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E3 2012, Day 1

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mewarmo990
, June 5th, 2012 at 11:40 PM (3468 Views)
aaaaaand that's a wrap on Day 1 of E3 2012! Holy crap my feet are sore.

I wish I had time today to take more pictures but I was working most of the time. But here's the quick and dirty...

I arrived bright and early before 8AM today. It was eerily quiet - no one there except for convention center cleaning/repair staff!



At our Atlus booth, we were running playables of Persona 4 Arena (360/PS3), Code of Princess (3DS), various Atlus Online MMOs, and Zeno Clash 2 (yes, we're publishing it!). Interest in P4A was really high, and for good reason. It's a gorgeous game. Plays like BlazBlue (same dev) but more accessible to fighting game newbies. I still suck pretty bad, though.



We also had trailers of P4 Golden running but no demo at this time. As a promotion, we are handing out free T-shirts to all E3 attendees. The line for them was huge!



They're similar to what we were wearing but without the "ATLUS STAFF" logo:



Atlus was next to the Nintendo "booth." Dozens of Wii U demos were running. A friend of mine is a Nintendo model ("booth babe"), so she showed me a bunch of the cooler games.



The Wii U looks to be comparable to current-gen consoles in performance -- I saw Assassin's Creed III and enhanced port Batman Arkham City: Armored Edition running on the playable booths.



In LA Convention Center's West Hall, Sony and Nintendo usually set up there. This time Microsoft was there as well, and they brought the Weta Workshop Puma Warthog! There was a 2 hour queue for the Halo 4 demo.



During my off-shift hours, I ate horrendously expensive food ($11 crappy lunch o_O) and walked the show. I had time to try out D&D Neverwinter, Playstation All Stars Battle Royale (what a name), Far Cry 3, some Wii U games, Borderlands 2, Fable Journeys (Kinect demo), Pikmin 3, and Planetside 2. Super impressed with a lot of what I saw.



What a day! I only have time to attend one day this year, but hopefully I can go again next year! Though, working E3 is a lot less fun than being a spectator at E3.

Updated June 6th, 2012 at 12:09 AM by mewarmo990

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  1. SeiKeo's Avatar
    How was Neverwinter?
  2. mewarmo990's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by LeopardBear
    How was Neverwinter?
    MMO, but combat is more deliberate and tactical than conventional WoW-esque MMO combat. Focus on party teamwork and stuff. I didn't get that much time with this one. Got a beta code, though!
  3. SeiKeo's Avatar
    Real time, I assume? How's the system compared to the kludge that NWN2 was, at least from what you saw?
  4. mewarmo990's Avatar
    Yeah, real-time, kinda like Guild Wars 2. I didn't play a melee dude so I'm not 100% sure how skill-based it is.

    Not like the fake real-time (which was really round-based) from NWN2/KOTOR/etc.
  5. Frantic Author's Avatar
    Man now I have to download Neverwinter and update my graphics card

    why did you do this to meeeee
  6. Dark Pulse's Avatar
    ...Borderlands 2. Goddamn I hate you right now.

    That game needs to come out so I can drop 200 hours of my life into it.

    Ideally with some friends from here or something.
  7. SeiKeo's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Pulse
    Ideally with some friends from here or something.
    subtle modhint
  8. Dark Pulse's Avatar
    I'm playing it on PC, Leo.

    Do you still apply?
  9. SeiKeo's Avatar
    buy borderlands 2, get DP points

    worth it?
  10. mewarmo990's Avatar
    Okay.

    Gunzerking works.
  11. BananaShiki's Avatar
    where is my Persona 5?
  12. ZidanReign's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by StarPlatinum
    where is my Persona 5?
    I agree entirely with this statement.

    Were waiting.
  13. mewarmo990's Avatar
    *cue standard PR response*

    "I do not have any information about whether a Persona 5 exists. Please direct your response to our parent company in Japan."
    Updated June 7th, 2012 at 02:39 AM by mewarmo990
  14. Dark Pulse's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by LeopardBear
    buy borderlands 2, get DP points

    worth it?
    Sure. Assuming your PC isn't a piece of steaming monkey crap.

    Quote Originally Posted by mewarmo990
    *cue standard PR response*

    "I do not have any information about whether a Persona 5 exists. Please direct your response to our parent company in Japan."
    And that's when we say one of the following:
    1. Bullshit.
    2. Okay, you'll just have to do the moonrune-ing for us.
  15. mewarmo990's Avatar
    Yeah graphics-wise, Borderlands 2 didn't look significantly better than the first game. Then again, I was playing the 360 version at the Microsoft booth.