I don’t know why I subject myself to something like Gaming-Age, I really don’t. I don’t share an opinion with a good 90% of the people there. I guess it is all just part of “playing the game.” I was talking with Toups about this last night and he said that he goes there for a sort of gamer reality check. This makes sense, I mean, sometimes I really think that everyone likes Metroid II.

But I really don’t understand some gamers. Recently my opinion of gamers changed a lot. E3 showed me that I am not going to find out that I am similar to most gamers, because I am not. Out of all the media that I met at E3 I really only liked the ones that were from real newspapers (Houston Free-Press guy was pretty awesome). I am of course talking about people who I did not know from the interwebs beforehand.

The “Mecca” like status of E3 was also shattered for me. You can ask Dave of A Lesson is Learned: had the whole thing gone like Wednesday did I would have felt like the whole thing was in vain. But it turned out differently, I started to do the interviews I set up, and I really, really fell in love with that. I also formed that opinion that most gamers suck at games. They like games now because they are “wacky and confusing” most likely, then when they get good at them they stop playing. I say this because every damn line I waited in, every single game looked difficult or bad. This is because no one knew how to play games, I realized when I took the controller that everyone else that was making this game look difficult had a learning disability.

(there was one exception: Gundam PS3. That game played even worse than it looked like it should have.)

I am, of course, stereotyping. This is never a good thing, but I mean, I have always said that stereo types exist for a reason. I wish that I would have meet up with more people that I knew were going, but I was really only there for 3 days and my schedule was quite full. Next year I need to get in a couple days earlier for the press conferences and too meet people.

RIGHT! Totally forgot that I had a point here and that I did not just start this rand randomly.

At E3 I got to see the video for FFVII Crisis Core the PSP game. It looks decent enough for pre-rendered cut scenes with no gameplay footage. So these scans pop-up courtesy of Duckroll: 1 2 3. I don’t disagree that they look good.

Now–on a forum that calls Killer 7 a “last-gen” game–they are kind of gushing over the graphics. Not just that they look good, but that they look “as good [Kingdom Hearts 1].” Yes, that game that; can only be loved by true fans, which looks like it low-res pixel art slapped on the inside of boxes, and generally poor for even a PS2 game.

How is it that a group of people can so blindly dismiss logic (these were not in game engine most likely, if they were they would not have looked that good on a large screen) and accept just-over-PS1-quality graphics because of the platform it is on, yet bash/dismiss graphics that accomplish a retro look perfectly? Or even graphics that are not the best for the system, but stylized to the point of looking gorgeous.

I don’t know why I do this to myself really, or even what good can/has come of this rant. I guess thanks for sitting through it.