1) E3 is much quieter now than in past years. Also less hot, better ventilation. Doesn't smell quite as much like finger grease. Still a great place to fart without fear of detection, though.
2) What recession? The game companies' shrines to their new product are as opulent and massive and shiny as in 2006.
3) The game I most didn't want to stop playing: the nostalgia-packed de-invention of Super Mario Bros. -- Super Mario Bros. Wii.
4) Random Celebrities on the floor: Jigsaw from Saw. The Ecto 1 from Ghostbusters 1. Halo from Halo.
5) The convention is much much much more bearable now that only professionals are allowed. The convention is still unbearable.
6) Game demo I was unable to Simpsons my way to the front of the line of so I bailed because I am too old to wait in lines to see video games: Halo: ODST.
7) The E3 booth girls are now more from the "cute" school than the "vampire prostitute" school. Less revealing bikinis, more full-body jump suits. Just one sexy nurse.
8) E3 is the best friend Swine Flu ever had. Hundreds of people who just got off airplanes forcefully rub their oily fingers against against shared plastic hand devices, then everyone picks their nose. Deadly fan-demic ensues.
9) I wouldn't want to be downtown tonight when the 1st Day of Lakers NBA Championship Staples Center Jock Crowd mixes with the immediately adjacent LA Convention Center Last Day of E3 Day Dork Crowd. To quote Ogre: "NERRRDDDDDSSS!!!!"
10) Someone has finally made a video game about Star Wars! It's about time!
What do you mean someone has "finally" made a video game about Star Wars? What would you call KOTOR or even KOTOR 2? Both of those games, specifically the first one, redeemed Star Wars in the video game market. And now that Bioware is making this MMO its going to be the game Lucasarts only dreamed “Star Wars Galaxies” would have been.
lostepic
Jun. 4, 2009 05:17:am
at 05:17:am
Sarcasm.
jeffk
Jun. 4, 2009 08:56:am
at 08:56:am
I'm looking forward to SW:TOR for many many many reasons (I mean Bioware + SW + KOTOR = Woohoo!). I really want to see HeroEngine in action (the toolset they're using to make TOR).
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Glad to see they're really enforcing the professionals only. They got extremely lax about it, especially from what I saw at 2005 and 2006 where people were standing outside the convention center, coming up and asking my wife and I if they could buy our badges. Somehow no one saw fit to tell those folks that they shouldn't be there.
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Downtown LA isn't the best of places to be in even without all that's going on, I can't even imagine the horror that tonight is going to be. Good luck getting through that mess Matt.
gmiverson
Jun. 4, 2009 09:00:am
at 09:00:am
I was disappointed that they dumped so much information on us right off the bat for TOR, then nothing for the rest of the show. Not like that's going to keep me from buying the game, by any means
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Good to hear that NSMB:Wii was as fun as it looked.
Dave
Jun. 4, 2009 10:32:am
at 10:32:am
That is hilarious that a star wars fanboy bit on that. I'm sorry, Matt, but it's even better than the post.
Rorschach
Jun. 4, 2009 11:10:am
at 11:10:am
@Rorschach: that was the point. Its like WWII video games.
lostepic
Jun. 4, 2009 11:20:am
at 11:20:am
So you do try to Simpsons your way to the front of the line. I guess I really need to get a hit show off the ground, so I can establish my own writer/producer fame. I'd really like to NOT go through endless lines at Disney World.
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I will definitely preorder New Super Mario Bros. This is epic platforming waiting to be played, just like Super Mario Galaxy 2!
eduardojencarelli
Jun. 4, 2009 15:51:pm
at 15:51:pm
lostepic has a problem with low flying airplanes.
You know this kid is the one at parties who acts like Cliff Klaven. He will attempt to start conversations about some arcane Star Wars/Star Trek bit. Laughs uproariously at his own jokes.
Everyone there finds a reason to get away from him.
spookiewriter
Jun. 4, 2009 16:38:pm
at 16:38:pm
Pretty contemptuous of nerds for a blog called "nerd world," don't you think?
Also, who in the blue hell is "Halo" from Halo? Master Chief? Or just like... a big ring?
auchris
Jun. 4, 2009 20:53:pm
at 20:53:pm
So *you're* the one who was farting! Sheesh, I thought I was gonna hurl!
mrbabyman
Jun. 5, 2009 04:06:am
at 04:06:am
Yes arcane. My comment is so arcane. That's why several critics at E3 made a similar comment. I wasn't aware that ideas/bits/language that's less than ten years old constitutes it as archaic.
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I don't take this whole thing seriously. Besides I am not the one making a semi obscure 80's reference that if someone hasn't seen Cheers wouldn't know a thing about it.
lostepic
Jun. 7, 2009 05:20:am
at 05:20:am