I had known about RE4 since around it's release and because I had a few friends who were huge RE addicts. Around Christmas 2007 I purchased a used Wii from a friend of a friend that came with about 20 games. I started trying the games out and most were **** to me, I was starting to regret buying it. Mario Galaxy was great, but then i decided to try RE4. I played it religiously, every morning, sometimes before coffee. That game would really get me hyped. I don't even know how many time I played the Mercs mode. Prob not as many as RE5's Mercs but certainly near 1,000 times easy. At that point in time that game became my favorite game ever. Since then I've purchased it for PS2, PC, Xbox 360, and not too long ago PS4. I even had a version of it on a jailbroken iPod Touch I think. That was the RE that really got me into them.
The only reason I ended up here at residentevil.org is because of that game. When I found that rare RE1 game that I started a thred about here I wouldn't have payed much attention to it, but since I loved the franchise so much I noticed it seemed odd. So yup, RE4 brought me here!