@thebiglouie 5:22 PM
Phone is too ghetto to post on NeoGAF. Can one of you post my twitter address in the Sony theater thread? TIA
https://twitter.com/thebiglouie/status/476157354376196097
Thanks Wario.
I went to the Century City screening.
I drove 3 hours to get here. I was hesitant about going after signing up because of the rumor of the prizes being just codes and I didn't want to drive just for a viewing and codes. But I had nothing better to do that day and went anyway.
At around 3:30pm, there was already a line forming. I later learned that most of the people in line where for stand-by and I was registered, so I didn't have to stick around.
The theater lobby was stuffy, but thankfully, no one stunk too bad. I went outside and walked around, since I never been at Century City before.
I found a caviar vending machine. Yes, that says $400. 0_0
One thing I didn't expect was a camera crew. They were with PlayStation interviewing various people in line. I wasn't interviewed and I didn't catch what exactly they were asking everyone. A lady in a black jacket gave everyone release forms to sign. The camera panned around everyone, so everyone there should be on video, whenever it comes out.
Left line was for registered, right line was for stand-by. A few seconds after this was taken, they started bringing people in to the theater.
I got... whoever this is... from The Order 1886
That's me in the white polo next to the two empty Reserved seats.
People behind me while the theater was filling up.
The camera crew was still there! Before the conference started, they had the camera in the middle front and told everyone in the theater to scream "Greatness Awaits!" towards them. They stayed there during the press conference in that corner. I think they filmed people's reactions in the dark.
As most others reported, the satellite feed broke up right before the conference started, and in the middle of the Devolver segment. The feed problems affected my mood significantly and almost took me out of enjoying it. This was my biggest worry about the theater viewing and it happened. I kept worrying that it would happen again, but thankfully, it didn't break up too bad after the second time.
The mood of the theater was very positive. I was worried that some smartasses would bash announcements out loud, but none of that happened. The air was cool and there was no bad smell, which was a big surprise since most were waiting in the stuffy lobby. I thought it would be dumb and lame to watch a press conference on a screen with others, but it ended up being enjoyable. Reacting to announcements along with hundreds of others was kind of fun.
Biggest reactions were for LittleBigPlanet 3 (I didn't know that many people still liked LBP), Uncharted 4, and GTA V for PS4.
The interview segment after the conference was lame. Most of the stuff shown was already shown in the conference, so there wasn't anything interesting. The PS4 background music playing throughout it was also distracting. Everyone was quiet throughout it. We found out what the bonuses were (they were codes after all *sigh*), we went out and got a small poster. I think there was a table with around 50 more lanyards with codes but I didn't grab one.
My "haul", including the Reserved sign.
Goodbye Century City. I drove 3 hours back home.
Overall, it was okay. If it wasn't for the feed problems, I would have enjoyed it more. I won't go to a future viewing unless they have one somewhere in central California where I live, but that is never happening.