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Posted by satchmo on Mon May 16th at 5:36pm 2005

Even though I live so close to the convention, I am not attending because it's reserved for game industry insiders. Besides, I have a full work load at the office this week.

Anyone attending?




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Posted by Spartan on Mon May 16th at 6:32pm 2005

I wish I could attend but I'm not important enought to go. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">



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Posted by DrGlass on Mon May 16th at 6:50pm 2005

I'm sure if you tried hard enough you could get a ticket.




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Posted by French Toast on Mon May 16th at 7:58pm 2005

Whore yourself out, I'm sure someone will trade a ticket for it.




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Posted by satchmo on Mon May 16th at 8:44pm 2005

? quote:
Whore yourself out

Eew! Now I feel dirty.




"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge



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Posted by Spartan on Mon May 16th at 9:35pm 2005

? quoting French Toast
Whore yourself out, I'm sure someone will trade a ticket for it.

And then I can have a bastard child that was born in Unreal 3 booth.





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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Tue May 17th at 3:14am 2005

Or at least conceived.




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Posted by ReNo on Tue May 17th at 6:01am 2005

Shame you can't get access, there is a whole lot of interesting stuff going on at e3 this year with all the next-gen consoles being announced.

On that topic, what are everybody's impressions so far? The Xbox 360 is sounding mighty fine to me, but I found it quite funny during their unveiling that one person said it was the "most powerful next generation console" just an hour or so after the PS3's stats showed it to be far more powerful <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif"> Nice surprise showing some Square Enix stuff during their show as well, when people were dubious as to whether they would be supporting the console or not. The currently unannounced title they show looks really rather like a new FF title...I wonder if FFXIII will be an Xbox 360 title? Limited backwards compatability (software emulated or something I hear - so only SOME titles, those they add support for, will work) is a plus, but it would have been nice to have full. Another FF style game in development is Last Oddessy (might have got that name wrong, I forget), which is kinda a no-brainer given that its being made by the creator of Final Fantasy who has since founded new studio "Mistwalker".

PS3 sounds insane from a power point of view, and really is quite an incredible sounding piece of hardware. Full backwards compatability with PS1 and 2 games, 256mb main memory AND 256mb of video memory, 2 terraflops of processing power (compared to 1 on the Xbox 360), etc... But to be honest, look at that controller! What have they done to it? Its like they thought it would be cool to turn the dual shock controller into a flipping boomerang! The game line up kinda trumps the Xbox 360 at this point - with big hitters like Metal Gear Solid, Devil May Cry, Tekken, Gran Turismo, Grand Theft Auto, Killzone and more apparently having sequels in development. If all those are early PS3 titles, I can imagine one HELL of a dry period while the next ones in those series are being worked on!

As for the revolution, well who knows. Apparently their press conference is today at some point, so we'll have to wait and see. I've heard rumours and seen a picture that shows the system and controller, but if they are true then god help nintendo. It was basically along the lines of a radio controlled car controller - single handed, with several thumb buttons and a trigger system of sorts. There has been a lot of speculation over the controller as apparently it will change the way people play games, but if you ask me it just looked rubbish. Here's hoping it will just be another fake, like that recent Virtual Reality headset video!




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Posted by Cassius on Tue May 17th at 7:07am 2005

Xbox 360's games make me soft. Developers need to recognize that failure to fully utilize the system/graphic resources available to them is nothing short of rape. One or two of the games presented on MTV demonstrated the system's real capabilities, and the rest were flat-out jokes.



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Posted by ReNo on Tue May 17th at 7:14am 2005

Don't base you opinions too much on that mate - I haven't seen the actual program but I have seen most of the game footage from it, and there is plenty more games of higher caliber than those being developed. Most of the gaming indutry kinda recognise that show as something for the non-gamers - our introduction to the system and its games is really e3.




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Posted by Leperous on Tue May 17th at 7:36am 2005

Well, extra power just means you'll have to pay more for both console and games. M$ can afford not to make much of a profit from this, so I'm guessing the XBox and games will be a lot cheaper than the PS3.





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Posted by ReNo on Tue May 17th at 8:10am 2005

While I'm not so sure power alone will make a difference in prices, the blu-ray discs that the PS3 is using could mean it is more expensive. As blu-ray isn't even used in any commercial devices just yet (or at least not on a large scale), and its a new medium, its far from cheap. It looks like its not even set to become the next standard after DVD either, so sony have perhaps taken a strange route in adopting it. It can hold 50gb or so, compared to the Xbox 360's dual layer DVD's holding only 9gb, but I doubt you'll see many games that really need that amount of storage. Its not like there were many multi-disc games in the current generation, and those weren't even using dual layer DVD's. Whether using blu-ray bumps up either console prices or game prices should be an interesting thing to see.




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Posted by habboi on Tue May 17th at 4:30pm 2005

When it is over just download the videos and see whats new <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">
Sadly it's not in Britain so I can't attend but at least I get to go to that other game show every year. (forgot what it is called :/)



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Posted by DrGlass on Tue May 17th at 6:39pm 2005

Also, E3 is invite only (I think), you have to be 21, and your not going to get a ticket unless your some how in the industry.




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Posted by habboi on Tue May 17th at 8:45pm 2005

Or a photographer that screams OMG OMG when they see a new Zelda game ROFL!




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Posted by Crono on Wed May 18th at 12:01am 2005

If you're in some field that is related to game design (specifically, so Computer Science doesn't count) you can get tickets.

A friend of mine has a bunch of classmates going this year. He's a computer animation major at the Art Institute. So, possibly, I'll look into getting tickets next year ...


Blame it on Microsoft, God does.




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