Where were you when Dirge of Cerberus was released?

Makoeyes987

Listen closely, there is meaning in my words.
AKA
Smooth Criminal
I'll tell you about my experience.

August 15, Sensation and Perception Summer Class. It seemed to be a normal enough day. As usual, everyone in class was either taking obsessive-compulsive notes or was in a zombie-like daze of boredom. The teacher, off on her random, irreverent tangent, was paying little attention to my row.

A friend next to me turns his head. "Hey did you get Dirge of Cerberus?"he asked nonchalantly. "No." I answered, figuring I'd pick it up later that day.

Little did I know this game would change my life forever.

"Did you hear about its mechanics?" "No." I replied, eager to cut to the chase regarding it's gameplay. "It's so cool. However its got over the shoulder camera angles and you can't shoot and jump... at the same time....."

There was a brief moment of silence, in which the sheer shittiness of the gameplay settled in, in his head, after saying it out loud. No-one in the room could believe a shooter that abhorrent could be spawned on our fair earth. The lecture stopped. It felt as if claws of stupidity were tearing at my mind.

Suddenly, the girl behind me committed suicide on the spot. Full scale riots broke out over the tri-state area, with murders, looting, and rape. Cries of "How could Vincent play so horrible? What god would allow this?" could be heard as people lept from rooftops. The DG-AI riots had begun.

The area had to be carpet-bombed by the Air force in order to quell the riots and make sure no traces of the horrid shooter escaped the infected area. The entire state of New York was quarantined, and everything we ever held dear was either bombed or destroyed by the insipid setup and lack of Multiplayer mode.

A little girl next to me said she believed things couldn't possibly get worse. When her brother beat the game, he ate their mother, burned down their house and killed himself.

Suddenly, the sounds of a million infants shrieking pierced the air. A hundred armed demon with a thousand unpronounceable names rose from a fissure in the earth. "I have been summoned to your meager plane from the horror of the unspeakable shooters. I Gorros*lejldkrakish'urtszar, the aberration who was never meant to be, shall now devour the universe."spoke the horror with it's three-hundred maws.

"Good going." I said to Takayoshi Nakazato, who had miraculously survived up to this point. "How was I supposed to know the game would summon a nameless horror from the beginning of time?" I shouted, rage in my voice. "What good did you possibly believe could come of that!"

Gorros*lejldkrakish'urtszar devoured the universe and shat it out as a cosmic dung pile. The end.

Where were you?
 

Max Payne

Banned
AKA
Leon S. Kennedy,Terry Bogard, The Dark Knight, Dacon, John Marston, Teal'c
Worrying about being thrown out/forced to move out of another house.
 

Max Payne

Banned
AKA
Leon S. Kennedy,Terry Bogard, The Dark Knight, Dacon, John Marston, Teal'c
Also.

"Did you hear about its mechanics?" "No." I replied, eager to cut to the chase regarding it's gameplay. "It's so cool. However its got over the shoulder camera angles and you can't shoot and jump... at the same time....."

There was a brief moment of silence, in which the sheer shittiness of the gameplay settled in, in his head, after saying it out loud. No-one in the room could believe a shooter that abhorrent could be spawned on our fair earth. The lecture stopped. It felt as if claws of stupidity were tearing at my mind.

Suddenly, the girl behind me committed suicide on the spot. Full scale riots broke out over the tri-state area, with murders, looting, and rape. Cries of "How could Vincent play so horrible? What god would allow this?" could be heard as people lept from rooftops. The DG-AI riots had begun.

The area had to be carpet-bombed by the Air force in order to quell the riots and make sure no traces of the horrid shooter escaped the infected area. The entire state of New York was quarantined, and everything we ever held dear was either bombed or destroyed by the insipid setup and lack of Multiplayer mode.

A little girl next to me said she believed things couldn't possibly get worse. When her brother beat the game, he ate their mother, burned down their house and killed himself.

Suddenly, the sounds of a million infants shrieking pierced the air. A hundred armed demon with a thousand unpronounceable names rose from a fissure in the earth. "I have been summoned to your meager plane from the horror of the unspeakable shooters. I Gorros*lejldkrakish'urtszar, the aberration who was never meant to be, shall now devour the universe."spoke the horror with it's three-hundred maws.

"Good going." I said to Takayoshi Nakazato, who had miraculously survived up to this point. "How was I supposed to know the game would summon a nameless horror from the beginning of time?" I shouted, rage in my voice. "What good did you possibly believe could come of that!"

Gorros*lejldkrakish'urtszar devoured the universe and shat it out as a cosmic dung pile. The end.

Where were you?

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Neutron Ronnie

From The Front of Armament
AKA
Powerslave
*SIGH*

I was on campus, and happy to be away from home so that I could spend the hard-earned money my parents were sending me for food on this game. I had actually been looking forward to it...

After I got it, I forced myself to go through it, bit by bit everyday, until Deimos took mercy on me and pretended to die.

But I WILL finish it... some day...
 

ForceStealer

Double Growth
I was making a delivery for the pharmacy I worked at, I picked it up on the way :)

...And you could jump and shoot at the same time...
 

Celes Chere

Banned
AKA
Noctis
I was at home, on the good ol' couch. :) I figured out it was out because I read the Ad in GI.

"Midgar died, but something survived..."
 

Dawnbreaker

~The Other Side of Fear~
I've blocked it from my memory, bad sadly the evidence is still collecting dust on my shelves (along with the guide).

*long-suffering sigh*
 

cold_spirit

he/him
AKA
Alex T
I was very excited about this game. I was happy to be able to run around as Vincent, my favorite character.....
yup...
This game was a lot better when I was blinded by fanboy-ism.

Anyway, I was in the van going to Gamestop when this game was released.
 

mollymillions

Lv. 25 Adventurer
At home, dealing with other games out at around the same time. I was more concerned with Kingdom Hearts 2 to care about Dirge of Cerberus.

Took me a long time to get into DoC and even then, it was while I was playing Crisis Core.
 

Tifaeria

Hello again! 8D
AKA
Roxy Lalonde, Black Canary, Princess Vampira, Ah-Choo, Cutie-Aoide
I was too busy "entertaining" myself to bother picking this game up. Thank god I missed that bullet! :awesomonster:
 

Dashell

SMILE!
AKA
Sonique, Quexinos, Pinkie Pie, Derpy Hooves
I was at the store ready to buy it then I heard someone say "It's so cool. However its got over the shoulder camera angles and you can't shoot and jump... at the same time....." and I tried to shoot myself... but it was me so I missed. :whistle:
 

Ascension

Rookie Adventurer
Why does it matter where we were? I cant remember anyway but I know I didn't buy the game immediately when it was released. I have had it for about a year now and it's been out since 2006 and I have yet to end it because it is pretty hard.
 
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