This e3 has been a pretty awful experience. I've had to sit on nothing but insanely long lines to watch 15 minute demos. It is friday afternoon there is barely any media left and the wait for Nintendos Zelda line is currently 3 to 4 hours. The wait for PS3 demo is ridiculous as well. Then there are the lines for quake 4, call of duty 2, king kong, unreal, "Sega Theater," etc. And these are not short waits, I waited on line for call of duty 2 for an hour before I finally gave up and left. Imagine the worst amusement park imagineable and that in a nut shell is e3 2005. Imagine 3 hour waits in line to see 15 minutes of prerecorded video. Everyone walks around with gigantic show bags filled with nothing. Everyones bags are empty because the booths have become extremely stingy. There was a frenzy for Ati t-shirts that was quiet frankly disturbing. Mountain Dew, G4, and a few others deserve credit for being generous.
Now you might ask why would you wait on those stupid long lines when you could play games. Well the lines to play games aren't very long at all, maybe only 2 to 3 people deep.
The reason for this is simple, the games suck. Well the games on the show floor suck. Maybe you can find a decent game to play tucked away in a small quiet meeting room, but not on the show floor. Show floor access will get you nothing at E3 2005. All the big games we want to play like Perfect Dark (played by celebrities not by games media), Zelda, Kameo, Gears of War, DOA4, Ninja Gaiden, Ghost Recon 3, Unreal, Quake 4, GTA PSP, etc. are not playable. I came here to play these games and I will leave having played none of them.
This is the most dead I have ever seen E3, even by Friday standards this is bad. And yet the lines never end. In past E3's I have waited on line for things like PSP, Halo 2 demo, DS and it was never this bad. Like I said before imagine the worst amusement park ever and that in essence is E3 this year. Intolerable. Don't expect next year to be much better with Nintendo and Sony closely guarding their new systems games as MS is this year.
Now you might ask why would you wait on those stupid long lines when you could play games. Well the lines to play games aren't very long at all, maybe only 2 to 3 people deep.
The reason for this is simple, the games suck. Well the games on the show floor suck. Maybe you can find a decent game to play tucked away in a small quiet meeting room, but not on the show floor. Show floor access will get you nothing at E3 2005. All the big games we want to play like Perfect Dark (played by celebrities not by games media), Zelda, Kameo, Gears of War, DOA4, Ninja Gaiden, Ghost Recon 3, Unreal, Quake 4, GTA PSP, etc. are not playable. I came here to play these games and I will leave having played none of them.
This is the most dead I have ever seen E3, even by Friday standards this is bad. And yet the lines never end. In past E3's I have waited on line for things like PSP, Halo 2 demo, DS and it was never this bad. Like I said before imagine the worst amusement park ever and that in essence is E3 this year. Intolerable. Don't expect next year to be much better with Nintendo and Sony closely guarding their new systems games as MS is this year.
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