Comments on: PC Gamer Showdown: This Weekend

By: King Awesome

King Awesome — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:43:06 +0000

Count one more RPS’er as turning up for the panel quiz and new games on saturday. I’m bringing several people and I promised them you guys would be your usual amusing selves. So… don’t disappoint :)

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:42:38 +0000

Do we have a time for the panel quiz btw? I mostly just want to see Barnett being Barnett to be honest…

By: Ging

Ging — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:27:43 +0000

I now find myself with the sunday free, but can’t get down there particularly cheaply anymore… If only I’d just bought the train tickets weeks ago when it was cheap!

By: Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:51:09 +0000

I don’t understand why the event wasn’t held near Minneapolis. Please explain.

By: Malagate

Malagate — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:12:04 +0000

I’ve got some free tickets, was considering it, but then decided I am not sure I could be arsed to mill around in a massive crowd trying to reach a sweaty demo station to play (and probably suck at) a new game for 5 minutes.

Sounds nice, but I’m just too patient and can happily wait for them to be released and play them in my own home rather than trust in public transport on the weekend.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:31:40 +0000

I’ll be there, driving over 2 hours from the depths of Norfolk to spend hours queueing for L4D etcetera.

By: Switch625

Switch625 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:08:24 +0000

A taxi from Kenilworth to Leam on a Saturday night will set you back about 15 quid due to the robbing gits that run the taxis round here.
The showdown’s at Stoneleigh Park though, which is technically closer to Leamington than Kenilworth, so it should be a tad cheaper.

Thoroughly looking forwards to it, myself. I am coming armed with my free tickets that I won thanks to the heads-up on these very pages. Yes!

By: Dean

Dean — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:26:23 +0000

I guess I should swallow the taxi cost given that I won free tickets, though it’s looking like I’ll be going on my lonesome due to my local geek-friends (including the one with a car) not being able to make it – anyone else heading back to Leamington the Sunday night and want to split a cab fare?

The irony of course is if this were further away like in Birmingham it’d be easier to get back…

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:11:04 +0000

Next year, make it two weeks earlier.

Not that you organised it, I’m just doing it in a kind of internet-third-person-who-ruins-things sort of way. Screw you, transient events organiser! I know you’re reading this.

By: Tarn

Tarn — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:44:34 +0000

I really quite fancied this (almost entirely for L4D and the panel), but the frustrating lack of useful information (such as an actual schedule showing when things like the panel were happening) on the official site until rather late in the day meant I never quite got round to it and, alas, am now entirely booked up this weekend with filming.

Which is a bit of an arse, as I was looking forward to making it my first gaming event since starting my little gaming blog. Next year, perhaps?

In the meantime, make sure you all take lots of photos and videos and pester the devs to tell you secret things. :)

I’m expecting hourly RPS updates.

By: Katsumoto (jvgp100)

Katsumoto (jvgp100) — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:40:24 +0000

Do you guys have a timetable for the saturday? I am coming but potentially not until late afternoon – what time is this quiz for instance? Can we still check out the new games all throughout the evening? etc!

edit: Okay sorry didn’t read that link first because i’m a twat – the quiz is in the evening? Hurrah! But what about the awesome games? I want DoW2 action baby! Yeah. I’m pretty psyched now.

By: AndrewC

AndrewC — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:34:31 +0000

Pull someone local.