GCA 2008

I went to the Games Convention Asia today. Several other people were going as well so we all decided to meet up. When I arrived there, I met YongHao and then Hobbes who was with his school's booth. We started chatting when this booth babe came and asked (actually more like begged) us to take a photo with her. I was kinda confused cos' I thought it was usually the other way round. She then handed us some coupons and told us to give it right back to her so we can have our pictures taken.



I guess the booth babe was in a hurry to fulfill her photo quota and go home. haha. The person taking the photo had such shaky hands. There was no way to salvage it except with the adjacent drawing by Hobbes.

Surprisingly, the GCA was not as crowded as most other events held at Suntec. There were a lot of new and upcoming titles on display with just as many people hogging them. Then there were also the cosplayers who seemd to pop up at every event. I saw an Arthas (WoW: WOTLK) near the Popcorn Gaming booth which even had a Frostmourne replica for sale at $998. As I was walking around, I even saw a Lulouch (Code Geass) walk pass me and go into the toilet. (I don't want to know what happened to all the people in the toilet.)




The highlight to me was the Guitar Hero: World Tour demo and a few gaming competitions going on like Soul Calibur IV, Rock Band and Guitar Hero Aerosmith. I joined the Rock Band competition with Rhyfe. We called ourselves Photoshop Heroes (I wonder if anyone got the reference. haha)I felt we were at a severe disadvantage since there was only two of us while other teams had 3-4 members. I was amazed when we got into the finals with 5 other teams because Rhyfe pulled off a stunt that was a real crowd pleaser; He sang vocals and played guitar at the same time.

In the end, we probably should have realized that the competition was not about skill or scores but more on aethestics. The winning team was the one who actually dressed up in nice clothes and performed a lot of stylish dance moves. I doubt the judges even took down scores or cared that we were playing on Expert. If it were me to decide, the other 3-man team with a godly guitarist would've won. Oh well, never mind. It was good fun and I'll be picking up Rock Band next week.