Gaming online

Hello again class, today we will be discussing the wonderful world of online gaming on various platforms. Now old Klytus here is no stranger to gaming but only within the past several years has he felt online gaming was, pardon my French, the shit. But wait many of you will say, is this blog not about sci-fi and crazy rants about nothing, while this is true, gaming as we know it was all but a dream many years ago.  Today we live in a connected world where the status quo demands everyone to have high speed online access, those who cannot, well I’m sure they read the paper or get on top of a hill and observe the smoke messages from the other side of town. I joke about that, but in essence this is true, you must be connected to the world. Hell I myself shell out for high-speed and X-Box live online, take this from an old gamer on-line is the next generation of gaming and it, my friends, it to me is the true successor of our entertainment. This phenomena is a perfect example of online functionality and human to human interface, you get into virtual worlds existing only in computer code.

I love companies that try to please the consumer by releasing new maps or extras, be them songs or new cars, etc. My personal favorite online game is Halo 3. Ouch, when your called a noob by some 12 year old it really takes me back to the trash talking days of Tank for the Atari 2600. Gaming has changed and only now have consoles embraced the experience previously taken by those snobish computer gamers. On any given day I can quickly fire up the wii and quickly begin battling fools in an intense session of Guitar Hero. Hell after that I swap out games and begin schooling more noobs with ROB the robot Halo style, Brawl kicks major old school ass.

It is this embrace by the public that I feel we are on the edge of a gaming renaissance, a cross platform experience connecting all gamers be they 360, PC or “gulp” the PS3. I guess old Klytus should start giving a little love to Sony, maybe drop the price a little more!! But I digress hopefully more of the Atari generation remembers what is was like to compete against the world. Back then it was one quarter at a time.

Old Klytus must now give a shout out to all the past publiciations that have left us. Omni, Cinescape and offically today the 8th of Juanuary in the year of our Lord 2009, EGM..End of Line.