you know, we better distinguish whos going to set it up so everyone knows who to message for an invite and not left there wondering what the hell to do.
If I'm at home by 10 (hopefully I will be), I'll try to set it up and invite everyone who's listed their gamertag in here.
so my games are cancelled. i have no homework, i'll be on all night. lets make it official: 10pm central is when bbs halo begins. if you're in be on so someone can shoot an invite to you.
Sweet. I hope this brings the movie back onto the frontburner; I seriously cannot believe the idiots who shelved this project due to financial reason when its obviously a cash cow and considering said executives greenlight crap after crap that makes next to nothing every year. I wanna see Master Chief on the big screen dammit!
also, i'll add some of you guys on live here in a min EDIT: I figured out how to host, i'll host later tonight and send invites out to whoever is on at 10 central time
I don't think it was really that bad of a decision. I'm assuming that MS/Bungie would only allow this if the studios offered to do it right (IOW, put in a large budget, like say $100M+). Kind of too big of a risk to greenlight since they won't know how well the game will translate to the big screen (will all the Halo fans that only enjoy the multiplayer watch the movie?). Past games haven't really translated all that well, generally speaking. If there were no restrictions on the budget, then yeah, it would probably be easy for a studio to cash-in on the brand, and certainly an easy decision to greenlight (see something like Silent Hill for example...or worse, the Uwe Boll movies). Of course, as you said, they greenlight some pretty bad ideas ($175M for Evan Almighty?), so greenlighting Halo 3 probably wouldn't be all that bad in comparison.
In many cases in the past, people who pre-ordered the game didn't get it until days after peope who walked in and got it. World of Warcraft's Burning Crusade expansion was one example, Oblivion was another example.
Are you talking about breaking street date? That's more a luck of the draw thing, and a chance you take if some store makes a mistake and puts it out early. Other than that, I don't know if 'many cases' is really accurate. I very rarely preorder games but when I do there's not been a case where it didn't come out at street date. Sure, it happens, but a game not getting to a store because of a shipping error is going to happen whether preorders exist or not. I think it's more a convenience factor than anything else. You got to one store regularly, don't want to drive anywhere else, want to be able to go in after work and pick it up. This happens for a lot of people.
I just got the game too. But when I play multiplayer campaign on my widescreen it displays it in 4:3. Is there a way to fix it?
