First of all, nice thread knucks, I initially thought it was just a thread about just how/why you signed up on NGU, I was going to post something along the lines of Outsider telling me to hop in the van for candy but I'm glad it wasn't about that.
My story will probably suck, and not worth reading due to me being dyslexic/stupid but......
Basically my gaming story started on Christmas of 1996, Where Santa(

) gave a PS1 for me and my older brother to share, among other presents. I remember some of the games me and my brother would play over the many years we enjoyed it, Bob the builder(my fave, lol), Doom, Ridge Racer, Mission Impossible, James Bond and some game I don't remember the name of, it was a weird game where you controlled cartoon creatures that would swear and you could kill eachother... My mum didn't let me have the sound on when I played that xD. My brother mostly just played DOOM though.. I wasn't allowed to watch my brother even play that lol.
Skip ahead the PS1 years then came along Christmas 2002, when Santa once again gave us one of the Best presents ever, the PlayStation 2. The games I remember playing the most were the GTA series, MGS3, and the Gran Turismo games. For whatever reason I don't remember much but I remember me and my brother played through MGS3 atleast 10 times, don't know why but it was so awesome every time. The same could be said about GTA, we would play that all the time, there's just something beyond fun about driving fast cars, killing people, and free-roaming such a large city and in such good graphics. After awhile we had also gotten internet, and played some games online like COD2(I think). I didn't play that game that much as I sucked at it. There was also free DLC type things you could download online which we soon discovered for MGS3 like different disguises/face paints/missions which made us play MGS3 even more.
Then I got a PS3 for my birthday, my brother by then already had one and didn't live at my parent's house anymore and he had his own. The first games I got for that were MGS4 and Rachet and Clank(whatever one came with the PS3). After playing through the singleplayer of both of those a few times in the first few months I hooked up the PS3 to the internet, signed up for PSN under the user adogalog (just a random word, lol) and started playing Metal Gear Online(MGO was a part of the MGS4 game) under the same name, as your username on there was different than your PSN, and I obviously wasn't feeling very creative at the time xD. I was an extreme noob for many months, some of my most noobiest memories are thinking the ping bar meant how good you were, which I believed even more since I did better on full green connection, due to less lag lol. After playing for awhile one day I got into an Australian server and met some cool guys who would go on to be my best mates online, Shatter_Proof, LegendaryHero, DESM8U, and REBELYELL89. They were all running under the clan name =[OBF]= and were already friends, I got onto the other team, fought quite well but ofcourse because of their far more experience and my sucky team we did lose in the end, I quickly added them as friends after talking to them for awhile, and insisted I atleast trial for their clan, eventually I got in and we were some of the best in Australia.
After quite awhile us Aussies were sick of being in the European server, as the official tournaments were held on European servers, so we lagged and everyone else had full bars which was really holding us back. Despite the lag we were all in the top 1000 individually and top 100 as a clan.
Eventually though we all ordered Japanese MGO discs, as we would lag alot less over there, we played casually but the games enjoyment really died for all of us, and our real lives were alot better, and my connection issues got really annoying for the clan so we all basically drifted apart and stopped playing. Atleast by the end of it our clan was the highest ranked on the server and I was 2nd individually, behind a lagswitcher hated by everyone, us stopping playing really saddened me as these were my best mates online for the past 3 years even as I type this it gets slower and more saddening just thinking of how long its been since I talked to some of these guys, and they all lived elsewhere so we never did meetup... Some short time before quitting MGO and PS3 completely, I signed up on here, NGU under yet again the same username adogalog for the Metal Gear Online forums which have been deleted since.
After quitting MGO I just went on with life without any sort of gaming/online whatnot as did the other OBF members. Eventually I bought CoD4, started coming back here and posting often, then bought MW2, then an xbox and Black Ops, but thats all boring and I don't want to bother talking about it, it was just casual mostly, but I did get top 1000 ranked on MW2 and CoD4 for kills and score. Those games seemed more of a chore than fun, they were too easy online and it was repetitive.
If you've bothered reading the whole thing, thanks, I appreciate it as it took a damn long time to write, its honestly the longest thing I've written whilst writing about a single topic.
And yes, I'm a nerd of sorts, but not a no-lifer, I have a job, girlfriend and friends, which is all that matters to me at this point in time.