Red vs. Blue Season 3 Begins

Thanks to HavokDevNull for the news that Red vs. Blue Season 3 has begun! From the site: "Episode 39 'Best Laid Plans' weighs in at 8 minutes and 45 seconds and is available in Divx, Quicktime, and WMV. You can download it from our Video Page. Thanks for being so patient waiting around for it. "

Comments

It's Hilarious

[Anonymous Coward]

Certainly worth the watch. The battle scene is the best.

Red vs. Blue is great

[Chris_Jefferson]

OK, I sound like a fanboy, but Red vs. Blue is actually quite good :)

I feel it's one of the best examples of "some people with some ideas, some time and an internet connection can make something funnier than 90% of the stuff on TV". If you haven't seen the first and second series, you really should.

This should

[Milo of Kroton]

This should how long last? Big video? Seed the torrent before site server death is someone!

bad compression ratio

[Karma Sucks]

Why do the redvsblue videos have such a bad compression ratio for such bad quality video? I mean the file size is just comparatively huge. Not to mention that the movies are framed up and down by large black strips.

I've seen recompressed DivX videos of these same movies in much smaller size elsewhere on the net.

Something I've always wondered...

[EvilCabbage]

Who owns this stuff?

I mean, these lads create this animated piece by using somebody elses protected art / characters, which (to my understanding) means they cannot ever sell this stuff in order to make a living, anyone confirm?

Don't take this as me assuming these guys are trying to make a living off it, I'm just genuinely interested in who "owns" the end product.

Re:Ob. Slashdotting comment

[lukewarmfusion]

They're more than used to this kind of traffic. Not only have they been linked from Slashdot many times in the past, but they've scaled up to handle the bandwidth as it grew. From their FAQ:

"The videos are 320x240 to save bandwidth. Our first series, Red vs Blue regularly chewed up 170 Terrabytes of downloads in a month."

For those without any reference, bandwidth can run from "unlimited" (see Serverbeach) to paying $x/GB. When you're talking 170TB/month at approx $6/GB, you're over $28,000 in that month. Of course, if you're doing that much traffic and working with a host that charges you like that you need to switch fast.

Re:Info

[Anthony Liguori]

I saw both seasons in the entirity at the Alamo Draft House. It's an interesting little story about a group of soldiers stationed out in the Halo world. It's mostly a comedy of errors staring a spanish-speaking robot, a couple ghosts, and some really stupid people. All in all it's a lot of fun :-)

The creators actually stayed for QA after each showing at the Drafthouse. Gus even gave out the shirt off his back to one of the audience members.. it was, er, strange :-)

I actually liked their whole first season,

[88NoSoup4U88]

but season 2 showed some minor episodes (imho).

Hope they can recover, and show us some kickass episodes.

For more machinima (the term used for creating movies with game engines) action, check out
www.machinima.com

RvB

[colonslashslash]

What can I say? I'm delighted, I loved season 1 and 2 of RvB, I only found out about it a couple of months back from a Halo fanboy friend, and it had me in stitches. (Particularly the aformentioned pacifist / pacifier / pedophile joke)

I showed it to some friends round my place the other night, and whilst none of them being Halo fanatics, nor particularly hardcore gamers, they appreciated the humour and we had all had a good laugh.

As mentioned in a previous post, this stuff is better than the large majority of the crap that gets pumped onto our terrestrial / cable TV's all year round, kudos to Rooster Teeth. Keep up the good work.

Does anyone know if they will be doing anything similar with Halo 2 when its released, or are they moving off the FPS scene and sticking with the planned Sims 2 sitcom?