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09/29/09
Considering how handheld-centric Japan currently is, though, it does not matter all that much that the cons are so close. The console announcements can occur at E3 or GC, and the handheld (and Japanese-developed) stuff can happen at TGS.
The end result still allows the public to play demos of all manner of games at the latter two events (and PAX, the unofficial "public E3").
It does make TGS feel even more isolationist, though.
09/29/09
I guess E3 is the only expo anyone's gonna put any effort into nowadays. Shame.
09/29/09
Comments like this fuck me off because you have said before that all America does is 'Call O'Ditty' and FPS. Sorry that Europe doesn't subscribe to metrosexual characters with spiky hair, marble smooth skin with zero texture and loli fantasy but diff'rent strokes for different folks.
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Frankly I enjoy both. Maybe they should be combined into a new genre. :P
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Yeah, I pretty much know what to expect whenever I see his name pop up around here. Dude needs to chill out.
09/29/09
Europe and North America are game-development-wise very entangled anyways.
I bet your favorite american game had european involvement too. Outsourcing and all.
No big game production these days is done completely in just one studio (or country, for that matter) anymore.
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Pro tip: never ride the subway in the summer, trust me is not worth it.
09/29/09
Fortunately for us, we have pleasant cooling stations at BART. :P
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Although it has been colder these past few days. We were getting high/mid 40's ;)
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A piece of carboard is the only cooling you will ever get in some of the subway over here.
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Meaning relative quietness. I don't know whether that's a good thing or not. x[
But BART is the only dependable one we have. Mostly because it connects OAK & SFO. Arrgh, damn our budget for not being able to bring it to San Jose! /≥___≤\
09/29/09
Here's another tip: if you see an empty subway car, don't get in it...it's for your own good.
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⌊(_< )⌉~~~ ""—(￣▽￣ )⌉~~
So, how's that Second Avenue Subway been doin for ya? Must've been terrible. 85 YEARS!! :O
It makes me feel lucky to know that at least the Alum Rock BART extension managed to pass.
Grand Central was the only station I liked. Everything else, honestly, looked like shit.
The only part of a subway I was ever impressed by was the cool-looking maps. ^_^
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Lemme guess... Hot springs?
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[I have no idea how this is related to trains, but I just love our airports, even if OAK is always under construction...¬_¬]
anyways, you sure must be tired working the night shift, and its a little past midnight here, so ima goin to bed, and have a fun time at your graveyard shift ^_~
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what! we have to blame someone for this year lack of interesting games ^_^
09/29/09
If I was a forward-thinking Japanese developer/publisher, one that seeks to open up Western markets for our products, I would go to GamesCom. They have the least chance of knowing what we do, and thus we have the best opportunity to expand our consumer base and throw our name out there.
If I was a current Japanese developer, TGS or bust. After all, I wouldn't want to disappoint our fans at home, right? It doesn't matter that attendance is down, that the show was widely regarded as lackluster, it is still TGS and thus I must be there. Expanding foreign markets is not something to pursue.
As myself? I'd probably try to pull both, at worst recycling the information from GamesCom in order to present it to the local crowd.