Video Games Live in Vancouver

Wednesday was VGL in Vancouver at the Orpheum, Downtown. That morning, Keith's class was canceled so I got to sleep in. Woke up and had McDix and then played Resistance 2 for the whole afternoon. Almost lost track of time, so I rushed out a bit after 6PM and got to the Burrard skytrain station a bit before 7. On my way down, I bumped into Simon and gang so I joined up with them and followed them to get some Japadogs. Unfortunately the Japadog crew had already retired for the night so they went and had some sort of donair variation. The food from lunch kept me full, so I just got myself a drink.

We then got a call from Tony C, so we went and met up with him. We took the food to the Orpheum and stood around outside and ate while waiting for the other half of the group. There were insane lineups by the time we got there and a rather lack of good cosplayers. We bumped into Lee there, who was also waiting for his gang of friends.

When the rest of the gang showed up, we headed in, did a quick pit stop (bumping into Matt) and then headed to our seats. I looked to my left and lo and behold, I saw Gar, Saboo and crew. It was just sad I had to sit with someone who was rather untalkative with me (but would rather talk to Tony, wah~).

As for the actual concert - it was your typical geek fest but the audience was relatively well behaved. The retro intro was pure nostalgica... There were a number of "Whoa, I played that game before!" moments, even though I don't remember what the heck the games were called. The MGS one was one of my favourites and I don't even play MGS, and yet I know the theme song rather well. I gots to see Raiden rekick ass in the MGS4 scenes.

There was a little Blizzard tribute. They featured WoW (duh) and Starcraft 2. I crossed my fingers and hoped they'd do a third and play Diablo 3, but sigh.

The Halo track was great and neither do I play that too.

The first encore song, One-Winged Angel, felt like the most boring song to me. Maybe because I've already heard of a billion remixes of the song, so it didn't feel particularly special to me. (Second most boring would probably be Kingdom Hearts' Hikari... again, heard a better orchestrated version of it song.)

After the concert, we bummed outside for a while before we figured out where to go. We ended up walking to Bubble World and chilled there for a while.

I didn't arrive home until 1 and I had class in the morning at 8. So tired.... however! Resistance 2 beta ends today! I must play until I can play no more! LBP servers are up now tooo~

Ugh why does work require me to work so much earlier this week. It's being an annoying obstruction. Work fast, work fast.