E3 recovery
So glad that E3 is over and won’t have to deal with this for another year. One whole week in LA and I’m glad to be home. Overall it was a good E3, my first with Konami. No booth for Eidos but it was funny how their meeting room looked over our booth. From Sunday to Friday night, it was work all day, play all night. The real parties didn’t really kick off until Wednesday night. Got into the Ziff party for the first time and this year the GameSpot and IGN parties were the hard ones to get into. Didn’t really matter because some of us were going to see a midnight showing of Star Wars Episode III on opening day. It sounded like a great idea back in SF, but the reality settled in at around 11:30pm (WTF was I thinking?) Sitting in the second row wasn’t too fun either, have to see it again later. Then, to top it off, we were in Monterey Park at 2:30am waiting for a cab which took forever. Didn’t get back to hotel until 3:30am. 3 hours of sleep and it was back on the show floor. Then do it all again the next day. A lot of us were anticipating not going to the Sony party, the hottest ticket of the show, but at 5:45pm, Erica and Knoles came through with tickets for everyone. It was the same venue as last year, parking lot of Dodger Stadium, but the acts were considerably worse. First up was Jimmy Eat World, then a group called Camp Freddy. Camp Freddy apparently is a mish-mash of different musicians, including Dave Navarro. They bring out random musicians, this night was Tone Loc and Juliette Lewis. We left early and the rumor was Weezer was the headliner. But good thing we left because they weren’t there and it was a midget Kiss cover band. Got back to the hotel at 2am and I was out of it on Friday. To top it off, I had a floater shift on Friday morning so I was on my feet for 6+ hours. My feet were killing me, next year I’m going to wear Nikes instead of dress shoes. Friday night I just crashed. Congrats to Tina for passing the bar, we’ll celebrate next time I’m in LA. Now it’s time to catch on sleep, it’s probably going to take a whole week.
I did play Socom 3 and it rocks. Also won a Socom 3 hat!
