there's a Devastation movie on Worthplaying, but this was released over the summer

you mean they didn't announce it as an exclusive??!!

*clutches heart in mock astonishment*

hahahahaha

gamespot is dead.

PAY FOR THE QTs or MPGs?

I'll never go to that site again.

realmedia or windows media?!B"J#KJ!"H#H!"#H¤#Q

Halo, Bungie, and MS have pissed me off to the Nth degree..

So first the buy out Halo so we never see it on a PC (which would have allowed for better GFX, netplay, etc..)

Then they tell us they are going to release Halo on PC, but only when the game is no longer popular, completely outdated and nobody has heard of it.

Then they delay Halo for PC cuz they want Halo 2 3 and 7 to come out on XBOX before the original Halo comes out on PC so they can at least make a bIT more money on a crappy gaming console.

Of course Halo2 will see no graphics or engine improvements because it still has to run on the same crappy ass 1999 hardware (ok 2000).

So finally I breakdown and decide I'm going to watch the Halo2 trailer anyways, only to find out I need to download Media player 9 (a buggy peice of shit) in order to watch the trailer!!

If only I could piss as far as Redmond.

Eat my shit Bill.

--Zaq


--UPDATE: So I downloaded the media player and I still can't find where to download the halo 2 trailer... figures

This comment was edited on Jan 28, 12:36.

lmao... Halo for PC is called Unreal2!!

I hope Sony puts the mfing smack down on Microloft and it's shitty console.

<homer>mmmmm....soooooul calibur</homer>

This comment was edited on Jan 28, 13:16.

Pay for GSpot just to watch a game movie? Uhh, good luck with that...

Yeah, I don't see how they can charge for that. I know they have a lot of other stuff on there as well, but I'd rather wait and get the video somewhere else.

Nevermind....

I still think Halo is gonna be hella fun on the pc.


This comment was edited on Jan 28, 14:15.

Game movies are proof that the games industry is out of touch with their market. There was a time that the PC game industry used free demos for product samples.

The Shareware model was an heirloom passed down to a careless industry playing to a clueless audience. As dollars continue to reward tireless greed and bad management, the industry will consume its own goodwill, leaving nothing behind but failed companies, disowned software and landfills of disposable hardware.

Until games are sufficiently diverse enough to appeal to a wide range of consumers as, say, movies are, they will not be able to get by on disingenuous marketing techniques (like game movies). In the near-vertical market of the boy-gamer, pay-to-preview will never work.

In this long adolescence of video gaming, free demos, developer tools and community involvement is core to building solid ground for an increasingly uncertain future.

Where else can we download it for proper free (without having to register)?

Here here, Phayyde. Well said.

I hope Sony puts the mfing smack down on Microloft and it's shitty console.

PS2: 50 million worldwide
GC: 10 million worldwide
Xbox: 8 million worldwide

I'd say they already have.

Schnapple

http://members.tripod.com/schnapple99/

Anyone unwilling to watch the Halo Trailer on MS-Media player, don't fret. You aren't missing anything new. It's a slideshow of screenshots from the earlier Halo 2 trailer. played to the same music. Waste of time and not even worthy of a mention on x-box.com

Unreal II, no demo, pay to see video footage, Hahaha. I'm warezing this one just out of spite.

I never thought I'd use this word to describe something, but the voice acting in Unreal II is so...GAY! And I mean flaming gay, not manly gay.

The twerp who keeps interrupting your game not only gives you utterly useless and boneheadedly wrong information (twice he says, "The coast is clear!" and of course, its not) but he sounds like a complete IDIOT! He sounds like a little fresh faced, 22-year-old, cornflower-blue-tie-wearing corporate worker bee or some kids show host on Nickelodeon, not a savvy military tactics specialist.


The people who do these Unreal games must be homos, because Unreal Tournament 2003 has the same problem. The annnouncer sounds like the moviefone guy -- basically an idiot. Here your "partners" sound like little gay boys.

What is up with them?
This comment was edited on Jan 28, 17:21.

Unreal II, no demo, pay to see video footage, Hahaha. I'm warezing this one just out of spite.

Not another one like you.. I heard enough like that on the topic about there being to Unreal 2 demo.

When I buy Unreal 2, I'm going to have my friend put in on the net with a nasty virus. For real, and I hope all you cheap ass thieving loosers get it! And good riddence if you do! I saw the trailer and this game looks awesome. The folks who work thier asses off to bring us this kind of entertainment deserve the pay they get. You loosers! Just wait!

-Tony!!!;)

'The twerp who keeps interrupting your game not only gives you utterly useless and boneheadedly wrong information (twice he says, "The coast is clear!" and of course, its not) but he sounds like a complete IDIOT! He sounds like a little fresh faced, 22-year-old, cornflower-blue-tie-wearing corporate worker bee or some kids show host on Nickelodeon, not a savvy military tactics specialist.'

Not a surprise, since that voice is of a guy who's most certainly _not_ a savvy military tactics specialist; he's just a colonist. As a matter of fact, a "little fresh faced"..."worker bee" is exactly what he is. He's a young kid talking to you through those cameras, who's impressed by seeing a military man with firepower (i.e. you). And one of the videos out there even shows what happens to this kid (if you feel like spoiling it for yourself).

- Chris

When I buy Unreal 2, I'm going to have my friend put in on the net with a nasty virus. For real, and I hope all you cheap ass thieving loosers get it! And good riddence if you do! I saw the trailer and this game looks awesome. The folks who work thier asses off to bring us this kind of entertainment deserve the pay they get. You loosers! Just wait!

-Tony!!!

And if the spelling doesn't convince you he's serious, surely the triple exclamation points will.

Until games are sufficiently diverse enough to appeal to a wide range of consumers as, say, movies are, they will not be able to get by on disingenuous marketing techniques (like game movies). In the near-vertical market of the boy-gamer, pay-to-preview will never work.

- The video/computer-games market already surpasses the film industry in gross sales (in the U.S. at least).

- It may irritate you (like it irritates me) that there will be only Unreal2 videos rather than a demo, but there is nothing "disingenuous" about marketing the game this way.