Topic: Gear up for e3!!!!!

[Smash_Brother]

It's not a sentiment which I expect to find shared among many.

It's just that I hate crowds and air travel with a burning passion. If I could drive to E3, I'd be able to handle it.

That, and there's no way I'd be able to escape my job for long enough.

[ThePerm]

29 days

[Knoxxville]

I'm going!  Already got my hotel reserved and everything!

This'll be my 3rd....I get to go off the strength of having a song on the LA RUSH soundtrack, so I'll have a Midway badge.  I LOVE HARDWARE YEARS!!

Has anyone designated a meeting place or anything yet (I need to read this whole thread)?  I think with would be cool to put some faces with the ranting!

[Kairon]

I'm first year Game and Simulation Programming at Devry Fremont... if the stars come into alignment, the mad dash to get registered and get the money for E3 for us Devry Freshmen will come to fruition.

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[Knoxxville]

If you do go, we gotta hook up....PM me or something!

[cubist]

This will be my fifth E3 coming up...I was going all three days for the first 3...but now I'm down to just going to one and getting it all in on the first day...more giveaways (t-shirts, demos, etc.).  I missed it last year, but with the REV, there's no way I'm going to want to miss...especially with the news of Red Steel.  There's got to be more!

[Knoxxville]

You said it!  I went last year, and it was okay....the only thing that REALLY made it worthwhile was the Twilight Princess demo....and Odama was cool too!  When the doors first opened, I made a mad dash for Ninty's booth and got into the Zelda line.....only waited about 30 mins.

The 360 failed to impress me, and I refused to wait in line to watch a PS3 "most likely" tech demo, that I saw lineless at CES anywayz.

Last year everybody had their PSP's out while waiting the 1st day for the doors to open, playing RR and Lumines....it's gonna be nice to see the role reversal and all the DS systems playing Mario Kart and Metroid Prime Hunters and Tetris!!

[Berto2K]

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Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
...and I can't see going through all the hassle just to be a few hours ahead of the internet.

or a few seconds after they happen like one site did at GDC .

This will be my 3rd year going.  A meetup for me would be slim to none chance since I will be working crazy the first 2 days, and some the third.  Most of day 3 will be just free time that I will have to use to catch up on all the things I didn't get to do when I was working before.

 

[ThePerm]

what will happen 28 days later

[Knoxxville]

Boy, you were waiting patiently for that one, eh Perm?

[ThePerm]

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[NWR_pap64]

I was just reading S_B's comments about E3 and how you guys reacted to that.

While S_B's opinion is far from the gamer norm, he does have a point in that it makes no difference whether you are there or at home. If we were living in an age where the internet didn't exist and there was no way to send up to the minute information, then going to E3 would almost be obligatory. But since we do get all the info we relly don't miss out of much.

On the other hand, S_B, the reason many are looking forward to E3 is because of the thrill of the show. Like being there, actually being there when they make a big announcement, to see the games long before they are release, to meet the celebrities behind the game and many, many more. So to an extend, going to E3 is more than just trying out games for some.

So E3 is like the ying and yang. On one side, it isn't that big of a deal because we always get the info. On the other, it's an unique experience.

[AnyoneEB]

On the contrary, going to E3 means you get to actually play (some of) the games instead of just hearing about them. I would say that does make a difference.

[Grant10k]

Going to E3 (from what I've heard) also means you get to wait in line for said games... You might acually get away with more information in less time by hearing about it an hour late over the internet.  

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

E3 is an amusement park.  You don't really take the attractions home with you.  You hope to get info, understanding, and surprises.

oh and free junk.

[IceCold]

Nintendo will have almost 3,000 square feet on the floor!

[jasonditz]

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Originally posted by: Professional 666
E3 is an amusement park.  You don't really take the attractions home with you.

Unless the attractions are downloadable DS games  

[ThePerm]

20 more days

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

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Originally posted by: jasonditz

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Originally posted by: Professional 666
E3 is an amusement park.  You don't really take the attractions home with you.

Unless the attractions are downloadable DS games

Hope you have many DS's or piracy hardware to save more than 1 temporary downloadable game.

Disappear like cotton candy.

[Knoxxville]

Yeah, it would be BANANAS to keep your DS on that long.  

[Kairon]

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Originally posted by: Knoxxville
FREE POST!!

Hey Kairon!  Is you going to E3?

Yup, but nothing's official yet. As soon as the word comes down from on high then I'm laying out real money...

/cry

I'M USING MY REVOLUTION SAVINGS TO GO TO E3!!!!!

/CRY

~Carmine M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

[Knoxxville]

Take heart comrade.....you will always be able to get a Revolution, but E3 is an experience of a lifetime.....just as a muslim must travel to Mecca at least once is his natural life, so must you make this neccessary pilgrammage.

Godspeed, old friend......godspeed.

[Ceric]

So E3 is a Gamers religious pilgrimage.  I now know what I have been missing in fully exploring my faith.  

[ThePerm]

2 weeks 1 day

[Grant10k]

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Originally posted by: ThePerm
2 weeks 1 day

15?

Tell you what, I'll save everyone some time.
Copy all of this into a text file, name it "I_am_a_board_fanboy.html, and set it as your homepage. This way, you can all post the time down to the second (assuming you know what time it starts) and make your post counts go really high. My post count is around 118, I expect it to hit the high 900's by the time e3 gets here.

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<head>
<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
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// Javascript Countdown
// Version 1.0 1/20/2000
// by TDavid at http://www.tdscripts.com/ <<it would be easy to take credit here, but meh --Grant
var now = new Date();
var event = new Date("May 09 2006 08:00:01");
var seconds = (event - now) / 1000;
var minutes = seconds / 60;
var hours = minutes / 60;
var days = hours / 24;
ID=window.setTimeout("update();", 1000);
function update() {
now = new Date();
seconds = (event - now) / 1000;
seconds = Math.round(seconds);
minutes = seconds / 60;
minutes = Math.round(minutes);
hours = minutes / 60;
hours = Math.round(hours);
days = hours / 24;
days = Math.round(days);
document.form1.days.value = days;
document.form1.hours.value = hours;
document.form1.minutes.value = minutes;
document.form1.seconds.value = seconds;
ID=window.setTimeout("update();",1000);
}
// --></script>
</head>
<body>

<p><font face="Arial" size="3">Countdown To E3 (around 8 o'clock) </font></p>
<form name="form1"><p>Days <input type="text" name="days" value="0" size="3"> Hours
<input type="text" name="hours" value="0" size="4"> Minutes <input type="text" name="minutes" value="0"
size="7"> Seconds <input type="text" name="seconds" value="0" size="7"> </p>
</form>

</body>
</html>

Edit: Turned off URL autoclicky