As someone who is new to the forums, I figured I would start a thread where I could get to know some of you. Where better to start than learning what got you all into gaming in the first place.
As for me: I started gaming at a very young age. My father is an avid PC gamer, and began introducing me to games when I was 3-4 years old. I remember people piling into my room to play the NES my father passed on to me. Gaming has always been a way for me to bond with my father. We have had many disagreements and issues over the years(those are stories for another day), but we have always been able to put our differences aside for a gaming session.
I didnt really get into gaming on a regular basis until Christmas when I was 10. My father bought me a X-box with a copy of Halo CE. My brother and I played through the campaign multiple times together (if i had a dollar for every time he killed me with an "accidental" grenade....)and would split-screen multiplayer with our friends. Whenever a new halo comes out my brother and I co-op through it. My brother and I bond over the virtual battlefield.Even though we live in different states, we come together over the virtual battlefield with a mutual goal of saving humanity from the covenant.
In short, halo got me into gaming. It has given me many fond memories of talking trash to my friends while LANning halo 2. Its the first game where I truly cared about the story, and the characters.Its my first gaming love