough. This means you probably won't hear much more from me in terms of my blogs, and if you do it'll probably be short and sweet. This blog was simply intended to give you a little introduction to myself so I don't seem like some psycho homicidal rapist. Thanks for your time, everyone. In closing... Even McCain loves Destructoid!