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I've been into games since I was able to reach the joystick on the Pac-Man arcade cabinet. That was 1982 - ever since that day I knew gaming and I would be bound by fate in some way, shape or form that I've still yet to figure out.



Until then, I've decided to just play games, enjoy them, blog about games and otherwise not shut up about them. Well, I do think about other stuff, I just keep coming back to the whole games thing.

Metroid is probably still my all-time favorite series. Its the one I keep coming back to year after year despite which version it might be. Super Metroid and Metroid Prime 2 are my favorites of the series and I also often enjoy anything Metroid-like. I enjoy the solitude and exploration of such games.



I also enjoy Shin Megami Tensei, Fallout, Deus Ex, The Elder Scrolls - pretty much anything with a lot of solitary exploration and a large world makes me a rather happy camper. To contrast this I usually need some lighter and happier games as well, which could be anything from a Pokemon game to a fashion game. Retro games of most stripes are something I still enjoy. Sometimes you just need that sort of contrast to keep going.



My platforms of choice tend to be handhelds, I'm starting to consider dropping any non-Nintendo console in favor of PC since Sony's IPs don't appeal to me and Halo just ends up on PC at some point anyway. I don't hate Playstation per se, I just hate what its become under the current Sony.

I do keep a PS2 handy to revisit Playstation's glory days. Great console, easily one of the best platforms aside from SNES, DS and Dreamcast.

As for other things about me, I guess we'll find out, won't we?


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Today my Dovahkiin, Nia Mistquiver, entered Riften's Ratway to be greeted by a surly high elf that said Nia was ugly and would fix it for 1,000 septims. Knowing high elves are snobby and mean and being one that snipes Thalmor for fun, I took issue with her statement. 

I mean, just look at this face. It could win pageants. I worked a good thirty minutes working on this face before sending it off to the chopping block in Helgen many months ago. Nia has been told to stay away from people's husbands, even!



But as I thought about it, she didn't really look like the Dovahkiin that shouted at dragons, that joined the Stormcloak rebellion, the one who had slain Alduin, became the Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, head of the Thieves Guild in addition to being a werewolf. She still looked like a fresh-faced barmaid. 

So I took the icy elf up on her offer. New war paint, some blush for the cheeks, darkened the complexion a little, tweezed and arched the eyebrows, let Nia's hair down and a made it a little wild, made her eyeshadow a little more earthy. Leaf green.

Oh, and if those vampires can have cool glowing red eyes, I wanted Nia to have cool eyes, too, so they've gone from blue to silver.



All in all. Nia's looking more traveled and experienced. 

And fabulous. A fine Dovahkiin makeover, if I do say so myself. I thanked the elf, then made Nia shoot her with a crossbow from the shadows for x3.0 damage! Plus it's an enchanted crossbow with exploding bolts, so that really stung.

It's sort of funny how real your characters can become to you, to the point you might even push them to age gracefully. I'll sink an hour into this kind of thing with each new RPG I start if the option's there, so it was nice Dawnguard lets you update your character's look.

So how's your Dovakiin looking lately?



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I abandoned my Danny Glover Dovakin like two weeks after he was born.
Why would you do that to Danny?

Was it because of Predator 2?
I liked the old Nia better. I better see this elf and see how he can improve my Redguard who is apparently blind if he glazed over pupils are anything to go by.

Of course, I have a catman mage. That might be amusing to put under an elven surgical knife.
My problem is that this option should have been in from the start. RPGs that don't let you change your looks after making them are clearly underdeveloped. Plus they gave us so little to customize. Check out Star Trek Online to see what real customization is. Height, weight, width, head and hair options that shame Skyrim, a beard list that blows Skyrim out of permawinter, and you can choose bust size to boot. Nobody has any problems getting around due to height or width either.
yeah, I kinda wish there was a beauty shop that opened up later in the game where you could change minor things about your character. I'm happy with mine though. She's got a few more wrinkles than your gal, and mine has white hair (I'm loving the look of white hair on my characters for some reason!) - but she definitely looks like she been through a few battles.

Nia is gorgeous though!
Even with the restrictions, I'm just glad it's not like Oblivion's character creation. That was a game if making a character not look like ass rather than a matter of deciding if you want to make the pretty, ugly, old, young, hardened or fresh-faced. It's no Saint Row on character creation, but light years ahead of Oblivion.
"That was a game if making a character not look like ass rather than a matter of deciding if you want to make the pretty, ugly, old, young, hardened or fresh-faced."

It took hours, but the only "good looking" character I've ever created in Oblivion looks exactly like Brad Pitt.
I was hoping for individual eye placement so I could slay that Cloud District asshole as Sloth from The Goonies.

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