Anyone lame enough to be out at midnight?Follow

I just can't justify it, probably pick mine up tomorrow after work.

I can't justify an Xbox360 let alone waiting for an FPS like shortbus kids in line at the merry-go-round.





Edited, Sep 24th 2007 12:13pm by Elderon

Hubby only does the midnight releases for consoles and FFXI expansions.

Won't be getting Halo 3 just yet. Haven't said farewell to Halo 2 enough yet.

I won't be getting it. My brother is begging me to so I can play with him, but I picked up skate the other day, and am still having too much fun busting sh;t I could never dream about in real life.

I have an ingenious solution for that little problem. I bought both.

Good friend of mine has it pre-ordered, and he's picking it up tomorrow. Unfortunately, I'm just starting the first round of midterms and papers, so I probably won't get to see it for another 2 weeks.

I almost gave in and got a 360 today because the Crysis demo was delayed but a friend of a friend of mines 360 RRoDed today and reality set back in..

One of my friends works at Gamestop and I called him to see how the set up for the store was for the release. All he said was ********** you, Christine" and promptly hung up. Sheesh.

Two of my old room-mates were managers of game stores back in the day. They both had to set up various release parties. I remember them ******** endlessly about it, and what a pain in the **** all the customers were leading up to the release of a big game or new console. Needless to say, neither of them miss that job anymore.

I bought the Legendary Edition and I know the store very well so I walked in at midnight and grabbed mine and walked out took me maybe the most 45 seconds.

Oh yeah, ended up waiting in line at midnight.
It was the greatest boost to my ego ever.

There were 3 enormous people in front of me, all 35+ who clearly consumed 1000+ calories worth of ice cream and cookies and chatted about old school games. The guy was wearing a sweater vest. Yes, a sweater vest.

I stood infront of Cheech, Chong, and Doofus, who for a good 45 mintues made such comments as:
"Dude, they should definitely make like Master Chief Bong Hits"
"Ha! I bet you could turn the helmet into a sweet *** bong"
"You should take a **** and let it run down the window of this store" (A true quote)
"<farting noises>"
"My old lady's kids are cool, I let them call me Chris or stepdad if they want".

Three people behind them were a 10yr old kid and his parents. I was kinda disappointed that the 3 retards kept cussing, but then I realized that this game was clearly marked M and yet his parents were buying it for him. It was only more hilarious as the father kept pointing out different welds on the side of the building and pointing how how they should have done it to be in code.

This was followed by every teenager peeling out of the parking lot in their 97 Nissan Sentra and the crowd simultaneously yelling "Ur gay" "****!". They seemed to be quite satisfied with their originality.


I'd say I was lame, but I was like a God among mortals.

The reason is because retail is extremely competitive and all the pressure they are feeling is not from the customers, but from their district leaders calling them every 15 minutes to find out if they are prepared or not.

The GameStop near me had 600 people in line. Even the local news came out to promote it as well. They even played the old Halo game soundtrack music over a sound system. Twas' cool.