[quote] • A sense of tremendous achievement • A sense of belonging • Devastated or heartbroken • Utter domination • A human connection • Like laughing until you cried • The moment you knew you loved this game! Thank you for being such an amazing community. We look forward to hearing more of your stories.[/quote] First and foremost, this game gave me an easy way to talk and play games with my brother. We grew up playing games together and completed our first legendary runs in Halo together. He was in the military and got out and I shipped off like a week after he got out so from 2005 to currently, we haven’t gotten to spend much time together in person so games give us that connection. We’ve done pretty much everything together in destiny. I’ve always been a hunter and he’s always been a titan. We know each other’s play styles and always find the best strategies for whatever we’re doing. I’m not sure if we defined the characters or the characters defined us but he plays like a titan. Always up close and smashing away while I’m sitting back with my MIDA picking everyone off. Another connected story. I had my first kid a little after destiny released so him laying on my chest while I played and trying to be quiet after we finally beat a raid boss or wiping the raid because I had to get up to change a blowout diaper was worth it. He’s obviously older now and I give him the controller sometimes. Isn’t really coordinated but he gets so excited when he finally hits a bad guy. Tremendous achievement is probably like most but the first time I opened the vault of glass gate. My fire team was under leveled but we knew how to work together and tried everything without knowing what to do the first time. Another achievement was the first time I solo’d Crotas end. Also going along with crota, I got two GHorns in the same day with my fireteam. TWO. One from the nightfall and another from the death singer. This was back when the launcher was in its prime and still very rare. I was devastated when the bridge encounter was redone so it was harder to solo. Utter domination. I got the MIDA multi tool pretty early on and just kept using it because it was a scout rifle (my fav) and good DPS and radar always up. I don’t want to sound like a hipster but I used it wayyyyy before it was popular mostly because it was the best scout I had at the time. I rarely played PvP but when I did and used MIDA, I couldn’t be stopped. Kept my distance when everyone was shotgun sliding. Learned to move and aim so I wouldn’t get sniped. Shut down supers every now and then. Once nightstalker came out, it was over for supers. Mayhem... forget about it. This game has given me a lot in life and that’s why I keep supporting it. I think the moment I realized I loved the game was when I starting talking about end theories with my fireteam. I had just started really reading the grimoire cards and the lore got me hooked. The lore, to me, is my “reason” for playing destiny specifically. The whole story could be a 7 book Harry Potter like series if not longer. There’s a lot of arcs to follow but when you finally realize how they connect, it just opens up more theories and lore. Once the main story wraps up, I’d like to recommend a stream with the story and deep lore writers to answer any questions and just have a long talk about the timeline from creation to true death of the universe.