PAX 09 Day 2
The second day of the Penny Arcade Expo 2009
Tags: Alpha Protocol, Penny Arcade Expo 2009, Rock Band: Beatles Categories: Blog, Monk's Blog
Posted by Daniel "monk" Pelfrey on Sep 9th, 2009
For me, the second day of PAX started out less harsh than my colleague. I decided to head home and get some rest while Mike and Michelle stuck around and caught some of the musical acts. If I didn’t have so much going on at home, I may have checked out some of this year’s musical offerings, but between the first week of school for August, Déla being sick, and just the ages of the kids, there was only so much I could do. So, I didn’t crawl in at 2:30 in the morning and then need to get up several hours later for meetings. I actually got a decent night’s sleep.
The day started off with a round of Beatles: Rock Band (“Can’t Buy Me Love” – I tried the bass on medium difficulty and found that to be a bit of a challenge) then off to my first appointment. I saw a number of games this day, including I [heart] Geeks, a DS game by CDV. I had seen the game before, but now I got to see it in action with the newly applied Mark Ecko artwork. It looks good, and the puzzles are still challenging and fun.
I also saw Alpha Protocol, which I walked away from with mixed feelings. I spend well over an hour and a half with it, so I got a good sense of how the game will play. There seemed to be more action and less RPG elements than I was expecting. I’ll have to sit down and work on my preview for that one and really gather my thoughts.
There’s a lot more cosplay this year. It’s nice to see, actually. There were groups of people in themed costumes, such as a Team Fortress 2 group. More children were present, as in actual kids, young kids, like some of the people who perhaps were at the first PAX, met, fell in love, and had kids of their own and are now attending the event as a family.
I made it to one panel this year, and didn’t make it to any of the tabletop stuff. That was a bit of a disappointment, but ultimately the fact that I had waited until the last minute really helped because that meant not as many appointments. I wasn’t booked solid wall to wall, but I didn’t have huge gaps either – there was some breathing room which was nice. That breathing room allowed me to not be so rushed in my day.
The day ended with me going home a little earlier than expected, but not by much. After dinner we went to an event and hung around longer than we should have. I went home and Mike & Michelle went off to see the musical offering. The event was a little lackluster, just because of the way it was set up, and it wasn’t the company’s fault, but has more to do with Washington’s weird liquor laws and the layout of the venue.
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Tags: Alpha Protocol, Penny Arcade Expo 2009, Rock Band: Beatles
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