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What is the craziest video game leak of all time?
- Thread starter jukeboxhero2396
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The most important was the HL2 code leak, but the funniest was this one:
The way this set the entire gaming internet on fire was a site to behold.
Most of you are probably too little to remember but Halo 2 leaked to the internet a full MONTH before it's release date. As in, the entire full playable game, Microsoft's crown jewel for the upcoming holiday season.
I played through the whole game on a buddy's modded system days after it went up and just remember thinking "what a time to be alive"
I played through the whole game on a buddy's modded system days after it went up and just remember thinking "what a time to be alive"
Pokemon Sun and Moon getting dumped online like a whole month before the game came out, shit was the worst when that happened
I distinctly remember thinking that there was no fucking way the Killzone devs would make a game with robot Dinossaurs and a redhead femc.
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Sounds like KH3, but regardless that's pretty amazing. Did it take forever to download?
That thread is hilarious, and to think Lets Go looks better than Sword Shield haha. Sometimes it's really fun to look back at old threads
It was in French too if I recall. Similar happened with Halo 3, and ODST, and even Reach. The Reach one was pretty funny though, it was listed on the XBL Marketplace for like 99999 Microsoft Points and people were still able to pull the file and play it.
I thought the Bungie/Activision contract was pretty big. It pretty much laid out the whole series, and despite them being let out a year or so early it pretty much all came to fruition as far as I know. It even made it obvious that they rushed them out because they would have lost their chance at ever owning the IP.
Oh man he was legendary, it's a shame the mods got trigger happy back then - we could have had full blown next gen specs by now
The Halo series has had some great leaks. Halo 2 hitting pirate sites a month before release. The video of the Halo 3 Zanzibar remake that was set to an EDM song. The video of the Halo 3 Epsilon build that was narrated by some kid. The aborted Halo 3: Recon announcement. The first in-game screenshots for Halo: Reach being cell phone pictures with "Tom Morello" scrawled on them in MS Paint. The magnificent Halo 4 barn leak.
It was only, like, 2 days after the game went to manufacturing! It was crazy.
I think ODST was even in French, too lol. I think for Reach hackers were able to spoof or steal a reviewer's download code. I remember someone at the old place posting a stream of someone playing the pirated version in the Halo thread before release and Frank O'Connor dropping in and telling everyone to keep watching. Then the guy got banned live on stream lol.
It was only, like, 2 days after the game went to manufacturing! It was crazy.
I think ODST was even in French, too lol. I think for Reach hackers were able to spoof or steal a reviewer's download code. I remember someone at the old place posting a stream of someone playing the pirated version in the Halo thread before release and Frank O'Connor dropping in and telling everyone to keep watching. Then the guy got banned live on stream lol.
CBOAT was an account that mods would use to leak info that was was given to them by insiders.
Half Life 2 hands down, it's an old one, but the FBI got involved & all sorts, i also think it heavily effected development of future HL titles as many ideas for future episodes, spin off's & sequels were in the dev leak, there was enough cut content there to make multiple games & the leaker spoiled Valve's plans.
It's also fun to see how modders can recreate that scrapped content too, the hydra is especially impressive.
It's also fun to see how modders can recreate that scrapped content too, the hydra is especially impressive.
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