London Meet Up 2014 (former Eurogamer Thread) - pg 29

[Plumbers Crack 4,033]

Not with me, I was a day tripper

[Diddums 4,305]

Nice to hear you got home safe Dave, even better to have finally met you!

 

 

Sorry we were so late, last night was rather hardcore and tonight's looking to be the same!

[Plumbers Crack 4,033]

EUROGAMER 2013

 

Well, that was good!!

 

Met up with Dave Cator at London Liverpool Street and travelled to Earls Court quite quickly, getting there about 10 minutes after opening to be met by a queue of approx 2 - 3,000 people! but it moved through fairly quickly

 

No sign of Rich, Cal and the others with all day tickets and a quick call revels they're waiting on bacon sarnies

 

Earls Court is a big place and it quickly developed into a big place full of queues!

 

Upstairs in the 18+ are we started of with Battlefield 4 (queue time approx 1 hour) played on XBones - amazing even on those gimpy XB controllers!! well worth the wait to play one battle and I think this will be on my Crimbo wish list if not earlier. Queue wait was also livened by being lucky enough to catch a BF4 T-shirt being lobbed out randomly to the hordes

 

Still no sign of the rest of the "all dayers"

 

Back down stairs to CoD Ghosts (QT just under an hour). This was not quite so impressive and also played on the dreaded XBone. This time I couldn't figure out how to start the bloody game and the alloted time was for a TDM so, with a couple of guys on the otherside who knew what they were doing it was all over very quickly. From what I saw and the action I managed to get I think that Ghosts is probably run and gun and BF4 is more a thinking man's game

 

Still no sign of the guys with all day tickets (they're waiting for Tam to get out of the shower) so we stopped for a pizza then on to the Sony PS4 (QT about 40 mins to get into the area) to try out the next gen console

 

CELEBITY ALERT!!! - spotted Jason Bradbury from The Gadget Show in the PS4 area

 

Once you got into the PS4 area you're given two tickets to try different games and each one was valid for about 6 different games. Reasonably good idea to keep the waiting times down so we decided first of all to try DriveClub. Stunning graphics especially when compared to the PS3 drive game (Gran Tourismo 6) being shown outside of the area. All I can say are my memories are correct and I can confirm I am worse at driving games than FPS but it gave me a good laugh

 

The we queued for another FPS, Backlight I think which was letting you play a complete round of the game but my legs were shot so it was "Dave, gimme your bag. You queue for a go " and I sat on the floor. 10 minutes later Mister C had done the maths and had worked out with 6-7 people in front of him taking 8-10 minutes to complete a go on the game.....naah!

 

Still no sign of the others so we go for a wander around the smaller stands which were quite interesting and the retro area bringing back early computing memories - Doom anyone? Loads of the old machines as well

 

Then, just before 5.00.....text "We're here and getting our wristbands!"  then "we're at the bar" (naturally!   )

 

and so we have....

 

 

Cal, Tam, Jenna and Rich

 

 

 

Rich Euan and Stretch

 

 

 

Dylan, Kyla (Diddum's better half) and Rich......anyone spotted Rich's plan yet?

 

 

 

Dave C, Dave (Didds) and....Rich

 

 

Having taken refreshments and worked out who was who we gave them the low down on what we'd seen etc and the agreement was "try BF4" which was upstairs.....in the over 18 section. We tried but withou age ID it was no go for Dylan so while the others went off he and I wandered around the main hall and got a photo opportunity for him

 

 

I can't for the life of me work out why he wanted his picture taken with this young lady!!

 

Reunited with the others we mooch around the rest of the show, Didds buys a graphics card, we mooch, Didds pre-orders BF4 to get some free stuff then at 6.55 the PA gives out that the gig is over and please leave. So what shall we do?......

 

You got it!!

 

 

Dave and Rich in an intense debate, about Lego I think

 

 

 

Apparently Jenna was the only one to remain sober the previous evening

 

 

 

Someone comments that Euan and Dylan look like they're from the same family rather than Dylan and Tam being brothers. They didn't think much of this for some reason......

 

 

 

...but it all ended amicably!!

 

And so it ended, the first real Forum Meet-Up and we found out that we're all a pretty likeable bunch who seem to get along well. This is obviously sanitised sober version from the show. What went on back at Diddums flat I just don't know and will wait to see the photos which they'll hopefully post when they eventually wake up!

 

We gotta do it again!!

[Madjonny 386]

Sounds awesome! Can't wait to see the afters...

Nobody looks anything like I imagined, apart from cal but iv seen him before...

[Dr Diamond 407]

is that tams gf ?



damn you are batting above your average boy

[Harrison 202]

Is Dylan like 4 foot tall? lol

[burnfitbillyboy 505]

The weekend is over, on my way home and feeling pretty upset (and hungover). Great to meet everyone and I'm sure it won't be the last time, really awesome group of people, thanks for the crazy weekend!

[TigerBurge 2,374]

Nice write up Dave. Sounds like a lot of fun.

Who got Dylan that shirt? That was awesome!

Wish we could orchestrate something around here.

[Plumbers Crack 4,033]

is that tams gf ?

damn you are batting above your average boy

Yes it is and they're a really nice couple, a pleasure to sit and talk to

[Plumbers Crack 4,033]

Is Dylan like 4 foot tall? lol

Not far off but another really nice dude in real life. Yes, he does really talk that fast as well

[burnfitbillyboy 505]

Yes it is and they're a really nice couple, a pleasure to sit and talk to

It was a pleasure to meet you Dave, such a genuinely nice person and it was nice to have a someone normal in our group even if it wasn't for the whole night.

[Plumbers Crack 4,033]

Nice write up Dave. Sounds like a lot of fun.

Who got Dylan that shirt? That was awesome!

Wish we could orchestrate something around here.

Thanks fun but wearing on the legs! Me and Dave C were walking for about 8 hours!

Dave and Kyla got Dylan the shirt and he was sport enough to wear it all day

Well, it's Autumn (Fall) 2013 now, how about working out how much it would cost to come to London for a few days then see if it's viable to save to do it in 2015 or 2016? See the show, take in the sights and it's a quieter time of year over here because the school holidays are all finished

[TigerBurge 2,374]

Yea I could see that conversation with my wife going really well. Honey I'm going to London for a few days to drink and go to a video game Expo

Her response- HAVE YOU LOST YOUR FUCKING MIND

[tronic44 3,628]

That was one of the ghayest weekends ever! Loved it!!

Was great to finally meet all you dudes, we'll make it a few days next time. Safe journeys back to the lot of ya and I pray that Dylan's sleeping, for the sale of that car!

[Chookes 965]

I'm tired.

[uberwarrior 373]

Looks like a good time was had by all, glad you all stayed safe.

[Dr Diamond 407]

rich looks nothing like i expected.

[Commander_Undies 618]

He's sexy!

[burnfitbillyboy 505]

He's sexy!

he really is... He gives nice cuddles too

[NCA-Paendrag 2,663]

Awesome write up Dave!

 

Likes Dylan`s shirt!

[burnfitbillyboy 505]

Just arrived home, fucked is an understatement!

[Chookes 965]

That's me home, feel like a zombie.

[Commander_Undies 618]

Hey Dave (Plumber), no selfies? 

[Plumbers Crack 4,033]

Naw, Mrs P said exactly the same but I think I'm in some of the pictures the others took. Judging by some of the (few) posts made by the others, I think some of them are still in a bit of a fragile state so the last thing on their minds wil be photos!

[Commander_Undies 618]

Oh snaps. Can't wait to see them.