Comments on: E3 09 Diary: Day One

By: vicx

vicx — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:36:25 +0000

Maybe it’s the nature of modern PR that our collective activities here in the comments can get John “green striped’ from the uber reveals. Would that affect the way we comment? If we had thumbs on comments would it affect that too?

By: wcaypahwat

wcaypahwat — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:20:02 +0000

E3 was all over the local (australian) news last night.

Somehow fancy graphics and interacting with games using a camera have just been invented.

Well, the coverage wasn’t any worse than that one show we have about games :/

By: jalf

jalf — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:40:21 +0000

And did anyone get the “put garden gnome into orbit-bound rocket” achievement?

I thought I’d be clever about that… I wanted to listen to the dev commentary anyway, so decided to combine the two, bringing the damn gnome with me while listening to commentary… About three quarters through the game a friend asks me “You do know you don’t get achievements in dev commentary mode, right?”
So no, I don’t have it… :D

By: Fumarole

Fumarole — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:34:08 +0000

“And did anyone get the “put garden gnome into orbit-bound rocket” achievement?”

I did. You can check the global stats for that online. I’d link you but I am at work.

By: Serondal

Serondal — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:18:13 +0000

The part about “If it had been one degree hotter I would have stood in the middle of the street screaming until I died.
” part made me laugh out loud. There is just something about people being in LA that don’t belong that makes me giggle, like Conan O’Brian moving there for his new show. I’m surprised he hasn’t got a constant sun burn.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:55:07 +0000

I don’t think it’s just the temperature. RPS are used to living in northern climes, where the sun isn’t nearly as high in the sky. Heck, I live in Canada and I’m still five degrees south of London.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:16:18 +0000

As day 2 carries on, you’ve probably not been outside to notice, but it’s gotten quite cool and rainy all of a sudden… I’d hate to think you’d wished this upon us.

As an aside (or more on topic, I guess), I’m probably not plugged into the proper circles, but I hadn’t noticed much furious excitement over HL2EP3. But I personally would be pretty interested to hear a word or two…

Unlike a lot of folks, I was actually quite enjoying the single-player stuff, particularly if you started from the beginning of HL2 and went straight through to the end of ep2. Carries a bit of momentum that way (something about not waiting a year and a half to see consecutive moments connect); and although a lot of the storytelling is pretty thin in the new series, I found myself pretty interested by the end, what with the cagey hinting at so-and-so and the sudden demise of such-and-such…

OK, does anyone actually NOT know what happens at the end yet? And did anyone get the “put garden gnome into orbit-bound rocket” achievement?

By: Muzman

Muzman — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:07:07 +0000

A 30 degree day in London is pretty damn hot. I say this as a Perthite who knows a thing or two about damn hot. It’s the humidity, and the whole city kind of throbbed with heat well into the next day (and it’s not a small place). So plenty of Poms would have occassional experience of mean temperatures. This doesn’t mean they should lose the hilarious overreaction to heat we fans demand, though.

And can I bring up L4D2, just a little bit? Go on. It’s a journalism question.
When this came up wasn’t there anything but delight in your surprise? No doubt, no slight confusion?
I mean, when I saw the headline I said to myself “Already? This’ll cause consternation” and I’m not exactly someone you’d describe as having his finger on the pulse of gaming. I’m sure someone foresaw a, let’s say, mixed reaction.
Feel free to tell me to bugger off and listen to the podcast.

Anyway, huge temperature shifts are all part of The Procedure, as it is known. Soon you’ll be shoving around the greens at the behest of the oranges like a true believer. The new dawn approaches.

By: Erlam

Erlam — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:44:10 +0000

The second you work in the industry, the second you can totally see why, and back the idea of, making a new game instead of an expansion.

I was actually quite thrilled with L4D2 – Frying Pans! I haven’t FPS’d with those since PO’d.

By: SwiftRanger

SwiftRanger — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:20:38 +0000

Keep it up John, don’t mind our reactions.

I hope you’re bringing some detailed news about SupCom 2, with you being such a big RTS fan (oh wait… :) ).

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:16:19 +0000

We need this band system for the commenters, everyone who starts out is assigned a coloured brown. The more meaningful the comments the higher rating you get, being given certain privileges. Those who spam assigned ‘worse’ colours.

Eventually, once we have a picture of who are dissenters we working on a list of where people live based off their IPs, eventually we can detain them, of course judging by the L4D2 thread the camps will soon start filling up and we’ll have to start ‘disposing’ of people.

Yes, it all makes sense now. We must do this to maintain purity in our comments.

By: dozilla

dozilla — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:55:46 +0000

dammit I wish I was there! Even as a dirty Green Striper!