Check out some other people’s comments over at slashdot. I’ll be sure to give my rundown of the exhibit when I get back in town. I’ve been waiting for this to get stateside since I got the book and wrote a review of it (thank goodness for ! even though Joystick101 is back online, the archives seem to be missing and I can’t find my original copy of the review). In other news, I’m heading up to Chicago Monday to take in the Game On exhibit. It might get more awesomness-ativity later on. Of course I have barely gotten into it, so I won’t judge it too harshly, yet. Sure it is all outside, but that’s more or less the only remarkable feature I’ve seen so far. Where can I get some of that crack you’re smoking? I mean, I’m only an hour into it or so, but the game seems really blaa and unremarkable. However, as far as the game itself goes… All of you people that gave it 90% and higher. Sweet! I applaud Crytek or ubisoft or whoever it was that made the installer smart enough to know I have two disk drives! However, imagine my surprise when it asked for disk 3! It automatically knew that I had disk 2 in the other drive and didn’t even ask me for it. I had anticipated on trying to switch the drive letter when it asked for disk 2. I put disk one in my main cd drive (which is of course a dvd drive…) and put disk 2 in my other cd drive (which, of course, is also a dvd drive… see a pattern here?). Unfortunately, it wasn’t the DVD version, but the 5 CD version. Well, yesterday I saw Far Cry on sale for $19.99 and so I bought it. Let me use both of my cd drives when I install your games. We spend three hours in there playing games. In fact, the only FPS game was Metroid Prime which people claim isn’t really a FPS at all.ĭespite these holes, the exhibit was rather complete with everything from Space Invaders to DDR, from Donkey Kong to Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. Other omission were online games of all kinds and fighting games (there was a copy of one of the street fighters). There was, however, the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. There was no Doom, or Quake or even Ultima or Diablo. It seems like it your fingers should go up in the front but it doesn’t have trigger or shoulder buttons. I finally got to play an Atari Jaguar and have to agree that it does have a very odd controller. They did have one MAME machine connected to a big screen but the rest were actual arcade machines and consoles. I had heard that they used emulators, but almost all the machines there actually were on original hardware. I went to the Game On exhibit in Chicago last Monday and I give it thumbs up. Waiting for me when I got back home was my newest addiction: DDR! I played it at the Game On exhibit in Chicago and realized that I am horribly out of shape, so now I am on the DDR exercise routine! The fat is just melting away! However, on top of that, she had a New Jersey accent! That threw me for a loop. She had a Mexican accent, which, again, I like to think I can do a pretty good job of understanding. The woman working at the airport stumped me though. I’ve got friends from all over the world so I think I’ve gotten pretty good at understanding non-native speakers of english. While I was waiting in Newark I also had a unique experience. A 6ft4 guy in the back of the plane ain’t a god time. … via Newark! I had a 3 hour layover in Newark and didn’t get back to Indy until 11:30am the next day. I had a flight from San Diego that left at 10pm pacific time back to Indianapolis. The flight back was a nightmare, however. If you’re looking for a nice conference to go to you could do worse than the PCA. There were 6 videogame panels in two days and although I missed a couple, the 4 I caught were great. So I made it back from the Popular Culture Association in sunny San Diego.
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