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3rd Season of Red vs. Blue Concludes

Posted by Zonk on from the what's-a-puma? dept.

n0ethics writes "The well-known Machinima Series Red vs. Blue is reaching the end of its 3rd season of production. The 57th and last episode of the season is being released this Friday for sponsors of the series, and Sunday for non-sponsors. A DVD containing the 3rd season is currently in the works, and is planned for a release sometime in the summer months."

25 comments

  1. News? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait


    How is this even remotely 'news'???

    1. Re:News? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well for me, I used to follow and watch the series. But now I have been busy and have not been as much as i would like.

      Having both the first two seasons on dvd, this is "NEWS" for me, learning that soon they will have the third season ready.

    2. Re:News? by mbrewthx · · Score: 1

      You must be new.

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    3. Re:News? by Short+Circuit · · Score: 1

      RvB is a hilarious videocomic.

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    4. Re:News? by Kazzahdrane · · Score: 2

      Red Vs. Blue has a huge fanbase, due to it being usually very funny and because it's made using Halo it appeals to gamers. Lots of gamers are nerds. News for Nerds, y'know.

    5. Re:News? by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 1
      Meh, I gave up on it towards the end of Season 1. Too damn talky and slow. Considering the vehicles and weapons at their disposal, this could have been a lot more fun. Not to mention that apart from the character of Sarge, there wasn't a whole lot of differentiation betwen the other characters aside from their armor colours.

      Then again, I find Strongbad pretty boring too, so maybe there's something wrong with me.

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    6. Re:News? by Kazzahdrane · · Score: 1

      Some of best bits from Season 1 were the extra videos on the DVD. I think they were on the website too, though I may be wrong.

    7. Re:News? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Or how is it well-known? I guess well-known amongst gamers on Slashdot...

    8. Re:News? by wolfmanXUG · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Yeah this is not news in anyway, I even quit watching this crap before the first "clip" was even finished.

    9. Re:News? by wernercd · · Score: 1

      Your the one missing out. Watch the DVD version of Season one, which is basically a movie. Makes it go a WHOLE lot smoother than it would have gone otherwise.

    10. Re:News? by NicKakaWoodstocK · · Score: 1

      Gidday Does anybody know if seasons 1 & 2 are available on DVD in Australia, I haven't seem them anywhere, but would be interested in getting them. (Note: Australia is DVD region 4).

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    11. Re:News? by skyman8081 · · Score: 1

      The RvB disc's are Region 0(any reigon) NTSC DVD's

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  2. whoever posted this story by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is a cockbite. :-)
    (not flamebait if you are a true RvB fan.)

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    1. Re:whoever posted this story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Take that off, because, that is... number one, that's offensive, and secondly... I am not a cockbite.

  3. Meh... by Krater76 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I was a big fan for a while. Season 1 was great, season 2 was pretty bad, definitely not good, and season 3 is only slightly better than 2. I haven't downloaded an episode for months.

    I think it went downhill when they started giving donut or caboose (i get those two mixed up) more lines. The 'series' defnitely jumped the shark after season 1.

    Just a side note, don't even bother with the Strangerhood. That 'series' is hideous and is a waste of bandwidth. I wonder what these guys are going to do once people get tired of RvB? Find real jobs I suppose. It was pretty interesting how much that website cleared out when WoW went online; it seemed like everyone was waiting for something else to waste their internet time on. I know I was.

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    1. Re:Meh... by brkello · · Score: 1

      Well, just so people don't go in to this with that attitude...I totally don't agree. I find it has been consistantly funnier than almost everything on TV throughout its 3 seasons.

      The Strangerhood on the other hand started out really bad and has only gotten a smidge better. There is potential I suppose, but compared to red vs blue it is pretty horrible.

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  4. Kinda sad... by faloi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I got hooked on it when they did some material for Barenaked Ladies concert in town. I had heard of RvB, but didn't really check it out until after the concert. I don't regret my wife's love of the band anymore.

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    1. Re:Kinda sad... by Kazzahdrane · · Score: 1

      On a side note, is that because you realised how good BNL are?

    2. Re:Kinda sad... by faloi · · Score: 1

      On a side note, is that because you realised how good BNL are?

      Actually, yeah. Plus they put on a great show. It was far better than the "stand in front of a crowd and play your newest CD" that I expected. They did a great job playing to the crowd. It was a lotta fun.

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    3. Re:Kinda sad... by BollocksToThis · · Score: 1

      If my wife was into bare naked ladies, I wouldn't be looking THAT gift horse in the mouth.

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  5. That's right... by centauri · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... keep makin' jokes. That'll win the war.

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  6. Stop it Just STOP IT by popo · · Score: 3, Insightful


    RED vs BLUE was an interesting idea.

    That was then. Now, its an interesting idea which even had it been well executed (its not. check out any digital film & animation festival for boatloads of real talent) it wouldn't qualify as /. news 3 seasons out.

    I find it incredible that a sloppily executed concept with a microscopic viewership, which is only important because it represents a "workaround" and because it was executed with intellectual property belonging to Microsoft can continue to represent "news"

    Let Red Vs. Blue die. Its over. Move along.

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  7. I predict by Heywood+Jablonski · · Score: 2, Funny

    Red will win, even though blue gets the majority of the popular vote.

    1. Re:I predict by Frodo+Crockett · · Score: 1

      Still stuck in the year 2000?

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  8. Three seasons..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ...and it's still not funny.