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We're Playing Halo For 24 Hours - For The Kids! [UPDATED]

Alexis and Drew strap on their cat helmets for the good of kids everywhere.

UPDATE 2: WOOOOOOOOOO! We just raised over seventeen THOUSAND American dollars, you guys! That, combined with donations from the other members of Team Giant Bomb have totaled in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars that goes directly to charity! Truly unbelievable.

Thank you so much to everyone who tuned in, and especially to those who donated. As the staff and kids at the Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland and children's hospitals around the world now know, the Giant Bomb community is made up of some incredibly generous people. Alexis and I could not be more proud. Thank you thank you thank you!!!

UPDATE: Wow! We've already raised $1000! Since we haven't even started yet, I'm going to raise the "goal" on the Extra Life page to give us something higher to shoot for. Big thanks to everyone who has donated so far! This is awesome!

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Citizens of Earth, I have an announcement! Tomorrow, web designer extraordinaire Alexis and I (Drew) will be playing Halo for 24 hours.

Woah! Why would a person do that?

For the kids, of course! Extra Life is a charity that benefits children's hospitals. Specifically, donations made to our Extra Life page will benefit Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland. Your donation is tax-deductible and ALL PROCEEDS go to help kids!

Crazy people.
Crazy people.

That sounds great! How do I donate?

Go here! Anything you can give would be greatly appreciated!

When does the stream start?

Saturday, October 20 at 9am Pacific Time.

How do I watch it?

Go here when it starts!

What will you be playing, specifically?

Alexis and I will be playing co-op, attempting to get through the campaigns of Halo 1 & 2 on the original Xbox and Halo 3 on the Xbox 360.

What difficulty?

We want to make sure we get through all three campaigns in 24 hours, so probably not Legendary. We'll probably start on Normal, but if that's too easy we'll bump it up to Heroic.

What if you finish all the campaigns before the end of 24 hours?

Who knows? Maybe some multiplayer? Reach? We'll ask the chat!

Will the stream be archived on Giant Bomb?

Yes! Hopefully! We've never tried archiving 24 hours of video before, but we'll try.

Special guests?

Maybe!

Is this an Endurance Run?

What?

Join us tomorrow for some alien killing and planet saving, all in the name of helping kids! And don't forget to drop by the Giant Bomb Extra Life Team Page (spearheaded by our very own Matt Pascual) and check out what other GB users are streaming for their charities. They could use some help too! In the meantime, check out this rad video GB user Hamst3r made!

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Edited By porr

I've beat legendary in 15 hours with a friend. (Halo 2) I think they should go for it.

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This will be amazing.

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Glad you guys are using an original Xbox for Halo 2 - the emulation on the 360 causes some serious issues. I'll definitely be tuning in. Though as decent Halo players, you'll blow through Normal coop and even Heroic in most of the games in 6 or 7 hours each. A couple of them would definitely benefit from a Legendary bump (1 and 3, in particular).

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@porr: Yeah, you beat in 15 hours. That's the majority of the 24 hours they're doing. If they want to get through all three, they would have to do each in 8 hours.

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I will be thoroughly tuned into this.

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Edited By ALMIGHTYCHEEKS

@DeathbyYeti said:

Is this an Endurance Run?

What?

lol

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Agreed with others that if there's time ODST isn't that long & fits well enough in the Halo franchise that it should be here if time allows. Great idea & best of luck to Drew & Alexis for doing this.

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oh cool, i have nothing to do tomorrow and i havent seen the halo campaigns in years, should be fun.

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They should do a chronological playthrough. Start with Reach then play through 1, 2 and 3. ODST fits in between 2 and 3 in a weird way so it's probably best left out.

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That's bonanas Drew! I'm on board!

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OHHHH MYYYY GODDDDDD.

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There is never enough Alexis on Giant Bomb. I started watching TNT again when he was on after GB moved to CNET but now i'm bored with TNT again.

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That promo video.

Is Art.

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Lords!

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Awesome, hopefully I can find the time to watch this. If they are going for Normal then they should be able to finish ODST too and maybe Reach depending on their speed.

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I'm gonna miss this cause i'll be taking part of the marathon... hopefully on Sunday night I can watch this!

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Start on Heroic, seriously.

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Should be plentry of time to play Halo 1-3 + Reach on Heroic. Skip ODST -- too much wandering around in that quasi-open world design. If there's time at the end, pop in some halo Wars.

No competitive multiplayer, please. I've seen enough TNT's to know that it is painfully boring to watch people play multiplayer when they don't give a crap whether they win or lose. Plus, I think these type of game marathons should be about burning through linear content, rather than hopping on a merry-go-round for a specified amount of time.

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Thank you for this Drew! I love everything about it (including you).

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How much do I have to donate to play halo 3 coop with you?

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Woo!

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any chance of including a bit of ODST in there?

Is this an Endurance Run?

What?

Hahaha, good one Drew.

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Cool.

Go Team!

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This will be fun.

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Donating! I really want them to meet that goal, so much! Drew and Alexis seem like such nice guys, and i have a feeling we're going to be treated to a real stripped-back Drew after about 20hrs... and that is totally worth a donation. I want to see what happens when these guys stay up playing video games for 24hrs. The Halo part is really just an addendum!

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I don't think Dexter should be around kids.

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Good, get in there before OCTOBERKAST. Stick it to the man!

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Thanks for all the support so far! We've definitely been giving a lot of thought of what difficulty and which games we wanted to play. Both Drew and I have beat all of the Halo games on legendary before and I think the only reason we are thinking of playing on Normal at first is to see just how long it will take us to get through them all. In an ideal world we'd love to play 1, 2, ODST, 3 and then Reach but we are just not sure how long it will take us. It obviously makes more chronological sense to play Reach first but I think nostalgia wins out in this case. Also the first Halo on legendary is by far the most difficult in my opinion. But that is just me.

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Hopefully somebody whips out an acoustic guitar and starts playing Life is Beautiful again during Halo 2 like on the Xboxalypse stream.

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I'M ONBOARD!!!! GOOOOO!!!!

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Halo marathon, Drew and Alexis, for the kids, here have my money.

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Starting a 24 hour live stream at 9 in the morning sounds like a bad idea...

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I'M SO GOD DAMNED PUMPED!!!!!!!

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"Is this an Endurance Run?"
 
"What?"
 
lol

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You crazy sons of bitches. I love it!

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Holy shit this is amazing.

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Super Awesome!@MAN_FLANNEL said:

No ODST?

It's only 24h, so there is a chance that they wouldnät be able to complete all the games

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@Christoffer said:

What? And I'm still preparing for the Oktoberkast next weekend. Well, It's for the kids, who can complain.

Edit: Wow, dat trailer.

Man, Oktoberkast just won't be quite the same without a (coked up) Matthew Rorie coming in WIDE AWAKE at like 6AM after partying all night.

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Oddly enough, I'm more interested in the stream that Gamespot is doing for this event. I wonder if any of the Giant Bomb guys will appear on that.

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Tossed some coins in the cup for you, good luck on your mad task!

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Kickass!

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See G4 have had an early start.

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Awesome!

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lol close to reaching their donations goal and they haven't even started yet. $841.00 of the $1,000.00 goal already, what an awesome community :D

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For a good cause, but did you have to pick Halo?

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@StoffInator: better than Call of Duty

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@alexisg: Heroic should be no problem in 1 and 3 seeing as long as one of you stay alive the other will re-spawn, if that guy just runs away for a bit.

i believe (At least on Legendary Mode) Halo 2 is set-up different in that, if one of you dies you lose and restart at the last checkpoint, so playing that one on normal might the best choice.

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I for one think this would be an awesome format for ER's in the future. Make them play them non stop until they reach the end! Any who, I will be watching. Always watching. Al-ways.

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Hopefully VinDog will make a special appearance.

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Time to reach out and grab my creditcard for some serious donation!