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Red Vs. Blue - A Halo Fan Flick

Posted by simoniker on from the gnop-evolved dept.

Universal Nerd writes "Red vs. Blue are the folks with a great sense of humor who gave us the Apple Switch spoof, Mac Gamer, a while ago. They're now releasing a new movie called The Blood Gulch Chronicles, a series of episodes created using in-game footage from Halo. Well worth a look and a laugh." The fifth and latest episode came out yesterday, and this is some of the best and funniest machinima I've seen in a long time. Update: 05/05 19:43 GMT by S : Here's a BitTorrent link, thanks to Gametab.

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  1. Mirror by jaywhy · · Score: 5, Informative

    This french site has the movies mirrored.

    http://www.halo-game.com/index.php?de=0&p=downlo ad &filtre1=Video&filtre2=1

    1. Re:Mirror by MilkmanDan · · Score: 3, Funny

      Thought I would give this mirror a try. Now I don't speak french, but "Les problèmes de FTP" just doesn't sound like I will be getting the movie from here any time soon... :)

  2. Ouch. by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 5, Funny

    How much do you have to dislike someone to put a 10 meg download link in the header of a /. article?

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    1. Re:Ouch. by simoniker · · Score: 5, Informative

      We @ Slashdot Games are now trying to make sure there's a BitTorrent link available alongside any posts that will generate server-slaying bandwidth, with the help of nice people who mailed us and offered to help out. In this case, we actually mailed the guys at Gametab before the post went live to alert them ask them about putting a BitTorrent link on their site - thanks again to them. Looks like it helped a bit, at least.

  3. Re:well that server didn't last long by Illserve · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, them heap smart. I finally got through and am tearing through a file at 88 KB/sec. Looks like they've got connection caps.

  4. Some working mirrors by br0ck · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some kindly folk at Fark have provided mirrors. Scroll down for links.

  5. patience by ack154 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The only thing that takes time is apparently contacting the download server. I waited for about a full minute while it searched and searched and then the download popped up and maxed out my line...

    be patient...

    although, i'm sure it'll suck fat rock later when there are like 100 comments, that's how i judge if it was /.'ed or not... the # of comments

  6. Re:Player? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mplayer. It plays nearly everything.

  7. Funny Stuff by stoolpigeon · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't play games really. I own a console but it is a Sega Genesis. I haven't pulled it out from under the t.v. in a long time.

    All that to say I have really been enjoying this series. Thank god I got episode 5 before this got posted on /. The humor makes it fun for anybody. No need to be in on HALO or any of that.

    This is even better than the Matrix (Halo Remix).

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  8. My head is going go explode! by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    machinima good.. Microsoft bad.. slashdot links to machinima good.. slashdot say Microsoft bad.. machinima links for Halo movie good.. Halo made by bad Microsoft.. feeling war building up in head.. must.. find.. lithium..

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    1. Re:My head is going go explode! by HeywoodJablomi69 · · Score: 3, Funny

      No no no, you've got it mixed up: "It's not Halo made by bad Microsoft", it's "Halo made bad by Microsoft". Your dilemma is solved!

  9. Another Mirror by Universal+Nerd · · Score: 4, Informative

    Having a topic just for games is great, now even silly and cool stories manage to get posted, yeah! :)

    Anyway, here's my mirror...

    http://orthanc.univap.br/RedvsBlue - zip files of the AVIs - works just fine in Xine and Mplayer.

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  10. Re:Where can a brother get a Divx codec? by ack154 · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you go to divx.com and download the one the doesn't say "PRO bundle" there is no spyware. Here's a direct link - no spyware included:

    DivX 5.05

  11. Blue vs. Grey by travdaddy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Purple vs. Grey - A SlashDot Nightmare!

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    1. Re:Blue vs. Grey by ebacon · · Score: 2, Funny

      Green vs Purple: An Ivanova Nighmare!

  12. How did they do it? by hexdcml · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Aside from all the comments regarding /. effect and bandwidth, does any one know how they managed to do this? Did the guys just capture it off their TV and then added voice overs?

    It's an interesting concept, and I'm sure some bright spark can actually make a basic TV series outta say, GTA 3 and The Hitman.

    I've been following this since Episode 1, and it gets funnier with each iteration, as the series builds up - I only wish them epsiodes were longer.. :)

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    1. Re:How did they do it? by Bullseye_blam · · Score: 3, Informative

      does any one know how they managed to do this? Did the guys just capture it off their TV and then added voice overs?

      sort of, yeah. I know there are a few effects they added by using a video-editing program, which adds a nice touch. This really isn't an uncommon thing... there are certain people on the web who have a FETISH with making Halo videos (heh). These are very high quality and very entertaining, though. ;)

      Go halo.bungie.org (a Bungie fan-site) and click on the movies section to check out some of the others.

  13. Re:Frozen playback anyone? by agallagh42 · · Score: 2, Informative

    5.0.2 doesn't seem to work on these videos. Just updated to 5.0.5 and they play just fine.

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  14. Re:Hindsight by athakur999 · · Score: 2, Funny

    But when happens when the site that is serving the .torrent files gets Slashdotted?

    I propose creating a new system called "Torrent^2" that distribute the load of transferring .torrent files.

    But what about the load of transferring .torrent2 files you ask? Well, "Torrent^3" is in the works.

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  15. Re:Downloaded a few.. very cute. by corsec67 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I have personally talked to a devloper, Roger Wolfson, for Microsoft that is working on the port of Halo to the PC. He said that even though the XBox and PC are very similar, it is still a big pain, since they have convert some ASSEMBLY for the VIDEO CARD into directx stuff, and make it more generic. There is also the problem that some of the stuff the XBox does in the video card is impossible/proprietary in the current video cards for the PC.

    So, yes halo is definilty coming to PC, but it will probably take a while.

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  16. Re:Downloaded a few.. very cute. by DeltaSigma · · Score: 2

    He expected you to believe that they just lost the graphics and physics engines for MAC and PC when they bought bungie or what?

    This thing was ported to X-Box not the other way around. Remember?

  17. And I thought this was by Lawrence_Bird · · Score: 4, Funny

    a battle of the Red states vs the Blue states.. oh well have to wait 2 more years

  18. FUNNY by oaf357 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hands down, bar none, the funniest sh*t I've seen in a while.

  19. Re:Legality and Merit by SuperMacNinja · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually Bungie has invited us to join them at their E3 fanfest this year and they have asked us to make a special episode just for the fanfest. You may say it's a shame for us to capitalize on Bungie's idea, but they love it and we are in regular contact with them.