To others, my story may not seem "great" or exciting, but to me it is seeing as it's personal and what kind of got me back into gaming as a whole. If this moment hadn't transpired, I probably wouldn't have been part of this site, anyway here goes.

My most memorable experience, the moment which sprang to mind when I read this thread, was the first time I played online gaming and in particular the games Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter & Call of Duty 4. I was a big gamer when I was younger, my first console was a Sega: Master System. I moved on to the Playstation franchise after Sega went downhill and never looked back. Anyway once the PS2 had started to run it's course and the Xbox 360 and PS3 were the next big things, I lost a lot of interest in gaming. Having spent a lot of money over the years building a repertoire of games and gadgets for the PS1 and PS2 I wasn't prepared to do it all again for another generation of console, so I stuck to playing my PS2 whenever I felt the need to game.

After a while I caved in and bought an Xbox 360, a lot of my friends had one and while at first I was reluctant to my ties with the PS, the Xbox was a lot cheaper than it's rival the PS3. At first I just merely played offline singleplayer or local multiplayer with friends giving no notion to online multiplayer as it didn't really interest me. Again, my friends were "bigging" up online multiplayer and telling me to get it. In the end I was persuaded to buy a wireless adapter and 12 months of XBL membership along with CoD 4.

The first game I ever played online was Ghost Recon: AW. I had played this game locally with friends and enjoyed it a lot. Having not being a big FPS fan at the time, playing multiplayer as a whole in that franchise was a new thing for me, and something that gave me enjoyment in regards to gaming which I hadn't ever experienced. Anyway, I played a couple of games on Ghost Recon and just couldn't hang with other players. I struggled to comprehend why I was so bad when I was the best out of my friends. A few games went by with no change and I simply switched off my Xbox, thinking the whole purchase of Online Membership had been a complete and utter waste of money. At the time I was a student, so money wasn't exactly growing on trees.

That point of view however was very wrong. Although I had bought CoD 4 earlier, i hadn't even bothered to play it due to my frustration. My friend persuaded me to play with him telling me "it's the most fun he's had playing a game". I didn't share his enthusiasm but I nevertheless decided to give it a go. Again like Ghost Recon, I sucked badly and would be lucky to get 1 or two kills a game, but this time something was different. Although I was having a torrid time in regards to performance, I was having fun. Although I may have been getting 1 or two kills a game, I strived to try and better that each game. After an hour or two there was a rapid increase in my performance and I was getting 6-8 kills a game. As each match and each hour went by I couldn't put my controller down, i was hooked for the first time in years.

After that day I never looked back, I would play everyday in an attempt to be a good player and experience more fun. Playing by myself opened new avenues to speak to other players in the lobby and making "friends" with them. All in all, it's an experience I wouldn't have changed. It just goes to show that the slightest things can change what happens in the future. The example being that online multiplayer and CoD 4 in particular led me to this site, without playing it I may never have had the experiences i've had over the past 2 and a half years, and for that i'm thankful.

Again, not much of an exciting story more of one of importance and relevance to me however.

Delete Meh, OR ELSE

(that wasn't my story by the way )

Its funny because my bro was playing mw2 for Ps3, so he could not hit a shot without getting a hitmarker, he even use a ump, everytime he went around a corner there was somebody laying in a corner, so he went on a 13 death streak, he ended up slamming his controller onto the ground then he threw his face in the pillow and scream his heart out, he got so mad, he started tearing and his head was throbing

My mad haxo3rz made me god an di as flanking the deck and I hit my head and spit poo on my toliet and the frog prince on hf came about emmk? Drugs are bad for xbox360. Uzi as eatingbread and mxlitary and uzi said nao and then mxlitary said uzi is black and fgt asain pants

That moment when you scream and cuss as loud as you can on CoD, to walk out your room to figure out that your parent's boss and friends were here.

I beat MW2 campaign on veteran <3


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