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About
Name: Shawn
Age: 33
Location: Raleigh, NC


*Senior Writer at GamerLimit.com.

*Follow me on Twitter: Shawne1979

*Official member of the Cblogs Recap team.



Systems Currently Owned:
- XBOX360, PS3, PSPgo, PS2, Wii, GameCube, DS, SNES, NES

Games I'm Currently Playing:
- World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted
- Halo 4

Game Reviews:
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2
- Metroid: Other M
- Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty
- Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
- God of War 3
- Blaster Master Overdrive
- Dark Void
- Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time
- LEGO Rock Band
- Borderlands (PC)
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- Dead Space: Extraction
- Darkest of Days
- The Beatles: Rock Band
- Shadow Complex
- Shatter

Front Paged
1) The Start of the Affair: Civilization
2) Feel the Hatred: The onslaught of Fall/Winter game releases
3) Halo-Life: Call of TurokShock - The Best FPS you Never Played

My Favorite Entries
1) My introduction post. Get to know me if you dare!
2) The Dragon's Den - My Gaming Setup
3) The Dragon's Lair - My New Office
4) The 12 Days of Destructoid Christmas

When it comes to video games I am obsessive-compulsive about beating them. If I start a game I must finish it. No matter how bad, or how hard it is I will not rest until the ending credits have rolled across the screen. Like Bruce Hornsby says ... that's just the way it is!

Games Beaten Recently (in chronological order):
- AntiChamber
- Tomb Raider
- The Room
- Bioshock Infinite
- Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm
- Bastion
- Far Cry 3
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown
- Assassin's Creed 3
- Mark of the Ninja
- The Walking Dead: Episode 5
- Spec Ops: The Line
- Halo 4
- The Walking Dead: Episode 4
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted
- The Walking Dead: Episode 3
- Borderlands 2
- The Walking Dead: Episode 2
- Darksiders 2
- Dust: An Elysian Tale
- Resistance 3
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
- The Walking Dead: Episode 1
- SSX
- From Dust
- Assassin's Creed: Revelations
- Diablo 3
- Fez
- Journey
- Mass Effect 3
- Batman: Arkham City
- Gears of War 3
- Rayman Origins
- Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
- Bulletstorm
- Dead Space 2
- Portal 2
- Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
- Donkey Kong Country Returns
- Back to the Future: Episode 1
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
- Enslaved: Pigsy's Perfect 10
- Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
- Call of Duty: Black Ops
- Dragon Age: Origins
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2
- Halo: Reach
- Metroid: Other M
- Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty
- Super Mario Galaxy 2
- Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
- Final Fantasy 13
- God of War 3
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2
- Bioshock 2
- Blaster Master Overdrive
- Mass Effect 2
- Dark Void
- Darksiders
- Assassin's Creed II
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack in Time
- Modern Warfare 2
- LEGO Rock Band
- God of War: Chains of Olympus
- Borderlands
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- Dead Space: Extraction
- Halo 3: ODST
- Darkest of Days
- The Beatles: Rock Band
- Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
- Shadow Complex
- Resistance 2
- MadWorld
- Shatter
- Bionic Commando
- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
- Gears of War 2
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Dead Space
- Prince of Persia & Epilogue DLC
- Ratchet and Clank Future: Search for Booty
- Killzone 2
- Shadow of the Colossus
- Flower
- Fallout 3
- LEGO Star Wars: TCS
- Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
- Mirror's Edge
- Resident Evil 4: Wii Edition
- Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
- Mega Man 9
- Mario Galaxy
- God of War 2
- Gears of War
- Metal Gear Solid 4
- Grand Theft Auto 4
- Bioshock
- Assassin's Creed
- Halo 3
- Forza Motorsport 2
- Mass Effect
- Heavenly Sword
- Ratchet and Clank Future: TOD
- Portal
- Resistance: FOM
- Metal Gear Solid 3
- God of War
- Metroid Prime 2

Backlog (Games I own but haven't played):
- Skyrim
- Forza 4
- Supreme Commander 2
- The Last Remnant
- Quantum Conundrum
- Hitman: Blood Money
- Rage
- Sleeping Dogs
- Civilization V
- The Binding of Isaac
- Far Cry 2
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
- Brutal Legend
- Infamous
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- Resident Evil 5
- The Longest Journey
- Just Cause
- Just Cause 2
- Half Life 2
- The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher's Bay
- The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
- Red Faction Guerilla
- Metroid Prime 3
- Dragon Age 2

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I’ve been at Destructoid for almost a year now, and lately I’ve started to realize that while I’ve met a bunch of awesome people on the site, I don’t really know much about you all. Then it occurred to me that you all probably don’t know much about me as well. To try and eliminate this problem I’ve decided to write a series of posts that I hope will allow you to get to know me better. Sometimes I’ll talk just about video game related things, and sometimes I’ll get more personal, because while this is a video game site, there is more to all of us then the video games we play. My hope is that maybe this idea will inspire some of you to do the same. I would love to see some of you, like Yojimbo, Takeshi, Mikey, and thefil just to name a few, do the same and write a similar type of blog.

Well let’s get on with it shall we. Here are 10 video game related things you probably don’t know about me …

1) I camped out 18 hours in below freezing temperatures outside of Target to be the 4th person in line to buy the Wii the night it came out.

Little did I know it would become the least played console that I own.

2) I stoped playing Halo 3 multiplayer the day I got so mad that I threw my XBOX 360 controller across the room and broke a piece of furniture.

My girlfriend sat down with me afterwards and we decided it was best if I never played the game again.

3) The very first video game system I ever owned was the Atari 7800.

The thing was, my parents bought me this system when all of my other friends were all getting an NES. Everyone made fun of me, and it sucked.

4) I bought the Sega CD the day it came out, and for the first year I thought it was the coolest video system of all time.

Three years later I traded it and my Sega Genesis in for a Playstation.

5) I bought the original playstation the day it came out on September 9th, 1995, but I wasn’t planning on it.

I was actually going to buy a Sega Saturn, but the sales guy at Babbage’s convinced my mom that the Playstation was going to be better then the Saturn. Everything else is history.

6) The best game ever made in my opinion is World of Warcraft.

The only reason I say that is because I have put more hours of my life into that game then any other game ever made. Any game that keeps me so interested that I play it for thousands upon thousands of hours, has to get my nod for best game of all time.

7) I suck at the Madden series of football games.

I don’t mean I kind of suck, I mean I really suck. It doesn’t matter which year it is, I suck at them all. I watch NFL football every single Sunday, and know a lot about football, but I suck at those damn games!

8) I worked at Electronics Boutique for 4 years between 1998 and 2002, and during those 4 years I worked the entire day the days that the Sega Dreamcast, the PS2, and the XBOX were released.

Electronics Boutique was a completely different company back then. Sometimes I wish I could go back and relive those days.

9) There are only 2 games I regret never playing, and they are Beyond Good and Evil and Shadow of the Colossus.

One of these days I will play them, I swear it!

10) I leveled all my characters in Final Fantasy 7 to level 99, and got to the final boss, but never bothered beating the game.

By that point I was so burned out I didn’t care. I saw my friend beat it though, and that was honestly enough for me.

There you go. Now you know a little bit more about me. :-)
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You know, I camped twelve hours for the Wii with no intention of getting one. I just did it to hang out with people. It was cold.
I wish I could create space, time, and ability for you to play Shadow of the Colossus.

Also, how do you feel about Monster Hunter coming to the Wii? I hear they has dragons . . .
No one even knows what I look like.




I think that's for the best.
Fun fact: I am, in fact, a six week old kitten.
@Ron: I honestly thought you looked like the picture in your avatar ... and I wrong?
Fun Fact: I am a servant with a craving for brains.
Fun Fact: My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.
I just realized my comment made it seem like I read #1 and moved on. Enjoyed the post, and I dig the idea. May do one myself.
18 hours camping out huh? I only camped out for 9 for the wii. Was 47th in line and the store had like 65 or so ^_^

As for games that you missed out on, don't worry, there will always be an oppurtunity to nab them later and play them. For example, I just found God Hand 15 dollars new online, it's coming soon!
Cool, thanks for sharing.

But WoW is the worst game ever made and I have lost all respect for you.
Funner fact: I camped out for 18 hours as well to buy the Wii... last night!
Why security kept insisting I leave the premises I'll never know.
I masturbate, like, a lot.
I enjoyed reading this. I feel inspired enough that I might undertake doing one of these, given the community feel it has, despite being related to gaming. Well done, sir.
Yes I too have not played Shadow or Beyond good and evil, I should borrow them from my friend and play them.
Man I learned a lot today.
I was in Canada at the time, but my brothers showed up like 2 or 3 hours before our Target opened and were in the first few for our Wiis.

My Wii is also my least played console.
I've known the manager of an EB Games for about 7 years now, plus we got to pre-order Wiis at my store, so I had no waiting to do, lol. But still, interesting idea of making the community more familiar with each other. I too have been guilty of not playing Shadow of the Colossus as well . . . damn collectors bug . . .
I'm with MrSadistic. I too masturbate, a lot.
I'm trying to tell you guys, my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, not those pretenders like Blehman over there...
@Tubatic: If you figure out that whole creating time and space thing for me to play SoC let me know.

@Blehman: Dude your milkshake does bring all the boys in the yard .... including me ...
@MrSadistic: I bet you do ...

@EDS: I bet you do too ...

@Ballistic: Blehman's milkshake beats yours man ... sorry!
I'm trying to tell you guys, my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, not those pretenders like Blehman over there...


Okay, he wins.
LOL...fun post. I may take up your gentle prodding to create one as well.
Beyond Good & Evil was cheap on the Steam sale; I picked that up along with Dreamfall: Longest Journey, but they both run shit on Vista which is annoying.
Sooooo, want to play Halo 3 sometime? :D
oy, number 6. More power to ya
You sir, are hardcore for your Wii.

I waited 16 hours for my 360 outside of a Target myself. I think I was 4th or 5th in line as well.
I can solve 7 for you. create a team, boost all their stats up to maximum, and then go and rape.
Wow. I was like 5th in line at the second GameStop I went to on the day they were doing preorders. It was pretty painless. I'm sorry you had to go through something much much worse. And I don't play mine anymore than you do.

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