Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Ed Fear" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: Re: ECTS: Viewpoint... Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 11:26:26 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 142 Message-ID: <7rdag8$mac13@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <936565931.1478197387@news.playstation.co.uk> <7r817i$23b14@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: host5-99-54-29.btinternet.com X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Right, here goes... Nick Ferguson wrote in message news:7r817i$23b14@chuka.playstation.co.uk... > 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 I only got to meet him for about 30 seconds, and all he said was "Hello friend". > - Meeting the NY "crew" by Westwood's stand. Big shout to the BOYZZZZZZZ! I wanted to, but we couldn't find it! AAAARGH! Sorry all you guys... I guess you just had to struggle without me ;-) > - Eating out a lot > - Dreamcast looking GREAT (esp. Soul Calibur and HOTD2) I agree, although I thought it was quite strange that it wasn't on a Sega stand.... > - Perfect Dark, despite being the hoary old E3 demo Never saw it (thank god) > - Getting RESPECT as a semi-bonafide member of the press! With my new ConsoleDomain job, that'll happen to me next year (I hope) > - People knowing Loonygames and saying "Hi!" etc :) Bugger. > - Not meeting anyone from Rare ;) Ooook, let's skip that one... > - Free food and drink (thanks, Sony) Damn, I never got any. Screw you sony! > - Joytech girls, and those Union Jack "tops" - WOOO! Hmmm, now that was a good sight. Did you see anyone go down the big slide, cos I did. And I played on the giant Connect 4... > - Seeing lots of "famous" industry people Only Peter for me... boo hoo... > - Interplay's piss-take video screening ??? > - Freebies (inc. Sony bag, t-shirts and demo CDs) Yes, now they WERE good!! I didn't think I'd get THAT much stuff!! > - 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! Fuck yes, it was wasn't it. > - Not blagging a free Neo-Geo > - Tiredness (read: being an unfit geek) ;-) > - Spending too much $$$$ > - Not being able to hear many of the games True, esp. Final Fantasy VIII which has the best music in the world > - 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 He never turns up, does he? > - Too many pimple-faced kids getting in. Call security! Right, that's it. Yes, I got in, and so na-na-nana-na to you. Ssssh! > - 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!) She is SO malformed - it's scary > The lows seem to outnumber the highs, so it must have been a crap show. But > I enjoyed myself! Eh? True, but I enjoyed myself also. It was my first ECTS, and I liked it. My Faves: Final Fantasy VIII - god that game is good (I've now got it on US import) Sonic Adventure Um Jammer Lammy Pokemon (got it on US import) Watching the Konami Dancers on that Arcade Dancing Machine (the name escapes me) Playing MGS : SM Rogue Spear My Lows: Looking for a toilet for a few hours Prince of Persia 3D... Harvest Moon 64 (YUCK!!) Castlevania 2 No Net Yaroze stand!! Bye now, Ed ;-) edfear@epistaxis.co.uk --- Lead Programmer - Epistaxis Studios www.epistaxis.co.uk www.consoledomain.com ---