I was mainly a JRPG kid throughout my gaming life, I was spending the night at my friends house, we were forced to go to his cousin's house and they had the original Xbox. It was the first time I ever saw one as all my friends and I only had Ps2s and GameCubes. He fired up a lil game called Halo and played a little bit of it, he was showing me how if you kill some of the marines they'll start firing at you. I've never seen anything like that at the time so I was impressed but ultimately I didn't think much of the game at the time.
A year later one of my close friends got the original Xbox for christmas and a bunch of games, one of them being Halo. He pretty much forced me to play the campaign and I ended up really liking it, we played some multiplayer and I was horrible! I always came in last place, it was super frustrating but fun. The day Halo 2 came out we beat the game in one sitting and played some multiplayer! I was hooked! Eventually more of my friends got Xbox and Halo, I also got better at the game.
I was still playing PS2 and Gamecube at home though and never got an Xbox, the 360 came out and I went over to me friends house to play it. We played DOA4, I fell in love with the UI and all the features but what really sealed the deal was when Halo 3 came out and I went to my friend's house to play. The graphics and gameplay blew me away, the campaign was great and the multiplayer was fun. Custom games was an entire beast all by itself, lots of fun and interesting games the community made.
Halo 3 was the killer app for me, it was the reason why I purchased an Xbox 360 over a PS3
Well that's my story
