My Online Gaming History

Welcome to my Second Blog post! As you can already see, today I am going to be talking about my brief history of playing online games. I started off by playing Combat Arms. Combat Arms is a first person shooter MMO (massive multiplayer online).  It was introduced to me by my friend Aaron.

It was a Friday night. We had just gotten done with Muscle Man Volleyball. Muscle man volleyball is an event that my past high school had. It is a volleyball tournament with teams of 4 guys. A team plays one game and the winner of the game moves on. The winning team takes on the faculty team. It was a lot of fun even though I think we lost our first game and were instantly out. This took place my sophomore year of high school. I had just recently broken up with my ex-girlfriend. She was my first girlfriend so I was pretty bummed all week. They invited me to the team to help me take my mind off things. After we lost, we were just chilling in the locker room for a while. Aaron saw that I was still sad. Now I wasn’t just sad about the break-up, but now I was sad that I didn’t play my best in the game. He ended up inviting me to Pizza Hut with him and Chris to cheer me up. Chris was also on our team. Since I still couldn’t drive he insisted that I spend the night to make it easier on my parents. First thing we did was watch Fast and Furious 4. I’m not much of a car guy so I thought the movie was boring. Afterwards Aaron wanted to know if I play any games. I told him all about my childhood with GameCube. He insisted that I try Combat Arms out. I think he knew I needed something to preoccupy myself with. To save you from having to listen to another big long story… Combat Arms ended up dying. Meaning, less and less people were playing it. So I wanted to find something new to play. That’s when I found League.

The first time I played league I thought it was the worst thing I had ever laid my eyes on. The Camera angle was weird, I had no idea what items where, and champions where a big mess of things to memorize. I tried playing it a few times but I eventually gave up on it. After about three months or so, my last few remaining friends who still played Combat Arms told me that they were moving on to other games. I didn't like any of the games they were playing so I ended up jumping back on the League of Legends horse. I played it for a few weeks and ended up liking it a lot. I guess I just needed to give it a chance to grow on me. I was still played atrociously bad for about 3 months, but I got a little better when I started watching a guy on www.twitch.tv who is very good at the game. I’m still just learning. I’ve finally gotten past playing normal games and have moved on to playing ranked games. I don’t ever plan on playing League professionally. It’s just something I will play with friends when there’s time.

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