User:Firm

The man
Real name:    Ronald Jones Jr. Birthdate:     12/24/1988 Description:  5 foot 10 inches tall, 200 lbs., dark hair, glasses Family:       One brother age 11, two sisters age 4 and 15 Bio:

In the beggining...
I was born in Oregon, Ohio to Karen and Ronald Jones. My father introduced me to the NES and SNES at around age 5, this is when my lifelong history of gaming began. I played Super Mario Bros. and Zelda then, not very well, but nevertheless. I also had an Atari which I played a lot, but do not remember as well. At around age 6 all of our game systems were stolen, except for our NES, although most of the games for it were taken (The Legend of Zelda was taken, something that I still do not own to this day).

64 Bits of greatness
At age 7 we moved to a new, larger house. Soon afterward was the release of the Nintendo 64. I got one for Christmas that year, and the game Super Mario 64, a game that I hold dear to this day. After about 2 years we had our house remodeled, during that time all of my Nintendo 64 games were stolen by one or more of the workers. We managed to get most of them back through insurance, but others were very hard to find.

A year or so later I was reintroduced to Zelda through The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, this began my long love of the series. The same year I was introduced to Goldeneye, a game that marked the beggining for a long love of console FPS games, something which I had never played before (at age 10 I was hardly a "PC Gamer", PCs being the place for FPS games during the time before dual-joystick controllers).

Cubic Gaming
Shoot forward to the release of the Nintendo GameCube. I saved all summer for it, and finally it was almsot here. I waited in line for the system, in the coveted position #1, and at 12:00 a.m. I was the proud owner of a Nintendo GamCube. I went home set it up and began to play Tony Hawks Pro Skater (at the time I was a huge fan of skateboarding, something which I no longer do). The next day my friends all came over and we played the game. In fact we played it every single day for 2 weeks, not even touching the other games. I still own that GameCube, although it has been a long time since I have felt the need to bring it out, and I do not know if it will even still work.

Hail to the Chief, Master Chief that is...
Jump ahead to Christmas Freshman year of highschool. I recieved an X Box. Soon afterward I bought the game Halo. I also bought the game Grand Theft Auto 3/Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I had never owned a Sony made system, but I had seen the games played and thought they were rather fun. Note that I was a Freshman in Highschool, about age 14/15, playing GTA. To my knowledge, I have not murdered or raped anyone. I have never had sex with an hooker, and in fact I have never even been in a fight, and do not desire to be. A year later I my friends bought me Halo 2 after some family trouble kept me from getting it. They gave it to me on November 9th, thew actual release date after waiting in line to get it the night before.

I am a enourmous fan of the Halo series, I considered Halo to be one of the greatest steps forward in Console FPS gaming. Halo 2, while offering some improvements in multiplayer aspects, left much to be desired in the way of Single player fun. Even some of the things that were great about Halo 2 can't bring back the fun my friend and I had hooking up a couple X Boxes and shooting eachother until 4 in the morning with the orignal Halo.

Some time later my mother came home from the store with a game called Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind(GOTY edition) for X Box. I had never heard of it (not yet a PC gamer) and disliked it immensely at first. Then after retrying it again about a month later I fell in love with it. I played this game solely for at least 5 months. The game cut off all my love for linear RPGs, I have not been able to get into linear RPG game since then.

PlayStation... my like GayStation...
My father also got me a PS2 shortly after that, he got it for free, but I have yet to play it to any extent that I consider it a system worth having. Most of the games worth buying for it come with the prefix "Final Fantasy" and I am no fan of linear Role Playing Games.

PC Gaming
During all these things in the last 5 or so years before my Sophomore year of highschool I was slowly becoming more and more interested in computers. I began role-playing online, something which attributed to my distaste for linear RPGs, but after about a year found it to be boring. I played free games mostly, never really having much money. My first "real" computer game was Wulfram II. A free, hovertank FPS. I played the game for several years, playing games like The Sims, RollerCoaster Tycoon, and other simulation games like it in ebtween the times when I didn't play. Wulfram introduced me to things like interactivity between players, teamplay as an important part of gameplay, and Clan/Guild "responsibility". I played Wulfram until several in game changes made by the creator made me displike the game, and I no longer found it entertaining. The knowledge and experience I got from that game though, is what I recognize as making me the person I am today in the gaming world. I would not trade the time I spent on that game for anything else.

I also began to play many RTS game demos that I could find for free, and through a gaming magazine I found one day, I was introduced to the game Black and White. I now play RTS games on a daily basis with my friends through the school networks in my free time. I also enjoy almost every RTS game I've played. I will admit though, I have never had any real skill in that genre, and I quite frequently lose.

Only recently (within the last year) was I introduced to games like CounterStrike. PC FPS games are now a large part of my gaming experience, although my current PC can't handle many FPS games, my parents can handle up to CS:S, which I play on occaision. I hope to own an X Box 360 by the end of the summer, and I will definetly be purchasing a Wii. I have not yet seen any information that would lead me to want to buy a PlayStation 3, but I have never really been a big Sony fan.

Currently Owned Systems

 * NES
 * SNES
 * Nintendo 64
 * Nintendo Gamecube
 * Gameboy Pocket
 * Gameboy Color
 * Gameboy Advanced
 * Gameboy Advanced SP
 * Nintendo DS
 * X Box
 * PS2

MVS: Most Valued System
I currently regard my Nintendo DS as my most valued game system.

MVG: Most Valued Game
My most valued game is currently Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. I am playing through on my second lightside character.