Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Nick Ferguson" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: ECTS: Viewpoint... Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 11:18:47 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 90 Message-ID: <7r817i$23b14@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <936565931.1478197387@news.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup137-108.saqnet.co.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Hi all, God, Scotland's so much colder than London. Brrr! I hope my US Dreamcast arrives before the weekend. What else? Oh yeah, ECTS... Highs: - Black and White preview and chat with Peter Molyneux - Meeting the NY "crew" by Westwood's stand. Big shout to the BOYZZZZZZZ! (ahem) - Eating out a lot - Dreamcast looking GREAT (esp. Soul Calibur and HOTD2) - Perfect Dark, despite being the hoary old E3 demo - Getting RESPECT as a semi-bonafide member of the press! - People knowing Loonygames and saying "Hi!" etc :) - Not meeting anyone from Rare ;) - Free food and drink (thanks, Sony) - Joytech girls, and those Union Jack "tops" - WOOO! - Seeing lots of "famous" industry people - Interplay's piss-take video screening - Freebies (inc. Sony bag, t-shirts and demo CDs) - Mr Frosty helping out a damsel (read: babe) in distress. The picture in her wallet was her brother, man! Lows: - Hot, hot, hot Sony stand! - Not blagging a free Neo-Geo - Tiredness (read: being an unfit geek) - Spending too much $$$$ - Not being able to hear many of the games - Not as many fit/willing/drunk/matronly* women as last year - Not getting enough pictures of the show (see above) - Not getting to see GTA2 in action - Getting up *gasp!* before 10am - Not seeing even a whisker of Miyamoto, the wily midget - Too many pimple-faced kids getting in. Call security! - No Get Bass or Shen Mue (indeed, no official Sega presence in general) - Londoners (no offence) - DEnnis getting a letter in EDGE (it had to happen eventually) - Did anyone really WANT those PlayStation black plastic bags? SPECIAL ECTS WEIRDO AWARD: That malformed chick in the PlayStation ad (Bob Shand's girlfriend!) The lows seem to outnumber the highs, so it must have been a crap show. But I enjoyed myself! Eh? Nick's Notable Games(tm): (good/interesting) Rare's N64 trio (obviously), Gran Turismo 2, Giants, Resident Evil 3, Dino Crisis, Wip3out, Soul Calibur, HOTD2, Trickstyle, Resident Evil GB, MDK 2, Messiah (again), Prince of Persia 3D, Konami's "Bemani" things, 'Korea Game' stand everyone (rightly) ignored, "kiddy software" (i.e. that PlayMobil farming thing), Un Jammer Lammy, TOTAL SOCCER GB!!!, Super Smash Bros, Shadowman, Rogue Spear, Micro Machines 4, Nassim Boxing, Mud n Blood 64, plus a whole lot I forget (crap/boring/disappointing/obviously pre-alpha) Titus' entire stand, a depressing number of racing games, Nintendo showing 3 yr old games like Mario (WTF?), Turok Rage Wars, all the South Park games, and all uninspired genre clones (excluding Resident Evil 3, which has zombies), PC strategy/sim games i.e. Blue Byte Software, No Fear Racing, all of EIDOS' games and GTA2 (they wouldn't let me see them), C&C: Renegade, anything by the self-styled "Hex Heroes", and everything else. And with my wrath suitably vented ;) Nick F *delete as applicable ------------- www.saqnet.co.uk/users/nickf www.loonygames.com www.netyaroze-europe.com/~rookie1 "Game over, man. Game over!"