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I'm a 20 year old college student studying outside of Austin, TX.
I also like games, a lot. And this site, a lot.

My Action Bio: In the year 20XX I will be hired by Doctor Wily to defeat that blasted Mega Man fellow. I will defeat him and then absorb his special ability, just so he gets to know what it feels like.

My Turn-based Bio: I will walk around and arbitrarily talk to everyone in my small village, only to have it burst into flames the next day. I will awaken the only survivor of the mysterious fiery explosion but with no recollection of my past or who I am. I'll head to the nearest town and get a job at the local item shop. Eventually I'll forget about the whole explosion nonsense and start a family with that person who stands in front of town to tell people what town she's standing in front of.

PSN: BrandNameC
Currently Playing:
-Resonance of Fate
-Breath of Fire IV
-FFXIII

Want to be Playing
1) God of War 3
2) No More Heroes 2
3) Super Street Fighter IV
4) Heavy Rain

My favourite 5 games on the systems I currently own/play:

SNES: Chrono Trigger, FFVI, Super Mario RPG, Kirby Super Star, SMW 2: Yoshi' Island

PSX: FF VIII, Xenogears, Final Fantasy Tactics, Chrono Cross, Breath of Fire IV

DC: Rez, Marvel v Capcom 2, Shenmue II, Powerstone 2, Samba de Amigo

PS2: Persona 4, FFX, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence, Devil May Cry 3, Suikoden III

GC: LoZ: Wind Waker, Tales of Symphonia, Animal Crossing, SSBM, Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes

Wii: Super Mario Galaxy, RE4: Wii Edition, SSBB, Zak & Wiki, Okami

PS3: Valkyria Chronicles, Uncharted 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, Demon's Souls, Burnout: Paradise

GBA: Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, LoZ: Minish Cap, Golden Sun, Tactics Ogre: The Knights of Lotus, Pokemon Sapphire

DS: Pokemon Diamond, Animal Crossing Wild World, M&L: Bowser's Inside Story, Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Castlevania: PoR

PSP: FFT: War of the Lions, FFVII: Crisis Core, Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth, Lumines, Metal Gear Ac!d

My Top 5 systems:
1. SNES
2. PS2
3. DC
4. PS3
5. PSX

This is from the not too distant future; next Sunday, A.D.

My musical heroes.

I'm not really someone who watches much anime at all (Cowboy Beebop and Gurren Lagann notable exceptions) but I just can't help but find this show adorable and hilarious.

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11:41 AM on 01.04.2010

Playing both Resident Evil 5 and Uncharted 2 recently, I encountered two distinct instances that have gotten me to thinking about that special side of a character gamers see most often when playing 3rd person games, their back.

Staring at a character’s back occurs to varying degrees depending primarily on the style of gameplay and the style of camera control. Games that are combo-oriented or rely on constant mobility cannot focus on the character’s back without disorienting the player and/or impeding the games flow. But slower paced games, particularly survival/horror and more methodical, cover based 3rd person shooters, tend to restrict much of their game time to a view behind the shoulder of the main character. With that generalization out of the way, here a couple things I've come across:

1. It’s really annoying when your character starts blocking you from seeing what you actually need to look at.

This was an issue I faced in RE5, often most aggravating when I had large weapons like shotguns, rifles, RPGs on my back. I really appreciate that they render the proper weapons you have equipped on your body, but when playing as a Hulk sized Chris with a shotgun on his back, an ammo counter to his right and a possible map in the upper corner, it gets overwhelming.

Shattered Memories uses a much more minimalist style of back staring compared to RE5.

2. Butts are noticeable.

Playing Uncharted 2 multiplayer (which is the only multiplayer I've ever really gotten into - sadly I was renting the game) I leaned on using Elena and Chloe as my player skins, because damn, they know how to wear some digital jeans. It sounds immature/childish, but it was more pleasing to my eye and that was all it took for me to decide I preferred them.

Sadly, I've found even the most sexualized of backs can't help bad games. But they can help erections.

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Elsa

LOL! I often push devs to include female avatars in multiplayer online competitive games... and one of the reasons I rely on is the fact that according to MMO stats, a very high percentage of women prefer to play as female (over 80%), but a good 30-40% of men also prefer to play as a female... and one of the reasons men gave was nothing to do with immersion... but simply that staring at a woman's butt was preferable to staring at a man's! :)

Los255

Have you unlocked the Minigun (Chris) for Resident Evil 5?

Wow.

Brandnamecommercial

Haha, no I haven't yet, but after looking at pictures of it in use it makes an RPG look the size of a handgun.

Aurain

What an awesome banner.

Souji Seta (P4), Alicia Melchiott, Kefka, Velvet, Solid Snake, Bartz, Galuf!?
Thats one bad-ass collection of bad-asses there.

And yeah, The Minigun is fucking stupid. It's crap too. =(

GiftofGab

For #1, you forgot batman! my god, every time there is an enemy anywhere even close to my left in that game, he is almost impossible to see. batman towers over pretty much everyone.

Also, had I not bought borderlands and had it corrupt my life with its evil, despicable doom filled ways, I would be playing Shattered Memories right now.

Gortexfogg

Yeah, damn characters taking up half the screen; I know people like to look at who they play as - but I think DOOM solved this problem years ago: have a tiny portrait that reacts to what's happening on screen. Though, wouldn't it be funny to have a character that walks backward and stares at you funny the entire game?

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