Man oh man, I have been dead to the world at large this week! Outside of working my normal, 4-day-a-week job, I used my three days off this week to attend E3 with my former employer. They asked me to help with their conference room they had at the convention. I was working more conventions while I was still employed with them previously and was pretty excited to attend the mac-daddy of video game events.
I hadn't attended in previous years so the first day, I was pretty excited. We got up to the convention center early so we could walk around the floor before the show started. Our meeting room was right above the Square Enix booth downstairs on the show floor.
They were pretty strict about photography until the show started. A security woman caught me taking a photo of a poster on the side of a booth and she watched me delete the photo from my album. Good thing she didn't ask me to delete the two photos above or she'd have been treated to a few lovely photos of my ass. Would serve her for invading other peoples' personal space I guess...
I did get to play a round of Battlefront on the second day which was fun. It reminded me of COD or any of those 1st person shooters which I suck really bad at....but it was star wars so I enjoyed it. EA had a pretty large booth; they had several smaller rooms with their different sports titles. I also played a game of NHL 16 which, I had never played before. Again, I sucked at it but I had fun.
Potato quality, but I got to play as the Wings so I was happy...
Of course Fallout 4 was big, plus they also had some props for Dishonored 2 at the Bethesda booth.
Bethesda also gave out the best swag. For an industry convention, I was kind of surprised by the lack of freebies. You think you would try and butter those people up better but no....As hard and as much as I tried, no one at EA would give me on of their staff shirts that had Boba Fett on it, even though I showed them my tattoo....
Nintendo had a cool demo set up for the new StarFox where you got to sit in a cockpit. We didn't get to play it that way but we did get some limited pins they were giving out. It was one instance where using my femaleness actually worked...
I just enjoyed the fact that they were right next to each other...
All in all, it was a neat experience. I still was working most of the time; trapped away in my little prison. However reflecting on it, I probably will not work another convention. Not only am I out of the loop when it comes to video games, but the people were somewhat awful; both the ones I worked with and the ones outside on the show floor. I guess I am spoiled with my isolation here at the hotel. Again, the experience was neat and it is always something to put on the list of "neat shit I have gotten to experience"
