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[The Faceless Master]

me!

i bet people are already there waiting :-/

 

[TheGreenGiant]

its funny. I guess now it really registers that that a lot of people still don't have HALO2 yet. Woot! Tonight too

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

are we gonna do a GAF meet up?

 

[PhatSaqs]

Someone on the IGN boards said there were 2 guys there at 10:30am :lol

 

[miyuru]

its funny. I guess now it really registers that that a lot of people still don't have HALO2 yet. Woot! Tonight too

I'd say pretty much everyone that pirated it will still buy it.

 

[The Faceless Master]

I'd say pretty much everyone that pirated it will still buy it.

except for a few stragglers who bitch about "oh it should have had online co-op" or "oh it should have had more old/new maps" or "oh xbox live sucks cuz its not free" everyone will buy it

 

[bishoptl]

HOW MUCH DID AEG PAY YOU

 

[The Faceless Master]

HOW MUCH DID AEG PAY YOU

in tne interest of full disclosure, i will admit that Microsoft did indeed give me a free Xbox in 2001 for staying 48 hours at that Xbox Unleashed event in NYC... they even shipped that sucker overnight the monday, so i got it tuesday morning... 2 days before launch!

 

[FortNinety]

are we gonna do a GAF meet up?

I could care less about the game (I don't hate it, I just don't like FPSs) but if there is one, I might stop by.

 

[Vashu]

What is it with all these Halo 2 topics all of a sudden? I know it's a good game and all that, but I can't stand the 'OMG! It's the second coming of Jesus!' mentality alot the guys (and or girls) have at the moment. No offense to any of you, but it's just a game! There is one standard Halo 2 topic, can we just keep it to that please? Or is everyone being paid by AEG?

Oh btw, I'll probably have the game by thursday, when the release is over here in Europe. Just as not to sound like a complete anti-Halo 2 guy.

 

[Prine]

someone please take some pictures so we can all experience the madness from home

 

[Redbeard]

 

[Vashu]

WAAAH!!!

There goes my beverage onto my screen and keyboard!!!! LOL!!!

 

[Barnimal]

theres just no reason. i mean seriously.

 

[AlphaSnake]

And this is why I'm often ashamed to be a gamer.

 

[Redbeard]

Is that kid on the left wearing a green CAPE?

I wouldn't be surprised to see some people dressed up in poorly made MC costumes.

 

[Vashu]

Is that kid on the left wearing a green CAPE?

As a matter of fact, he is!

But hey, I shouldn't be the one to judge.. I mean, I look like some secondhand Leon S. Kennedy reject... *cough*

 

[SyNapSe]

Holy crap! :lol

 

[Sein]

Someone explain to me what the fuck a cape has to do with Halo 2. Is this the major spoiler over which everyone is in a tizzy? Master Chief is the Green Lantern?

 

[KAOS]

LOL!

 

[Sysgen]

That kid on the left was on ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. The reporter asked him what he was there for. They did a story on the millions Halo2 will bring in. GTA:SA also got a mention.

 

[Matrix]

And this is why I'm often ashamed to be a gamer.

I know how you feel.

 

[xsarien]

Good God, it's just a fucking game...

 

[Littleberu]

"Finally, after 2 years, my Xbox now has a purpose!!!"

 

[The Faceless Master]

bad news.. i'm not going to times square...

 

[Matlock]

Whoa, it looks like the gay pride parade took a wrong turn on fifth.

 

[snapty00]

I feel embarassed for those people. What's sad is that they'll look at that with pride one day.

 

[Chipopo]

I would involuntarily snap someones neck open if they walked near me with a "Halo Cape".

 

[Mejilan]

I can kinda understand the green tunics and tricking out the stores for the Zelda launch parties... but those two guys... they just don't make sense. :/'

Edit - I'd like to add that I really love that Toys R Us, however. I go there sometimes just to walk all the way through it. Though, I do spend more time in the R Zone than anywhere else there.

 

[mint]

Its cool to see stuff like this

 

[Escape Goat]

Whoa, it looks like the gay pride parade took a wrong turn on fifth.

:lol

 

[The Faceless Master]

good news.. BOOYEAH!!!

 

[All Hail C-Webb]

:lol I just drove by Times Square and the line went around the block. There was a dude in a Master Cheif costume (actually looked good so it might have been a staff member), and they were throwing out free shirts.

 

[Kon Tiki]

Whoa, it looks like the galo pride parade took a wrong turn on fifth.

:O

 

[The Faceless Master]

:lol I just drove by Times Square and the line went around the block. There was a dude in a Master Cheif costume (actually looked good so it might have been a staff member), and they were throwing out free shirts.

:lol :lol :lol

good thing i got mine uptown at 7PM!

 

[DrLazy]

Yeah those kids were on CNN Headline news today. They had as 30 second story on the Halo 2 launch from the "technology" correspondent.

 

[All Hail C-Webb]

I was with my father at the time and he said, "these people must have a combined IQ of 1000," then he saw the retard in the cape.

 

[heavy liquid]

Times Square Toys R Us looks like it was insane...

John Farrell of Queens (C), who has queued for more than ten hours to be at the front of hundreds of other gamers for the midnight release of Halo 2 for X-Box in Times Square, waits for his copy of the game in New York November 8, 2004.

Hundreds of gamers queue for the midnight release of Halo 2 for X-Box at Toys-R-Us in Times Square, New York November 8, 2004.

 

[The Bookerman]

If halo didn't have that much hype, I bet there wouldn't even be an Xbox anymore.


personally I fail to see what's so innovative and intriguing in Master Chief.

Don't mean the game sucks, I just say it's overhyped and overated.

 

[human5892]

I was with my father at the time and he said, "these people must have a combined IQ of 1000," then he saw the retard in the cape.

:lol

That cape...my god. There are no words.

 

[FortNinety]

I am so fucking glad I didn't go.