At The Speed of Steve

This weekend was the Tokyo Game Show, a major game convention here in Japan.  Our group was lucky enough to get tickets in advance, so this Saturday the gang headed to Makuhari Messe for some much needed Nerd-Juice.  The Convention was huge, the crowds were huge, the names were huge and especially the Chocobos were huge.

Like I said, I saw all the big names there: Square Enix, Sony, Microsoft, Capcom, Nintendo, EA and more!

I was lucky enough to take a look at the new Resident Evil (here its called Biohazard but its the same thing). So for Resident Evil 5 it looks like they are going to release it for the Xbox 360 and PS3.  The game looks pretty sick, they didn’t let us take many pictures of the stand but here’s one Dan snuck in:

you can clearly see the no pictures man in the foreground…oops.

There is also a new sonic game coming out for the Wii, called Sonic and the Black Knight.  I didn’t get to try it but it looks like it might bring sonic back to what you want from it…Really fast running that you cant see whats going on.   That’s what every sonic fan desires. Also, he has a sword, lol.

There is a Kingdom Hearts game coming to the DS which i might buy as well…ah so many games so little time.  I didn’t get much of a peek at it because of the Huge line to see the Square Enix stuff but I’m sure it wont disappoint.  Plus it’s not coming out until Winter so there is still time to read up on it and see if its worth the investment.

Outside of the Square Enix booth though they were selling “potions” that had the faces of many Final Fantasy characters on it.  These “Potions” didn’t really explain what flavors they were or if they restored MP or HP and they were in regular Soda-Can form. In any case, Square Enix could piss in a can and slap Squall’s face on it, and people would still buy it in droves.  Without actually trying it, I really cannot comment on this matter and if the line wasn’t so long I probably would have bought at least one  They are just too cool:

…clearly a good marketing choice.

Now I can’t forget the main reason people (i use the term people very loosely) come to these conventions…The Booth Babes!

Although closely related, one cannot avoid the many Cosplayers that frequent these conventions.  Its always so much fun to see people dress up like your favorite characters.  The folks here in Tokyo did a fantastic job too, many of them really showed their dedication by the details in the costum.  Here’s a few that I liked the most:

There is one more that I must show you…

Dan was brave enough to take a picture with it.

We’re pretty sure it was a guy inside mostly because his Quads were very defined and muscular, also tall women are hard to find here.  We could certainly be wrong but i strongly doubt it.

Either Way…lol dan.

Norton Antivirus had a really cool display there as well

if a forty foot ultra man doesn’t scare viruses and spyware, then I don’t know what will.