Midnight Launches

[Vegan Shinigami]

How many of you guys are into midnight launch parties for big titles? Would you attend if it meant you could have your copy at midnight?

I love them, but haven't been to one since I bought my Xbox 360 console at launch from Gameplanet

[FaceAche]

Nah, far too old for that shit these days. I'll just have a great nights sleep, and collect my game at 9am the following morning, thanks

[accidental]

Never been to one. I'm scared of other nerds. :P

[FaceAche]

Originally Posted by accidental

Never been to one. I'm scared of other nerds. :P

I recall some tosswad wearing his Xbox Live Mic to the Halo 2 launch - that's the last one i went to.

[Newsboy]

Last midnight launch I went to was for GTAIV. Was awesome getting home a little after midnight, playing it for a couple of hours and then feeling shit the next day for work.

I'm with Faceache; too old for it now.

[Ryzza]

Originally Posted by Newsboy

Last midnight launch I went to was for GTAIV. Was awesome getting home a little after midnight, playing it for a couple of hours and then feeling shit the next day for work.

I'm with Faceache; too old for it now.

I remember Midnight launch for GTAIV man it was along que. I hope JB do a Gears midnight launch but i won't be holding my breath. Has JB ever done a midnight launch anyone know?

[emetic]

Lols tosswad. I think they're cool (in a geeky way) but the people who go to them are all too geeky for me. I went to one once... because guitar hero world tour just happened to be released on the same day as a world of warcraft thing. It was pretty WoWy in there.

But yeah nah... I'd rather buy the game from the cheapest place the next day. I'm generally not even a "day one" kind of guy anyway; I wait for a price drop if I buy a game at all.

[Leggetron]

The last couple of games I've pre-ordered that have had midnight launches, I've told myself that I wouldn't bother. But then it gets close to midnight, I'm still awake and the store's not far away, so I cave

It's not the end of the world for me if I miss a midnight launch, but I'm definitely a day-one gamer. Hate the feeling that I'm missing out/trailing behind others

[Gazza420]

Originally Posted by Leggetron

... I've told myself that I wouldn't bother. But then it gets close to midnight, I'm still awake and the store's not far away, so I cave

^This is what happened to me for GTA:IV and Halo3...

MW2 was a case of "have to play" and I travelled 70-odd Km to get it even though I had a MW2 console coming the next day

Was totally worth it just to meet Maucrephy and Sparky irl... so sexy!

[captn falcon]

i remember co-oping with ryzza in perfect dark zero at 12:30am on the x360 launch night

yeah it wasnt long till we had switched to graw

went to bed about 6am (had annual leave) ... woke up at 10am and got back into graw again

the actual midnight release "party" was a get out of there as quick as i could thing

good times

[Ryzza]

Originally Posted by captn falcon

i remember co-oping with ryzza in perfect dark zero at 12:30am on the x360 launch night

yeah it wasnt long till we had switched to graw

went to bed about 6am (had annual leave) ... woke up at 10am and got back into graw again

the actual midnight release "party" was a get out of there as quick as i could thing

good times

Good times captain. I remember a few people had problems joining games later it was discovered their NAT settings needed opening

[captn falcon]

Originally Posted by Ryzza

Good times captain. I remember a few people had problems joining games later it was discovered their NAT settings needed opening

i remember hearing someone already had the red rings of death by early morning ... think it was phats?

[RadishNation]

I have never bothered pre-ordering games, but I have pre-order Halo CE Anniversary and if there is a midnight launch I might go (and take my oldest son with me).

[esoj]

I rocked up at the wii midnight launch with no pre-order with my older brother. We were going to just see what the wii was like in the flesh since everyone was saying it was sold out everywhere in nz. We got a huge shock when we got to the store and could actually buy one and even got offered to buy a 2nd one as well.

I've never really lived close enough to a store to be bothered to go to midnight launches (made one exception for wii launch) but now I do so if there is one for bf3 I will probably go to the midnight launch of that

[CT101st]

Ill go to Gears 3 launch if they have one, im a nightowl most nights, so will be jamming some horde mode early hours on release, can't wait.