My first experience of MMOs was the slightly less massively Phantasy Star Online on ye olde Dreamcast, there I got my first online character, a black and red clad RAmar, to the lofty heights of level 54, including acquiring Akiko’s Frying Pan, a game highlight, no doubt.
During my time in the wonderful world of Sega, between Nintendo consoles, obviously, I found myself playing PC games quite a bit, due in no small part to Quake II, so found myself reading, and later subscribing to the fabulous monthly vessel of knowledge that is PCZone. In one of the issues, one with a Call of Duty 2 preview on the cover i believe, they had a 30 day Everquest trial, so in my haste, I created a Dwarven Cleric, and placed all his stats into strength… bad choice I hear you say, well to rectify this I then re-rolled him as a Paladin, and Tanking is what I’ve done ever since.
I left EQ1 at some point between the Plains of Power expansion and whatever came after it, for reasons I cannot divulge at this time. I kept myself away from MMOs for a few years, concentrating on work, and of course, games, dabbled in modding for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, broke a mouse playing Titan Quest, hurt my eyes playing Sacred, bought an XBox 360 pad to play Tomb Raider: Legend and got the song from Portal stuck in my head, only to return to EQ2, on the Splitpaw server, where after little more than 20 levels, I happened to bump into an old friend from my EQ1 days in a cross server chat channel.
As a guild we’ve dabbled in Warhammer Online and Mario Kart Wii, and will probably have a crack at Battlefield Heroes when it is (eventually) released.
Now I am a T1/2 Raid Tank, in a Casual Guild of folks I can call my friends, and apart from the occasional router problem and dull Shard of Fear run, enjoying every minute of it.
Other than MMOs, I am known to play driving sims, tactical shooters, single player rpgs, anything freeform as i love the sense of freedom, Just Cause being a prime example and the occasional SHMUP, mostly the works of Kento Cho.
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