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May. 19th, 2005

E3 Day 2

May. 19th, 2005 04:13 pm
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The attendance continued to be very heavy. Even Kentia Hall (aka the "Hall of Losers") was pretty busy all day--it is the third hall where the cheaper booth space is available so it tends to have value title publishers, developer support services, weird gaming gadgets, extra meeting rooms, etc.

Most of the games around the show are naturally for consoles (lots of XBox and PS2), with maybe one PC only title coming from the major publishers. D&D Online looked like a predictable but well executed MMO, and otherwise I didn't see much of personal interest. All the PC stuff I saw outside the Microsoft Games for Windows booth was a first-person shooter, an MMO, or a real-time strategy game. Of those, much of them were either existing franchises or licensed content (Stargate, The Matrix, etc.) Basically the status quo for the big houses.

Starcraft Ghost was a big part of Blizzard's booth, which is a console-based shooter-style game. There were huge lines to check out World of Warcraft, which I'm guessing was showing the high-level play options.
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I've managed to miss just about every show related party event. I don't have the contacts to get invites myself, the Microsoft party was Monday night before I arrived, and frankly I don't care about drinking to bother with all the pain of scamming into a party without an invite. Not a big deal, but I wouldn't have minded a bit of dancing with fellow 'white boy dancers'.

Talking with a local, I got the suggestion to see Revenge of the Sith at the Arclight Hollywood. Naturally the digital projection showings are all sold out for the week, but I did get a ticket for the regular show. Hopefully there will be a good fanbase there at the time I'm there.

Oh, I don't sleep particularly well in hotels and I've been struggling to get to sleep the past few nights. Last night someone pulled the fire alarm at 5am. After 23 flights of stairs and sitting around blearly eyed for 15 minutes while they reset the false alarm, I had trouble getting back to sleep. Ass. Unlike Lost in Translation there wasn't a cute 20-something blonde to chat with while waiting. Maybe if I had been in Japan... and was Bill Murry.

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