I went today.
Very very very very disappointed.
Had a fuck around on the oculus rift, the first display you see is some shitty "over the shoulder" shot of a Gummi Ship (http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100827032621/kingdomhearts/images/1/14/Gummi_Ship_KHII.png) that is a endlessly flying forwards. You could use the oculus rift to look around the fixed point where the camera was, but it was pretty pointless. Another point to be made is that the oculus rift is very blurry / pixelated. I asked what res they were running that demo at, and the guy said 1200 x 800. Walked to the playstation stand, nothing looked exciting. Just some racing game is on display, went to xbox one, big line to have a go on some game, but I doubt it would of been any more exciting than playstations.
Playtechs area was just a bunch of computers set up so people could play LoL standing up, there was also a little soccer game (fifa? shit I don't know) area next to it.
The kim dotcom area was kind of hidden. Wasn't up on a main stage or anything. It was out in the open so you knew where it was, but if you wanted to watch, you had to walk up to the second story and look over the rail.
In the 'lobby'ish area, were a few stands. Alienware / turtle beach... Nothing interesting, just a racing game on 3 monitors / in a racing chair. There was a stand of these people that made my little pony apps, as well as a guy walking around with twilight sparkle on his t-shirt. Hideous.
Umm, Upstairs, was a 3d printing section. You could pay 35$ to get yourself 'scanned' and 3d printed, at the same size as a coke can. There was a telecom social center where you could charge your phone and play on ipads, and also around the second story on the inside of the arena, was a 'history of games museum', which was just a bunch of consoles, possibly all of them, in a line, with a few going.
The thing that annoyed me here, was that they didn't have the virtual boy going. Why have it there if you aren't going to turn it on.
Back to the second story of the 'lobby' area, was a media design school area, where they've been fucking around with the oculus. Again, all of it was blurry and pixelated, made worse by the fact that all these displays were running at 600x800. There was a dragon one, where you control a dragon by looking to steer it, A roller coaster one through a castle, where you just looked around, and some fucked-up-what-am-i-doing first person one where you are in a forest, with nothing but a flash lights and 2 hands in front of you, You have no useful way to move the hands, they are just sitting there awkwardly in front of you, not even connected to arms. Anyway playing that game was like playing a drunk simulator, because as you walked your character would start grinding his head along the ground.. or it at least felt like it.
Overall I enjoyed the oculus rift at the very end, but apart from that, the event wasn't for me. I'm past console gaming, and i've moved onto being a master PC being. In all seriousness, I don't see how people were getting hyped to 'be the first to play on the xbox one / ps4' when the games there were being demo'd were just average games. Racing games, fighting games, Nothing defining or show casing.
I went today.
Very very very very disappointed.
Had a fuck around on the oculus rift, the first display you see is some shitty "over the shoulder" shot of a Gummi Ship ([url]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100827032621/kingdomhearts/images/1/14/Gummi_Ship_KHII.png[/url]) that is a endlessly flying forwards. You could use the oculus rift to look around the fixed point where the camera was, but it was pretty pointless. Another point to be made is that the oculus rift is very blurry / pixelated. I asked what res they were running that demo at, and the guy said 1200 x 800. Walked to the playstation stand, nothing looked exciting. Just some racing game is on display, went to xbox one, big line to have a go on some game, but I doubt it would of been any more exciting than playstations.
Playtechs area was just a bunch of computers set up so people could play LoL standing up, there was also a little soccer game (fifa? shit I don't know) area next to it.
The kim dotcom area was kind of hidden. Wasn't up on a main stage or anything. It was out in the open so you knew where it was, but if you wanted to watch, you had to walk up to the second story and look over the rail.
In the 'lobby'ish area, were a few stands. Alienware / turtle beach... Nothing interesting, just a racing game on 3 monitors / in a racing chair. There was a stand of these people that made my little pony apps, as well as a guy walking around with twilight sparkle on his t-shirt. Hideous.
Umm, Upstairs, was a 3d printing section. You could pay 35$ to get yourself 'scanned' and 3d printed, at the same size as a coke can. There was a telecom social center where you could charge your phone and play on ipads, and also around the second story on the inside of the arena, was a 'history of games museum', which was just a bunch of consoles, possibly all of them, in a line, with a few going.
The thing that annoyed me here, was that they didn't have the virtual boy going. Why have it there if you aren't going to turn it on.
Back to the second story of the 'lobby' area, was a media design school area, where they've been fucking around with the oculus. Again, all of it was blurry and pixelated, made worse by the fact that all these displays were running at 600x800. There was a dragon one, where you control a dragon by looking to steer it, A roller coaster one through a castle, where you just looked around, and some fucked-up-what-am-i-doing first person one where you are in a forest, with nothing but a flash lights and 2 hands in front of you, You have no useful way to move the hands, they are just sitting there awkwardly in front of you, not even connected to arms. Anyway playing that game was like playing a drunk simulator, because as you walked your character would start grinding his head along the ground.. or it at least felt like it.
Overall I enjoyed the oculus rift at the very end, but apart from that, the event wasn't for me. I'm past console gaming, and i've moved onto being a master PC being. In all seriousness, I don't see how people were getting hyped to 'be the first to play on the xbox one / ps4' when the games there were being demo'd were just average games. Racing games, fighting games, Nothing defining or show casing.
Oculus rift is expected to go HD.