Step 1: Wait in line
First we had to get bracelets at the entrance. They used the bracelets to regulate the amount of people they let in. Once we got the bracelets, we walked around the block to get in line.
I dislike lines for the most part, although there was this really hot girl ahead of us who liked Borderlands and Fallout. There was also the multitudes of big screen displays typical of Times Square. These would loop the same ads, and it got fairly tiring after an hour.
Step 2: Wait in the line some more, and see some Bungie guys
After two hours, some Bungie folks started making their way down the line. They were taking pictures with people and signing t-shirts.
Inside after three hours...
We got inside after three hours of standing in line. There was a bar that was serving free soft drinks. I saw Larry Hyrb (Aka Major Nelson) in the lobby and introduced myself, saying how much I liked his podcast, when in fact I disliked it a fair bit. I got some more swag (read: blow-up energy sword) and talked to some people who were from a video game website based in New Jersey, I had never heard of it.
Kid Cudi! Won't be making it...
It was now 11:50, Major Nelson came on stage. He said he had some bad news. He said Kid Kudi wasn't able to perform at that time. A lot of people started booing, as I suspect there were many who were here for Kid Cudi, and not so much Halo: Reach.
Then everyone got in line to get their copies of Halo: Reach or the Halo Xbox 360. We waited in another line for that. My friend got his copy signed by a lot of the Bungie guys. Meanwhile, Kid Cudi apparently decided to show up.
Kid Cudi is back!
After the performance he came down into the audience, there weren't too many of us, and signed people's shoes and stuff.
It was a pretty cool experience for my first launch party, and probably the most elaborate I will go to for a while. (Maybe Black: Ops will have something big, who knows...)
What was everyone else's midnight experiences like?
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