Where's the best place to go for Halo 3 midnight launch

matchthis

Where would be the best place to pick it up. Anywhere doing any freebies? Not long now:D

Riesen_Meal

The launch party, get locked, then go tell the ending to all the Halo fans in the queue?



Not that ive really played the campaign!

lol

Mr E

I believe official launch is tomorrow night in Gamestop in Stephens Green.
Richard Dean Anderson is the special guest there.

Riesen_Meal

Its in the Pod on Tuesday night!!!

BLAM!

Shoot the journos!

By any chance did anyone see the Master Chief moping around Stephens green over the weekend? ]

I didnt but my mate sent me a mms pic of him!

monkeyfudge

TmB wrote:

Richard Dean Anderson is the special guest there.

McGuyver will be there? That's pretty awesome...

Riesen_Meal

No way, Mc Guyver?

Savage, didnt know that was him!

He might make a rope out of a piece of string in GAME to get him out of a halo launch full of nerdboys and transport him (via a stargate) to the nearest place that sells guinness!

monkeyfudge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEXx5IGQ8So

tman

Fieldog wrote:

The launch party, get locked, then go tell the ending to all the Halo fans in the queue?



Not that ive really played the campaign!

lol

Master chief defeats the covenant and saves the world... the end...

Riesen_Meal

Dont really wanna know anyway T-Man, ive avoided lookin at all the spoilers, but it doesnt really matter to me anyway, I dont play campaign, might do in this one now that its co-op online!

matchthis

Gamestop Stephen's Green it is. Now... how do we get into the lauch Party? Sleep with Gates..

monument

TmB wrote:

I believe official launch is tomorrow night in Gamestop in Stephens Green.
Richard Dean Anderson is the special guest there.

Where did you get that from?

RAIN

Theres a Gamestop on st stephens green?
Is it new?

matchthis

RAIN wrote:

Theres a Gamestop on st stephens green?
Is it new?

Think it's on the right when you walk in. Small place so a bit surprised at that. Thought it would have been on Henry/Mary street, but guess it's closest to the pod. So Pre party and head down to Gamestop for Press

tman

Fieldog wrote:

Dont really wanna know anyway T-Man, ive avoided lookin at all the spoilers, but it doesnt really matter to me anyway, I dont play campaign, might do in this one now that its co-op online!

It was just a wild guess at the most obvious route for the story to take

RAIN

So anybody got the details of where Richard Dean Anderson is gna be cus i wana go.Is it just queue up and get it or are there wrist bands?!!

s8n

McGyver (To give him his real name) will only be in Tripod as he is the special guest "hero" launching the game to the press and associated hangers on. You won't get in unless you have an invite.

Riesen_Meal

s8n wrote:

McGyver (To give him his real name) will only be in Tripod as he is the special guest "hero" launching the game to the press and associated hangers on. You won't get in unless you have an invite.

I heard he was goin into Stephens Green launch aswell, which would make sense as its near the pod itself.....

Its in the old Pod.....

(not Tripod)

RAIN

Fieldog wrote:

I heard he was goin into Stephens Green launch aswell, which would make sense as its near the pod itself.....

Its in the old Pod.....

(not Tripod)

It DOES make sense !!!
Rang the xbox live centre who said he was gna be in the pod.BUT he said he didnt know if he was also going to be in stephens green - surely with all the stuff going on gamestop he will drop up !!

lafors

Fieldog wrote:

The launch party, get locked, then go tell the ending to all the Halo fans in the queue?



Not that ive really played the campaign!

lol

Sweet just landed tickets for the launch party

RAIN

Any left :P.
Seriously iv tried everything to get a hold of tickets and now i hear from a person in microsoft ireland that he isent confirmed for the party at all !!!! so basicly everyone is in the dark as to where he is gna be at 12.Has he mentioned anything on the radio today?

nevaeh-2die-4

i went into game they were syaing if u pre odreded halo - its 60e if u didnt its 75!!!! thats a joke

matchthis

nevaeh-2die-4 wrote:

i went into game they were syaing if u pre odreded halo - its 60e if u didnt its 75!!!! thats a joke

Only in Ireland :rolleyes:

Smellyirishman

So what's the deal, do you need to have a pre-order in Gamestop to get one tonight, or can you just show up? Is anywhere else doing a late opening?

s8n

RAIN wrote:

Any left :P.
Seriously iv tried everything to get a hold of tickets and now i hear from a person in microsoft ireland that he isent confirmed for the party at all !!!! so basicly everyone is in the dark as to where he is gna be at 12.Has he mentioned anything on the radio today?

He's confirmed alright, it's just them trying to keep it a surprise. He was touring Dublins sights and bars yesterday.

lafors

lafors wrote:

Sweet just landed tickets for the launch party

Ah balls, the guy at the PR company where I got the invite attachment is out of office, must have left early to be there tonight
Crap crap crap.

monkeyfudge

Smellyirishman wrote:

So what's the deal, do you need to have a pre-order in Gamestop to get one tonight, or can you just show up? Is anywhere else doing a late opening?

Yeah... I'm in town this evening so I might try and pop along... It will be like the Wii launch all over again.

Smellyirishman

monkeyfudge wrote:

Yeah... I'm in town this evening so I might try and pop along... It will be like the Wii launch all over again.

We can re-kindle our flame! I'm still in two minds as to what I want to do. I might pop in tomorrow and get both H3 and Skate. Decisions, decisions.

andrewsqual

And Mcguyver didn't show. There wasn't any free stuff and the DJ was playing rave crap all night. Everybody left a 11:30 to go to St Stephan's Green Shopping Centre to the launch at Gamestop. There is absolutely no denying that the game looks like Halo 2.5.

Fnz

andrewsqual wrote:

There is absolutely no denying that the game looks like Halo 2.5.

Just wondering... were you viewing the game on a high-definition display?

chrislad

I think it looks great. Playing on a 32in LCD HD. Only played about 5 minutes, mind.

lafors

andrewsqual wrote:

And Mcguyver didn't show. There wasn't any free stuff and the DJ was playing rave crap all night. Everybody left a 11:30 to go to St Stephan's Green Shopping Centre to the launch at Gamestop. There is absolutely no denying that the game looks like Halo 2.5.

I was there too, free beer...yay, play halo3....yay, no freebies....boooo, no Macguyver.....booo.

Their TVs were not setup at all. The big ones were terribly bad, the small ones were the samaung booths and colour was setup up badly as usual.

Was laughing at this pic (see below) I took at the event RROD!!!

And why were all those ppl queue'ing at stephens green gamestop?
There was only about 50 people at Game on Dawson st.

monkeyfudge

I didn't get up there to Stephen's Green until about 12.30 and they were finishing up.

So I popped in again first thing this morning and the very nice lady working there sold me a copy.

Zapp Brannigan

She's a cracker isn't she?

Riesen_Meal

Fnz wrote:

Just wondering... were you viewing the game on a high-definition display?

The big tvs at the launch werent HD if I remember correctly some of them looked ****e....

Only the small pods were afaik.....

I thought Arveene and his mate were great last night...

Then again im into "****e rave music"

Was McGyver supposed to be there? Somebody said he was in Dublin the night before doing some sightseeing and drinking. Bad form if he was supposed to make an appearance.

Riesen_Meal

baz8080 wrote:

Was McGyver supposed to be there? Somebody said he was in Dublin the night before doing some sightseeing and drinking. Bad form if he was supposed to make an appearance.

Ah who cares, he's an American in Ireland, let him get locked all he wants!

Dont think he was supposed to be at the party anyway.....

(prob was, I couldnt see straight after a while!)

Fnz

Fieldog wrote:

I thought Arveene and his mate were great last night...

Then again im into "****e rave music"

I was wondering whether the poster likes rave music of any kind or was just disappointed that they weren't playing Rn'B (or "pop" as it should be known).