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Academy Awards Of Halo Videos
An anonymous reader writes "With the ever-increasing popularity of Halo videogame fan-videos and machinima, Cobaltnova.com has launched the first ever Rockets on Prisoner awards: 'Cobaltnova is proud to present the first annual Rockets on Prisoner awards that recognize outstanding achievement for Halo related movies. And you get to pick the winners!'. With the nomination process already complete, the online voting will continue until midnight (PST) on August 9th, before a certified public accountant will announce the winners. Those expected to do well include Randy Glass, maker of the famous Warthog Jump, the increasingly popular FTC collective, who have 6 incredibly funny and fresh videos, and, of course, the well known fan favorites Red vs Blue. Most of the videos can be found for judging by flipping through the six nomination categories, or numerous mirror sites."
Please stop using that name.
It seriously does not sound good.
If someone used it in real life, wouldn't you have that urge to punch them? =/
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Funny as in XBOX owners laughing at all the PC gamers? The ones who dont get Halo?
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The main page at least. Thees is BOOLSHIT!
A story about Halo fan videos and we got by without getting Slashdotted!
Bungie.org: 1
Slashdot: . . . Well, more than 1.
Fine, Slashdot. You still win, but we're gonna get you one day! HahahHAHAHAhaHAhAhaha! Ha.
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Karma: +Eleventy billion (mostly affected by watching Celebrity Jeopardy)
Well... we all knew that it would happen, halo is becomeing the next fourm for the acadamy awards...
"And now to present the award for best Halo performance is Keanue Reaves."
"Thank you, here are the nomonies..."
10 bucks says that there will be a national tv show of video game awards. Just wait!
Without meaning to sound like a troll, I don't know what all the fuss is about Halo.
;)
Sure, it has some great set-pieces, and the atmosphere is fantastic in places, but it's just too damn samey and repetitive.
Didn't Budgie present MS with a wonderful 6 hour game, and get a mandate from MS to extend it in a tiny amount of time, so they cut and pasted loads of rooms together to turn it into a 20 hour game? Sure looks like it.
Very much looking forward to Halo2 though
And for those of us who actually have had sex with a breathing, living *biped* (of the OPPOSITE sex), please tell us what is "machinima"?
Thanks.
is that like reformatting?
I love the name of the "Certified Public Accountant" who will judge the entried: Smakmyass
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People should have to dig for these easter eggs in the article instead of having them pointed out in the
Why do I h8 apple?
Dammit. I knew I should've grabbed the latest RvB eps on Monday. Now their server will be toast, and I'll probably never get them. :(
With the nomination process already complete...
One thing you should know: The nominees all came out hot. And covered in black stuff.
No matter who wins, remember, you are ALL losers.
Lat I checked, the RvB guys had the foresight to distribute Bittorrent files, in which case you're fine.
anybody actually download these? If so..care to put up a torrent?
I actually went a few months with my new Xbox avoiding Halo because it seemed overhyped. I am extremely critical of games and very few earn my own personal hall of fame awards, but from the moment I put Halo in my Xbox I've been trying to figure out why it has such a massive appeal to me. I think either Bungie signed a deal with the devil, or all the planets aligned to coincide with it's release.
I know that I'll be playing Halo for many more years (well MP that is) and I can only say that for a small handful of games.
I think when it comes down to it, Halo's biggest success is the Warthog's physics. I'd hate to imagine Halo without it's #1 star (yes Master Chief you come second to a vehicle)
As far as the Machinima goes, RvB is awesome for Halo freaks like myself as well as my non-Halo friends - amateur yes but still loaded with charm.
Wow, I really was expecting this award, I mean, thank you so much!
I'd like to thank my parents, for letting me live in their basement, jobless, for the last 4 years. Sure sometimes they got on my case, but all my hardwork and dedication has paid off. I'm sure the sight of my award bring tears to their eyes, just as it does to me.
It's a good thing fun doesn't have an age limit and is not related to bleeding edge technical prowess.
ROFL!
Your Dead Platform Only Has One Game.
Retards.
all of these mirror's are already hosed... if they would just use bittorrent on all those servers insteads of ftp/http we'd all be watching cool vids by now.
tasty electronic music vittles
More Slashdotters are probably more interested in modding the Xbox to run Linux than in playing Halo.
...instead of like crap because they wasted their money on a system with one medicore game.
*notices ad for XBOX games*<BR>YOU'RE FUCKING RIGHT!
.. the subtle RvB comments ;)
Someone found a use for Halo? ohh wait, laughing at it was allready on the list of things to do with it In other news my xbox with halo (only the multi-player to save space) still only gets used for the ocasional threat of being thrown at someone. come on people, i hate to start a flame war, but anyone with a decent vid card and some real FPS, like bf1942, will tell you Halo was overhyped. (that and the fanboys aren't very good at any other games)
come comment on the madness at http://slashdot.org/~phreak03/journal/
I just recently told my girlfriend about it (after reading on /.) and she just blinked twice and changed the subject. Machini-amama-wha?
Why is it these awful proprietary formats are used so often?
"I'd like to thank eGod for making this all possible..."
Q. (sorry - no sense today).
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Or maybe you just get your ass handed to you on XBC and thus have become a bitter individual? I personally think BF1942 is overhyped to the extreme and find the free RTCW:ET much more enlightening.
or, maybe he's waiting for the PC "port" of Halo. and waiting..
"Logjammin" starring SCO's CEO Daryl McBride as the receiver and Microsoft employee Martin Taylor as the giver.
Red vs Blue (DiVX) Red vs Blue (Quicktime)
I'm downloading the Warthog jump right now (ETA 25 mins,) so I'll make that torrent when I get it.
It all goes downhill from first post
Is it possible that we just slashdoted an entire catagory of websites? I can't get anything that is remotely related to Halo movies...
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Some of these are entertaining, but nothing compared to the laughs you'll get from the good old days of quake movies.
Check out the: History of Quake movies
Then procede to download and be amused by:
The original and the best: Operation Bayshield!
And another hugely entertaining classic: Blahbalicious
Isn't helno xbox online snotware?
I dunno, Halo was OK (strictly OK -- to each his own though, rigth?).
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Maybe for people who've never played CS online Halo was something kewl -- but I found it lacking (I'll admit it, maybe it's my lack of hand-eye coordination, but I don't know how a joystick could compete with a mouse and keyboard for at 1st person shooter, for starters). Otherwise the game wasn't really anything new
It's just hard for me to imagine that anyone's salivating for a PC version of Halo when there's already better made 1st persone shooters that have been available for a while
I mean, Halo in the console world, is probably still unique (they brought a Half-life -- and are still lacking CS IMHO -- to the console. Is that why people are excited about Halo?).
Really curious BTW
and... coincidentally, its the only episode i've been able to download :)
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I mean, look at all those hits I got. I almost had a heart attack not to mention my webserver, which is on a residential DSL line, getting hammered.
Oh wait, I'm not complaining. I got /.ed. This is the happiest moment in my life. Yeah, sad... ain't it?
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I think this should do it: Halo Jump (High Res) Torrent
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Rockets on Prisoner awards.... they've got to be kidding. I'm laughing even thinking about it.
A good timewaster
Boy, you sure get modded down a lot.
You know what's funny is that, if they released the winning video in theaters (all 5 minutes of it or whatever), it'd make more money than that J-Lo movie that just came out. Hell, maybe they should splice in Halo movies into future films, just to spice things up. "Oh, Ben, you're such hot foxy dude, no matter how bad you act!" "And you, J-Lo, are as - oh, jesus, where the fuck did that warthog come from?!?!"
It looks like "Service Unavailable" won first place! It says so right there, smack in the middle of the front page! I can't wait until I can download it an watch it.
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Well, that didn't do it. I didn't realize there was a ton of shit to go through to be a tracker. Here's a public one: Here Nice guy there, by the way.
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... at a conference full of transvestites. It was good for the five minutes of entertainment it provided me and my three brave Tech Crew companions faced with hosting a party for drag queens in scary outfits.
/. it :)
And after that, I went and played a REAL game! Yeah! Natural-Selection. Just promise me you want
Well I for one love PC gaming as well as my Xbox so I'm biased towards both equally, and yes there are some awesome FPS on the PC (can't get enough of ET) but Halo has a perfect balance and blends all the best elements and level designs to create a wicked mulitplayer game. It's not the best FPS to ever come out and quite frankly I get sick about hearing about it SO damn much, but it does deserve that recognition because it's a testament of excellence in game design.
I'm the anonymous coward you replied to --
thanks for some insight, so it's good execution (and that's damn fine by me, btw -- not every game has to be "groundbreaking" to be worthwhile).
I've played Halo in a multiplayer Lan party (well, a couple of use nerds after work in a conference room). It was fun, but I didn't understand the hoopla -- until it occurred to me that there don't seem to be too many 1st persone shooters for the console (and maybe not all consoles have the CPU power to crunch through a 1st person shooter, though if they can make Vice City run ok on a PS2, then why not a 1st person? Maybe I'm just ignorant of whatever isn't on a top 10 list of games this year).
I haven't tried it out by myself in "story" mode (or whatever it's called), so in all fairness maybe I should.
I just thought that the XBox would need a Vice City like game (not in aspects of the game type per se, but in terms of kick-ass-ness, for me at least, in order to sell more).
Anyways, thanks for replying to this coward.
anonymous.
Please explain to me why this console is dead. Please. I would love
That bash may have been seen as valid at launch. Maybe. Considering the other launch or near-launch titles that didn't get nearly as much attention, such as Project Gotham Racing and DOA, anyone who did their homework and actually tried something other than Halo would have been able to tell you different.
But it's too late for that. Now there is Mechassault, Midtown Madness 3, Morrowind (I'm not buying a new laptop to play this game on PC, I'm a poor college student.), RalliSport Challenge, Jet Set Radio Future, Panzer Dragoon Orta, the list just goes on and on.
Right now, it's proving that a Star Wars game does not have to suck these days. And the future is looking mighty bright, as I am looking forward to the Xbox Counter-Strike (Easily usable and accessable voice communication as a standard as opposed to an exception DOES make a difference), the Morrowind expansion port, the next Project Gotham Racing (which will be on Live) and ultimately Halo 2.
And before you get your panties in a wad and start crying FANBOY, I'm a card carrying Gamecube and PS2 owner as well.
I'm the guy with the unpopular opinion
...to watch movies on their Xbox. Acting out the plot to the Matrix in Halo? OMG, get these people modchips and Xbox Media Player QUICK!
or at the very least give them the DVD dongle...
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Look... apparently just mentioning Halo brings out the trolls, this is about people making funny/cool/artistic games with 3D engines (it doesn't matter if it is Halo or not). So stop hammering on the game and look at this post the way it is meant to be. A lot of non-computer people are doing really great stuff with tools that are available now (not 10 years ago). There is a whole new form of expression waiting on the net. Some /. people need to look past their nose.
A mention of "Halo" on this site is like Pandora's Box or something. It brings out the fanboy in everyone and causes everyone to become a flamer retard. You guys need a friggin attitude adjustment, ok? Seriously, there's so much more to worry about in the world than whether Halo is better or worse than PC FPS's. And I say this as someone who owns PS2, XBox and PC.
The XBox's LAN features are a step in the right direction, but when can we expect some real controller hardware? I'm tired of buying videocards every month and dual-booting to Windows when I want to play (I can't beat Linux's final boss: Wine). I want a console that offers more than Playskool-level video games.
If only there weren't so many chumps buying the current shit on the market, maybe somebody'd listen to me.
Did they render that stuff on a freaking Xbox?
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