Video games have always been a part of my life. I was born in 1995, so the game was well established as a childhood entertainment. However, as a young teenager, I pushed the game to the side, especially as a single-player game. Playing AAA console games in your free time was not considered girly. This was very important in my middle school in 2007. What’s worse is that boys were better at games than girls.
Despite this, my dad taught me to play first-person shooters and RPGs from a young age. I knew my way around a wide range of games from Sega and Nintendo consoles as a child. However, I never could have been good at games or claim my hobby as my own. However, in 2008 I got my Xbox 360 for Christmas. GameStop employees were equipped with a handful of AAA games that told my parents to buy. And it’s all over – especially when I booted up Assassin’s Creed 2.
When I played this game with my dad, I often showed him how to use mechanics and navigate maps, but not the other way around. Finally, I started playing in my own time. My relationship with the game is now – I go home from school and wake up Assassin’s Creed 2 Play on Xbox, like many other kids in my community, regardless of gender, until the sun sets. I was hooked on the cloak rings and parkour in the game. Stealth assassination was my favorite part of the game, but it’s still my favorite part of the franchise.
The boys I knew were obsessed with Call of Duty and Fallout games. Assassin’s Creed 2 It wasn’t a title they ruled – and it wasn’t a game I couldn’t get the word unless I wanted to be Mansplane or be fetished to enjoy the game. I I knew I was good at games without anyone telling me, so I was able to get better at other games too.
These other games have become the typical repertoire of Xbox 360 owners: Bioshock (all of them), Saints Wow, Grand Theft Auto IV, Forza Motorsport 3. After that, my friend (girl) introduced me to me. Dead Space And we turned off the run after the start and worked together to advance with every single time we hang out. It still took me a few years to discover indie games. And it took me a few more years before I once again embraced the “girl game” I loved as a child again. Sims and Cooking mom.
Really, I called myself a gamer and didn’t have to be competent in AAA third-person games to have conversations about games. However, the game fandom in the mid-2000s was a really difficult place to become someone other than a sis boy. Performance Assassin’s Creed 2 It made me feel like I could be part of a conversation that was otherwise excluded. Or, it allowed me to start my own conversation about the game with the person I wanted. It was powerful to play the game myself in my free time, not anyone’s fun, not my own.
With franchises like Assassin’s Creed under my belt, games have become my own hobby. And in my terms, like my age, I never talked about video games in an exclusive way. And now look at me – play Shadow of the assassin’s beliefs For my full-time job I write about games. If you’ve grown up to feel that the video game community is sometimes exclusive, what was your gateway game? Tell us your story.
