Gearbox & 2K are some nice dudes - ScrewAttack interview, in OP / pg 3

Bartholamue

SteevL wrote: »

Jephery wrote: »

Was there bubblegum?

I don't see it on the list D:

I guess they were all out

I think I laughed at this way too much.

Turkey

Pretty awesome swag slash

milk ducks

Congrats, Slash! I wish I'd have held on to my receipt as well, but shit happens. I'm horrible with receipts. I actually paid for Starcraft: Ghost in full, back in the day. I held on to that receipt forever, man, but I ended up losing it about the same time they announced it was never coming out. I went to GameStop (which I think was still Babbages, or EB Games or something, at the time), to try and get my money back, since I knew they kept hard copies of everyone's pre-orders in a box under the counter. Unfortunately, they had just upgraded to using a new computer system, and they tossed out the old pre-order box.

Fucking weak.

CG Faggotry

Nice.

Chance

It was crazy going through news stories, seeing that receipt and thinking "...Slash?"

Congratulations, man.

Endaro

That's really cool of the Dev's, good show all involved!

Drake

Definitely classy.

Enjoy your stuff, Slash.

Cade

Now that *IS* very damn awesome of them, they certainly didn't have to do that but the fact they did you got to give them some applause, very cool of them to do. Very glad you got some good stuff from them man.

randombattle

Hells yeah I'm glad I emailed Gearbox about this. If there is one man on this earth who has always bet on Duke it's slash000.

The_Scarab

Rehab wrote: »

mere_immortal wrote: »

What was in the Gearbox swag bag?

• Go Get Some! Magnum Condoms or Alien Rape Whistle (for the babes)
• Duke Nukem Radical Action Movie Quotes: A Practical Guide Reference Book
• Duke Nukem Adhesive "Wall Tit" Speakers

Actually believed this for a second.

Vegan

milk ducks wrote: »

Congrats, Slash! I wish I'd have held on to my receipt as well, but shit happens. I'm horrible with receipts. I actually paid for Starcraft: Ghost in full, back in the day. I held on to that receipt forever, man, but I ended up losing it about the same time they announced it was never coming out. I went to GameStop (which I think was still Babbages, or EB Games or something, at the time), to try and get my money back, since I knew they kept hard copies of everyone's pre-orders in a box under the counter. Unfortunately, they had just upgraded to using a new computer system, and they tossed out the old pre-order box.

Fucking weak.

Have you learned your lesson not to pay for things before you have them? Stupidest thing in the world. Even pre-orders on Amazon don't charge you until it ships.

Death_Claw

Congrats Slash!

I don´t remember where I first saw the photo, may have even been here, but it surely was a long time ago. Then later saw you in the forums and thought hey I know that name from somewhere... :lol:

So how does it feel being part of internet history?

Detharin

Congrats!

milk ducks

Vegan wrote: »

milk ducks wrote: »

Congrats, Slash! I wish I'd have held on to my receipt as well, but shit happens. I'm horrible with receipts. I actually paid for Starcraft: Ghost in full, back in the day. I held on to that receipt forever, man, but I ended up losing it about the same time they announced it was never coming out. I went to GameStop (which I think was still Babbages, or EB Games or something, at the time), to try and get my money back, since I knew they kept hard copies of everyone's pre-orders in a box under the counter. Unfortunately, they had just upgraded to using a new computer system, and they tossed out the old pre-order box.

Fucking weak.

Have you learned your lesson not to pay for things before you have them?

Yep.

I never put more than the minimum 5 dollars down on any pre-order anymore. In fact, I rarely pre-order at all, anymore. And I never put down anything until there's a confirmed release date. Even then, when games like Mass Effect 3 get pushed back a few months, I'm silently afraid it'll turn out to be another Starcraft: Ghost incident -- even though I know it won't.

Aegeri

I lost all of my money on SC: Ghost as well, for exactly the same reason.

Congrats Slash on the swag! 2k games and gearbox are awesome for doing that for you!

Undead Scottsman

I just preorder shit from Amazon.com these days. You don't pay a dime until it ships.

apotheos

How can you lose money unless the store goes out of business?

Synthesis

Amazon.com's free release-date shipping (even outside of Amazon Prime/Amazon Student) is pretty sweet. It's not there for all games though.

Bullio

Synthesis wrote: »

Amazon.com's free release-date shipping (even outside of Amazon Prime/Amazon Student) is pretty sweet. It's not there for all games though.

What's this free nonsense? It cost me $1 for DNF .

Spoiler:

Still the best shipping deal anywhere, though.

slash000

Click the image or link below - for the video that the ScrewAttack crew made of my "journey" in finally buying the game:






http://screwattack.com/videos/Waiting-A-Decade-for-Duke


That's me! Finally getting the game


Thanks to the ScrewAttack crew!

Synthesis

Bullio wrote: »

Synthesis wrote: »

Amazon.com's free release-date shipping (even outside of Amazon Prime/Amazon Student) is pretty sweet. It's not there for all games though.

What's this free nonsense? It cost me $1 for DNF .

Spoiler:

Still the best shipping deal anywhere, though.

'was free for me. But I'm on Amazon Student.

Mugenmidget

slash000 wrote: »

http://screwattack.com/videos/Waiting-A-Decade-for-Duke


That's me! Finally getting the game


Thanks to the ScrewAttack crew!

That's awesome, what a journey!

Undead Scottsman

Okay, the voice over at the end was awesome.

Also, when you get Steam issues like that, try restarting your computer.

EDIT: Also congrats on the bigass plug for your game studio. Shame the game wasn't already out on Steam when that happened though.

slash000

Undead Scottsman wrote: »

Okay, the voice over at the end was awesome.

Also, when you get Steam issues like that, try restarting your computer.

Yeah, I was really surprised that they got John St. John to do that!


Also, yeah the Steam thing - I had just freshly booted my PC before installing the game.. I guess I could have rebooted it again during the installation issues... but oh well.

slash000

Oh. Man Ok I didn't realize this until now:

The Balls of Steel Edition, there were only 136,000 copies of this edition produced world wide.


Gearbox gave me the 10th one produced, the earliest production copy of the game verified:

Spoiler:

Spoilered for big image

Aegeri

I can't wait for Breath of Death and Cthulhu Saves the World to come onto steam. Buying both straight away!

Bullio

Great vid to close out a very long, strange chapter in gaming. The VO at the end was indeed awesome.

Undead Scottsman

slash000 wrote: »

Undead Scottsman wrote: »

Okay, the voice over at the end was awesome.

Also, when you get Steam issues like that, try restarting your computer.

Yeah, I was really surprised that they got John St. John to do that!


Also, yeah the Steam thing - I had just freshly booted my PC before installing the game.. I guess I could have rebooted it again during the installation issues... but oh well.

Sometimes Steam and windows get confused with each other for some reason and windows puts up a big "something is trying to access this file, so wait your turn" on the data files, but Steam gets caught up by that. A reboot can help.

IceBurner

Fun video, and I love the closing touch!

Edit: And yes, the plug actually reminded me to check Steam for your games, but I see they're not out yet.

Aegeri

apotheos wrote: »

How can you lose money unless the store goes out of business?

I preordered early, as was my want back in the day and then the game was cancelled. As I lost the receipt and it was a year (or whatever it was) later, the staff there didn't know me anymore. So I couldn't prove I put anything down and thus I lost my preorder money to the nebulous system. Yeah it did suck and I can assure you I never bought anything from there again.

Athenor

slash000 wrote: »

Oh. Man Ok I didn't realize this until now:

The Balls of Steel Edition, there were only 136,000 copies of this edition produced world wide.


Gearbox gave me the 10th one produced, the earliest production copy of the game verified:

Spoiler:

Spoilered for big image

First preorder, seems fitting.

Rehab

Get that preorder in for the next Duke Nukem game right away. Just in case.

PunkBoy

Congrats, slash! I can now say I'm somewhat acquaintances with a gaming celebrity ! In all seriousness, that was awesome of Gearbox and 2k, and the ScrewAttack video is awesome.

The_Spaniard

slash000 wrote: »

Click the image or link below - for the video that the ScrewAttack crew made of my "journey" in finally buying the game:






http://screwattack.com/videos/Waiting-A-Decade-for-Duke


That's me! Finally getting the game


Thanks to the ScrewAttack crew!

Cool video, but Craig is still a bit of a butthole.

Peewi

So Slash, what are you gonna do with your second copy of DNF? Put it on display?

Cade

slash000 wrote: »

Click the image or link below - for the video that the ScrewAttack crew made of my "journey" in finally buying the game:






http://screwattack.com/videos/Waiting-A-Decade-for-Duke


That's me! Finally getting the game


Thanks to the ScrewAttack crew!

Very cool.

I actually thought it a shame that no one did anything like this with you and then it turns out someone did!

SteevL

Awesome, and good to see they let you plug your games.

Zzulu

This marks the end of an era

chocobolicious

Screwattack is good people.

DarkPrimus

Peewi wrote: »

So Slash, what are you gonna do with your second copy of DNF? Put it on display?

Keep it sealed for the memories.