okay so lets lay down some rules right now:

1. "omg he has like 1 post, its spam!" my other account was "Lord Serebi" which had a whopping 30 posts, since december 2003.

2. "why so blurry" its nighttime here. there are no streetlights, i'll reitterate that over and over again

3. "its fake" this is something you just don't argue with

AND NOW THE PICS!



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i was going to censor the site 9 thing, but now that its like less than 12 hours before it opens i just dont think it matters. techfreaks.org or some arbitrary site on google.com said it was going to be at plant 42, they weren't that far off

yeh, i'm just confirming that overburn is my new account (stupid comp still logged on here as this one actually)

anybody think they'll have wireless internet at the Zero Hour? kuz i kno there's gonna b hundreds of people on xbox live there so theres definitely internet. i'm just contemplating on if i should take my laptop or not and keep posting to u guys

post moooooore

Do they allow cameras inside Zero Hour?

try photo shoping the image, in other words add brighnes to it , if u want ill do it.

LEo

I tried enhancing the images... This is the only one I got anything out of:

thanks, i had tried that already, lol. it wasn't worth it.. BUT i have more pictures, yes, i am making the best zero hour post here because i have pictures on the INSIDE

so i'm retiring from the first day of zero hour just to get back to the holiday inn's wireless and post pictures to you guys! i like money, in case anyone wanted to kno... xoverburnx@gmail.com on the paypal



so there was this morning when we went back to the base, remember that site 9 sign? covered.



oh yeh Hex 168 notifiers was seen on the way



!!!!! as i was leaving the hotel these girls had set up a desk there... and i was like "whats this for" they said "uhmmm... its for the winners of an .. uhmm *whisper* xbox contest" , and all their papers said 'top secret' and stuff like the hex website, it was hilarious

okay moving on

the base had a bunch of signs on the way up.. HALF of them were meaningful











so then it was just people in the parking lot, it was lame kuz nobody was doing anything like at pregame sports lot or rock concerts... security was being really pressed too they were checking trunks i asked why and the guy said "we're looking for people, weapons...... mainly people" lol

they weren't opening the inside of the gates till 4 and then not the hangar until 7 so i left, came back right before 7 and the hype was amazing

oh... remember those "lights" i took from afar last night? well they're back and better than ever







oh snaps! inside the gate!

continuing, there was an abundance of bean bags... yup.. and everyone was having fun with them



BEAN BAG MOSHPIT!!

so its near 7 and everyone's anticipating the hangar doors to open and then PETER MOORE comes out in the flash... and one of those other M$ financial managers (oops sorry i 4got)



okay so he says something like "do you want this hangar door open"
and someone (maybe it was a voice in my head) replied "do you value your life?"
lol, it was just too much suspense

so they open. behold...







[everyone ran in, i was up front.. almost got trampled.. had to bust some heads (jk)]

...THE ULTIMATE GAMING CENTRAL!!!!! you should be jealous.

this place has the most xbox360's anywhere. even the biggest walmart doesn't have this many stocked. think about it. like everything was running off of a 360, the entire xbox live account managament tent was running interfaces for signing up... it was a vga monitor and it had a normal keyboard so i was like "oh cool program for the windows"... then i noticed the 360's by each one... yup its really awesome over there





GEARS OF WAR PREVIEW!!! it looks awesome... seriously, you shoulda been there, they played it.. omfg the sound and the graphics are to die for.

and then question and answer session.




okay now more pics w/o explanation

oh wait, giant fuseball table, thats awesome

lovin the lights


EVERY LAUNCH TITLE *AND MORE* is playable

QUAKE TOURNAMENT! that was soooo awesome, the winner won an xbox360 signed by all of the crew at Id


FULL AUTO! that game is sooooo awesome, framerate issues with this current demo, but wow.....


OH!!!! SPECIAL ZERO HOUR EDITIION OF Red Vs. Blue!!!






so we all got memory cards and free 12-month xbox live gold accounts... its so awesome and there's still a FULL DAY left! u kno what i look like (brown hoodie blue sunshades guy), find me on G4TechTV tonight from 9-midnight kuz its gonna be live

great pics, thats awesome =D

wow... lucky, i would go if i had the chance. anyways how did you like fifa?
lol the console isn't even out, yet they still have tournaments..

any change of getting me one of those hoodies in medium. seems like they are throwing those things out. if you could hook us up with one i would be very greatful

not throwing out: they had us in like an assembly line to get the hoodies and the memory cards, then they marked our wristbands to make sure we didn't try again.....

i'll keep an eye open tho, i'm grabbing all the free stuff, i jumped thru a crowd to get this shirt they were throwin in the air.... i didn't even kno what it was........ turns out it was a quake shirt, its cool

they have an anoying habit of marking the wristbands for everything

Awesome pics bro. Can't wait to see the faceplate!

yeh, i'm getting one of those faceplates too


i dunno if this has been confirmed somewhere, but final fantasy xi is playable here and it uses the playonline service


so, its not using your xbox live account, more money out of pocket for you.

BUT square has these characters loaded up on the systems that have some HIGH stats, like nearly 2000 hp

If you can snatch an extra faceplate... I'll give ya $$$

xoverburnx:

Hey man, sweet pics. I love that huge pillar of green tube things they set up near the entrance. That's a nice touch.

Hey, if you bring any faceplates, hoodies, or Memory Units back can I buy some off you? I'll pay you $35 for the hoodie (+shipping) and the MU and faceplate i'll let you decide on those. I really don't wanna go through ebay because ive seen MU's and faceplates for like $80 and Im not a moron, just a poor gamer.

Send me an email if you want to work something out.

Hell, if you're gonna try to sell your faceplate, I've got a standing offer of $200 for one -- preferably unopened, if possible. Note that I reserve the right to withdraw this offer should the faceplate turn out to look like ass.

NOT SURE WHAT I PLAN ON SELLING GUYS but here's what i'll have

2 faceplates

1 large hoodie (definitely keeping the other 2)

2 extra 64mb memory units

1 Final Fantasy XI Atlas book -- unopened

1 Quake 4 shirt (or is it a generic quake shirt)


hey guys PM me if ur intereted in the whole buying selling thing, kuz this kinda stuff goes in a different thread

so jealous dude, way to cool

on my way out i saw adam sessler, shook his hand, asked him when morgan was getting there.... very cool

Lol, you should've asked how she is in bed or something. If I had an opportunity like that, I'd be on that sh*t in no time

So, what is the deal with all the beanbags? I mean, they look kind of painful. I also saw people throwing them at each other while waiting to get in. Damn, that would hurt.

lol awesome! looks like it would be smoking hot in there!!

haha question and answer time!

beanbags: a cool touch, they are comfortable enough, people sit on them while waiting in line to get xbox360s. its one of the more interesting good ideas i've seen for a long time.


inside temperature: some of the pics might look hazy, thats not heat, its just particles to make the lights have more of a glare or beam effect. its quite comfortable in there, the desert is weird, its like hot and cold at the same time. the sun shines hot, the wind blows cold, at night its like 40 degrees and you want to be inside the hangar


hmm we should bean bag adam sessler

OKAY GUYS i have video footage from the nokia camera phone...... it took me a sec to figure out how to convert the 3gp files to something generic like mpeg-1


who wants to host them for me? lol... my main site www.ravendrive.com is down and then all three other sites of mine are too, wow.

(not gonna use putfile, nope)

Someone get a site

Dude, I swear I saw you. I can't remember where. And you're right. Someone did reply with "Do you value your life?"
Those bean bags are comfy as hell. And Adam is funny. I talked to him for like 3 mins. He told me that him and Morgan has had a 360 for about 3 months. Lucky bastards.

I might sell my faceplate as well.
I'm keeping the hoodie. And the mem cards. When I get home I'll post pics of the faceplate.

post pics of everything you got i would like to seee them

is that 27" samsung they had there?

It looks like they have different sizes. One for far if your stnading and playing and a smaller one if your sitting? Or they all the same size?

We just left the Zero Hour event. We found a demo unit that we were able to boot into the XDK. I'll have pictures posted when I get back home (5 hour drive). There were a few items that we tried to copy to memory card, but it wouldn't let us. But we did find the settings to change region for games and dvds.

bullshit do you know how crazy that is if you did find out how to change the region code

hey thats so awesome, i wouldnt b surprised if activision had one on site, at the food tent i got in a conversation with an activision employee, it was funny he kept asking us and telling us how call of duty 2 owned this launch, which i agreed with, and then turns out he was on the development team

i asked a buncha questions about the xbox360 and hardware and stuff, he went kinda technical but nothing revealing, it was cool though.
1. the xbox360 dvd-drive is fast, according to him
2. he hasn't used a non-devkit xbox so he doesn't actually kno how the hardware is
2a. he said the final dev kits OWNED tho, 60gb harddrive etc.


what an awesome event

u couldn't have missed me, i was on the big screen during the question and answer part of Gears of War. My godly voice boomed thru the speaker system.

my question was - after noticing how dark gears of war was, and how it makes use of shadows like doom - " do we get a flashlight in the game or will we need a patch for that"

i was right behind sessler in line when he got his 360. this was after the long line died out


i'm gonna get the footage from g4, i was on the phone w/ my friend while i got on live tv, it was cool kuz he saw me 5 seconds later

hmm was pretty sure they were the same size yeh. hold on (reviewing pics) yeh same size. i think i have a few more pics


you kno guys i purchased the photobucket premium account just for you. and damnit again that all my websites are down, it feels weird not having anywhere to host things

one more thing you should post this info on/at XboxHacker.net they would find it interesting indeed

okay i joined and posted, someone should follow up on this really

i can host all pictures and vids u want on my server. contact me on msn: marcus_salmons@hotmail.com

i want a couple of them items, and dude ur inbox is full need to pm ulike....NOW lol! (o sorry, hes busy playin on his 360)

I saw you before that though. lol.
I was the 5th person to buy a 360.

There were a few dev kits there. I saw atleast 20. I would have snatched one if those stupid security guards didn't come over and say "You can't mess with that system, sir."

Grr....
Well, I'll be home in about 3 hrs. I'm in a rest stop that has wireless internet. Pics to come.

cool, my inbox is less than 10% full

where are those new pictures from zero hour

lol, okay




hex168 submitted images


yeh, the tree was really random, there were live rabbits in with the tree too... but iit looks really cool


each item had a cart full for people to snatch up


from camera phone


COUNTDOWN TO ZERO HOUR! that was so crazy, they drove TRUCKS through the hangar and threw the 360s out (it was organized, not like chaotic, onyl for people w/ their receipts from earlier)




the GEEK SQUAD held up the rear,wow

omg i wish i was there man but i did get my 360

Anyone who was at Zero hour, how many (estimated guess) would you say there were to play, and how many(another estimated) do you think they sold?

hmm, i think there were... uhm ....1, 2, 3,...... times 4..... plus...



i think there were ... uh.. OH a better way of counting... each launch game had like 8 stations..... wait, i'll try and be more accurate.. one by one.... *looking up launch titles* (ok i didn't do that. thats your job) some games only had 4 stations,like dead or alive 4 (two player fighting game... 8 ppl playing)


i think there were nearly 150 xbox360s playable. thats not including the restrcted areas for developers, i'd say there was another 50 xboxes in there too. some games had 2 players of course.

and sold? ummmm those trucks seemed REALLY FULL. there was one truck that didn't really get that many taken out of it, but i'd have no idea to say how many those trucks held. three trucks came, two were cleared out, (nothing but premiums) and one left

wow really hextic not as many people as i though it would be.........digital life 2005 was bigger... but this was much for tech