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Best E3 2005 coverage this year? IGN/G4 or GameSpot?

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I decided to follow up what I did last year and subscribe to GameSpot. Their were quick at offering downloadable Sony and Nintendo conference in 2004, the only two conference I was interested in. This year is quite different thought, it seems I am only interested in non direct feed stuff, which sucks.

Then I made the mistake of subscribing to IGN (at least it's cheaper than the last time I checked, with their quarterly basis) but I was expecting better quality than this; The Metal Gear Solid 4 teaser looks like Konami's WMV resized into 640 x 480 - pure bullshit...

Both IGN and GameSpot offered lots of content and special features about the show, but I am curious to read about which one you prefered to read. I guess most of you were counting on GAF to feed you with the latest information, but haven't you looked anywhere else?
 
Quite a bit of G4 coverage has been posted on usenet...

pyro-e3.2005.live.day.1.xvid posted in a.b.mm

pyro-e3.2005.live.day.2.xvid posted in a.b.tv

Both 700MB and nearly 90 minutes of coverage on each rls.
 
G4 and IGN have been awesome. 2 hours on E3 highlights each night on TV. Wow! The only thing that will make this better is if we get the conferences on G4 next year.
 
IGN's Livewire was a bust. When you weren't locked out of the stream, you were treated to insanely long COMMERCIAL BREAKS for King Hippo's radio show. Gee, thanks, I really wanted to hear about herbal douche before Perrin Kaplan's interview. IGN shines when it comes to high res media, and the speed of downloads was acceptable.

Gamespot was a return to form this year. Still a bit useless when it comes to impromptu booth tours, "Let's see what's this way! Oh, nothing. Well, back to you Ryan!" The interviews and game demos were much more impressive than IGN, and featured were games I actually had interest in. More compression than IGN vids, but media came fast and first most often.

G4, wow. Great job guys. I put up with the "funny" bumpers for the interviews, which were pretty well done. The toughest questions seemed to come from this show, and they were the questions many of us would have asked. Also, the trailers and media(even if truncated), were in full screen glory. The only way to see Killzone 2's trailer. I might have even enjoyed a few of the cornball sketches. Maybe.
 
Not bad coverage, but could always be better.
Like someone said... show the damn pre-e3 confrences. This is were 90% of all the excitement comes from. And I'm personally not a huge fan of interviews, I'm more interested in seeing how the game plays. But, other than that the IGN/G4 combo idea was dealt with pretty good. Most interviews and and quick clips were shown on G4, if that grabbed your interest you could head over to IGN and d/l more on the game that you found interesting. Looking forward to next years if all things work out well.
 
Teal'c said:
Not bad coverage, but could always be better.
Like someone said... show the damn pre-e3 confrences. This is were 90% of all the excitement comes from. And I'm personally not a huge fan of interviews, I'm more interested in seeing how the game plays. But, other than that the IGN/G4 combo idea was dealt with pretty good. Most interviews and and quick clips were shown on G4, if that grabbed your interest you could head over to IGN and d/l more on the game that you found interesting. Looking forward to next years if all things work out well.
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what? you can download all 3 pre-e3 conferences @ Ign. I have them all. About 3gigs worth.
 
Live of course.
sorry.

*Edit*
And by LIVE, I mean... on TV with no blackouts or tricky time delays. I can get the info from a forum or website afterwards... but that kills the hype. I want it to be a "higher than webcast quality" feed on my TV so I feel like I'm there. It isn't asking that much.
 
GAF + G4

GAF's a hub to all big gaming sites, videos, and new info. G4 had great interviews, some inciteful roundtable discussion, and clips of the games running on your TV (rox0r). Gamespot gets props for having videos of the conference easily .
 
IGN had more info, but it wasn't all that organized and the video quality sucked. Gamespot was more straightforward with their reporting and their videos kicked ass, no waiting at all (Aside from the commercials). I also think gametrailers.com did a good job this year too, nice video quality and I could adblock the commercials.
 
I was shocked at how much I started looking forward to watching G4 each day for their coverage. Even a couple of their lame gag sequences seemed a bit funnier than normal, possibly because they were less reserved about them. (And the Johnny Extreme sequence hit just about every stereotype possible, when he's even mentioning the sucky escort mission, you just had to snicker.) And it was really great to see, say, Sessler talking to Allard about PD0, and _NOT_ letting him PR-dodge away from the question. Allard had to say, "Halo was like that too!" about 20 times before Adam let him go about it. Might seem a bit obsessive, but considering how useless that type of interview is sometimes, from a gamer standpoint that was far more interesting.

Definitely not as a daily program, but if they used something akin to this blueprint for a show on, say, Saturday night, doing a week-in-review with the arguments, the analyzation, the tougher interviews, it might get me into tuning back in to G4 again. And that's a hell of a feat, considering how much I've hated them for their vapid programming and destruction of TechTV, so they can air... The Whip Set? Happy Tree Friends?
 
Kulock said:
I was shocked at how much I started looking forward to watching G4 each day for their coverage. Even a couple of their lame gag sequences seemed a bit funnier than normal, possibly because they were less reserved about them. (And the Johnny Extreme sequence hit just about every stereotype possible, when he's even mentioning the sucky escort mission, you just had to snicker.) And it was really great to see, say, Sessler talking to Allard about PD0, and _NOT_ letting him PR-dodge away from the question. Allard had to say, "Halo was like that too!" about 20 times before Adam let him go about it. Might seem a bit obsessive, but considering how useless that type of interview is sometimes, from a gamer standpoint that was far more interesting.

Definitely not as a daily program, but if they used something akin to this blueprint for a show on, say, Saturday night, doing a week-in-review with the arguments, the analyzation, the tougher interviews, it might get me into tuning back in to G4 again. And that's a hell of a feat, considering how much I've hated them for their vapid programming and destruction of TechTV, so they can air... The Whip Set? Happy Tree Friends?
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Sessler was obviously on coke... I mean, you can't act that way drinking water and eating vegetables...
 
Moegames said:
:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
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Seriously, it is the connection to all the good news out there. And on top of that there's plenty of quality fanboy drama...without slipping into OA levels of retardedness (though it's close at times). Drinky's Thursdayton/Fridayton was the highlight of E3 for me. As a result, I think this was one of the best E3 ever.
 
I watched for the first time today GameTrailers' E3 2005 coverage, and I am impressed. Of course they are basically surfacing every booth of the floor, but when compared to a paid subscription of either IGNsider or GameSpot Complete, this is far more interesting... and free!
 
Just as a sidenote, if anyone watched it, cared, or noticed, I was actually on Filter tonight on G4. During the Zelda and Revolution clips, #4 and #2. They made me sound like a retard, but I was the guy standing infront of the robotic Stalfos talking about riding on a horse in Zelda and at the very end of the Revolution skit, the last person to talk, they took me out of context and I'm there yelling "I'm joining the revolution!"

Kind of funny.

So yea...... my vote is G4, heh.
 
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