This is just a general discussion on how you got to know the Halo franchise and what makes you want to play Halo. I’d also like to know your favourite Halo game. Thanks! 
I got into halo early in 2003 when I visited my cousin. Back then when I was like 6 or 7 years old, I wasn’t allowed to have the game let alone play it, but I would watch my cousin (who was 9 at the time) play it constantly, and it was an amazing fascination to me. Before long I finally convinced my mother to let me play it with him, and it was one of the best experiences I had ever had, also because it was my first console game. I didn’t own any of the Halo games until the release of Halo 3, when I bought all 3. Since then I have been passionately playing and enjoying Halo for its deep, rich story and competitive multiplayer. Personally, I usually direct myself more towards just the campaign aspect of Halo, because I love delving into it and experiencing the change and progress of a game which has been with me since childhood… Halo 4 was heart breaking in the sense that I couldn’t control my emotions when Cortana “died”. I hope she comes back some way, some how. My favourite Halo game is tied between 2 and 3 for campaign, my favourite game for competitive PVP is Halo 4, and my favourite for custom games has always been Halo 3.
I got my 360 in 2009, and had no interest in shooters whatsoever. I heard of Halo, but never really knew what it was. One day, my friend brought over his copy of ODST, and we played some custom games. I fell in love. After that, I bought my own copy, became very interested in the lore, and Halo has become my favorite video game series.
As for my favorite game, that’s a tough question to answer. I think Reach was the overall best, I think 3 had the best multiplayer, and I liked ODST’s unique take on the gameplay.
I began with Halo sometime in 2004 or 5, but I call it 2004. I got Halo CE on the PC (for my windows XP laptop LOL) and enjoyed it. I had absolutely no idea just how famous that game was till around 2-3 years later.
I played Halo 2 at church (yes…at church. We had an original Xbox) a LOT and whent to a Halo 2 LAN at our Youth Pastors house once in 2005 I believe. That was SUCH an awesome night.
With Halo 3, I was supposed to get it the day it launched, but my dad “forgot” and got it the 28th of September. I have played that game nearly its entire life time. I absolutely LOVE Halo 3…every thing about it. I played that game religiously (NO pun intended) through high school, and with Reach I enjoyed, still do, that game, but the mechanics online broke it in way to many places.
I enjoy Halo 4, especially the knock out job 343 did with the lore, but I have gotten bored of playing it. I still do though.
The things that make me want to play it are simply everything about Halo…the quality of the game, the insane amount of lore and story, the incredible multiplayer that totally changed console FPSs in its day, and the endless amounts of fun I have with all the games. Also the social and competitive competitions…MLG/AGL and such. And Its the ONLY FPS that I try to get good at because its simply fun. On the other hand, I have read eleven of the Halo books, and began reading those during high school around 2008 or 9.
So far, my overall favorite in the series is still Halo 3, with Halo 2 a VERY close second, but with MCC coming out, that could change 
I got my Xbox around 2010 and when I heard that Halo was one of the franchises that made the Xbox famous, I decided to play it…ever since I haven’t stop playing Halo.
I got into Halo 1 back in 2001 right at the time the game was launched. Though I was one of those kids that got the original xbox for christmas, I was attached to Halo from the very first commercial. It just presented a very cool and interesting sci-fi setting well apart from what I was used to in gaming (Star Trek, Star Wars, Doom, Star Fox, Septerra Core, Starcraft, and Unreal Tournament mainly.) And from there I’ve stuck to varying degrees. Now I’m following along the series with interest. 343 is doing a fine job making the product interesting again and I just hope that enough people pay attention to what the game is and can be, rather than trying to fix their 2015+ s FPS in the mind of what their 2004/7/10/ect. selves thought of their shooters.
Peer pressure got me into it in a way. I never had an original Xbox so when I got my 360 and Halo could be played on it, I played the first and second games. All my friends talked about the series all the time – I was always a Nintendo guy. But I fell in love with the series and went to the midnight launch of Halo 3 with my dad. I remember it was on my birthday (Sept 24 and the game released on the 25th) and we all got egged by a drive by of people that didn’t preorder lol. Loved that game. Then I kept picking them up as they released. Halo is the only series I get the deluxe editions for now. (I also just posted my Halo collection in a thread in this forum too asking about collections.) My favorite game is ODST. The campaign was brilliant – and a nice allegory to The Divine Comedy. Plus it had the BEST Halo multiplayer in the form of Halo 3 Mythic and introduced Firefight. I love reading into the lore and finding a lot of religious/Christian symbolism in the series – there’s plenty! The stories are engaging in books and games, and the multiplayer is a great way to have fun with friends – I met one of my best friends who lives across the country from me on Halo 3 multiplayer!
One of the few FPS games that actually works well on Consoles.
In 2007, I was around 10 years old and visited my uncle in California. He just bought Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4, at the time, I never played a FPS mostly those Lego Star Wars games. My time there was me playing Halo 3 and occasionally COD4, though I preferred to watch my uncle play, he actually what knew he was doing. When my family finally got home that experience was all I could think about. When Christmas came around I had to make a choice of either getting a dog or an Xbox 360, my parents pushed me to pick the 360. And I don’t regret it. Then they asked me what game I would want, the 360 all ready came with a game ( Lego Indiana Jones ) but my immediate response was Halo 3 and Call of Duty. My uncle got me the metal covered Halo 3, and I was stoked. I have the fondest memories of playing online with my uncles online just having fun. But getting older I had more interest with COD, mostly because of COD:WAW, and that hidden zombies mode. Sadly it would be until Halo:Reach came out to play another Halo. So when I heard that there was going to be a MCC with Halo 1-4, it was a no brainer to buy, the whole campaign played nice and smooth. It left me wanting more, but multiplayer is iffy, so I’m about to read some of the books until then.
I am relatively new to Halo. My dad never really wanted to pay a lot of money for a new game system. So instead of buying me a 360 he got me a Xbox in about 2006 I think. I had fun with my Xbox playing mostly Star Wars Battlefront 1, Lego Star Wars, etc. I never did get a Halo game because my parents never really got me into rated M games. Then one day in about 2011 my Xbox finally died on me. Then my cousin and I started hanging out more in the summer of 2012 and him and I would play on his 360 and he introduced me to Halo. I obviously heard of Halo before this but I never played. He started me off playing the campaign in Reach, and then Halo CEA. He wanted to build a gaming PC and most of the money he needed at the time, he just needed about $100 to finally build it. So I bought his 360 which had digital copies of Halo Reach, Halo CEA, and Halo ODST on it for $150. I paid a extra 10 for his physical copy of Halo 2 collectors edition. I then bought Halo 3, and got Halo 4 for Christmas that year. I’ve been hooked since. Since then I have beaten all the campaigns on Legendary.
I got to know Halo by my dad getting the first Halo for me when I was like 7, and my favorite is Halo 2
I like it b/c of the community aspect of it versus something like COD.
Fun custom games with friends full of laughs and such.