Game Sites Finish Up Post-E3 Awards

An anonymous reader writes "Most of the major game sites have put up 'Best of E3' sections, including those from Gamespot, from IGN, from GameSpy, and from 1UP . Everyone gave a different Best of Show this year, and agreed that the competition was fierce. I was happy to see mention of Yoot Saito's Odama and Namco's Katamari Damashii. Notable absences, in my opinion, included Tim Schafer's chronically late Psychonauts for Xbox. What games caught your eye? Who was the big winner this year?" T adds: Danno writes "The gang over here at GameGal.com have just put up our 2004 edition of the E3 Hall of Shame. Each year we chronicle the best of the worst in booth babes and half-naked female video game characters. We're not really offended by most of this, but it is amusing to see the lengths companies will go to catch the attention of jaded E3 attendees."

Re:Tim getting his game on in the hotel room

[Anonymous Coward]

A little cold of Microsoft to dump DoubleFine RIGHT before E3 [1up.com]. They could have at least given them one terminal to setup in. Microsoft took up as much space [e3expo.com] as EA, Activision, and another small publisher combined. Sickening.

Gamespot gets Alzheimer's and forgets WoW

[perrinkog]

Please forgive the side of me that is about to emerge.

Their category of "Best Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game"

Winner: EverQuest II

Finalists:
Auto Assault (PC)
Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed (PC)
The Matrix Online (PC)
Tabula Rasa (PC)

Anyone else notice a VERY conspicuous abscense fro m this list?

World of Warcraft anyone?

Ok, got that out of my system. :)

gender-bias(ed)?

[Creepy]

Hey - those bimbo... er, models, probably did all their own signs. If they're anything like my cousin, she can cheer, she can draw and design (she's also adept at spurting out kids, signing divorce papers, and collecting alimony and child support from four different fathers, not to mention is a grandmother at 32), but grammar and spelling - ha!

As for booth babes, is E3 mostly male? I suspect yes, so from a marketing standpoint, hiring attractive women to push your product seems like a good idea. The more skin you can show on your models, the more attention your booth will get from the mostly male audience. Most women don't want to see other women naked and most guys don't want to see other guys naked, so there is some justified repulsion from the women as the booth babes get more scantily clad. If E3 were mostly female, I have no doubt that the marketing would be reversed.

Hey - I think that IS my blonde bimbo cousin in one of those pics...

Psi-Ops? Suspiciously Absent?

[Anonymous Coward]

I haven't seen nearly any coverage on Psi-Ops [psiopsgame.com] on any of these E3 reports... I think this is criminal! If you're lucky enough to have a demo of this game (I got it in June's OPM... think it's in OXM also), it's crazy-fun! Nice graphics, physics that rival HL2 (seriously!), and just the most fun I've had with a demo in ages.

Did nobody at E3 see this game? Am I the only one that thinks it's cool? Somewhat rhetorical- a quick scan of the GameFAQs message [gamefaqs.com] boards [gamefaqs.com] shows there are actually a lot of people that have noticed this game... so why not the press?

Just irks me that all I hear is "sequels are killing this industry", but then when there really is something innovative out there, it's totally ignored in favor of all the exact same stuff that was raved about last E3! That just seems bogus to me. Get over HL2, most of it's technology will be long-present in other games before that behemoth ever hits the streets :P