Hey guys, fellow community blogger Volcanon here bringing you a very special blog.
I had recently placed an order online for the Halo 3 Legendary Edition, forgetting that I already had it pre-ordered at my local Ebgames. They have both been paid for, so the smart thing to do would be to cancel one, right? Well, I'm going to take em both, because I have decided that instead of taking the money, I'm going to offer one up to you guys instead!
So how can you win my halos? Easy, a Community Blog Contest! There are 2 ways to enter:
Entry 1: Post a Comment (Worth 1 entry per day)
Simply post a comment in this blog stating that you wish to be entered in the contest. You may enter once per day until September 25, 2007. REMINDER: You can enter multiple times, up to 21 if you started from day 1. The only limit is 1 entry per day (I'm going off of the time stamp on the blogs.)
Entry 2: Trivia Contest (Worth 21 bonus entries to the person that correctly completes it first)
[UPDATE] The quiz has been solved. I am no longer accepting answers for the quiz as a means to gain bonus entries to the contest.
The person that completes my 64 question trivia quiz will get 21 bonus entries. The trivia quiz will consist of questions about games I've played over the years. Some will be easy, some (hopefully most) will be difficult. I'm hoping it's tough, but you guys are pretty smart, let's just hope it's not solved within the first 5 minutes....
So how do you submit your trivia answers to me? Simple, post a comment in this blog. You must include the correct answer to all of the questions IN ONE COMMENT. You can guess multiple times, but I just want to see all 64 questions answered correctly at once, so if you were to update (for example) question 20 with a different title, you must repost all 64 answers again. The catch is, once you post your comment, everyone else will be able to see your answers and use them for themselves. Sound like fun? Sweet!
Ok, I'm not sure if my contest needs one of these, nor am I exactly sure how to write one, but here goes...
1. A drawing will be held to determine the winner of the Grand Prize listed below. Each entrant is entitled to one entry per day (I will go off of the time stamps in the comments), plus 21 bonus entries will be awarded to the first person to answer all 64 trivia questions correctly in one comment.
2. I reserve the right to refuse the entry of anyone I please. Anyone who I believe to have cheated, or otherwise altered their entry to falsify a win in any way will be disqualified immediately. Also, only one account can be used to enter per person. If I find someone used multiple accounts to enter, all of that persons entries will be disqualified.
3. Entering/Winning this contest DOES NOT guarantee that the entrant/winner will receive the prize listed, or any prize at all. This is due to the fact that I cannot guarantee my receipt of the prize at launch.
4. Due to unforeseen circumstances, in the event that my pre-order is unable to be fulfilled on launch day, the winner of this contest must accept the possibility that delivery of the game may be delayed, or not delivered at all.
5. The Grand Prize: (1) Halo 3 Legendary Edition for the Xbox 360 (NTSC Region 1). Valued at: $129 US. The package includes: (1) Halo 3 Video Game for the Xbox 360, (1) Spartan Mjolnir Mark VI helmet case, and (2) bonus disks. Please note: the helmet cannot be worn.
6. This contest is open to anyone registered on Destrucoid.com. It is not open to anyone where a contest of this kind is prohibited. If the winning entrant resides outside of North America, then they must cover the shipping costs to have the prize delivered to them.
7. The deadline for all entries to this contest is 9/25/07. If the launch date for Halo 3 is pushed back, the end date will remain 9/25/07 and the drawing moved to the new launch date.
8. By entering this contest, you agree to the terms listed above, which can be altered at any time throughout the duration of this contest. Also, by entering this contest, you must agree that no legal action can be taken against myself in the event that the prize is not delivered or damaged, or for any other reason relating to this contest. Don't be a dick. If you do not accept all of these terms, your entry/entries will be disqualified and you will be removed from this contest.
Ok, now that that's out of the way, let's get started:
TRIVIA QUIZ!!!
Section 1: Random Trivia Questions
Answer each question listed below with the title of the correct game. (Feel free to use teh internets if you're stumped)
01. My most favorite game of all time. I wish I had my own secret room like Chris Houlihan.
02. This game somehow managed to get on Filter’s (G4) top 10 best Dreamcast games AND top 10 worst games of all time. I loved this game, and it had the best forklift simulator ever!
03. The top selling Dreamcast game of all time. (According to Wikipedia)
04. _________: Codename 47
05. Bioware and Lucasarts made this masterpiece. Obsidian did the sequel.
06. My favorite mod ever! The team that made this is now Kaos studios (formerly Trauma Studios)
07. Volition’s first Xbox 360 title.
08. My favorite RTS (Note: I don’t play RTS’s). It’s the second in a series of PC games that also happens to include the most successful MMO ever.
09. This Raven developed sequel featured the GHOUL 2.0 engine. I played the game just to cut people.
10. Don’t enter the Konami code in this 1991 SNES shooter, or you’ll go boom. Two words: Vic Viper.
11. Best Multiplayer game of it’s time (according to me and probably millions of others), and one of the few licensed games that was actually good. It was released on the N64 in 1997.
12. This sequel lets you unzip your fly and pee on people. The movie is due out this year, we have Uwe Boll to thank for that…
13. Who needs Tony Hawk when you can be Buzz Lightyear instead? This cross-platform title was released in 2003.
14. 20 million copies sold made this launch title the best seller for the SNES. (According to Wikipedia)
15. Play as Vahn, Adrianna, or Kromlech in this awesome game. (Awesome, according to me.)
Section 2: Screenshots
Name the title of each game correctly based on its corresponding screenshot listed below.
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Section 3: Video Game Music
Name the title of each game correctly based on its corresponding audio excerpt listed below.
I am thinking about putting up a contest to win a copy of Halo 3. I've got the rules pretty much figured out, I just wanted to make sure that something like this is cool and allowed in the Community Blogs. Anyway, as long as the axe doesn't come down on me, I will post it (hopefully) later tonight.
Check back for an update with the official time, there's a trivia quiz involved :)
<UPDATE>
Ok, I'm going to try to have it up by 8:00pm PST tonight. I will update this blog if the time changes.
Oh, and it's for the Halo 3 Legendary Edition btw...
So I was browsing the community blogs earlier last night, and Origin448's blog gave me a great idea: Destructoid Mugen!
What better way to honor our beloved Destructoid Editors than to put them in a fighting game and have them fight to the death?
Unfortunately, I don't know how to create my own Mugen characters/arenas/move sets/etc., but I figure someone in the community would know how. So I come to you now, on my hands and knees begging, make this Mugen, it'd be so awesome!
So what do you guys think? What moves should the editors have at their disposal? What special attacks/combo moves would be best suited for each of them? Let the brainstorming begin!
Actsofgord.com has been around for a while now, but if you have yet to read through the site, I urge you to go there now. It's one of the funniest sites I've been to, and will keep you entertained for hours.
Gord was the shopkeeper of a Video Game store in Canada called "Gamer's Edge". Through this site he chronicles all of the dumbasses and dipshits that he was forced to endure during his time working retail. His stories are collected and organized into books on the site, each containing chapter after chapter of various encounters with the intellectually inept.
Here a few random excerpts from the site:
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Mod Chips
"Do you sell mod chips for the PlayStation?"
"The door is to your left. Try not to let it hit you on the way out."
"What?"
"I'm politely saying get the hell out."
"All I'm asking for is a mod chip."
"All you're asking for is to steal games, and you're in a game store. Your mother must be so proud."
"You're an asshole."
"You're a wannabe thief."
"You better watch what you say! Things might happen to you!"
"Why? You have a friend who protects you and makes people be friendly to you?"
"I'm never coming back!"
"If I sold you a mod chip, you would never come back anyway. You won't be missed."
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Fear the Gord!
Guy walks in who is about 19.
"Do you give cash for PlayStation games?"
"Yes, but we give less for cash than credit."
"Ok. Well I've got nearly 50 of them" and he sets his sports bag on the counter and opens it. He then begins to unload the games onto the counter.
"Do you have any games that aren't copies of games?"
"You said you paid cash for games!"
"I see. So what you're saying here is you're fucking retarded?"
"How about $5 a game?"
"How about you just get the hell out and stop wasting my time?"
"You said!"
"Let's see… so you expect me to pay more for copied games than what it cost you to make them?"
"It's how I make money."
"Fine… fine. "
<Gord grabs CD's and starts to snap them>
"What are you doing?!??"
"Isn't it obvious?"
Guy starts tossing what games he can back into his bag to save that he can.
"I'm never coming back!"
"Don't forget to tell your mom about me!"
And he left, never to return.
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Damn You and Your Proof!
"What's this about your collection company saying I never returned Resident Evil 2!"
Well, you didn't return Resident Evil 2. Too complicated a concept?
"We returned it the day after we got it right though the return slot on the door!"
Really?
"Yes!"
Who did exactly?
"He did!" (point to friend).
You did?
"Yes."
Care to explain how you did that 2 months ago when that drop slot was only put in on Thursday? Here's the invoice I got a few minutes ago for it. See the date?
<dramatic pause>
"FUCK YOU!" and they storm out.
Note: The reason why they were in was because buddy wasn't able to get a car loan because this appeared on his credit file… And the Gord was satisfied.
Anyways, posting these articles has caused me to want to re-read the whole site again. If you have the time, I highly recommend visiting actsofgord.com. I promise you will not be disappointed.
After browsing the internet for some old school Video Game accessories like the Sega Activator and the Superscope, I came across this beauty:
In order to write this article, I decided to post my conflicting views on this. I of course think its incredibly stupid, but why not give it a chance for arguments sake?
I thought to myself, "What the hell is that black thing eating that ladies head, and where can I get one?" It turns out that Toshiba is experimenting with a new kind of helmet that allows you to see TV and Video Games projected onto a dome in front of your face and when you tilt your head, the picture moves. Sooooo awesome.
Besides looking extremely cool (it looks like it was designed by Big Daddy from Bioshock), it seems to be practical as well. Just imagine, sitting down on your couch watching a movie on it, when all of a sudden a bunch of people come over. Now normally, it would get too loud in your house to hear anything and too many people would be in front of the TV to let you see anything, but with this you can remain sitting there completely secluded from the party and enjoy Total Recall in peace.
But the awesomeness doesn't stop there. Imagine running around your house in it while playing Halo. You'd be banging on the walls and tripping over chairs. The round would end and you'd have a bunch of forks sticking out of your chest. So Awesome!
I don't know the price of this beast, but I'd gladly pay $5000 for it. If it's anywhere near as cool as I've built it up in my head, then I'm sold.
I cannot think of a better time to use this acronym than right now...WTF?
In a time when Toshiba is desperately trying to defeat Sony in the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray war, they are throwing money at this garbage? Who the hell would ever purchase this? I wouldn't take it if it was free. Seriously, I cannot imagine anyone ever using this in their living room.
Besides the obvious neck problems that this thing would cause, who would want to wear a giant 6.5 pound monitor on their head. You would have to be a very lonely person with absolutely no friends to even consider using this.
So picture this, there you are sitting on your couch with this giant thing on your head. You've got a power cable and some video cable coming out the back and you are sitting there, turning your head around to see whatever it is your watching. After about 5 minutes of this, I guarantee your neck will feel like is going to snap and you'd proabably short circuit the thing from sweating.
We make TV's in a rectangle for a reason. Have you ever been late to a movie and were forced to sit in the front row directly under the screen? Yeah, nobody sits there unless forced too because it sucks major ass to have to move your head to watch all the action on the screen. With this thing, you get to experience that pain with everything you watch....screw that.
I really hope this is a joke because that helmet is a horrible abomination.
Hi all, my name is Charlie! Welcome to my little slice of Destructoid.com. I am a lover of video games, and all things video game related.
Fun Fact: I am one of the lucky few who managed to play violent video games as a kid and not grow up to be a serial killer. That achievement netted me 50GP.
I am a proud owner of all 3 "next generation" consoles, my favorite being the Xbox 360.
I have been playing games since I was very young, my first system being a Colecovision. I can vaguely remember when we got the NES, I believe I soiled myself. I just can't imagine a Christmas passing without playing Ikari Warriors until 3am. I still haven't beaten Area 2...maybe next Christmas.
In addition to gaming, I listen to music and watch movies/TV. My favorite type of music being indie, and thank God for HBO (best shows ever!)
You can also visit me on myspace at: www.myspace.com/cchiappetta
...or look me up on Stickam: Volcanon
Also, I had a contest. It's over now. Congrats FallenLord! Click here to see it.
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