Capcom opening its E3 booth to the public

Are bloggers the press now? They mostly cite other news sources so I would consider them common folk too.

Yeah! Take that, Common McElroy!

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Heck yea man, I was there in '05 with my DS Phattie soakin up the wifi DS downloads at the always amazing Nintendo booth.

quick side note i have a personal vendeta against nintendo for selling me a brken N64

I miss those parts of E3, Wrench, but I also don't miss the way it was prior to 2005 when anyone could get into the show.

The original post here is tongue in cheek but one of the reasons the show got so bloated was that they kept letting every retard into the show. What ended up happening was that nobody could see anything. Every console would get hogged by some jerkwad who would set at the controls of one of the four games I actually wanted to try out for two hours.

As a result, the companies would lock down more and more of their booth. They'd show the general attendee videos while pre-approved press outlets with special appointments could go look at the actual games "behind the scenes" and give them guaranteed favorable looks.

Everything just got way too bloated. Including the booth "babes", who were getting of substantially lower and lower quality as the year went on. Towards the end, the most attractive women were wearing company polo shirts, not company costumes.

And "co", the Nintendo booth most certainly did NOT always rock. I remember the year they announced the DS. "You've all been standing in line for an hour in a half...so, now, out of these 7 lines of people we've graciously let in...these *two* will be allowed to play the DS! The other 5 lines of you can go suck it. Go outside and wait in the line again."

I miss it, personally. The new event is so toned-down

What we need is for the ESA to talk to Penny Arcade, and get E3 fused with PAX

I don't hand out 'lol's lightly. But lol on that comment.