User blog comment:Samdoo/How did you get into Halo?/@comment-1210220-20130909191022

My first experience with Halo was when I was about seven or eight, as I recall. I visited my older cousin's house and was introduced to a strange game with a big-ass controller, and found myself liking it. While I spent most of my earlier years playing the Playstation, I'd always play Halo:CE and Halo 2 when I was at my cousin's place. My crowning moment was finally beating him in a Slayer game at age nine.

Then came Christmas 2007, and I got myself my first Xbox 360 and two games. One of them was Halo 3. I played offline for a few months with my brother before getting Xbox Live on my birthday. From there I'd play Halo just about every day, and would make many, many, many failed attempts at creating short films on it though I did end up helping out several notable Machinima directors during that time as a body actor.

It wasn't until early 2010 that I started to get into the Halo universe, purchasing Ghosts of Onyx shortly before the Halo: Reach Beta was released. In the following weeks I got two more Halo books and ended up joining Halo Fanon in August that year. The rest, as they say, is history.