Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!peter_alau@playstation.sony.com From: Darco Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: E3 Questions for all who attended, esp. Mario Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 16:18:51 -0400 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 67 Message-ID: <35745E2B.B68ED160@mail.datasys.net> References: <35718657.3581814@news.scea.sony.com> Reply-To: darco@bigfoot.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.dialup.datasys.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Matthew Hulett wrote: > > Hello to all you lucky guys, > Well, I could ask a million questions, but let's start off with > just a few: > > 1) In your opinion, which company made the biggest impression at the > show? Who were people talking about? Close ties are allowed... Honestly, the coolest booth was the Sony booth; Except the word "booth" is a massive understatment, "Section" is a better word. They had 2 huge 2-story TV screens, a catwalk, a restraunt, and countless game units set up - one of which was using a blue debug unit. Nintendo had the second largest booth, but it was as cool as the sony booth. Definately, the coolest thing there in my opinion was the Color Gameboy. It got me excited, I really liked it. It was small, and had a beautiful color screen. I had the honor to attend the SquareSoft Press Conference. I got to see the President of Square, the Producer of FF8, and the president(I think) of EA. Two new companies were formed; Square EA(For square publishing in the USA), and EA Square(For EA publishing in Japan). I also got to see a video of FF8 at the press conference... Words can't describe it. The game will be breathtaking; absolutely breathtaking. Anything I say here cannot possibly do justice to what this game will be, so I won't even try. > 2) What games were you most impressed with? What games were people > talking about? FF8 was the game that I was most impressed with, even though all I got to see of it was 3 minutes of video. Crash Bandicoot Warped was in my opinion the funnest game I got to play. It supports the Dual Shock Analog pad, and it felt great. Parasite Eve looked very good. The CGI scenes were well directed, and the battle system was very original. Expect this game to be almost as popular as FF7. > 3) Where were Dreamcast/Katana and Project X? What was your > impression of their debut? If they were there, where were they shown > and who got to see them? What was the 'buzz'? Well... It's just Dreamcast for now; although alot of people aren't happy with the name. (I remember hearing on imagine radio them saying it sounded like a bed matris) The Sega booth turned out to be a disapointment, with nothing really spectacular and NO dreamcast on display. The Dreamcast was shown at E3, but only behind closed doors and was only shown on the 27th -- a day before I arrived at E3. I might have been able to get a gander at it as I had a media pass, but I couldn't skip another day of school. -- 'Darco darco@NOSPAM@bigfoot.com Please replace "@NOSPAM@" with an "@" to email me. UIN: 1454810 (You can page me at http://wwp.mirabilis.com/1454810) WWW: (sorry, page is down) Voria: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/voria PGPKey: http://www.datasys.net/users/stu/rquat/pgpkey.txt "Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean that they are not out to get me."