Editing Gregory Fulton/Diaries (section)

== 02/19/99 ==
[[David Mullich]]'s (Heroes III director) wife was pregnant and expecting about the same time as E3 last year (Atlanta '98). So, he couldn't go and demonstrate the game.

I was the next logical choice. I know the game better than anyone else, and when needed, I can turn on the charm.

Now don't get me wrong, when I have demoed the game, it has been a delight. Yet, as a game, Heroes III doesn't demo well. It's a turn-based game. It's not a first-person shooter or real-time strategy game. There's no real immediate reward for your attention span to latch onto.

However, Heroes does have a very large, very dedicated following. Thus, most people who want to see Heroes are already fans. This was the case at E3.

At E3 I did the vast majority of the presentations. I did so many I ended up losing my voice. Almost all the people who saw the game were fans of Heroes and liked what they saw. We were so successful, people were taking chairs from the other game stations to sit in front of ours.

Well, the downside to my work at E3 was... I became the demo guy. The downside of being the demo guy is traveling.

I hate traveling.

Once I arrive at my destination, there's no problem. I'm just impatient by nature. I'm also 6'1" and hate sitting in supercramped airline seats.

So, today I got to fly up to [[3DO]] with [[Peter Ryu]] (MM7 producer), [[Keith Francart]] (MM7 director), and [[Jeff Blatner]] (new Heroes producer) to give presentations on MM7 and Heroes III to our Ubi Soft partners and a smattering of European journalists.

As much as I hated getting up at 5:30am and traveling to San Francisco (less than one week after going gold), the trip was amusing for a number of reasons.

Since I have been at New World, [[Peter Ryu]] has always worn shorts and sandals. For the presentation, Pete was ordered to wear pants and shoes. Throughout the day, he was wincing as the shoes rubbed his feet raw.

The other amusing part was hanging out with the French chicks from Ubi Soft and the European press.

Last time I was at [[3DO]] I did an H3 presentation to a number of European journalists. Not a French woman among them. It was different this time, and dare I say, worth the trip.