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What Is The Video Game Literate?
The Video Game Literate is a website about video games, written by someone who loves, plays and analyses different games. The website includes analysis, information, story timeline orders, explanations and also walkthroughs related to video games.
This is a website written by a single individual, with a passion for video games, and who seeks to cover different topics related to the video games industry in order to help players around the world to find the information they are looking for, discover new games, and find new perspectives about gaming in general.
The Video Game Literate is a website that seeks to change the perception of players regarding video games. It seeks to bring new video games to the attention of fans of video game genres, as well as answer many questions that gamers may have.
Who Is The Video Game Literate?
The Video Game Literate is the writer and the owner of the website The Video Game Literate. The Video Game Literate is someone who enjoys video games and has a passion for them, researching and writing content to help players around the world.
Some key information about The Video Game Literate:
- Roughly 20 years of experience playing video games
- Thousands of hours of gameplay time across diferent video game genres
- Hundreds of video games played
The Video Game Literate's Biography
The First Video Games
The Video Game Literate started playing video games approximately in 2001, with Doom (1993) and Doom II (1995), becoming amazed with the possibility of experiencing adventures with a computer. Some time later, in 2002 or 2003, The Video Game Literate would discover and start playing Age of Empires II (1999), a real-time strategy video game. At this time, The Video Game Literate would also often play 2D traditional fighting video games, as well as platforming, side-scrolling and racing video games, and still played FPS video games, such as Counter-Strike (2000) and later Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (2004).
The First RPGs
In 2004 or 2005, The Video Game Literate played an RPG for the first time, Ragnarök Online (2002), an MMORPG. At the same time, MMORPGs were surging in popularity, and The Video Game Literate played several MMORPGs, such as Conquer Online (2004), Kal Online (2004), Mu Online (2001), Perfect World (2005), Priston Tale (2001), Ragnarök Online (2002), Shaiya (2007), Tales of Pirates (2007), Voyage Century Online (2006). The Video Game Literate also played multiplayer action video games such as Grand Chase (2003) and GunBound (2002). At this time, The Video Game Literate continued to play strategy games, including Age of Mythology (2002), Medieval II: Total War (2006) and Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002).
Single Player RPGs and The First Console
Later, The Video Game Literate would proceed to discover and play The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006), a single player RPG video game. After TES IV: Oblivion, The Video Game Literate also played Mass Effect (2007), The Witcher (2007) and Dragon Age: Origins (2009). During this time, The Video Game Literate owned a Sony PlayStation 2 and played RPGs such as Final Fantasy XII (2006) and Rogue Galaxy (2005), open world games such as Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004) and Shadow of the Colossus (2005), horror games such as Resident Evil 4 (2005), action video games such as Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 (2006), Dynasty Warriors 5 (2005), God of War (2005), and action-adventure games such as Ökami (2006).
The First Written Guides
Sometime in 2009 and 2010, The Video Game Literate started playing online strategy games such as Tribal Wars (2003), and multiplayer immersive sandbox simulation games such as eRepublik (2008), Renaissance Kingdoms (2004) and The West (2007). Many of these online games incentivized cooperation between players, and in many of those there was space for players to write their own tutorials and guides. In this environment, The Video Game Literate began writing the first guides, tutorials and explanations, and published them on several forums, helping thousands of players. This continued for some years, and The Video Game Literate wrote guides on many games until 2012, marking approximately three years of producing content to help players of different video games during this period.
New Games and Grand Strategy
Some years later, The Video Game Literate played new RPG video games, such as The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011), The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (2011) and the immersive sim Dishonored (2012). The Video Game Literate continued playing strategy games, discovering Crusader Kings II (2012) and Europa Universalis III (2007). At the same time, The Video Game Literate played Assassin's Creed (2007) and later Assassin's Creed II (2009), becoming impressed with the open world environment. At this time, The Video Game Literate discovered survival video games, with Minecraft (2011) and Terraria (2011). At this time, The Video Game Literate would play for the first time a single player immersive sandbox video game, Mount & Blade (2008), and later Mount & Blade: Warband (2010), which would eventually become some of The Video Game Literate's most played games of all time.
Hiatus on Gaming
After this time, approximately in 2013 and 2014, The Video Game Literate started playing less games, only playing Banished (2014), Dead Space (2008), Minecraft (2011) and Renaissance Kingdoms (2004), and then proceeded to a hiatus of approximately two years of not playing video games, for personal reasons. During this hiatus, no video games were played and no content related to video games was produced. The Video Game Literate would then resume playing video games in 2016 and 2017.
Comeback to Gaming and MOBAs
In 2016 and 2017, The Video Game Literate started playing video games again, playing mostly mobile video games, including Fallout Shelter (2015), Rival Gears (2017) and Vainglory (2014). This was the first time The Video Game Literate played a competitive MOBA, Vainglory (2014), and was fascinated by the depth of strategy and competitive nature of the gameplay. The Video Game Literate continued to play Vainglory for years, reaching high ranks in this video game, and also played other MOBAs such as Ace of Arenas (2015), and later Dota 2 (2013) and League of Legends (2009).
Present
Since 2018 and 2019, The Video Game Literate has been played dozens of different video games, including RPGs, strategy games, open world games, immersive sandbox simulation games, horror games, fighting games, racing games, among other genres. Some of the RPGs played in this time period include Bastion (2011), Dungeon Siege (2002), The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (2004). Some strategy games include XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2012), some horror games include Metro 2033 (2010), among many other games.
I have been playing games over the last two decades (roughly, 20 years of gameplay experience). Though I haven't played video games during all phases of my life, I have played them for most of my life. I have been playing video games for a considerable time, and I have thousands of hours of gameplay time overall across different video games, video games genres and platforms.
I do not know everything there is to know about video games. However, considering that I have likely played most video games than the average person, I may be able to provide some insightful analysis into different video games that may help people.
How Is Research Made in The Video Game Literate?
The Video Game Literate uses a variety of sources of research for writing articles and producing content. The main and most important source of information and research are always the video games themselves, and this research is done mostly through playing these video games. For general information, such as year of release of a specific game, or names of development studios and publishers related to specific titles, Wikipedia is often used as source, in which case the Wikipedia page is mentioned at the end of the article. However, for most of the content in The Video Game Literate, research is done through gameplay.
In some cases in which a more empirical research is performed, The Video Game Literate will often experiment with these video games to measure the outcomes. In these cases of original research, the results are published in the same article they are mentioned.
The Video Game Literate's Details
How Many Games Has The Video Game Literate Played, Roughly?
Of course, I haven't played all video games that exist. However, I did play a lot of them. While I don't know the exact number of how many games I've played, I'm pretty sure I have played hundreds of video games, if not thousands. I must have played close to a hundred different MMORPGs, dozens of real-time strategy (RTS) games, dozens of FPS (first-person shooter) games, dozens of action games, and many more RPGs, open world games, simulation games, horror games and so on. I must have thousands of hours of gameplay throughout my life in different games and in different platforms.
My first games were mostly FPS games, fighting games and platformer games. Later, as I grew older, I discovered MMORPGs, and really liked them, because they were in fact the first RPGs I ever played in my life, and I enjoyed their social aspect while also developing my game character. After MMORPGs, I eventually moved to single player RPGs. I have played video games on personal computers (PCs), on consoles and on mobile devices.
I also always enjoyed strategy games. They were among my first video game genres, after FPS, fighting and platforming games. I had played many strategy games for years, and then I moved to MOBAs (multiplayer online battle arena), and played MOBAs for some years. In MOBAs, I always enjoyed the fast-paced combat gameplay and the strategy planning in order to win a competitive match. I loved the thrill of MOBAs.
Which Games Does The Video Game Literate Play Now?
Currently, I play many different genres at the same time. I keep different games installed, so I can play games of different genres at any time. I usually always have installed one RPG, one strategy game, one immersive sandbox simulation, one open world game, one horror game, one fighting game and one racing game. I guess that means those are the genres I play the most these days, or at least, during the time I was writing this. However, I have maintained this games "structure" for some years now, so I don't think it's gonna change anytime soon. If it does change, it will likely expand and include more genres.
Do You Know Everything About Games?
Of course I don't know everything about games. I have some knowledge and information regarding games, and this allows me to write about games and help people learn more about and discover more about their favorite video games.
The Video Game Literate's Personal Favorite Video Games
These are my personal favorite video games.
RPG
Age of Conan (2008)
Bastion (2011)
Diablo (1996)
Diablo II (2000)
Dragon Age: Origins (2009)
Mass Effect (2007)
Mass Effect 2 (2010)
Phantasy Star Online 2 (2012)
Ragnarök Online (2002)
Rogue Galaxy (2005)
Suikoden IV (2004)
Tales of Pirates (2007)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006)
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (2011)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky (2004)
The Witcher (2007)
X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse (2005)
Strategy
Age of Empires II
Age of Mythology
Alexander (2004)
Crusader Kings II
Europa Universalis III
Rise of Nations (2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth (2004)
The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II (2006)
Total War: Medieval II
Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2012)
Open World
Assassin's Creed (2007)
Assassin's Creed II
Far Cry 2 (2008)
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
Prototype (2009)
Shadow of the Colossus (2005)
Ultimate Spider-Man (2005)
Immersive Sandbox Simulation
Mount & Blade (2008)
Mount & Blade: Warband
Renaissace Kingdoms (2004)
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (2007)
The West (2007)
Uncharted Waters Online (2005)
Voyage Century (2006)
Horror
Alien: Isolation
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (2005)
Dead Space (2008)
Dino Crisis (1999)
Metro 2033 (2010)
Metro: Last Light (2013)
Fighting
Dragon Ball: Budokai Tenkaichi 2
Mortal Kombat 4
Racing
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005)
Need for Speed: Underground 2
Rival Gears (2014)
Action
Aliens vs. Predator (2010)
Battlefield 1942
Dishonored (2012)
Doom (1993)
Doom II (1994)
Dynasty Warriors 4
Dynasty Warriors 5
God of War (2005)
God of War II (2007)
Lego Star Wars: The Video Game (2005)
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (2006)
Oddworld: Abe's Oddyssey (1997)
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus (1998)
Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles (2005)
Okami (2006)
Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (2005)
Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation
Vainglory
Survival
Minecraft (2011)
Mines of Mars
Simulation
The Sims 2
Rhythm
Cytus
Fastar
These are not all the games I like, these are simply my personal top favorites and games that I would love to play at any time. A list of all the games I like would have to include hundreds, maybe thousands of video games.
What Are Your Most Played Games Ever?
Considering all the games that I've played throughout my life, in different platforms, the games in which I probably have the most gameplay time overall are these:
Crusader Kings II
Mount & Blade: Warband
Ragnarök Online (Pre-Renewal Era)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Vainglory
I likely have more than 1,000 gameplay hours in each of these games (meaning that I have at least 1,000 hours in Crusader Kings II, at least another 1,000 hours in Mount & Blade: Warband and so on).