Okay, so I know I’m a noob when it come to the whole E3 thing, but from my perspective, the event is not as cool as what I was lead to believe. Sure the 3DS was ridiculous and awesome, but really, that’s been the only thing worth seeing at the convention. I know they kind of killed it with the “no public allowed” persona that they went for three years ago, but come on! There’s supposed to be 45,000 people here this week and for the life of me, I can’t find them.
That probably explains why I was extended an invitation (the one person who actually dished out $400 to go to this event from what I’ve unofficially gathered by the conversations I’ve been having so far).
Here’s the thing, no one plays “The Deadliest Catch”, so I guess it’s no surprise that the Discovery Channel’s gaming presence is relegated to just two television monitors hooked up to a support pillar to the right of the entrance way. I watched your video on “Man vs. Nature” the video game, and I can tell you this, I bet I was the only person to bother to sit through the entire 1:30 minute video. The Hello Kitty people had a better turn out, and I bet their MMO is way better than the two generation old tech you were showing off. I’m bad at animation and I bet I could do better.
Also, Bethesda, you want people to hype your game, let them into your fucking theme park. I know it’s cool to be mysterious and shit, but you have a t-rex in your booth you sure as hell better let people without a press badge and an appointment see it. I’m sure you spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on it, might as well let it get some use. Also, your reveal in “Brink” would have been an actual reveal if we knew what the hell was going on. I mean seriously, is that the mages tower from Oblivion? Because otherwise, I have no idea what’s so amazing about about that place.
Kinect? Like the building set? Cause that requires more imagination than the shovelware that will probably come out with that system. I don’t need a $150 tabbed browsing system that you’re trying to sell me. I’m sorry, until you can provide the holodeck, you’re not going to be able to take away my controller. Not from my cold dead hands.
And don’t even get me started on the Move. You might have been cool three years ago, but at this point, you’re going to have to wait until the PS4 to come out and you bundle that with the system before people start buying that product. The only thing going for it is the two handed capabilities, the Wii mainly focuses on one hand at a time, and if you can corner the two handed motions then maybe, just maybe you’ll be useful. Maybe the Sony is banking on the fact that it needs about three years to catch up, so it would always go through this mocking phase, who knows. Come back to me in three years.
I still have one day left for this Con to impress me, but as a layman, who can’t get into the interviews in that sea of cubicles, well, you’ve lost me. If this is the Gaming Cons to end all Gaming cons, man/woman impress me. Cause so far I’ve gone to bed before midnight and not felt like I’ve missed out on anything.
Peace Out.