How far have you gone to enhance your gaming to become a better gamer?  Have you gone out and bought an expensive pair of headsets? How about gaming control accessories, or perhaps even gamer gloves? Or maybe you have bad eye sight and it hurts your eyes to play video games for more than an hour so you need special gaming glasses? Are you the kind of person who believes gaming is so influential that you would be able to spend hundreds of dollars to improve your gaming slightly?
Or are you the kind of person who is naturally a good gamer, and describe yourself as the best out of all your friends?

In this article, I will talk about different types of gadgets and techniques that people use to enhance their gaming advantages, but the real question is: How far would you go to achieve greatness?



 

Kontrol Freek's 40% Extended Joystick

Kontrol Freek game control accessories are like add-ons for your controllers joy sticks. One of them is the FPS (First Person Shooters) Freek accessories which extends the joy stick by 40%, which apparently is supposed to help your aiming in FPS with minimal adapting required. The down side, in my opinion is that this accessory will decrease your reflex to knife or melee a person because you will have to move your thumb farther but it will only be a fraction of a second. (Which is a big difference, between living and dying.)



Another, accessory by Kontrol Freek is the Speed Freek which helps gamers in racing games by giving you more comfort as the accessory almost covers your thumb. the down side is the same where it is harder and will take longer to move your thumbs to the buttons on your controller. Oh and is a good thing i didn't forget there brilliant new product TD Freek which is for football sport gamers. The TD Freek is the same thing as the FPS Freek but the grips look like footballs.







If you need something to enhance your performance visually then you might want to check out a company called GUNNAR  Optiks. They make specialized glasses that help decreased tension on your eyes while looking into video screens for long periods of time, and might I also say they make you look very fashionable. Although, The reason I would not buy these specialized glasses is because I'm not at the age where I care about the health of my eyes enough to order a pair of 80-100 dollar glasses. But, if you were at the age where you are worried about your eyes or your optometrist tells you that you need to lay off the video games then this might be a good investment. Also, GUNNAR Optiks has specialized glasses for the up and coming 3D games, television sets and even everyday outside eyewear.


Now, to put aside material things there are certain games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 where the credibility of the player is the key important factor. Would you be willing to give someone you don't even know 1600 Microsoft Points or Playstation Points to "boost" you up to 10th prestige with the risk of getting banned from Xbox Live? Or maybe buy or modify a Turbo controller and brag about it to everyone elses? Or even modify your console with a chance to brick it or get caught and getting banned and costing you $300 to pay for a new one?

I guess, at the end of the day it comes down to the person itself. Do they have the money to spend or do they not. Personally, the farthest I've gone is I purchased a X31 wireless Turtle Beach ($90) because I was sick of the little rinky dink $20 sh*t default Xbox mics breaking when I sat on them. That is  as far as I will go because I game for fun and it's only a hobby, not a life style. The only time I would ever improve my gaming for hundreds of dollars would be when I play Call of Duty and get bullsh*t killed and I think all of you can Call of Duty players can relate.



So guys leave me a comment telling me how far, what your limit is, and what gaming means/is to you.


Written By:
Shaun Shea "aka Shauny159"