So I didn’t get any more than one fifteen minute podcast done. Scheduling proved very difficult this year, and even if I had scheduled things, I had appointments bumped and moved and delayed all week so there would have been no guarantee of anything during the day and people were busy at night.<\/p>\n
Some thoughts:<\/p>\n
1) We are coming perilously close to the big, crowded E3s that everyone was complaining about five years ago. Though I’m not willing to go as far as Bill Abner and wish for the return of the insurance brokers’ convention that passed for E3 a couple of years ago, all the noise and crowds made it difficult to stay sane and get my work done. Best Buy and Gamestop employees without purchasing power have no business on the floor. Sorry.<\/p>\n
2) I went to zero parties this year, which is a first for me. Part of it is that I didn’t hear about or get invited to many. I had an invitation to the Bethesda one, but was not in a mood to go that far out of the downtown area. I’m too old and invested in being functional the next morning to want to be out drinking till 4 every night, but maybe one night would have nice. For tradition’s sake.<\/p>\n
3) Once again, very few strategy games on display. In the chaos of the floor, most would not show well in any case. Therefore, most were tucked away in demo rooms or cubicles. The strategy surprise of the show is probably End of Nations, from Trion and Petroglyph. This might be the AAA MMORTS people have been waiting for.<\/p>\n
4) I loved hanging out with the Gameshark people, and Tom Chick managed to join us for dinner most nights. I’ve been told that I tend to attract good people because I have a reputation as being good to work with. I think it’s more that I tend to seek out people that I want to work for and with. The site is impossible to read and navigate, but there is a strong core of writing talent there that will only get better. And every one of them is hilarious in person.<\/p>\n
5) The people who ran the media hospitality room sucked at refilling the coffee thing. Note to catering: You will always need more caffeinated than decaf at 9 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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