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Nick was born in July 15th, 1983 in the state of New York, USA. Today, he has come to realize that he has been playing video games for almost all of his life. In 1986 his parents (He originally thought that Santa was the one to buy it for him, but in 1989 he realized that Santa was too lame to buy him a gaming console) gave him, what even today, considers the greatest Christmas present he could ever ask for.
Yes, ladies and laddies. A Nintendo Entertainment System. Nick wouldn't play with other kids that much, after that. He was consumed by the fancy graphics of the screen, and the 8-bit sound of games such as Super Mario Bros, Castlevania and Contra. He faithfully followed the continuation of the console crazy and eventually bought a PC.
Development for MS-DOS had started since 1981, and by 1995, Nick's -actually his father's, but details, details!- computer was running on it. In 1996, Nicknoticed "Shattered Steel" on a video game store. The cover was extremely generic, and the logo was so badly designed that Nick originally thought that the gamewas called "Shattered Steet". But he fell in love with it on first sight.
Yup, Shattered Steel (or Steet), BioWare's first game. Nick was one of the original BioWare fans and he was proud of it. The gameplay itself was pretty much stolen off MechWarrior but Nick didn't care. He loved his bipedal mech and he would shoot bad guys all day (and often night) long.
The years passed. Nick got in a good college, gratuated, got married, got divorced, found a job, got married again, got divorced, got married again, and was almost murdered by hisdesperate third wife. Why? Well, BioWare games. At this point, Nick was addicted. He enjoyed games such as BG, NWN and KOTOR, but deep inside, he wasfeeling incomplete. Why couldn't he control a mech? Why wasn't he able to shoot generic bad guys just like the good old days?
In 2006, he discovered the BioWare Social Network. As games such as Jade Empire, Mass Effect and Dragon Age would come out one after another, Nick wouldnote a constant complaint on the forums. "Why don't you cater to your original fans, BioWare?". And Nick was happy, because he was certain that these otheroriginal fans were fans of the original BioWare game, like him. It would be silly to call one's self "original fan" and to be entitled to things,otherwise, right? Right?
In 2011, six more failed marriages and some grey hair later, Nick would find himself working in the Jacob Javits Center, in New York, for the 6th New York Comic Con. As amassive (and massively bitter) BioWare fan, he played the Mass Effect 3 demo there. After blasting his way through Cerberus operatives, he got to the Atlas Mech section. Nick knew his stuff. The glass covering the Mech's upper area was destroyed within the first ten seconds, and the pilot would lie lifeless on the cool floor only a few moments later.
Nick decided to have Shepard move forward, but as soon as he passed near the now harmless Atlas mech, an option appeared! "Enter", the screen encouraged Nick. Nick smirked, "So many months in development and you are having glitches, haven't you?". What else could an "enter" trigger near a severly damaged mech mean,eh?. Nick interacted with the mech nevertheless, and to his surprise, he saw Shepard climbing inside the mech.
"What the-" he muttered. Shepard had now taken control of the mech. Still not believing his own eyes, Nick instictively pressed "R1". "Pffwhooosh!" the mechshot a missile. After all these years... BioWare was finally catering to the original fans, the Shattered Steel fans. Nick was filled with such an overwhelming feeling of nostos that he fell on the floor and started having an epileptic seizure. The people waiting to play the demo, right behind him, thought that this was some kind ofobscure traditional dance, and followed his move.
43 people were injured that day. Zaeed Massani was the only one who exited the room on his own feet.
Alas, the moral of the story is:
1) Every fan loves BioWare games as much as you do, why should you feel more entitled than them?
2) If you think that you are part of the "original BioWare fanbase", chances are that you are ridiculously wrong.
3) No traditional dances require you to fall on the floor and repeat convulsions, don't be silly.
Modifié par Phaedon, 04 décembre 2011 - 09:45 .
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