EG Expo 2011

It's that time again, so who else is along this year?

I've got tickets for all the days and am actually doing it properly this year as I'll be staying in a hotel near Earl's Court, sharing with Retroid and Vroom.

I'm sure that'll be very cosy. :-D

I'll be there, want a big gay meet up?

The gay part is optional.

It would have been even cosier if Retroid hadn't lost all his chubs!

Unfortunately I haven't.. :-|

A meet up is a certainty DDevil, we'll leave the gay stuff out though! :-D

I'll be there on Friday (but you know that). Will also probably be there for the Saturday shindig.

I'll be there on Sunday, going for the first time.

have fun chaps, i still havent summoned up the courage to go to one of these yet.

You wimp!

Some of us are meeting up for a bevvy or three in the Ship & Shovell, Charing Cross tomorrow evening if anyone wants to pop along that isn't going to the Expo.

I'll be going to Friday (Curry Night), Saturday (Piss Up) and maybe Sunday (Daisy's day off).

My feet are killing me after four days of Expo it was fun though.

I wish I had booked tomorrow off work to recover. That's a fucking long drive after all that expoing and drinking.

Highlights of the show?

I had to bugger off a bit early in the end but got to see everything I wanted even if I didn't get to play as much as everyone else.

For me Zelda Skyward Sword looked lovely, Mario Land looking nice and BF3 is absolutely stunning. Oh and I also finally played OoT on 3DS. I was hoping it would be pap, but... it's not, is it. MUST. NOT. REBUY. 3DS.

With my interest in gaming waning I was hoping to get really exciting by new things at the expo, but honestly the thing that got me going most was seeing R2D2 rolling around! o/

Oh, ICO and SotC looked great in HD remix by the way. Very nice.

Any thoughts on Rage?

Really quite interested in that, as Gears 3 is leaving me a bit cold.

Rage, It looked... pretty. Again though my overriding thought on stuff was that there is a lot of games out there that are more of the same.

First time I saw GoW3 running actually. Looks the same but a bit smoother. MW3 (whilst silky) is starting to show its age imo. I was surprised how bloody fast it was though. I don't remember MW being that fast, but I'm assured that it was.

Oh.. Batman... Looked like more of the same (but I guess that's a good thing).

I'm in this camp too :)

LOL at the VG24/7 article on how awesome the expo was and how it's arrived as an "event" with the TOR announcement.

This on a website that's co-owned by Rauper and was a media partner for the expo.

Oh wow, didn't know Rauper co-owned that place, too.

In their defence, my impression from watching/reading reports, and speaking to other people who'd been, was that it *has* actually "arrived as an event" this year, though. The location for the last two years and the TOR announcement this year are pretty decent indicators that it is now a Big Thing.

Same number of attendees as GAMEfest apparently. About a tenth of the numbers of the biggie in Cologne. Not doing it down but the article was so very TechCrunch in it's gushing with a tiny disclaimer right at the end :)

Last week I held an AATG expo.

Its attendance was 1 because I didn't fucking tell anybody.

;)

You're getting that mixed up with DDevils big gay meet up aren't you? Noticed a big posse of the GamerDads forum were there too. Me, I was doing my fucking guttering whilst the missus was being told about her redundancy options.

Think the VG24/7 article was post event though? If bookings aren't open it might be a bit early for next year :D

Not going to do a long post of what I played but I will list things I'll be buying from playing/watching.

Rage, Ridge Racer Unbounded (god I hate that name), Battlefield 3, Anarchy Reigns*, Ghost Recon Future Soldier, Tintin**, Saints Row the Third, Batman Arkham City, Skyrim, Dark Souls and some others I'll probably edit in when I remember them.

Most certainly will not be buying that new Ace Combat game (it's shit), Modern Warfare 3 (it's the same fucking game), Ninja Gaiden 3, NFS:The Run (it's the same fucking game as well).

*when it's cheap (which will be about 2 weeks after launch I'm sure)

**yes really, it's a nice fun platformer (with other bits) and you can knock out bad guys with beach balls.

One thing my expo experience drove into me was how much I absolutely detest the sticks on the DS3.

And another thing, the console versions of BF3 do look pretty damn good considering how great it is on PC.