Join our live stream as we count down the final hours of original Xbox Live with Halo 2 and more!
GAAAAAAAAAMES! With its seven-and-a-half year legacy soon coming to a close, tonight marks a certain end for Microsoft's online console service. After this, the original Xbox Live servers are going down--for good. No more Halo 2, no more... well, that's pretty much the big one. You get the idea. It's been a strong run for what has arguably been, for better or for worse, one of the most significant developments in the history of online gaming. But with the Xbox 360 so thoroughly replacing its predecessor, it has run its course, and now it's time to say goodbye.
Join us, then, as we celebrate the memory of Xbox Live with our two-hour live stream extravaganza tonight from 10PM to Midnight PDT! We'll be playing loads of Halo 2 and other Xbox classics while taking your questions in the USTREAM chat below. And so, without further ado, LET THE XBOXALYPSE BEGIN!!!
UPDATE: Now that our unintentional Xbox marathon has concluded, we've replaced the live stream here with an archived version of the first four-and-a-half hours of the show. Thanks to everyone who joined us, most likely to the detriment of their health and sanity!
You guys don't really should not care about the last two hours.
At that point, they had all been up waaaaay too long, and just played their games with less and less enthusasim, clearly strugleing to stay awake at all.
I mean, it might be entertaining in a Sadistic way, but trust me, all the best stuff is in this one.
i never played on original xbox live much, but im sad to see it go, farewell original xbl! you will be missed, its stupid how microsoft is taking it down in the first place, oh well, at least we have 360's live which is a lot better. still wish i would have played on original live more though...
Man it's a shame we didn't get to see the killscreen live, but still it was an epic experience, all the hype and excitement when they started playing to the end where they and most of us were drop dead tired hoping it would end soon.
Judging by when it went down I think Ryan did the right think by calling it off, otherwise we would have watched for like 15 hours.
" You guys don't really should not care about the last two hours. At that point, they had all been up waaaaay too long, and just played their games with less and less enthusasim, clearly strugleing to stay awake at all. I mean, it might be entertaining in a Sadistic way, but trust me, all the best stuff is in this one. "
This needs to be restated. The last few hours were just brutal and kind of boring. There were just LONG periods of silence as Ryan was playing Mech Assault 2 as everyone started dropping like flies. This has the AWESOME beginnings of the Dave and Vinny Project (future #1 band in the world), and that's all you need.
Man, i have been trying to use a url snooper to find the download link on ustream for the video and apparently ustream videos posted as of this month maybe are pretty much impossible to get. :( I dont like their flash player its pretty laggy.
At least i figured out the download link for the SF4 Evo finals :P
I'm at the part where Vinny busts out the Guitar, Dave is singing (Albeit badly, sorry dave,) about Luchadeer, (03:19:00)
I love this site, you guy's are awesome, It's sad that it is 2:58AM on sat morning and I am watching this great send off that I couldn't because I was at work, but I just gotta say this, I don't regret it at all,
@RhombusOfTerror: Since this stream only goes up to 4 hours, what happened in the last 2 hours? did it just continue like what it is now? now being Vinny being legend and playing guitar, (You say goodbye, I say Halo) (3:55) Drew is getting angry, (He's blue, he is your enemy, I KNOW!)
Every endgame these guy's do Vinny needs that guitar, it makes it so brilliant.
@Bionicicide: Not to burst your bubble, and I may be wrong about this, but I don't think that was the end of Live. I think that was just EA shutting down their support. I say this because, Ryan tried going back and playing Burnout 3 during the live stream, and he couldn't play online. They then returned to playing Microsoft games for another couple hours before giving up. I still don't know when Live actually shut down.
So what happened when the servers went down? I watched like 5 hours of the cast until I got tired and the quality looked bad, so now im wondering what happened when the halo 2 servers went down? can someone tell me were those tips all that bungie did? please someone reply.
" So what happened when the servers went down? I watched like 5 hours of the cast until I got tired and the quality looked bad, so now im wondering what happened when the halo 2 servers went down? can someone tell me were those tips all that bungie did? please someone reply. "
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