E3 in my backyard

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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I wish I could attend but I'm not important enought to go. :sad:

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

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

Whore yourself out

Eew! Now I feel dirty.

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French Toast said:
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.

Or at least conceived.

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 :biggrin: 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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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.

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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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.

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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When it is over just download the videos and see whats new :smile:

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 :/)

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.

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

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 ...

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