Whykay's happenings

PAX 2008 so far

It's fun reading what Kotaku has written from where they have been in PAX so far, but I'm surprise that they did not get into Fallout 3 demo. There are a few jerks milling around PAX, but you have to remember, that there are more than 60K wandering around the main convention centre and across the road where the table top games are. So it's the minority, but somehow it's the minority that sticks in some of what you remember. They normally heckle, draw wangs and arses in DS' Pictochat, and walk into you without apologising (my brother found that they think that they are larger than you that you will get out of their way, and yes). Mostly, people around are normal people having a good time, some dressed up in their cosplay finest (one as Yumi kindly took a pic with my brother in exchange for a badge, if you collect enough of these special PAX badges you get some free swag). Beanbags are everywhere, I have not succumb to sitting on these yet, or else I would not have moved at all if I did.

I think the main thing people will remember are the long queues. 5 hours was accumulated on Friday, it was not so bad on Saturday, just 1 hour for Fallout 3. I did not bother queuing for Jonathan Coultan's or PA's signing.

Friday night's gig was good apart from the shagging Freezepops! They suck donkeys, the main singer, she was trying too hard to be a punkish, while the music was retro 80s. As Mick puts it, the music was cute... for the first 10 minutes. It was grinding after that, and we had to endure one and a half hours before Jonathan Coultan came on stage. It was so bad, people were leaving the gig, at least that meant we were able to shuffle closer for Coultan's gig (aside from the ears bleeding from FP). I'm glad Kotaku did not like them either. Oh, the first performers, Oneups were quite good, it's just funky, jazz covers of games music. They had vids of the games on either side of the big screens.

Now all I have to do is pick out some pics and post them up on Flickr (they are on Mick's account at the moment).

Posted by whykay at August 31, 2008 04:21 PM