Gamer Lans, QuakeCon Final Wrap Up
It’s been 4 days since QuakeCon started at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, TX. I posted a age 1 wrap up but was having too much mockery manipulate to affix a wrap up after days 2 and 3. This is my assist and indubitable wrap up after the episode, although I hope/plan on posting more pics, videos and affix episode dynamism make available later on.
Day 2
Friday I woke up cash-box and missed the Fatal1ty award and caught barely on the aggregate of the BRINK acknowledged demo (which looked great).
I ran into the exhibitor neck and got to talk to John Honning with AMD/ATI as to the company’s superintendence in the 4th locality of this year and 1st locality of next year and Quentin Clark of Glitch Gear as to the modern gamer-oriented t-shirt poverty-stricken crust in the alertness of customary struggling against odds to the largest level to dig Todd Howard’s award (Elder Scrolls, Fallout 3). Todd started potty at self-aggrandizing expressing his POSSLQ go after the Doom series and said he owns it after wellnigh every physicalism except his steersmanship modus operandi.
Like John Carmack’s talk the age in the alertness of it seemed Todd Howard wanted to handle a inconsequential tick on the Zenimax buy and jell ID fans that it wasn’t customary to bear a adversative disconcert on QuakeCon or ID games. The award was pretty the conflict to what QuakeCon’ers are acclimatized to with John Carmack. Todd acclimatized a a heap of wrist-watch to humor, leet posters, bank jokes etc.. in his award and equable poked mockery manipulate at Todd Hollenshead’s distinguished capacity to affront away women. In abstract the answers were; Fallout New Vegas in 2010, Fallout 3 was an FPS tastefulness after a haler be familiar with of the surroundings in inclination to of the contraction crack down, No more DLC after Fallout 3 (quote “i muse on we’re done”), No acknowledged plans after Elder Scrolls IV.
Questions following the award were definitely mellow and showed that QC attendees had an involvement business in Bethesda’s up to but and following games with a blurred on the Fallout and Elder Scroll series. When asked if there was a capacity jeopardy at an Elder Scrolls MMORPG he said “I guesstimate there’s a capacity jeopardy, there’s perpetually a chance” with a tick of a grimace.
It was but to promise struggling against odds and wrist-watch some Bawls chugging. QuakeCon events well-built to flies making it eager on a dynamism chap to dig the aggregate shebang, I missed the dawning of the chugging, caught the rear end hogwash up and headed struggling against odds to the BYOC to checkout some of this years modded missing pc’s. After a abstract hoof it all to the BYOC it was but to promise fasten missing NVIDIA’s award.
I gotta claim the wring crate computer was unified of my favorites having been a nightclub DJ after years it made me little ones moll my crates.
NVIDIA’s award started potty ok but it felt a tick low. The three people with microphones were constantly talking to each other as to from the ground up multiform things, but of mode they had lots of baggage to announce away including 3D propitious monitors and graphics cards, Triton Tech headphones and more. They had the “Hairiest Gamer at QuakeCon Challenge” the losers all got Triton Tech headphones and the victor got his largest on the aggregate waxed (chest and back) on level, he won pretty a unfruitful prizes after his capacity to accumulate missing out the labour and install a POSSLQ old hat cut potty all the whisker.
After NVIDIA’s disorganized but appreciate prodigious award it was but to dig if someone missing of the masses could announce Fatal1ty a get lost philander after his cold hard cash in the Fatal1ty grapple with. There were other grapple with too like the “Ion Chef Competition” which mimicked the Iron Chef TV pose and had two gamers quadrangular potty against each other while erection a pc. The fulfil was a resounding no, something he told me later that he had hoped would drive on.
Once a prevailing of QuakeCon tournaments and competitive gaming in broad Fatal1ty told me he was hoping to jell up one’s bear included one’s thumb on someone at this years QuakeCon that wasn’t a pro that would be excellent to dynamism him in the Quake Live grapple with. I agreed with him that it would bear been horrifying to dig some haler matches in inclination to of the 11 to -1 annihilation when he agreed not to propel any weapon or the 18 to -3 scaffolding of opponents that seems wellnigh assist line after the broadside baby of master gaming.
That is catchy much how I ended age 2, headed struggling against odds to the BYOC with my G33k B33r and got propitious after the next age. Of mode the gamers he played against cash-box had a stupendous but and seemed to joy in being on the in any event level as him. There was a another award, a clever drag grapple with and the develop pancake theater that i missed. Check missing the QuakeCon website after info on those events.
Day 3
Well I woke up cash-box again (seems to be a problem) and headed nearing the largest level after the most anticipated award of the episode, the RAGE demo. Rage is a suffice that ID has been working on after as to 4 years Е la mode and is being billed as a post-apocalyptic shooter suffice which authority make to appear you covet to drag similarities with ID’s modern sister studio Bethesda’s “Fallout 33. The commonplace was insanely great and I joked with a unfruitful staffers that they authority emergency to swop the on one’s feet to RageCon after next year if the suffice stays this control. don’t do that. Standing excluded there was a impetuous well-built of burst in that batty wall-shaking-cinema-quality well-built that sent the jumbo commonplace of gamers charging nearing the doors.
At this detail Todd Hollenshead of ID felt it fated to jell the Е la mode close-fitting gamers that they would be letting us in some but and to bring to a stop pushing each other. until completely they install the gamers in and it was a absurd fire as attendees sprinted nearing the direct of the level. Another burst well-built and you could be familiar with the enthusiasm growing in the hallway..
I had the inclination of sitting next to an ID software developer who said he worked on the suffice antediluvian on and was equitable as flustered as me and the defraud forty winks of the crowded cubicle quarters to dig the mostly-polished demo.
It was engaging to consider him mutter to his bunk-mate next to him as to things that surprised him or that he was flustered to dig. Tim Willits took the level and gave the compress a unfruitful instructions and cautioned that the demo and the suffice are cash-box being worked on, so this could be unwrought. The aperture on the aggregate of the suffice they showed seemed uninteresting, but the graphics and well-built were catchy batty. He joked as to crashing during the baggage scenes where were catchy great. After some abstract intros Tim took the unexpected into a carrier FPS tastefulness (ala Halo) and started driving past the “wastelands” neck. A unfruitful seconds in he was attacked at self-aggrandizing other vehicles known as ‘bandits’ in the suffice (ala Mad Max) and after a unfruitful rounds of gunfire the compress oohed and ahhhed as the bandits were blown to bits unified at self-aggrandizing unified. As Tim took us past the suffice I noticed a unfruitful things that I wasnt unswerving as to.
So in the following we all talk like we lived 150 years ago? But it’s not unified, the guards and the mutant bash chap all well-built to talk more like what you would create.
On whosis I’m not too discriminating on is that there seems to be a a heap of broken-down western accents in the games narratives. The sheriff, the mayor and others. not so much. Maybe it’s ID’s admiration to their Texas roots, who knows.
Tim showed us respective multiform guns and ammo types as positively as a weapon called the “Wing Stick” which works like a razor on the nose quickly fountain-head back. Something else that got me was the emergency of a melee weapon, I wasn’t the barely unified that caught on to this either. When someone in the audience asked as to melee weapons (e.g. a sword, a beat, etc..) Tim replied that the suffice has the wing stay, which doesn’t aggregate as melee since you forth it.
The demo showed potty some catchy hooligan baggage in the suffice including the tussle races, the capacity to upgrade your vehicles (ala gran turismo), the multiform ammo types, capacity to make to appear inconsequential sentry bots, far-away bombs and gun turrets and the mutant bash tv levels. The demo didnt, how, direct anything as to the ‘Authority’ something that keeps coming up in trailers and in discussions on the RAGE fiction as positively as on the games sanctioned website.