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Thursday, November 17, 2005
Tokyo Game Show
finally... after 2 months (exactly).... when everyone has already forgotten about this, i will now blog about my visit to the tokyo game show....hehe... very slow i know.. but i am known to be a procrastinator mah...
anyway it was held in makuhari messe (or something like that), which was a bit further then where disneyland is. there were many ppl there, since it was quite a big thing...
banners lining up, doing promo for the new kof fighting game, on our way to the exhibition halls.
entrance
we of course expected a lot of cool gals games to gape at and drool over... well but i dun exactly think it was a disappointment, but it wasnt mind-blowing as well.
the first thing i saw when i enter was this...
some caucasian trying his hand at some flight(?) simulation, with a booth babe looking on.
obviously, the big names (as well as some small, unheard-of ones) set up booths there.... among them were konami, square enix, namco, tecmo, capcom, etc. well, if you are a gamer, you certainly won't wanna miss out on square enix, makers of arguably the world's best rpg series, final fantasy.
square enix booth
it was here that i queued up for more than half an hour, to try my hands on the new, yet-to-be-released Final Fantasy VII - Dirge of Cerberus. it is actually an extension to the FF7 world, but this is not an RPG - a 3rd person shooting game - and the main character this time is the vampire, Vincent. the controls werent very fantastic, the gameplay as well... i see many better games there, but i guess this will still be a good sell, since there are so many FF7 fans out there.
another booth that i visited was this ATARI one...
ATARI booth, featuring Matrix: Path of Neo
their upcoming big game is, as shown above, Matrix: Path of Neo. unlike the Matrix Reloaded (which has its own unique story), this new game starts from the beginning of Matrix 1... so you start off by having to escape from agents from your office cubicle, and you get to choose whether to take the red or blue pill... and you need to master the combat simulation and stuff as well... controls are not bad... feels quite good, and well, the story was quite good, wasnt it? it may be interesting to replay the movie as Neo himself. but i dunno how long of the story this game serves. cannot be until end of Matrix 3 rite?
anyway, for those eagled-eyes ones, you will notice that the game being featured on the big screen below the matrix poster was a driving game instead.
driving game from ATARI
they had a small challenge, where if you complete it successfully, you win a T-shirt. of course, being a keen racing gamer, i put my skills into test. in the challenge, i had to drive the car onto a ramp to fly past a few stacked barrels without knocking any of them. sounds simple right? apparantly not to everyone. well of course, i cleared the challenge, and was rewarded an ATARI T-shirt.. hehe.
there.. my prize... gal not included (darn)
well, one big hype before this game show was the supposed match-off between xbox360 and ps3. and xbox came prepared to kick some ass.
xbox360
xbox360 demo booths
xbox360 was really impressive. the games lineup was impressive as well. the graphics were awesome, but well, game mechanics, havent found anything that really blew me away... i mean, the games just look prettier, but gameplay wise, nothing new. that being said, was still very impressed by the demos, i myself tried some of the games.
ps3
ps3, on the other hand, didnt offer any hands-on demos. they did show fmv's supposedly run by ps3 console though... and the MGS4 looked really impressive (and humurous). as attached as i am to the playstation brand consoles, i may waver and seriously consider an xbox360 next... why? 2 of my favorite series, Metal Gear and Final Fantasy, will publishing with xbox360. in the past, popular games such as these are monopolised by the playstation 1 & 2... but not anymore... so not much reason for me to still stick to ps3, is there? hmm... gotta wait and see...
went over to konami's booth to take a look... and look who i saw...
guess who? the guy in the centre...
he is none other than kojima, the guy behind the whole Metal Gear series... he conceptualised, designed and produced the whole series... and how cool was that? i didnt bother to stay around to listen to his interview in japanese though... so i snapped some pics and left....
the next time i passed by this booth, i saw another person being interviewed...
who is she? i dunno.
i also dunno her name... but i saw her before. when i was visiting the psp corner of konami, they were demoing the 3D goggles for psp. the next MGA (metal gear acid) game will be 3D... so they demoed the 3D goggles showing a video of a cute jap lass in bikini strutting around, so that you can see ... err... the parts of her body which protrudes really protruding from the screen... all the curves, all 3D ;p yup, and this gal above is the very gal in the video... i guess she must be quite a well-known gravure model bah... not that i know lah. ;)
there were also demos for many other upcoming games... and among those were...
biohazard 4 (aka resident evil 4)
devil may cry 4
yeah, and i realised that within the 2 months delay in posting, the RE4 has already been launched officially... hehe. ;p
besides the games, between the 2 exhibition halls, there were also many ppl taking this chance to have a cosplay gathering... some cute, some just errr... uncute? ;p... some better to stay at home... haha... you decide.
naruto bunch
from some game... cant remember the title... but they look very cute hor? seh pose man...
a couple of Mai's from KOF
a char from a popular manga/anime... again cant rem the name... check out her cleavage the reflection... see so many ppl taking photos of her...
tifa, from FF7
all i can say here is, for every yin, there's yang. ;p.
anyway, you may have noticed that in many photos, many of the gals (and some guys) werent looking at my camera when i was taking... the reason was that like anywhere else in japan, the japanese were very organised and they actually lined up to take pictures one-by-one, and one-on-one. and if you look at some reflections off the glass, you will know that i didnt wanna line up forever for each photo. hence i stood by the side and took their photo... faster that way.
ok... that's about it for the game show...
NOT.
hehe... some of you must be impatiently wondering, "where the heck are the gals????"
but before i start, you will notice that some gals werent looking at my camera... the reason for this is different from the one regarding the cosplay bunch... here, it is the biggest camera first... gals were more interested in posing for SLR cameras than normal digital cameras held by non-pro looking photographers. my guess is that those shots taken by SLR may end up featured at some media somewhere, and so would be good for their resume/ exposure. for cameras like mine, well... only end up at crap websites such as this.
that being so, there are some gals who cant be bothered posing for small digital ones... these high-and-mighty ones, well... cant really say much about them, can i? but there are some really nice ones who pose for each camera nicely and enthusiastically, hence i awarded a Miss Gracious award.. hehe.
without further ado, here they are... (no guarantee about the quality though)...
if i were standing beside another gal with nice abs, i would cover my own too... ;p
the heartbreak gals. nice hearts at that. ;p think i prefer the orange one...
posing with a car featured in a game perhaps?
the words look like "gung ho" to me... the ones on her chest. dunno...
i think i vote her the nicest lady for the day... she was very kind to give her attention, and posed for my camera.... cute too... my personal pick for Miss Gracious award.
while you are checking out the gal, do notice the poor guy mummified as well. ;p
i didnt say that all gals were cute, did i?
another gung ho gal.... i personally pick her as Miss Kawaii... she's really cute. and nice abs too.
the gal in the ATARI booth. real nice for the photo as well.
another gal with great figure.... i wonder how they maintain... must learn also ;p
square enix gal... a little sad that this photo didnt turn up well... i vote her the Miss Booth Babe of the day... imo, she was the prettiest of the lot, not that you can see from this photo...
a gal in ancient chinese getup? cute.
the gal showing the 3D video demo that i mentioned earlier... although she dun look really cute, but she really was... and her poses are all very kawaii also...
gals from some booth which featured games that looked a little like DOA... cant remember if it was or not.
capcom gal... my Miss Graceful choice... too bad the costume dun look graceful.
sega gal...
dunno from where... but saw the exact same uniform in the more recent Tokyo Motor Show...
and finally...
there's this gal who drew a staggering number of ppl snapping away at her... from a distance, i could only see a mob of photographers and lights from flashes crowding around...
this gal must be a heck of a beauty....
or so i thought.
so, this is the gal who's arguably the most popular booth babe of the day...
must be the hat lah!!
ok... so it's pretty obvious why she's so popular... the hat being so conspicuous and all... ;p
anyway, here's 2 final pics of her that really, ermm... outlines her assets...
can i hold your hat for you, miss?? may i try on for size? ;p
posted by winz at 2:04 PM
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7 Comments:
No, you may not! hehe..:p
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Anonymous, at
3:30 PM
*bleah*!!
By
winz, at
3:34 PM
hehehe... you don't give up, do you? :p
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Anonymous, at
12:22 AM
hold hat only wat... *pout*
;p
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winz, at
9:38 AM
droool...~~~~
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Unknown, at
4:10 PM
Did you get enough pictures of the ladies?
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Shavonne, at
5:37 AM
every shot is one more than enough.. heh
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winz, at
3:52 PM
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