Hello, readers! I am Nathan Spruth, though most know me on the site as “Reetin”. I have been a reader here since the very beginning, and having been reading and commenting ever since. I was even in the briefly lived IRC before that shut down after a month. Now I am going to be your Reviewer/Editorialist on Fridays, at least for the time being.
I was raised in Southern California until I was eleven, where I was shipped away to the cold lands of Central Oregon. While I lived in California I developed a love for video games, starting with the original Nintendo. The first game I beat was when I was four years old, and my father helped me beat The Legend of Zelda. To this day I can not figure out how to beat that game again; I know I have to burn a bush or something.
It was not until I was in fifth grade that I found out there were such things as RPGs. I remember going to my friend’s house, stepping inside and watching him play a beautiful game with turn based combat by the name of Final Fantasy III. I thought it was amazing. Storyline in a video game, with beautiful graphics, and a great combat system; to say I was blown away could be considered an understatement. That is when I developed my love of Role Playing Games.
A great portion of time I had when I was in Middle School and High School were spent playing Role Playing Games, but I vaguely remember playing another type of game, one that had shooting, oh yes First Person Shooters. This may shock a lot of people but the first FPS I ever really got into was Halo (something that Lusipurr hates with a passion) I was happy to be able to shoot my friends in the head, and typically get second place. Ever since the original Halo came out I have started playing many other FPS games, such as Call of Duty, the several Halo sequels, and most recently I have got into playing Team Fortress 2 with the lovely people at Lusipurr.com, a small hint to the class I play: I love Sanviches.
Nowadays I still play Role Playing Games and First Person Shooters and I have a compulsion to play any MMORPG I can get my hands on; though none have held my interest as much as Final Fantasy XI. I hope to change that with The Old Republic. I will play any game as long as the game-play and storyline are good.
That is me, I am going to be your new Reviewer/Editorialist and I hope that I can entice some of you to comment on my posts. Look forward to seeing posts from Nathan ‘Reetin’ Spruth on Fridays, starting Friday June 24th, 2011!
