Okay, I'm home, and I am still awake.
I'll just list games I played and games that I saw and give my impressions.
Again, I want to state, graphically, Ridge Racer 7 is worth the huge fee. I kid you not. The game is the PS3 bench mark for me, and I feel if Namco can do it then other big companies should too.
Warhawk: I played the multiplayer version of this. It looks very nice, good hi res textures. The biggest let down was the control method. I assume though it will just take a little while to get used to waving the control pad around and aiming with the sticks.
Resistance: Avoid at all costs, it looks terrible and it plays terrible. I played the single player version. Enemies really don't look like they are part of the environment, and the guns you are given really don't suit the whole WW2 idea. Bad generic game. It doesn't even look next gen ffs... avoid.
Mud Racer: It looks amazing, and is a really fun title. Unfortunately it looks as if if the vehicles are driving through treacle. It's like some bodgey arse less then 30fps per second racer. If they can improve the frame rate the game is going to be a kick arse multiplayer title.
Blue Dragon: I so want this game, and I think most of the people there want it too. I sat in a line that had 160mins written on it, and it was so damn worth it. JRPG at it's finest. I actually bothered to trawl through jap menus to look after my characters. Charming. I love it.
Lost Odyssey: Graphically amazing, but the tiny demo I got of the game really didn't set up enough of it for me. Also the game being in jap made it hard. There was a lot of story and I didn't get what was going on. It could turn out to be pretty good.
Sonic The Hedgehog: I played the 360 version, and I felt it was pretty crap. The controls were too floaty, and I was left wondering why every character could basically fly. Maybe SEGA hate Tails as much as the rest of us and made everyone fly. I had a look at the PS3 version, it is chuggy, jaggy. 360 FTW.
Project Slypheed: Lock on and fire. WOOO!!!! It's like Panza Dragoon but in all range mode. I love it. The game is so simple to play, looks pretty and is addictive. I liked it a lot. I was going to join the line again.
Zegopain: I think that was how it was spelt, confusing but pretty. I had no idea what I was doing... instructions required.
I don't think I played anything else...
What I sat and looked at.
Trusty Bell (360) the best looking 360 game on display. Beautiful cel lshaded graphics. Simply amazing to behold. Hopefully we see this get a PAL or Region Free release.
L.A.I.R.: Factor 5 have made an ugly game
I really ugly game...
No playable Wii games, I cried...
on display were:
Elebits: Fun looking hunt the cute creature game. If it is a launch title I am getting it.
Super Monkey Ball: Mini games... yay... looked boring and way too much hand waving was used for my liking. I'm not a fit person, I don't want to get fit.
Bleach: The girl playing it looked bored.
Sonic and the bad joke I once made that was so bad I had to explain what I meant by it: Artistically the better sonic game. The HD games look cleaner and sharper, but don't look as fun. Controls seemed pretty good and pretty responsive. But the girl had been playing the game foer 3 days on the same 2 damn levels.
Virtua Fighter 5: mmmm jaggies! Other then that it looks nice.
This made me raise an eyebrow. The SEGA booth had the Smackdown Vs Raw demo running. There were two version side by side, a 360 version and what I thought to be a PS3 version, as they were graphically identicle. I remembered that there is no PS3 version due to there being no PS3. It was the PS2 version. Looks no different. Shame THQ and Yukes... shame!
The full MGS4 trailer looked awesome on the huge screen. MWRAAAHHHH!!!!
I also checked out the Square Enix closed cinema. It was footage of their big name games. FFXIII, Kingdom Hearts (rechain and full mix), and the FFVIII games. I don't know what to make of XIII. It looks like fully rendered FMV, and then a HUD appeared... I keep wanting to call bullshot on it. KH rechain of memories is the GBA title on the PS2. Dunno what KH Final Mix is. It could be a third game or it could be a remake of the first. I really couldn't tell.
One of the highlights, I got to talk to an MS exec. He deals with buying new titles for MS. He mentioned that they have signed an MMO for the 360, and he said that if you love the MMO style of game you will love this. I asked him what it was and he said he couldn't tell me.
I had a great time at TGS, and if I can get the roll of film out of my camera without destroying it, I should have shots
