Introduction to destruction

Hey all,
I hereby open my personal blog on the only thing that I am knowledgeable about.
Short introduction: I am fairly older and I started playing videogames (like seriously playing) in 2001.

does anybody remember 

this bad boy?

The first full game that I played was Blood 2 the chosen, that was bundled together with a videogames magazine of the time. I then went on playing almost all games I could find. It was after some years that I learned that I am awfully bad at RTS and strategy games in general. But I really enjoyed Commandos (especially the second) and StarCraft.

I then discovered something that at the time (mid 2000) was not very common (and nowadays sadly is, thanks Ubisoft): open world games.

I played the shit out of the following titles: Gothic 1, Gothic 2, TES 3: Morrowind, GTA 3, GTA Vice City, Mafia 1.

When TES 4: oblivion came out  (2006), because of my old and shitty PC I almost altogether stopped playing new titles, and I went back to old glories of the previous 10 years. Some of the best games ever, for example, No One Lives Forever 1 and 2, Deus Ex 1, Diablo 2, Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines.

I spent more time with this guy here
than with anyone else 
in Summer 2003 (Creeper
the scamp merchant in Morrowind)

I then tried Fallout 2, Baldur's Gate 2 and Planscape Torment and Icewindale and all those Aurora Engine like games (Arcanum, Temple of Elementary Evil).
So I discovered that I also like RPG's, but not the "isometric read a lot" ones. But stuff like Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2 are totally fine and amazing. Guess it's only the 2D aspect that makes me feel less involved...

In 2011  I finally bought a decent PC and played everything I missed, from Crysis to Mass Effect, from the just released TES 5 Skyrim to Fallout 3.  I played the Witcher 1 and 2, some Total War games (the only strategic games I am kinda decent).
In 2014 some crazy friend made me try Dota 2 and now I have more than 2000 hours on Steam.
Dota 2 was fundamental for my gaming taste, because up to that point I only played single player games, and You may have noticed that I very much preferred 3D rpg/action games (Deus Ex like games, maybe with open world).

After Dota I dived in multiplayer games and you name them: CS:Global Offensive, Warframe, Path of Exile, Guild Wars 2, Elder Scrolls Online, Ark Survival Evolved, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, World of Warcraft, Overwatch, The Division,  Heros of the Storm, League of Legends, Secret World, Tera, Battlefield 1, etc....

The template for my perfect game:
Alpha Protocol (by obsidian, duh).

I never stayed for more than some hundred hours in these games, except for Dota, but I kinda know my way in all of them.

So basically my perfect game would be something like Alpha Protocol, same cool plot and choices, but with better shooting and maybe with co-op and PvP (like the Division).

I usually follow with big interest all that is gaming, from preview/reviews/streams to all dramas behind people leaving or studios shut down.
I feel I have a good amount of experience with past games and I've always been very lucky, getting into Alpha test of so many games (Paragon, Hunt Showdown, Anthem, New World, Quake Champions, The Cycle, Insurgency Sandstorm, Rend, lawbreakers, to name the most recent), meaning that I am good at judging the developing of a game, not only at bashing or fanboying.

I sometimes feel the urge to explain my view on games, but nobody around me wants or can discuss with me (sad face forever alone).
So here is a blog to fulfil that desire!

Hope you have fun, and maybe some of you will want to play with me. In the end, that is what games are for!