Be Excellent To Each Other

Yay!

This is closing in.

I fancy the look of this indie showing: http://gangbeasts.com

Video of the in game footage looked daft.

Not clicking on that link at work

Party Hard will be there too! Noice.

And this one looks interesting...

http://riotsimulator.org

and this Super Meat Boy rip off

http://alexrosegames.com/category/srbr/

I've owned that for about a year. Funny, and infuriates competitive people.

Have I mentioned that I'll be at this on the Friday? Well, I will anyway.

I'd best book the day off...

If you've purchased your ticket for this you should by now, or shortly hereafter, receive your codes for FREE GAME.

This is that free game. I'm going to say meh before it's even finished downloading.

I've got two extra Free Steam Unlockable Virtua Key Thing if anyone wants to play this thing. Just send me a PM with a picture of some tatties and the first two will get the FSUVKT.

This is next week!

Xenoblade Chronicles X is showing. SQUEEEEE!

2 more sleeps!

You're still a complete tit for going on the wrong day.

Questions:

Is there any Occulus stuff confirmed to be there?
Why is that list of games there swimming in stuff that's already out? Who wants to go to a gaming show to see MGS5, Destiny or Everybody's Gone to the Rapture when you could just buy them? Even more bizarrely Nintendo are showing off Mario Kart 8, a game that's been out for over a year!

It better be open when I turn up.

Oh, you mean, yeah, I know. Come down Thursday and we'll party in Birmingham.

Ive just had that same discussion with the bloke I'm going with. Ninty are just showing their face to sell their merch, if you ask me.

I couldn't see any Occulus stuff on the site but PlayStation VR will be there. Should be interesting and they should, hopefully, have more than one fucking helmet like Occulus have done for the last two years...

I'm here!

It's bleeding packed to the rafters. Seems everyone has early access.

See you Saturday!

I'm only here until Friday.

See you at the cottage then.

I'm there tomorrow... I did wonder how 'exclusive' the early access passes were if they were being offered to everyone.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to standing in a queue all day long.

I've queues for an hour for The Division. Well that's my early access hour wasted then.

Sat! The Pie Seller is calling YOU a prole!

Homefront: Revolution, surprisingly excellent.

Playstation VR is apparently by booking only.

Booking opened 2 weeks ago.

Now closed.

Shitheads.

Plus there's only 2 sodding helmets.

That's disappointing. One of the things I wanted to try.

Play Gang Beasts. Utterly fucking brilliant and attracting a good crowd.

What about The Division, man?

By the time it comes out, the graphics will look normal.

I do own it.

Could be brought to cottage. Maybe.

Shit. You've played games like it before.

Halo 5: it's Halo 4 again.

Cuphead: very pretty but not very exciting.

Super Hot: really fucking interesting. I really liked this and got bags of time on it.

Oohhh... I'm excited about Cuphead. I forgot about that.

I played the protoype of this and I just couldn't quite 'get' it; I got shot a lot and didn't really grasp how it worked.

The demo I played had a fair few levels just walking you through the mechanics and how time stays still unless you move. What I played was really interesting. There was no one on it when we rocked up (and only one Xbox with it on).

I remember playing the prototype of Super Hot. I fucking loved it, can't wait for the full release.

The demo had two playable levels I think. One was a sideways shoot em up and the other a two boss battle with no level to play through, just a big potatoe with two moves and a giant carrot with three moves, which wasn't very challenging (unless you've got cack hands, which apparently everyone in front of me did) but took ages to kill the bosses (who had no life bar so you never knew how far you were from killing them). I wasn't impressed at all.

And for the first year the queues for CoD were tiny. The beta appears to have killed interest in the game. Hopefully this will be the year when CoD takes a major dip in sales.

Oh, and I wouldn't call this "a looker" by the way. It looked like, erm, Watchdog perhaps? It certainly didn't look anywhere near, say, GTAV levels of wow.

Bah.

Couple of games of the year contenders:

1) Rise of the Tomb Raider.

Ok, more of the same perhaps but I'm going to be well upset that Xbox owners get to play this month's before I'll be able to.

2) Just Cause 3.

Just Cause 2 again (there's a theme to new big budget games, right? No new ideas) but this one is so explodey and so much fun to doss about in (as ever) that it's bound to be brilliant.

Multiple tethers is the best thing ever. EVER. One tether was good but, wow, this is fun city.

The queues were crazy today by the way. I pity you Saturday goers.

I suggest you play Just Cause 3 since you get 20 minutes play, the queues weren't bad at the start of the day (everyone rushed to play Battlefront. 2 hour queues!?) AND you get a goody bag with a free Google Cardboard.

Not one other single other game had a goody bag. Disappointing on the swag front this year.

EDIT: might help if I give you directions:

From the entrance - go left and head all the way down to the bottom (about half way down you reach a wall, just follow it along and continue to the left) through the over 18's area. When you get in the over 18's it's immediately on the left. You're welcome.

Also, please remember to watch the cosplay masquerade at 3PM. You're guaranteed to experience a range of emotions from sadness to sexual arousal. Not exclusively either.

Katsumi from Dead or Alive was especially good yesterday with her great bosoms but woefully inept ninja skills when she almost fell off the stage twice.

PoiDH.

Not a great picture but here it is.

I'm beginning to get a horrible feeling this entire day will be spent standing around and pointedly not playing any games.

I went today and yeah, the queues were massive on everything! I didn't bother with a lot of games because I'm not standing in a queue with a bunch of blokes who don't seem to think personal hygiene matters. Seriously, even on the shuttle bus on the way to the event, some guys stunk! What's wrong with having a shower in the morning? Honestly... Anyway, the event was alright. The queues put me off a lot of things but I played Cuphead so I was happy. Also, I met Big Boy Barry...

Turns out I have video evidence of all the cos players dancing to gangman style. It hurts to watch it.

I hate to say it, but yes it will... I watched a bit of the Division through a fence at one point before realising the queue had a sign saying "3 hours from this point"

I can imagine Saturday being just as bad as today if not worse. Thursday was by far the best day by a county mile.

I'd recommend getting around Gang Beasts though. 8 player fights with ransoms just jumping on and off. It was a joy to play with others gathered around just having a great laugh. It was as much fun to watch as it was to play.

The best thing about this was wandering around and slagging everything off with myp. It was shit and pointless and all the major exhibitors need a fucking kick in the balls for not knowing how to advertise. I get that actual hands on time with games is limited but will we at least have big screens up so the people not playing the games can watch the people who are? God no! We'll make it all weirdly secret squirrel so no one can actually see the fucking product we're supposed to be advertising unless they queued up for like four fucking hours or booked a slot weeks in advance because that apparently makes more sense somehow. Oh, and the really interesting stuff that benefits from time spent properly experiencing it like VR helmets; how many of those should we bring with us? Bearing in mind that everyone is clamouring for a shot and we're going to want them all to buy one pretty soon. Fuck, I dunno, how about fucking *two*? That sounds like enough right? Yeah, fucking two, that'll do it!

Pricks.