What's it like to go to a midnight release?

How bad is it? What are the people like?

I want to the midnight release with a friend for Halo 5 because they were doing a food buffet. I don't remember what it was like because I was too busy intimidating people by eating for an hour and a half.

It's filled with people who get it, take it home and play it basically nonstop who then complain it only lasted the a few days

It smells

Why do people wear hats inside?

He was quite the enlightened gentleman. This was for no man's sky:(

To hide their dandruff/male pattern baldness.

Or because they genuinely think it makes them look cool.

If they took it off it would be extremely painful

You know, I keep thinking the fedora lord is just a meme, but these people actually exist. A living breathing stereotype.

The Halo 2 release was fun. Nothing special about the store itself but going home and playing online with all the other people who also just bought it and got home was amazing.

>GTA 5 Xbox 360/PS4 release night
>Go to Gamestop
>Packed crowd
>Bunch of dude bros, there's a motorcycle group
>Bunch of macho shit going on
>Be there with my friend, we've been hype as fuck about the game
>Just chillin', waiting in line
>Jimmy Johns was a new sandwich chain in our town
>They did a complimenary cater to the event to spread their name
>So, we get free 1/4 subs and shit while we wait
>pretty autistic group overall
>kind of cold out
>I dunno, just chilling for a bit
>Bring it back home to play
>I guess for some reason, this title isn't plug and play
>Have to update game of some shit
>An hour later
>Finally get on to play it
>Pretty bland, and disappointing.

I've learned since then that ultimately digital is the way to go with releases, but if you still really desire the physical, go to Wal-Mart, there's never a line, and it's in and out on Tuesdays at midnight.


I also went to Fable 3 with my friend, and it was raining and cold, and we had two heavy set dudes squeezing into our really skinny friends hoodie to keep warm. That was pretty fun.

>fedora
>hawaiian shirt
>cargo shorts
>high top socks with low top slip on dress shoes

The total package

No one's there to talk to you unless you have friends. Its not some block party. Here's my worst experience though:
>midnight release for dark souls with that sweet tin case
>recognize one of the employees from classes. She's really cute, and not typical up sell in your face gurrllll gamer type.
>we are hitting it off, then suddenly IT shambles over.
>kids got gamer gear shit on and hair from his nose to his collar bone
>immedietly interjected with his favorite tf2 scout voice lines.
>I kid you fucking not, starts to talk about dubs threads and how his post got chosen to name someone's kid
>when neither of us laugh, he tries to explain what a dubs thread is

I Fucking knew some Sup Forumsfaggot would show up in real life some day.

been to the pokemon SuMo and smash 4 releases
it's a bunch of 16-42 year olds picking up a game because they have a car. None of the people in my town approached full neckbeard so I guess i'm lucky

>tf2

Red flag, red flag.

That's the fucking autistic divider game right there.

If CS:S isn't the last Valve game you played, you should kill yourself right now.

>>immedietly interjected with his favorite tf2 scout voice lines.
That's fucking hilarious. How do you even do that shit.
>see people talking
>YA HEADS A FREAKIN BAT MAGNET

I went for borderlands 2
I live about 10 min from gearbox software
All the devs were there including randy and I got my game cover signed
Can show if you'd like

All those people lined up for disappointment

i went to the MW3 midnight release. it was at the gamestop in the mall by my house, which was cool because we got to stay in the mall all night instead of outside, and there was a dude with a soft pretzel cart that sold us food. the gamestop guys were really cool and gave everyone magnets, posters and keychains. the person i was there with won a black ops collectors edition thing, the one that came with the RC car. it was awesome, but i would never do it again, especially for a CoD game.

I've gone to a few midnight releases with some friends. We normally go to a gamestop close to campus, so depending on the game there can be a lot of people. Usually everyone is pretty chill and ends up talking to people next to them in line. It's kind of cool when you just end up chatting with people next to you, and eventually you and like 5 other strangers form a circle to talk about video games and stupid shit. Never made any friends at one though. My social skills end after making pleasant conversation, and I don't bother asking their name or if they have steam or something.

Small town, so any line up for a game isn't much longer than six or seven people.

I went to one, and it was for Skyrim. I went with friends, and met some new friends while there. I live near Chicago though, so it was fucking cold and they didn't let us into the store for a while.

Probably wouldn't do it again.

Went to the midnight release of GTAV, had it preordered at gamestop.

Gamestop's fairly deep in the mall I go to. I see the line's outside the mall, and started to just worry about getting it at all.

Then some nigga on a bike comes to my car window, knocks on it, and told me best buy had 0 line and tons of copies left.

Twas fun.

The MGSV launch was pretty good. Everyone was chill, perhaps because it was at a local video game store rather than EB Games

I was in Gurnee when the Skyrim midnight release was going on, poor schmucks standing outside must have been freezing

Really depends on the location.

I've been to some before and they weren't anything special. People line up, get in, get their game, get out. No real autismos or anything.

The only one I went to that stood out was when I went with a friend to the MW3 release. It had a bigger turnout than usual and the Gamestop employees even had a booth set up outside with free pizza and were playing music up until it was time to actually open the doors. Was pretty cool.

>people posting all these releases with free food and shit

You guys are pretty lucky. I live in an area where they literally tell you not to go to midnight releases alone because there is legitimate danger of getting your game, getting jumped in the parking lot, and having your shit stolen. The thugs are pretty ballsy too. They won't even leave after they do it. They will get a game for tthe whole crew. Police response time is about 40 minutes in that part.

It depends on the game, and where you go for the release. I've been to Starcraft 2 midnight release, at a Blockbuster. It was mostly well adjusted adults, people who were teenagers when they played the original. People chatting, it was cool. The staff was clearly just at work, and didn't know what the deal was with the product they were selling, but one of them remembered they had a lot of unused promo stuff for the game in the back, and started giving it away at random, or coming up with ways for people to win it, like two people competing at the Guitar Hero stand that was there anyway, or doing a lottery with hastily scribbled post it notes. It was chill, fun and comfy.

I also went to midnight release of CoD: Black Ops(didn't actually buy it, but went with a few friends that did. I met most of my friends, IRL and gaming, playing the first Modern Warfare) at a GameStop, and it was horrible. Screeching kids, fedora wearing teenagers, and a couple of dude bros who seemed as ashamed as we were at being in that crowd. They turned out to be cool guys when we chatted while having a smoke outside. But man... the staff was obnoxious, doing US GAMERS HUH events with quizzes about YouTube and shit so he kids could win a poster, and they were blasting Zelda dubstep remixes from the sound system.

I go to midnight releases of popular games to pick up niche weeb games that happen to be releasing on the same day.

I've only been to one midnight release, I won't specify which one, but it was for a console.
>everyone is unwashed, smelly neckbeards, really makes you feel like shit about the community
>you're stuck with these smelly assholes for a couple hours, and they are all autistic so once you've exhausted talking about what games you're excited for (10 minutes) you have nothing to say to any of these people
>you start feeling like it's a lowpoint in your life, that you're stuck with these people waiting for a video game console, you try to pretend your life isn't as shitty as theirs but here you are, spending hours in the cold to play 2 mediocre games in the next 3-6 months, shoulder to shoulder with these people
Eventually you get your console and go home and drown your sorrows in video games and probably alcohol, but the experience itself is quite shitty.

holy shit that image is topkek

I wear a beanie 24/7, I don't know why, I just got used to it as a kid
I feel naked as fuck without it

Is that CWC?

I was at the midnight release for Halo 4 when I was like 16 17? (20 now) It was alright they had a dude in the full new Masterchief suit walking around it was mostly just a lineup to get it. When I got the the counter they said I needed proper ID and some dudes I was talking to in line said I went to their college and the typical gamestop girl cashier bought it and rushed me through. Went home and was dissapointed in the game.

It's depressing to know that people like that actually exist. I never thought it was actually possible