I have never been one to consider myself a gamer. I enjoy games, though I am not very good at
them. We have always been big tabletop
game players in my family. It started
when I was younger. I have fond memories
of my Nanny teaching me how to play poker for pennies, my grandfather teaching
me how to be a card shark, and my uncle was always a big
21 guy. We would play a lot of Trivial
Pursuit and other games of the like (my mother’s way of trying to make learning
fun or just sneak learning into fun time), but my favorite was always
Pictionary. Surprise, surprise.
Over the years I have branched out from board and card games
and got into the more electronic side of gaming. Hey, I love playing Left 4 Dead and shooting
zombies and chopping off zombies heads as a chainsaw wielding cheerleader in
Lollipop Chainsaw (I really like zombies), and I recently thoroughly enjoyed
throwing myself back into the twisted wonderland of Alice Madness Returns and
the steampunk aristocracy of Dishonored.
I happen to be a terrible video gamer though. I get overly excited and before I know it my
character is looking the complete opposite way of that in which it is moving. I’m a fail.
Though I do enjoy the time I get to spend with my brother as I play and
jump a bit into his world.
Tabletop games, however, will always be my favorite. Halloween is around the corner and there are
so many great tabletop games that you can play that help you get into the
Halloween spirit. You can try to survive
the zombie apocalypse in Last Night on Earth, or even try to cure a disease
epidemic in Pandemic! My favorite and
probably one of the darker games is Gloom (I know I have talked about this game
before but I’m doing it again damn it).
