UK Game Shows thread - Video now posted.

[Olympichero]

Weren't you just getting on a high horse about elitism a few weeks ago. A bit of consistency please!

Hey Lyris, if you're reading this thread lemme know if you got my GS tix okay.

You musnt have seen Consolevania then ?_?

[macosx]

excellent vid neil, thanks

[Lyris]

Hey Lyris, if you're reading this thread lemme know if you got my GS tix okay.

I did Firsty, on the morning before we left - thanks very much

one thing that I am convinced about now though is that LCD screens completely suck for video games.

Don't be too put off - the ones at the show were running in Composite video - all of them. As far as I know, LCD (and I think also Plasmas) make a great source look excellent, but a bad quality one look like utter crap.

I'll upload pictures soon and already have some crappy short silent digital camera Quicktime clips at my site. The Halo 2 one is especially bad, it's hard to play the game with one hand (har har) and I wasn't going to sit back and let someone play for me when I'd been lining for 2.5 hours!

Wasnt too impressed by the graphics, thought it would look a bit better (might have been my tv though cos my friends didnt say anything).

I was disappointed graphically, I thought the frame rate would have been improved a little from the first game, and all the jaggies were still there. Composite video on an LCD didn't help any though of course, and we were probably playing an outdated build anyway so let's hope it's improved before it ships.

[Yoshimoto]

Spent 30 mins at ECTS yesterday...what an absolute joke that was. Its been ****e for a few years but ECTS 2004 is taking the piss now. Can't wait for next weeks MCV magazine where it tells us that the show was a huge success for the UK Industry. If anyone reading this is planning to go today then please just don't waste your time. If the organisers have any sense at all then this will be the last one. Its dead.

Couldn't be bothered going to Gamestars. I don't like kids at the best of times so i certainly wasn't going anywhere where i'd have to fight through hoards of them to get near any games. Looks a million times better than ECTS from the pictures though i must say.

So instead we decided to spend a couple of hours at the Troc and proceeded to beat all comers at Outrun 2...I hope there is more of a challenge when the XBox version comes out. After that a quick trip to the Japan Book Centre was in order and spent a small fortune on back issues of Weekly Famitsu and Arcadia that i've missed over the last few months.

Having nothing else exciting to do, we decided that we should wait outside the premiere of Tom Cruises' new film and take a look at the proceedings. Luckily we managed to get a spot right at the front of a barrier. We hung around there for about an hour and a half or so. Had a quick hand shake with Tom (we're on first name terms now) and then set off back up North.

We had a good day and a laugh. Just don't waste your time going to ECTS thats all.

[edandersen]

EGN: Great when you blag into invitation only rooms.

ECTS: Comically ****



Game Stars Live: Bo!

[MartyG]

Thanks for the impressions. I'm glad I didn't make it to ECTS now, sounds like it would have been a waste of the train fare.

[HaHaUK]

took my little bro today, and went equipped with a digital camera. took over 60 quality pictures (the best were when master cheif was taking something from a little baby and a fat kid playing donkey konga on the big screen whilst sitting on the floor).

30mins before the show finishes im looking through the pictures and accidentily press a button and what does it do? delete all the pictures!

and there i am 30min before closing time running around taking random pictures of everything.

so..do any sympathetic ntsc-ers have the heart to send me a bunch of cool pictures from their trip?

cheers
Hasan

[Ginza]

Fooking hell Ed you teh man. Have that one on the right.



Yeah i know the one on the left is more attractive but its all about teh 8008135

Could that one on the left be actually wearing any more? Is that even possible?



Sorry for looking at your images but you look the pimp on all of em! Im complimenting you, no ****.

[Lyris]

The Halo 2 place didn't allow cameras, but its the multiplayer version only no single player info.

...or didn't they!



"Oi! You with the camera!" (not really)

http://lyris-lite.net/upload/DSCN2343%20(Medium).JPG

Anyway, the reason for me bumping this, does anyone know anything about Game Stars Live 2005? I want to get my cheapo airline tickets early. Last time I was on their site the date was at the end of August, but the site is down now and has been for some time. Is it still going ahead?

[mr_sockochris]

Nope, it was cancelled a couple of months ago

[Lyris]

Buggery.

Does anyone have the official statement from the goons?

[MikeRox]

great, I cudn't go last year (was planning to right up until the week it happened, had tickets an stuff) and my gf gets a "once in a lifetime 3 day trip to rome" off her parents the same week so I had to go there instead :P turns out the game show was the once in a life time event :P ah well...

If I guilt trip her enough, E3 could very well be on the cards in the next few years