Games Convention Asia (GCA) @ Suntec

While chatting with this girl on msn (okay, I won't mention your name here lol!), suddenly remembered that there was this Games Convention at Suntec, a week after Comex. Happy that I have an idea of where to go after work on Friday (Sg is damn boring), I trotted down there very eager to see what kinda games / competitions were on display.

Well, the event was kinda small to my dismay, and it was kinda quiet (you mean nobody goes for such things after work on a Friday??). The number of games being sold were also quite limited. There were the few online game providers, Asiasoft kinda left out of this one. Maybe they were already earning that much and didn't wanna spend any more on marketing events like these. Afterall, they already have quite a few of the most popular online games in town: Maple, Audi, WOW and what have you.

So the few there whom actually appeared were notably IAHgames which is pretty huge there. (I could tell their business is getting bigger, since initially they only started with Granado Espada, yet now they're providing so many other online games.) I remembered a few weeks ago, a new guy at my co mentioned he was from IAHgames. I had no idea why he actually came over. If it was me, I would probably stay at IAHgames, its much more fun!

Ok, so the usual stint for IAHgames is to create some "quest" for visitors to collect this and that. Why do I know that? I think 2 years ago I actually went alone to this Granado Espada official launch thingy. The only reasons why i did that were: I actually played GE when it was still F2P, and the creator was Hakku Kim, the same for Ragnarok Online. Later on, GE decided to be P2P, which lead to me leaving the game (don't really want to spend any money on any online games). Probably due to that, much of the population left the game, which led to them making the game F2P again. (Phew, long explanation.)

2 years back at that GE event at Zouk, there was this quest where you had to gather 2 or 3 friends to form a party to play. I tried to ask if I could participate even without a party, the answer was "no". I was thinking, how inflexible. =p But anyhow, this time during the GCA, I could play the game / quest! One thing that really kinda baffles me is that all the "Game Masters" were young girls, dressed up in their costumes cosplaying as the game characters. But where are the guys man? =.= C'mon IAH, not only guys play games ok? Well, not that I have anything against the girls, some are really nice (oh yah, so nice that I see a bunch of boys happily taking photos together with the girls lol! Can you blame em?) But I really disliked it when I get the "who the heck cares about you old bitch?" look from some of them. Sigh. So IAH, pleaseeeeeee..... next time, bring the guys who don't mind tending to ugly, old ladies like myself.... please! XD *hear my rant* Well, I nearly could bring that idea up to one of the old uncle staff (wearing normal office clothes, and looking suspiciously like a management from IAH), since he actually asked if I managed to collect all the quest stamps at each of the 4 stations. (Damned, maybe next time I could post this suggestion to them.) Talking about the "WHAT? ARE YOU SURE YOU GAME????!" look, I got kinda annoyed when this Sony Vaio Salesguy at Comex casted me that remark and dirty look while i was telling him my usual requirements for a Laptop. What? So girls can't game? What a look-down! He probably needs a female to trash his arse at some CS game or something. =p oops.

HighStreet5 were there too, lol! I won't mention names here, but it was quite fruitful because I got to saw 3 HS5 online friends. Yup, 2 gals, 1 guy. And it was quite eventful. There were 4 CPU stations for people to try out the game. After I've approached the guy to obtain the latest installation DVD for the game, I tried playing on 1 of the station (yes, it was that QUIET.) The character is very nice, yellow butterfly wings, which I'll never get in the game even if I continued playing, a hood and pole-dancing skills, lol! The condition of the keyboard was actually quite bad. But somehow, eventually i managed to top all the other players at the game stall. The guy standing next to me was very frustrated that he lost, initially I didn't notice him at all, until he was doing all sorts of big actions after losing (like wanting to tear his hair out, or stomping his feet?) Okay, eat your heart out red t-shirt boy, you still lost to me! Muahaha! (Oops, please don't mind my bragging here my dear friend. I will never be able to win you in HS5 hehe! You know who u are!).

I reinstalled the game last saturday afternoon and played awhile, but I was lagging so bad (dumb SN 1Mbps ADSL) and kept getting disconnected. Ironically, this other player in game introduced me to another dancing game: STEPS. Frustrated I couldn't play HS5 properly, I uninstalled it and downloaded STEPS. STEPS was only slightly better than HS5 in terms of the lag, but still lagging. The songs are quite limited, which I don't know if that is because I'm still like only level 2 in the game. The characters are much more anime-ish, and seem kinda like Audi, only much more like those Taiwanese flashy games.

So today, a friend told me how to resolve the lag problem in HS5. Should I uninstall STEPS and reinstall HS5 using that resolution to see if it works for me? =\ But then again, no more friends in that game to play with that its gonna be boringggg..... *shakes head*