Coffee Talk #388: Make Your Own Videogame Convention

With Halo Fest taking place this weekend and Call of Duty XP in a few weeks followed by Blizzcon a bit later, I was wondering what the videogame convention of your dreams would be like. Would you want a convention…

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Today’s Coffee Talk is a quickie as I’ll be flying back to California by the time you’re reading this. With Halo Fest taking place this weekend and Call of Duty XP in a few weeks followed by Blizzcon a bit later, I was wondering what the videogame convention of your dreams would be like. Would you want a convention centered around a certain developer or publisher? Or would you want a convention all about your favorite gaming franchise?

This is never going to happen, but I’m going to dream about Matsuno Mania 3000. It’s a three-day convention that celebrates the games created by Yasumi Matsuno and his team. It’s full of Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy Tactics panels. Matsuno is a known Queen mark, so the surviving members of the band would be the musical guests (Brian May rules!). This sounds like the best event ever (in my head)!!!

What’s the videogame convention of your dreams like? Name it, describe it, and share it (please)!

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43 thoughts on “Coffee Talk #388: Make Your Own Videogame Convention”

  2. Convention:
    Amalgamation of top PC publishers with an All Things Digital type of panel every year with ppl like Carmack, Newell, Pachter, Morheim(sp?), etc. I find the PC crowd to be different from the console only crowd.

    Of course there will be competitive tourney in various categories. LoL tournament? Yes please. I enjoy spectating DOTA2 and LoL more than Starcraft. Check them out if you are in to viewing competitive gaming

    Shot? Hmm, I'm a beer guy first. Give me a good Belgian like Chimay Grande Reserve or any brew from Anchor (I will visit them when I go to Cali) or Sierra Nevada.

      1. Blue is my favorite. The white and red are fine brews, but they don't compare to the blue!

  4. My dream convention would be one I can actually attend. Most the conventions are on the coasts, which leaves me out because I'm in the center of the country. Plus, E3 and GDC are my dream conventions.

    1. Yeah I would agree, my favorite convention would probably be the one I got to go to. I would love to go to QuakeCon, but I'm not as hardcore of a PC gamer as some people there are. It would be a lot of fun to bring my own computer and just get to play with other people who love the same game though. Being far away from almost everything though makes having a favorite convention hard to decide.

      2. I completely agree with you, I'm just expressing my opinions. I just think he is overrated and mediocre at best and would prefer to not read about him.

      4. HAHAHA I used to love his work and I wish I had his money and success in the biz, but he got to weird for my tastes.

      6. I think I might.

        I loved 808's. The Twisted Fantasy album is okay, but I like the joint he did with Jay-Z.

      7. Are you talking about the Otis song? I listened to it, yes the sampling technique is on point, and didn't hear why it was so great.

      10. You can thank Pink Floyd for that.

        The Wall was the first concept album I truly dove into. It actually took my a few years after that to grasp the concept of Dark Side of the Moon (which in my opinion, is not only a better album, but it's a more significant historical accomplishment).

        But yeah, I had to get high as hell and go to a Dark Side laser show at a planetarium for the real penny to drop. The Wall was easier for me because it was about oppression and tyranny. In Jr. High, I related alot more to oppression and tyranny than I did the general journey of life.

        I blame public schools for that.

      11. 808's was the end for me. It was ok, but not an album I can really listen to anymore because it got old. Graduation is still a good album to listen to though. I haven't heard a song on the Kanye/Jay-z album yet that I actually like.

      12. He gets alot of press because right now he probably is the best male r&b artist out there.

        He's not overrated as much as he's trouncing the competition.

      13. N8R you say what I am thinking but I suck at saying it. There is no competition in his world. Timberland, Dr. Dre, and the Rza, are all mega producers but Kayne def found a niche and he is exploiting the hell out of it, as would I.

      14. On top of that, he's sticking with it. He hasn't tried his hat at acting yet.

        There really isn't anybody else doing what Kanye is doing right now though. So, when the r&b music press searches for a story about male talent… it circles around to Kanye real fast.

      16. Name another current male R&B artist that RS could cover equally to Kanye. If that person is also an actor… they don't count because they're touring schedule is now half of what Kanye's is.

        Drake is doing what Kanye is doing… almost carbon copying it. Therfore to talk about Drake's accomplishments is to talk about Kanye's.

        But the thing about that list is that it's a hip-hop list. Kanye is a male R&B artist that crosses over into hip-hop. It's like difference between Bobby Brown and Kool Moe Dee. Everyone else on that list (except Drake) cannot be called R&B.

        And Drake is a flavor of the month anyway. But Kanye will still be around for a while as long as he doesn't do stupid things.

      19. Oh… pretty damn slim.

        Probably about the same as the odds of me doing something stupid at any given time. The difference is… I'm not Kanye, nobody cares if I do something stupid, and Beyonce's video was actually pretty bland and ordinary in my opinion.

        In case you're wondering… yes, I just compared myself to Kanye West.

      20. Drake used to be good, but everything he does now sounds exactly the same. His style is generic.

      21. Dude… we're talking about r&b. This is a genre of music with a VERY long tradition of generic styles and templates.

        Boy Bands, those female vocal groups (Supremes clones) of the 60's, the whole "Jodeci/Usher" sound, even the "Motown Sound" itself… r&b has always been like that.

        However… I'm not saying it sucks. I absolutely LOVE 60's soul music. James Brown, Joe Tex, Sam & Dave, Wilson Pickett, Rufus Thomas, Arthur Connelly, Sam Cooke… I could go on for days. None of my friends get it until I'm playing it when they're around and they start tapping their foot and ask "who's this?".

        I also love Motown. What an amazing piece of Americana. However… nobody made a sound generic sounding the way Motown did.

        Just sayin'

      23. The way I see it is he HAS to being doing something right in order to be where he is and I respect that. Do I like his stuff? For the most part I don't but I can still have a healthy respect for successful musicians.

        I'm not calling you out or anything like that, just my thought process.

      24. No offense taken, of course, but you and I have different definitions of the word "success". I do not believe that selling a certain amount of albums or having a certain amount of money makes you a successful person in life.

        Also, if someone (let's say like in corporate America) lies, cheats, steals, and sleeps their way to the CEO position of a powerful company, they may be considered "successful" because they got to where they are, but how they got there deserves no respect from me.

        Selling millions of things to a people (Americans) in which most believe that Christianity came before Judaism or that can name all three Stooges, but not a single one of the three branches of government is not something to be respected. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-maher/new-rule-smart-president_b_253996.html) It is simply someone who was able to market himself in a way that appeals to the masses… which is something that the Pet Rock also did.

        The ends will never justify the means. Granted, I don't know enough about Mr. West to make an informed opinion, but from the very little I do know, I dislike.

        -M

      25. I don't define success by selling millions or having wads of cash, it is far from that but a very lengthy subject.

        I was using successful as the goal of someone in his line of business. When someone decides to set out on the career path of becoming a superstar, their ultimate goal IMO is to obtain fame, money, and variations or combos of the two with the byproducts of that lifestyle. So in that way he is successful because he is at the top of the urban music game and no one can touch him.

        I hope that helps you understand why I said what I said.

      27. Great comparison to the pet rocks, lol. I would agree that I don't like to see success as only the number of albums sold or money in the bank. As appealing as that is to me, and as much as I would love to have the bank account of Kanye, I know that isn't truly success IMO.

      1. Wow, I'm not a reader of the magazines, but those both sound pretty bad. What's next; Zac Efron on the cover? Lol!

        -M

    2. I get the magazine for free on accident on account of making a purchase at Best buy for four free copies of a magazine of my choice that I made the beginning of my freshman year at college. I've never given them CC information so I know I've never been charged, but I've gotten every issue for going on six years now. I would never pay for it though.

      The magazine itself really hasn't been the same since they changed the size of the whole thing to a regular magazine size instead of the well known larger issue style they used to be known for.

      1. Commented there, but it said the comment had to be approved. This isn't censored by Apple before posting is it? lol

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