Fuck You Dark Horse Gamers!

Well I'm bored so I'm gonna go ahead and post the story of why I rarely play my Xbox 360 anymore.

Intro Part 1-My History in Video Games
Ok so I'm 20,so I have lived through most of the Big-Time Video Games Consoles,and have owned most of them at one time. My 1st Video Game System was a Super Nintendo. The SNES still has my Favorite Game of all time in Zombies Ate My Neighbors. I'm gonna try not to go into alot about the systems,just what I had before The 360 came along.
Super Nintendo-Favorite Game:Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Sega Genesis/Sega CD Combo-Favorite Game:(Can't remember the name but it was a Sega CD game that had a Black Guy giving you updates on the missions,which were trying to rid Africa of Zombies)
Nintendo Game Boy Color-Favorite Game(s):The Pokemon Series
Nintendo 64-Favorite Game:Goldeneye
Sega Dreamcast-Favorite Game:Crazy Taxi
Sony Playstation-Favorite Game(s):Spider-Man & Spider-Man 2:Enter Electro
Sony Playstation 2-Favorite Game(s):Grand Theft Auto Series,The Punisher,Star Wars Battlefront II,Evil Dead Series,WWE Smackdown Series
Nintendo Gamecube-Favorite Game(s)-Resident Evil Series & Wrestlemania XIX
Microsoft Xbox-Favorite Game(s)-Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series

Intro Part 2-What Video Games Have Brought to Me
So besides hours of fun playing games,what else have Video Games brought to me? When I was younger? Friends,because of Pokemon I made alot of friends in the private school I went to,tho I am in contact with none of them anymore,but at the time I had many friends because of our shared love for Pokemon. And the single biggest thing Video Games gave to me? The Playstation 2 was my 1st DVD Player. Yep even tho I love movies and own 1200 DVDs,I didn't get a Playstation 2 til Christmas 2001. So Video Games helped give me my love for DVD Extras,as before I could only watch VHS. And obviously I would probably have had a DVD player by now without the PS2,seeing as VHS is now obsolete,but who knows how long it would have taken if not for the Playstation 2's awesome game lineup and DVD Combatibility.

Intro Part 3-The setup to meet The Dark Horse Gamers
And then 3 years later after getting my 1st DVD Player in the PS2 I finally joined my 1st DVD message board called DVD Talk. I had visited DVD Talk alot in the year and a half leading up to joining the board,to read the Reviews of new DVD Releases as well as Movies being released to theaters. I had previously only been a member of 2 message boards,one was Bloody Disgusting,where I went under the name FreddyvsJason1Fan,because it was right after FvJ had been released in theaters and since I was only 13 thought it was the greatest movie ever made(and due to this I saw the movie 13 times in theaters)and while I still Love FvJ its not my favorite movie,and its not even on my Top 20,but back then I thought otherwise. I was into a Horror kick at the time and made 2 friends that I talked to all the time on MSN Messenger members known as Severn and The Muffin Man,where I had similar movie tastes with the 2,Severn also liked Wrestling,so that was my Introduction to Message Boards,tho the 2nd message board isn't around anymore was a board also based on Horror Movies but was a tribute to the Halloween series. And around the same time I joined DVD Talk I also joined The View Askew Message Board,but I'm going on about stuff that has nothing to do with the main story of this blog or this particular Intro entry,so,just know that DVD Talk was and still is a big part of my Internet time.


PART 1-Going into the Next Generation of Video Games
Okay so the PS2 was awesome,and I was hyped up when the PS3 was announced. Then news about the PS3 was coming that wasn't exactly good or exciting(at the time). It would have a price of OVER $500,and the games coming along with the launch were well kinda loackluster. Then I started seeing previews during Monday Night Raw,for a game called Dead Rising. I got on IGN and searched for it,and saw it was a well-reviewed game,for the Microsoft Xbox 360. I wasn't the biggest fan of the original Xbox,but reading all the good reviews for Dead Rising got me pumped,and I caved in and bought the Xbox 360 for funnily enough $360 after a discount I had at FYE. I bought Dead Rising with it and came home and played it and LOVED it. I then started to go to Gamestop and browse the Xbox 360 section to see what else was there. Every time I went in the Gamestop clerk would say "Are you gonna Pre-order Gears of War?" and I didn't know what it was and always declined. I started getting a subscription to Gamepro & Electronic Gaming Monthly(RIP) and started to want the game as well as Marvel Ultimate Alliace. But there was something that worried me. Most of the good games coming out were hyped on their Online play. I didn't have High Speed Internet.
Well I looked into it and was lucky to find out that a High Speed provider had JUST recently been made available to my part of town. So I got Time Warner and have had it ever since. But what did I want,and who was I gonna play with....?

PART 2-DVD Talk Message Board-Video Game Subsection
So I posted my interest in wanting to find people to play with on my favorite website DVD Talk,where else? And the members of DVD Talk that had 360s and Xbox Live recommended me some games to get,so I could play with them online. Well actually only 1 game-Call of Duty 2. So like I had said in my Suncoast memory blog I am shy when it comes to social interaction,so I played COD2 and was invited into my 1st Xbox Live online game. I said very little,but I had a good time as the guys were funny,and fun to play with. Then after a little while I started chiming in on things and bringing up things to talk about and gradually got over this particular shyness. So when November came around I was pumped for 2 games-Gears of War & Call of Duty 3.

PART 3-First reactions to Gears of War and the Call of Duty 3 backlash
Ok so I was playing at least twice a week with the DVD Talk crew. Then Gears of War was released,and we played it and none of us were really happy with it at 1st thinking it to be way overhyped for no reason. Then the more hyped game by the guys at DVDTalk was Call of Duty 3. So it finally came out and I liked it and the guys did too at 1st,but that quickly changed over the next 2 weeks. By the time December was there,COD3 was not being played anymore and most had traded it in. So for a while it was back to Call of Duty 2. And I'll admit I did get a little immature and juvenile,because one of the guys,Tbird posted my "Hit List" with who i had delivered the mighty embarassing Beat-Down kill in COD2. Everybody made jokes about it and I got a little carried away,okay ALOT carried away. I started once a week updating this hit list,and people got tired of it,and I pushed it a little to far,but I finally learned my lesson and quit.
But then we gave Gears of War another chance....

PART 4-Non-Stop Gears of War
Then after a few weeks of gradually playing Gears and getting to like it,all of our opinions changed BIG TIME. We not only preferred Gears to COD2,but we played almost every single weekday for months. Martin & goLUCKY were the snipers. Alex was clearly the Chainsaw's best friend as he used it all the time and if 2 were going at each other Alex would win the Chainsaw Duel about 90% of the time. Doctor West was the Kick Ass take no prisoners guy because he could use any of the weapons in Gears to kick your ass. I was Mr.Boomshot,always going for the Boom on the maps that included it,and blowing people to bits and pieces. After a while the guys started sending teams for it to stop me,and then my team would start sending a back-up for me to make sure I got that Boomshot. Then for about a month,everybody quit playing it as we had worn it out by playing so much and we waited for the next big release.

PART 5-Halo 3 & Call of Duty 4
So finally after a month of not playing here came Halo 3 in September oif 2007. Somebody on my friend's list was ALWAYS online any given time I wanted to play,and played a couple weeks non-stop in 14 hour days of playing. The only problem? I SUCK at Halo 3,so after the 1st couple weeks of getting my ass handed to me on a silver platter all day,I started to grow tired of it,and longed to return to Gears of War. But there was finally another game that I was mediocre at but didn't totally suck at like I did Halo 3,and this was Call of Duty 4. So I played it alot tho not as much as Halo 3 or Gears. Then in about December things were being switched up between COD4 & Gears with Monday,Wednesday,and Fridays rotating the playlist. This would last up until May of 2008.

PART 6-Unreal Tournament III and the Opening of The Dark Horse Gamers
So in June 2008 came Unreal Tournament III which Martin had hyped up big time,and I was looking forward to it because of it. Well at the time I had begun to have problems with my High Speed internet so I would play for anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours then the internet would go out and I would be dropped mid game. Well around this time I had opened a new free message board entitled "Untitled DVD Talk Clan" and had sent message with invites and nobody really answered me on that. Then I finally found out they had opened a Clan board on their own after playing some GTA4 named The Dark Horse Gamers. Well they said they were talking about a porn site,and they kept mentioning it until I searched it and found it was a message board for the new clan that was made up of the DVD Talk crew. I registered and waited to get activated. Then I wanted in on a game of Unreal III and nobody invited me,even tho there was room in the session,then I saw the "join in progress" option under one of the guys' profiles,and joined in,and they said "Oh great theres Jason" and then that was the last thing I heard from them because my internet went out again.

PART 7-Dark Horse Gamers The Declined Registration
Then I got an email from DHG's message board that I was declined membership and a few hours afterwords I get a email from one of the members,who I had only played with a few times,but he was friends with Martin & Doctor West,so I knew the name. And he tells me that the clan was to mature for me,that they pulled no punches,and that I would be better suited for another clan. A Christian Gamer Halo 3 clan. So I sent a message back to him,as well as Doctor West & Martin,that I had gotten used to the pull no punches stuff as I had heard alot of stuff (like the Brazzers porn site being talked about as West acidently calls it Brazziers,and Exodus Prime drunk and talking about dating a Butch Lesbian,and many more stuff much worse than that) and that just because I'm young(at the time 18) and am a Christian(which I had mentioned maybe 1 time through those 2 years) that I couldn't handle the board because I had put up with it for 2 years at that point. Never got an answer and slowly but surely everybody took me off their friend's list over the next week. So that only left my friend Dave,Cody,and Ninja to play with,and Dave had to work alot,and Cody had school,so I only had Ninja to play with for a while,but his brother ended up getting Xbox Live too around the time of the release of Left 4 Dead,but still only 2 people online regulary to play with and 2 part times,I felt devastated really,and in October of 2008,got so upset with it and other things going on in my life that I tried to commit suicide. Thankfully my Sister was a good driver because I tried to jump out of a moving van and she got it slowed down where while I did do a big bruise-making roll on the road,it was on the side of the road and I wasn't in middle of the road to get run over and the van wasn't going fast enough to get any major injury. So I spent a week in the hospital,where I had such looney people like a woman who said she was the Daughter of....Elvis Presley,and she thought I was and called me Jesus. Yeah scary.

PART 8-Trying to find new people to play with BSG & AGN
So after the releases of Left 4 Dead and Gears of War 2,I tried very hard to find some new people to play with online. I tried AGN(Adult Gamers Network) and that lasted for a little while but the group RIGHT after I joined made a rule where you had to be 21,so I wasn't exactly the person to fit in,and eventually gave up on finding a new clan. Then Halo 3 ODST & Left 4 Dead 2(and CODMW2) came along and I had renewed interest in trying to find a new clan yet again. So I found BSG and joined and played a few times with a couple of the members,but health problems for me and my Dad would keep taking me away from Xbox Live and I gave up once again.
I have played a few games of Left 4 Dead 2 & Halo 3 ODST with Ninja and his brother,but because I can't find a group to play with regularly for the bigger party games like L4D1/2 VS mode,COD4 & CODMW2,Halo 3,and Gears of War 2 I don't like getting interested into playing a game and then having to wait a few days before I can play with anyone again. I do regret not playing with Ninja more than I do because we are good friends,and both have depression issues,but we keep in touch with Facebook.

Conclusion
The Dark Horse Gamers Can Go Fuck Themselves.

Conclusion II
Seeing as Crackdown 2 & Dead Rising 2 are coming and I still have like 7 or 8 games that I can play with Ninja co-op on,I'm gonna try after my upcoming vacation,to play with him more,and maybe look again for a clan. Ninja if you are reading this thanks for being a great friend and keeping contact with me on Facebook even tho I haven't played with you in a while,that shows me you are a true friend,unlike The Dark Whores Gamers who acted like I was a friend then backstabbed me and couldn't even send one of the regular peeps to tell me why. And Ninja,hope to see you soon my friend :-)