EI has a blog now? Preposterous!
Yes…I’ve turned the way of the “devil” and have one of these rantboards to spew my thoughts upon. Fear me…or something similar.
At any rate, for those who weren’t thoroughly aware, I’m the resident shooter fanatic on the Stencyl team…and yes, I do mean “fanatic”. Fanatic to the point of torrenting 8 gigs of MAME ROMs only to filter out and play almost only shooters on it (ironically now lost due to formatting my hard drive). Fanatic to the point of acquiring no less than 15 total locally released shooters. Fanatic to the point of IMPORTING a Japanese PS2 solely to import shooters to play on them. Fanatic.
Either way, it’s clear that shooters (and, before you read any further, know that I mean TRUE shooters, or what you newfangled kids might call “arcade shooters” or “scrolling shooters”. R-Type. Gradius. Ikaruga. Those. If you so much as think in my presence (insert FPS here, say…”Halo” or “Doom 3″ or whatever random FPS it is that’s populr these days) is a shooter, I’ll kill you where you sit. No joke) are a major part of my gaming life.
At any rate, that should hopefully serve a sufficient introduction. I don’t feel like rambling much more.
~EI