Day 2 started out well as we got to sleep in since E3 didn't start until like noon. Once we left, we headed to the Farmer's Market where we were going to have breakfast, but traffic slowed us down enough that we made the decision to just grab some fast food at a drive through and head straight to the Staples Center. Once there, we found a long line in which he had to wait in order to get our ID badges. Although the line was long, it moved pretty quick so the wait was relatively short.
No matter how many times I've been to E3 I am never prepared for just how many people there are when first entering. Victor had a meeting to get to, but suggested Chad and I check out a new game being shown called The Order, so we got in line to check it out. The line appeared to be relatively short but was moving extremely slow. When we finally rounded the second corner after about a half hour we saw how long it actually was.
Now we had a decision to make, give up and go look around or wait it out until the bitter end. We didn't want our current wait time to be wasted so we decided to stick around. While waiting in line there was a mannequin figure of someone in the game, like a general or
something, and one of people who helped make it was a girl in line
right behind us. She took a mold of the real guy's head, and she said
the eyes they used were her boss's eyes. Later on down the line there were a couple model guns
from the game that were locked in a cage. The designers of the guns were
there and they wanted to get a picture (they designed the guns in
the game, not made the real-life models of them).
It took over an hour before we got in to see the game, and it wasn't a demo video like we expected but an actual sit down and play type of situation. Chad went first and I followed shortly behind. Playing a new game is normally exciting, but it's also a bit weird having a stranger looking over your shoulder as you're trying to figure it out. And I felt like a total doofus. There was one part where a teammate gets injured and I was supposed drag him inside a room, but I didn't know that and just kept trying to kill people while he continually died, restarting the checkpoint.
Chad got was finished with his demo first and I didn't see him when I got out, so I walked
around a little. He eventually found me at the Galaxy Lounge where we would be meeting Victor. Victor was running late, though, so we went
to look around a bit more and I got to play a couple games. The best was an indie game called Nidhogg, which was like a
fencing game with really old style block graphics. The animation was very smooth, similar to the Prince
of Persia I used to play on the PC.
We briefly met up with Victor but he had another meeting with someone
so Chad and I went to look around in the other hall. They had a new
Alien game but it was only inside a booth that had a line, and there was no way we were doing that again, so we didn't
get to see it. This hall always seems to have more props set up in
booths; in one there was a tank suspended in the air coming out of a wall, and in another there was a giant monster posed out front. There was also a nostalgia area with all the really old videgames and systems which we enjoyed checking out.
We met up with Victor at around 3pm and headed to the car. Our next stop would be the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show, so I changed into my
nice clothes there at the car and we were off. We were some
of the first to arrive in the green room, and it was pretty big. It was one main room and then another attached room which had a pool table
and some old arcade games like Pac-Man.
The wasn't to start for another couple hours so we just hung out and talked. There was an open bar but they
just had beer or wine, which is not exactly my style so I just had an orange juice. Food was brought out eventually, some fruit and other finger foods. There was even soup which was in tiny little cups, like the kind you find as the caps on medicine bottles.
By the
time the show started, there were like 30-40 people in the green room.
We saw Kevin Weisman, the tech guy from Alias. It took me a moment to place him as he had a beard. Gerard Butler was in
another side room off the green room, so we didn't see him until he
headed out to his interview with Jimmy Kimmel. When she show was almost over we all went out
to the music stage and watched Matisyahu perform a couple songs. Chad was a
huge fan of Matisyah, and actually talked to him and shook his hand
while we were in the green room.
Following that, we traveled back to the apartment for a brief pit stop before heading over to our appointment at the Float Clinic. Victor and I had went there the previous night but we went back because Chad missed out on the experience due to a cancelled flight. We arrived a bit early so we
got a bite to eat at some "Hawaiian" place.
Since it was my second time at the Float Clinic, I volunteered to take some supplements that were supposed to enhance the floating experience. Chad joined in as well. It
didn't seem to help me at all, but Chad apparently had a wonderful visual experience. I had basically the same experience as the previous night, which was nice and relaxing.
It was a good way to end the day, except that wasn't quite the end of day as we played with the Oculus some more when we got back to the apartment. That thing is amazing!
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