Or not…

Or if you were lucky enough, you get an orange from Tim Edwards :)

That PCGamer lan event was epic. Now I have to wait roughly 2 months for left4dead to be released :(

Were you the Ubisoft guy working the stand?

FruitlessEffort – Not polish, just spoilers. It’s a huge game – 80% into the game represents maybe 40+ hours of gameplay and associated story. That’s the only reason we were loading up the earlier save files (usually around 10 or 20%). Had I more time I’d probably have removed the later save files – no sense spoiling the story before the game’s out.

Hope that answers a few questions.

Mostly agree with the vibe here from other spectators – intersting stuff and people, a little thin but very promising. If it’s not in the back of beyond would be up for LANning and some sort of RPS uprising.

I feel the army was a great success :P
I think my friend (crouching, taking a photo in that shot), who’s idea it was, was mistaken for an Introversion employee for trying to set it up. We were hoping for a much larger army but eveyone hung onto their Multiwinian’s for dear life and I was only able to blag 8 of each colour from one of the lovely ladies working the stands.

I really hope this becomes an annual event and I am not at all surprised by EA’s complete lack of competency in showing their games. Its almost as if they dont want people to play their games.
I hope next year to be able to watch the tournaments on view-screens or something. There was just too much seperation between the “spectators” (no spectating took place in the slightest) and the competitors.

Something about fifa 09 is completely awesome, it seems to have better physical interaction than any of the others. We were just piddling about for the most part seeing who could get the most awesome sending off, or whether the ref can be fouled (we believe he can, but were unsuccessful this time).

Towards the end last night we were watching Far Cry 2, someone had gotten into a gunfight on a train track. He injured a guy who was lying with his neck resting nicely over the track itself. His mate was urging him to put a bullet in the head of the injured foe to finish him off, stating that it would be okay to do so because it’s just a videogame. He hesitantly walked up and did said deed, and as he looked up a truck roared over the train track and smashed right into him killing him instantly. Which sent everyone but the player into a fit of laughter. Karma can be a bugger.

We went again this morning just to see if we could get another go on FC2, which we did and I was rubbish this time (crashed my car into a lake, ran around aimlessly and shot someone in a friendly village for pushing me away so I tried to leg it, but again got lost and eventually got prawned). Mr. AcousticToad who I went with had a better go which ended with him standing next to a ’splodey barrel, which he shot for some awesome ’splodey suicide action, for which he was congratulated.

We decided against bringing our ‘puters this time, but if this turns into an annual thing, we may well bring ‘em next time. Time to unleash the wrath of the Wombat onto the PC gaming world we thinks. Though we are rubbish when it comes to doing anything competitively, and usually end up shooting ourselves or diving off high buildings (which was contemplated during a L4D match, but I decided against it)

Left4Dead was absolutely spot-on, too, and rightfully attracted the most attention. Roll on November…

Also witnessed Ross encouraging a poor geezer who was attempting to play Mirror’s Edge on the CRASHIEST PS3 EVER to smile and “look like you’re enjoying yourself” for the photographer. Which made me chuckle.

Actually, EA could’ve tried a bit lot harder with Mirror’s Edge – their stand at Showdown being an abject lesson in How Not To Sell Your Game.

Overall, though, not bad. Wish I could’ve stayed for the beer, merriment and a bit of banter. Maybe next time…

Wanted to bring my rig but this was a last minute thing for me but i sometimes played on a 4king pc and played some TF2 with the PCG guys. I dominated Tim so i was happy.

Of course Left 4 Dead was the best thing on show, got to play it like 7 times and even the later stage at the hospital. Was doing well until the bloody tank smacked me off the roof into the skybox. Was nice chatting with Chet, he was nice but wouldn’t give any secrets away.

Only briefly got to try Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead had more people wanting to play it but i got to play it more than Far Cry just because some greedy fuckers were hogging it all day even when people behind them clearly wanted to try it, should have had a time limit.

Dead space on 360 wasn’t bad, it was fun. I found Mirrors Edge really disapointing, buggy and kept crashing all day.

Got into the Lan no problem after i helped the PCG guys out, Ross said i could freely go around which was great. <3
The quiz was great, i only wish it was longer.

Overal had a fantastic time meeting some great people and had lots of laughs. If i had any negative to say i think some of the staff (park people and security) were rude and unhelpful sometimes. They also didn’t know where anything was onsite or what was going on. But ah!

Look forward to the next one!

King Awesome, it was great to meet you and the Free Man, come visit in the RPS chat room some time!