It's late. It's hot. Hayfever is a foot. And there's crazy thoughts of taking a cold shower running through my mind. So I'll keep this short. I wanted to give Nintendo's front man Reggie some lovin', but like I said, I don't know how much longer I can sit here in this pool of sweat.

GameSpot covers E3 each year, and I'm not to sure how long they've been doing their live coverage, but I just want to give them some kudos for doing a steller job. I haven't been giving the live footage my full attention throughout the night, but it's nice having it streaming while I sit here and do some work and bask in the pool of my own sweat.

As I write this, it seems to be Sony hour. GameSpot have been sharing the stage with a variety of third party PlayStation 3 developers showing off their goods. And I have to say, I'm impressed. It's safe to say the PlayStation 3 has had such a high rate of negetive press, both throughout the media and community, so much so it gives off the impression that it's cool to "Sony bash". Is the large majority of the negetivity valid? Sure. But hardware will always have it's teething problems on release (us PC Gamers get the brunt of that) and when you're a company like Sony that is so often in the lime light any problems they may have are ballooned up in the media.

Anyway, as I was saying, I'm impressed. The catalogue of games coming this holiday season look seriously kickass. They just got done with Naughty Dog and Uncharted, and it reminds me of a few games I've had a good time with in the past. Most noticably Freedom Fighters and El Matador. Same goes with Warhawk and Heavenly Sword. Although I have to disagree with the "realistic hair" the Heavenly Sword developer kept waffling on about. That stuff just looked fugly. Granted, although the a variety of games looked promising, they're nothing to make me "make the switch", as they say. But it's nice to see PlayStation 3 owners will have a good holiday season.

Right, time to go hose myself down.

I was planning on, like the majority of GameSpot members, talking about the Big Three's conferences in todays blog post. But I haven't managed to watch them all, only really getting to catch the highlights that the fella's over at Joystiq have an offer. So I'll slowly make my way through them over the next few days, and leave my impressions as I go. From what I've read so far, however, neither of them had any jaws hitting the floor. It was to be expected though. The conferences were always going to be software focused this year, with the majority of that software already been shown off to ridiculous lengths throughout the year.

But before I go any further into all the E3 craziness, let me get back on track for todays topic. Although what I'm going to talk about today is slightly redundant after the events that just occured a few hours ago, it has been something that's boggled my mind over the last couple of months with the lead up to E3. Plain and simple, it's Killzone 2.

Now I never experienced the original Killzone, which may make me as fortunate, but from what I hear it came out the gate to very lackluster reviews, with GameSpot themselves giving it somewhere in the high sixies. Now, how does a game that gets this sort of poor reception deserve such a high profile sequel is beyond me. Does the tag "Potential Halo Killer" really carry that much force in the video game industry?

So how does a game, that originates from a poorly recepted IP, manage to gather so much hype and attention? That's the question thats had me scratching my head. There are threads popping up all over the place on pre-E3 forums asking questions such as "Which game will be better? Halo3, Crysis or Killzone 2?". What has Killzone 2 done that it's managed to get it's self compared to such titles as Halo and Crysis? Both these games have proven themselves to have some sort of impressive feat, be it technical or gameplay, that puts them over and above other popular games. What has Killzone 2 done? It provided a prerendered CGI video clip that ended up just causing a daft amount of ridiculous. It offered nothing but that prerendered clip for 12 months, but still managed to draw a crazy amount of attention and hype that had it being compared to the previously mentioned deserving games. It simply baffles me.

Now like I said, this arguement was made completely redundant today with the release of actual in-game footage of Killzone 2 today. But with that aside, I still think it's a valid arguement considering the mass of attraction this game got with the runup to E3.

Oh, and Assassin Creed looks kickass. Ubisoft can have my babies any day of the week.

I was planning on pleasing the geek in me and staying up till the early hours to grace the Microsoft conference with my presence. But as I sit here a few minutes after midnight, with my Macbook slowly toasting my inner thighs and punishing myself by watching the end of Doom for the N'th time, my eyes lids are dropping. Call me an old man, but I'm one of those people that just can't function properly throughout the day with a good 7hrs sleep.

I'm not entirely sure why I'm even investing the time to watch the "Big Three's" conferences. I'm solely a PC Gamer, and although Microsoft may have small tid bits of information about PC Gaming (I'm lookig at you Windows Live), it's barely enough to justify a PC Gamers viewing. But saying that, I'll still no doubt catch the Sony and Nintendo conference's live tomorrow, and get the Microsoft conference once the fine folks at GameSpot Live HD'ify it and upload it.

It's been a year since I posted a blog entry, and although I may have said this before, I'm going to attempt and keep this thing updated each day. It'll atleast give me reason to pull myself away from Notepad and ColdFusion. Damn you custom modules, damn you all!

Uch, I'm such a geek. But I love it!