Chapter 301: The Carnival of the Media and Players
After the pre-show press conference, E3 2009 finally began.
Within three days, tens of thousands of players from all over the world will converge on Los Angeles, into the convention center, and to each company's booth.
Try out the new games brought by the companies, or watch the latest information, advisories, and gameplay videos from the highly-talked-about titles that have been announced, promoted, and even popped up for a long time.
Take a photo with the shogirls, and there are also a lot of male cosers on the scene, who are very enthusiastic about each player. But it seems that E3's shogirl has never been the focus of attention...... Except for some overseas companies such as Japanese and Korean brands that wear some "fancy dresses", most of the shogirls in the United States and Europe are too low-key...... Standard T-shirts and vests with company and game logos are not very elaborate as well.
EA has a group of referees wearing black and white stripes...... Some hardware manufacturers, such as Dyer, have shogirls who wear full suits, shirts and ties, and sunglasses, which look like the FBI.
It's a carnival for the players and a trial for the media.
On this first day, the speed of various news swipes on the E3 thematic website of each game media reached a peak, like on the gamespot, a new announcement came out almost every two minutes, maybe just two short sentences, and with photos of the scene, it was too late to polish, so send it out quickly.
In addition to the "News Express" occupying the most conspicuous position, their special station also has a "Breaking News" area, which is divided into four modules, which are the key news of the three major host manufacturers, each with a special display frame, and a news from other manufacturers.
The display frame has a very limited capacity and of course only shows the most important content.
The current area of Ren's Paradise is naturally their upcoming new peripheral, the "Vitality Sensor", which can measure the pulse by simply placing a finger in it, and then derive a series of physiological indicators...... This device works with the II to keep people on top of their health...... But it seems to have been made into a medical device?
There is also the announcement of "Mario Galaxy 2", why this is this, because it took out the actual machine to try it.
In the Giant Hard Zone, there are close-up photos of two men.
The first picture is Hideo Kojima, who is wearing black-rimmed glasses and smiling a little shyly...... YES, HE'S ALONE, HE DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A GAME PHOTO, AND BEHIND HIM IS A BIG GREEN SCREEN, WHICH IS THE THEME COLOR OF XBOX.
The title of the article is also "Hideo Kojima appeared at the giant hard press conference", which focuses on this person, as if the specific reason for what he is here to do is no longer so important......
But this year there was also a "shoulder pat" moment for him...... Last year, Square Enix's president Yoichi Wada created this action, and in the head of the giant hard XBOX, Don? As Matt Creek was about to announce the end of the big press conference, he appeared behind Matt Creek and patted him on the shoulder, telling everyone that Final Fantasy 13 had decided to go cross-platform...... He had already announced that Final Fantasy 13 would be a PS3 exclusive.
The shoulder pat incident caused a huge response in the industry after E3 last year, and the work "FF13" has been accompanied by controversy.
This year is also the same, Hideo Kojima also patted Mattrick on the shoulder before taking the stage, with obvious mockery, and then announced that Metal Gear Solid's new work will be on the XBOX platform, which also means that this series of PS platform exclusive history is coming to an end.
Well, it looks like the word "pat on the shoulder" is going to become an E3 tradition.
And another close-up is the great director Spielberg...... This is also the "mysterious guest" that has been rumored for a long time, and it is really full of weight, without the various speculations of blind players and the sideways knocks of the media in the past month or so. Spielberg's appearance is for the platform of the giant hard somatosensory device "Project Natal", the old man with gray hair, wearing a casual plaid shirt and brown jacket, said a lot of good things about "Project Natal", making people wonder if the giant hard gave money.
Spielberg said he had seen Project Natal two months earlier, and he was so interested in the project that he felt like he was witnessing a moment in history......
Then there was a live-action demo of the game through "Project Natal", and a meeting with Pete? Together, Molineux talks about the development of "Project Natal" and explores a little bit of the future.
E3 is indeed not just a game, but also the latest technology for games, such as "Project Natal", which relies on a motion capture camera to allow players to wave their hands and shake their heads to achieve many actions, and Ju Hard calls this concept "let the player become the controller himself".
It's like a sci-fi show.
Juhard has sent the supporting development tools to most of the partners today, so that they can develop games for this new hardware, and the blue fish network has naturally received it, but ...... I don't have any plans to develop this type of game, so let's put it in a warehouse...... Forget it, stay in the staff lounge, or the dumplings can be taken out and played now.
There is also Soni, the two pictures are PSP GO handheld and God of War 3.
The former will be officially released in Europe and North America in October and priced at $249.99, while the latter, GameSpot's editors weighed in before putting God of War 3 instead of Uncharted 2. Zeus Hades appeared in unison, and this gimmick was enough...... Maybe I also think that the Shenhai series has only come out with the first part now, and the accumulated popularity and attention are weaker than the God of War series.
These are the first party news from these three.
In the "Other Manufacturers" module, these two positions are left to Square Enix's Final Fantasy 14 today, although Square Enix did not come to the United States this year because of the swine flu, but this is a sequel that players are looking forward to. And the explosion of this news is due to the fact that it was not leaked in advance.
At the press conference, the president of SCEA (Sony Computer Entertainment America) Tritton said a few words after the presentation of "Final Fantasy 13", which made the audience fall silent and then cheered. He officially announced Final Fantasy 14, which was a real blast.
He told everyone that everyone should be able to play the game by next year, and that in addition to PC, it will only appear on PS3 on home console platforms, exclusively.
Another position,Impressively left a new game without a name,The first announced new work of the Blue Fish Network,Codename is ProjectB。
The headlines in this position are really not so easy to choose, so many manufacturers have come up with so many works, and many of them have been launched one after another, accumulating huge popularity, or they have been announced for a long time, so that players are chasing hard.
Gamespot's editor, Fried, yes, this is the same guy who first brought the name Herring Network to mainstream Western media coverage in April last year, although the focus was on the high-profile "Herring Cup" and its record number of entries.
This time, he and several other editors within GameSpot insisted that if the explosion was to be discussed, it should be true to the players about the shock they received at the press conference.
The media is not just restoring the news, it is "handed over" to the players in different ways, and they also have their own attitudes to express.
There are several reasons given by Fried: the top-level production of a new series, a trailer full of sincerity when it is first announced, and many innovative technologies are enough to transport us to the next generation...... And, of course, the popularity of the herring network.
In terms of the background, this company is still far behind, but when it comes to popularity, it completely fits the standard of explosion.
Through voting within the editorial group, the principle of minority obeying the majority, ProjectB finally appeared in this position.
On the big picture on the homepage, Ye Shenxi is standing aside during the trailer playback, staring at the side face of the screen.
After clicking in, gamespot wrote in the article: "Half a year later, Pasca and Fisoa finally bring you a new work of the herring network, ProjectB, the official codename given by Fisoa, and they have not yet decided on the name of the game.
"This game was revealed half a month ago, and we have been looking forward to it for more than ten days, and I can only say that even if it was revealed a year ago, we have been looking forward to it for a year, and this expectation is worth it."
According to the information that Pasca has revealed, an RPG type game, an open world, a map area of at least 60 square kilometers, a kind of ancient oriental superpower fantasy called Xianxia fantasy theme, the story takes place in such a background. Please note that it is very important that the maps in the game are restored to the game from the vast land of China! ”
"If you've never been to China before, but you're curious, I suggest you take a look at the original paintings below, all published by Fisoa."
"They brought a promotional animation to E3, which seemed to be much richer than the announcement, especially the technical prowess, showing that they were fully capable of navigating such a huge virtual world. At the same time, this promotional video is different from others, it itself expresses a profound ideological connotation, maybe different people will have different interpretations, but I believe that in the subsequent period of time, there should be many players who will continue to reminisce about it, until the next promotional animation of the Qingyu Network is announced. ”
It's brief, and the editors are too busy.
On the special page of IGN, another authoritative media outlet, a hot news ranking is given, which is placed on the right side of the standard What's New section, and will last long after the end of E3.
This is a heat value calculated based on the reader's reading volume and the popularity of the discussion below the news, and is not manually adjusted by the editors.
Since the end of the press conference, among the top ten hot news on this list, two are related to the herring network.
What's more embarrassing is that none of the news of various somatosensory accessories of the three major host manufacturers are on the list, ah, no, the giant hard is still on the list, but the news title is "Spielberg appeared at the giant hard E3 press conference"......
It seems that "somatosensory games will become the future of the industry" is more just the climax of the manufacturers themselves, and the players are not so buying.
Xia Qingyu personally announced that the news that the Qingyu Network will jointly hold the first "Eternal War" with various competition areas is ranked third, leaving not much time for the Qingyu Network, and I can't believe the introduction, more content can only be conveyed to players through interviews with various media after the press conference, as well as announcements on the official website. Including the selection mechanism of national team coaches and players in various regions, the schedule of qualifiers, etc., as for more such as relevant broadcast rights, morning sponsorship of various companies, etc., Qingyu itself is still being studied.
Based on the game's current global popularity and influence, it's no surprise that this is one of the most watched news stories today.
Especially in China, which has the largest number of players, this is the first competition area in the world, and it is natural that it should be the strongest country.
It's just a pity that this year, we haven't had the opportunity to compete with the top players in the world to find out who is the best in the world.
Now that the opportunity has finally come, players are rushing to tell each other, and many players on Weibo have even drawn up their national team lineup...... Even the benches, coaches and data analysts are all in place.
Some of the most versatile players have also started to design team uniforms...... Mascots and other peripherals, they didn't sleep and stayed up late to do it...... Most of them are dominated by red and yellow.
Another piece of news about ProjectB's announcement is ranked seventh, as a stand-alone game, the other five in front of it are: Ren Jile announced a number of its games, which is an integration news; Soni announced the price of PSP GO and the first region, and a large number of physical images were leaked...... Soni Dafa is so good; Spielberg's appearance; the official announcement of Final Fantasy 14; The appearance moment of Zeus in "God of War 3......
It can be seen that about the eye-catching degree of herring network news, players can't wait to see what kind of game they will come up with after "The Origin of Everything".
The projectB news also provided a number of original pictures of the scene released on the spot, as well as the online on-demand Youtube of the promotional video, and the online download of the high-definition video, with a size of 137MB.
After more players saw this trailer with their own eyes, and even began to have some word-of-mouth effect to spread, they immediately took to social media to express their feelings.