On the ground and ready to shoot a bunch of weird videos that will hopefully, sort of be related to games.
You probably figured out from our first podcast and the ludicrous site skin on the front page that we're on the ground and semi-coherent in Tokyo. So far I've had a chance to observe a few personal traditions common to every TGS trip.
Old Traditions
YES.Neglect my DS and PSP completely on the plane. I read Cell by Stephen King cover to cover instead. I guess I'll try to finish Final Fantasy IV on the way back. That still needs reviewing, right?
Listen to the entirety of Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized on the long bus ride from the airport to downtown. I don't know why that album reminds me of Tokyo, but it does.
Get my ass whooped on the year's new fighting games populating the arcades here. Hey, this year that means Tekken 6 and Street Fighter IV. Sweet! People are disturbingly good at fighting games here. I wish that kind of skill and competition still existed in the US, outside of tournaments and whatnot.
Eat some kind of egg-covered katsu dish purchased via vending-machine ticket at the local Don Don. Vending machines keep personal interactions at a minimum!
New One(s)
Thank the TGS gods for moving the show to October. The weather's actually pretty pleasant! Usually TGS swelters. It must be 10-15 degrees cooler than the old show in September.
Something else we'll figure out and document.
???
Profit!
Now we're off to Akihabara to contemplate spending too much money on useless old games in the Super Potato, and try to goad Jeff into buying a high-def handheld camcorder we can use to shoot surreptitious footage in the city's many camera-unfriendly game and electronics emporiums. Look for videos in the near future!
You probably figured out from our first podcast and the ludicrous site skin on the front page that we're on the ground and semi-coherent in Tokyo. So far I've had a chance to observe a few personal traditions common to every TGS trip.
Old Traditions
YES.Neglect my DS and PSP completely on the plane. I read Cell by Stephen King cover to cover instead. I guess I'll try to finish Final Fantasy IV on the way back. That still needs reviewing, right?
Listen to the entirety of Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space by Spiritualized on the long bus ride from the airport to downtown. I don't know why that album reminds me of Tokyo, but it does.
Get my ass whooped on the year's new fighting games populating the arcades here. Hey, this year that means Tekken 6 and Street Fighter IV. Sweet! People are disturbingly good at fighting games here. I wish that kind of skill and competition still existed in the US, outside of tournaments and whatnot.
Eat some kind of egg-covered katsu dish purchased via vending-machine ticket at the local Don Don. Vending machines keep personal interactions at a minimum!
New One(s)
Thank the TGS gods for moving the show to October. The weather's actually pretty pleasant! Usually TGS swelters. It must be 10-15 degrees cooler than the old show in September.
Something else we'll figure out and document.
???
Profit!
Now we're off to Akihabara to contemplate spending too much money on useless old games in the Super Potato, and try to goad Jeff into buying a high-def handheld camcorder we can use to shoot surreptitious footage in the city's many camera-unfriendly game and electronics emporiums. Look for videos in the near future!
Now we're off to Akihabara to contemplate spending too much money on useless old games in the Super Potato, and try to goad Jeff into buying a high-def handheld camcorder we can use to shoot surreptitious footage in the city's many camera-unfriendly game and electronics emporiums. Look for videos in the near future!
Yes! Do this!
I look forward to all of your TGS and non-TGS coverage in Tokyo! Have fun, Bombers!
I liked Cell, but the whole double-wipe "reformatting" concept was pretty lame. Too many of the concepts in the story tried to be technical, but fell flat. The idea is AWESOME but wasn't executed upon with King's sometimes pinache. It will make a great techno-zombie movie next year.
According to everything I've read about Jeff, it shouldn't take much goading to get him to buy an expensive piece of technology that he doesn't need. Also, nice background Snide.
I still rock the Soul Calibur III arcade machine, I'm sure of it. It was taken out of the local mall a little while back and the only one close was downtown. That one's gone too though, I think... if there were more around, I would start challenging people in the arcade again, haha.
You're in Tokyo, I'm in England. I'm waiting for a bus to arrive to take me to the place I least want to go, you're eating some kind of egg-covered katsu dish and buying cameras.
Have fun in the arcades there! Would LOVE to get there someday and play some fighting games aswell as yourself id love if that still excisted in other countrys still :(
Japan is wierd but it's awesome people are way into arcades there still, I agree with Brad and wish my local one in the UK was packed with nerds way into the SF2 mechine.
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