Here's more of a general E for All write up...
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On the first day before general public entrance, some award winning high school band made noise outside as wanting to attract more people by horrible music. Then inside a lobby, a ceremony was hold for the best costume out of only 4 people who showed up. The winners, a guy dressed in black outfit with a balloon like thing called Boo, was allowed to join the ranks of professional cos-players. After ceremony, the HS band and costume-players led everyone inside E for All. It seems on the first day only around 50-75 people were waiting to enter.
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On the second day, a Scottish band, 30 minutes before doors opened for general audience, played motivational music as before going to battle. With a crowd of 100-150 people standing around and enjoying music, band moved up to an entrance and everyone rushed in. The only other display other than BS that intrigued me was super-expensive vibrator chair with R-Factor. After driving it for few minutes, I frankly did not get a feeling as of being in a car, but more like sitting on a off balance dry machine. It did not assist me in any way. It actually made it harder to drive because wheel would get jerked out of my hands. G-25 felt nice, but force-feedback was turned off, so it didn't properly represent 300$ wheel.
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Other then those two displays, I had no interest in Wii, 360s and playstations. PC side showed nice hardware running UT3 and other games. There were Counter Strike tournaments and other games.Geeks were being geeks.
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I met up with Jason and walked around with him for about an hour listening to his commentary about E for All, presenters and displays. He said this show was very small compare to original E3. Although I didn’t know better, to me it show was big enough. For the rest of the show, I hanged around CH / BS booth testing FM of Ka-50 as I hovered around airfield and crashed over and over and over. Since I’m a Cougar guy, CH folks in good fun flamed me a bit. Yes, CH is more precise than my slightly modified metal joystick. Suddenly one hour before closing, an entire half of pavilion on PC side lost electricity. Sys-admin for CH, Michael, like a cool cat took out a pipe and started puffing away.
Powerless future of flight sims
Big thanks to
Debby, Jason, Matt, Evgenii, Michael, Tom and Ghost
I had a lot of fun meeting online persons.