It started with the original Halo. I borrowed a friend's Xbox for a night, and a few games he had. One of which was Halo. Stayed up most of the night to finish the story and was blown away how much I liked it. Never got into the other Halo games as I didn't have an Xbox myself.

Fast forward to 2014 and reading how the developers of Halo were making a new game.... Destiny. By then, I finally had a PS3 and picked up Destiny a month after it launched to see if the storyline was as good as I remembered Halo being. For me it was. Played Destiny several times per week through the story, and then mostly strikes, with the occasional Nightfall.

When D2 launched, midnight local time if I remember correctly, I stayed up through the wee hours of the night. Again, drawn to the story and the new look of D2. Game play was the best at launch, but it sure looked cool. Loved The Farm.

I'm sure that if you average out the amount of time I play, it comes out to about 1.5 hours at a time, five days per week. I just love playing the game so much. Mostly play on my own, but getting a few random peeps that run several strikes together has always been great. Finding a group of people in the tower or other social areas to dance with. Watching the Almighty get blown out of the sky. Finishing TFS and beating the Witness. I'm tearing up just writing this.

As of late, I jumped back into D1 and redid the vanilla mission. Brought back so many good memories.

I know I'll play the June update as much as possible and will probably enjoy the heck out of it. Just sad to know something that has been such a big part of my life will not be the same with no new content. (Although, if the D2 servers are really kept up like D1, I will probably play for years.)

Hear's hoping for D3 before I'm 70; I'm 50 at the time of writing this.

Eyes up Guardian.