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Thursday, May 19, 2005
Fork in the tongue. | Now that all of the major E3 press conferences are over, everyone's had some time to digest them and reflect on 'em.
I have to say that in general, I was pretty happy with Sony and Nintendo. Microsoft's conference was less interesting than I'd actually hoped for. "My Xbox 360 connects me to the experiences I care about". Is it just me, or has Microsoft perfected the art of lame PR speak? What experiences are they specifically talking about? Buying pizza while watching porn while playing Halo? *shrug*
Not to say that Xbox 360 itself is necessarily a disappointment. I find myself defending it perhaps more than I should have to. I definitely think it has merit and there are some aspects of it that are pretty clever. I myself am not all that excited about it, but I think that's mostly because none of the games announced so far really grab me. Some show promise (and are games that I may have an interest in down the road), but right now nothing stands out for me. That's normal though; usually there is very little of huge value this early on.
I was semi-disappointed with the Nintendo conference, due to the lack of Revolution details. But having said that, I was reasonably happy with everything else. Clearly, the focus was being placed on DS and its Wi-Fi capabilities. And that area kept me satisfied. Some of the newer games that were shown were also pretty exciting to see (I'm really looking forward to New Super Mario Bros.)
On another note, I want to publicly apologize to Shinmaru. I made a comment (a sarcastic comment intended to be a joke) on his blog. AzureWolf (the subject of my comment) responded pretty nastily. But I take responsibility; even in fun, I probably shouldn't stir.
To Azure, I think it's probably a question of knowing me. I mean...knowing that I'm a pretty lighthearted person. Try not to take things too seriously, it's really not good. I certainly try not to, anyway. Yeah, I get into discussions that are serious, but I basically keep a lighthearted view of things as best I can.
It certainly isn't nice to be torn to shreds and labeled as essentially promiscuous by someone who doesn't know the first thing about you. Believe me, not fun.
With that out of the way (hopefully for good, lest I need to take out an extremely big mallet - I kid!), the only other real item of note is the fact that the week has been so extraordinarily busy! Despite the major network-related stuff that's going on right now, I've had a whole heap of other work on my plate, which hasn't been particularly fun.
I handle marketing for my dad's company and I've had to put together a whole batch of new materials; everything from a little brochure to other stuff. In between printing problems (it's amazing how often printers can lose your discs) and other issues, it's amazing that anything got done. But it did and we're all happy. Tonight I certainly feel relieved to have most of that weight lifted. It was sitting over me for the past couple of weeks.
Oh well, other than being busy and incurring God's wrath, things have generally been pretty quiet, other than the whole E3 thing. I'm not too interested in much of the coverage for some reason; perhaps there just isn't all that much I want to read about. Still, it's always a fun time of the year. N-Sider is going to be very busy and I have am preparing a few things to do with our E3 coverage over there, so that'll be fun.
Anyhoo, I'd better get going for now. But before I go, I just want to mention that now Annie has Guild Wars. So...that's just one more Otakuite with the game. Yum. A few more and we'll have a real little army on our hands. ~_^
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