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Jun24No Comments
So I just realized something. It’s been 8 days since Game Riot, and I never posted my thoughts on it.
Sadly, it sucked! CIncinnati people didn’t have it fair this time around, maybe because last year, they drew about 50 people to Bogart’s, and half of them were Game Junkies!
Here’s my rants on the topic:* You had to pay full park admission to see this … if you wanted to come in and see Game Riot, you’re out of luck. The after 5 PM Price? $30! I was lucky, but kind of wasn’t. I got to go with my friend Tina, a writer for GameDreamz, so I was fortunate enough to be considered a member of the press, but they mixed up her press tickets, so after trying to get it switched, they just gave us tickets … I think they got tired of us complaining (and we were being nice too).
* The actual “show space” was very small, about 2 tents worth. For the sake of comparison, Game Junkie has more store room then this event did, and that’s not good.
* The games shown were unimpressive to me as a hardcore game fan. There were no truly unreleased items there … the only games not out yet were FlatOut, Conker Live & Reloaded and Battlefield 2, and all you got to play was the already released demos of ‘em! They were showing off Soul Calibur 2 for goodness sakes! It’s freaking Player’s Choice! Not that we don’t like the game, we’re having a tournament in it, but it’s not what I want from a video game expo, even one more for the masses.
* You mean they’re making XBox 360? You wouldn’t know it here, no coverage of it.
There was a positive … the DJ running the small main stage was very nice, was doing a good job, and the Halo 2 “world champion” player that was there was very nice too, even got some pictures with Tina, so there were some minor nice things about it.
But all in all, it was small, and just not that impressive. For those of us whom went last year, you missed nothing this year, sorry.

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