An Introduction

I'll attempt to make this short, but I'll probably not going to be very good at it. I'm César, mostly known as Hiteryan online for the past 10 years. Been a gamer for some more years.

And the fellow pictured above is my cat Micky. He likes exposing himself as hurr durr vidya cat. Don't care.

- - Why should I care about this blog? TL;DR Edition:

Well, here I'll be mostly posting about the vidya I play. Yes, I most probably will end up at some point posting here about other unrelated stuff, since I have other hobbies. Like photography, filmmaking, music, yada yada. I have other websites for my other things. There are links for them at the top of this page. Go check. Now.

So yeah, I'll try to keep this blog focused on my gaming experiences. Also I play everything. One day I might be playing Bioshock Infinite, the other I might be playing Alex Kidd or Earthbound. I don't call these posts reviews, they're really not that at all. I'd rather call them simply my personal honest thoughts, that sometimes feel like they're more for myself than other readers, but I just feel like dumping them here.

- - </TL;DR>

I love videogames. They're a part of my life. The first dedicated gaming console I owned was a Gameboy Color, but I've played some SNES and Mega Drive games before that, as well as many old DOS games on the PC. Unfortunately, nowadays, I usually don't have much time to play, as I have a few other time consuming hobbies that are more productive. I also have a band, and I'm an engineering student, so it's hard to put everything together, but every now and then I enjoy playing a good game.

I generally gravitate towards story driven games. For the past few years I barely had time at all to play anything, and it was only in 2011 that I got the means to build myself a PC that would run any game developed after 2004. Indeed yes, my old desktop was that crappy.

It was only in 2013, however, that I found Alvanista. And it somewhat gave me a need to catalogue all those games I've been waiting to play. I actually started posting there, but when I realised that the website is brazillian, even though it's a global community, almost all of it is brazillian, or at least the vast majority of the posting community, so I'll just use it to keep track of my backlog. Here it is: http://alvanista.com/hiteryan/games/finished?page=1

On my "WANT" list, I'm cataloguing all the games I want to play. I already own some of them, but until I finish them, I keep them on that list.

I'll be dumping a post here that might or might not contain a personal review-kind-of-thing of a game every time I finish one, and I'll perhaps also have some sporadic posts about other gaming related and non-related stuff. I intend to keep this completely personal and objective.

I usually play two games simultaneously. And since I have little time to play, you'll find that it takes me ages to finish a game (I've been playing FFVII since June of 2012, and I'm still finishing CD2). But I'm starting to speed things up a bit because my list of games I want to play has grown pretty big.

Save for the occasional play of Borderlands 2, as of now, I'm playing two games on each of 3 platforms (I count PS1 and PS2 as one platform because I'm using the same physical console):

- DmC: Devil May Cry (PC)
- Spec Ops: The Line (PC)
- Final Fantasy VII (PS1)
- Metal Gear Solid 2: Substance (PS2) - (Replay)
- Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction (PS3)
- Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (PS3)

I copied this post from my original one in Alvanista, which was this morning, and I already finished Spec Ops about an hour ago, so I'll make another post about it soon. Thanks for taking the time to read!