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Best/Worst panels at PAX 08
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Long time lurker, first time poster. So, which panels did you fellow PAX attendees like or dislike? Anyone catch the Code Monkeys or the Casual Games Killing Core Gaming panels?
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[15:02] Tajah: I like you BR but I'm not letting you nom my box
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Adam De Le Pena didnt make it due to not having valid ID when he tried to get on his plane, But we got to watch the unaired orginal test pilot "Dave and Jerry vs The World"
It was super graphic and offensive, meaning it was awesome.
Also went to the Destructoid panel, which was _hilarious_. There was profanity. There was obscenity. I saw testicles. Posted here.
My girlfriend stopped by the Sisters in Gaming panel, and while I didn't see it, she said it had descended into a man-hating bash, and was about ready to tear Amber Dalton a new asshole. So I take it wasn't the best panel.
I was there for about three minutes, and that alone was enough to make me fear for my testicles. I figured one of them was just going to hop the table and start eviscerating the junk of the first guy they could get their hands on. :P
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I really enjoyed the Harmonix panels. What a great group of guys/gal. They answered quite a few questions and gave quite a bit of info about the company before Rock Band consumed them. It's a shame I didn't manage to get their shirt due to me not having a guitar hero shirt to trade in.
However, being a giant man hating bitch is exactly the wrong way to go about doing it. You want us on your side, not wanting to punch you in the ovary.
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Surprisingly the Sex and Violence in Videogames was a complete snore (who'd have thunk it) - part of the prob was the moderator asked the panelists the most long complex questions in history they spent part of the time debating just what he was asking. And they went to audience questions way too late, most of the hour was just these 4 people talking to each other.
I wanted to see Sex in Videogames: A Comparative Study, but after waiting in line a bit they said it was full. Aw. For anyone who was there, how was it?
I really can't wait for the game now.
But yeah, went to the Dragon Age toolset panel. That was really boring. I was expecting to see more gameplay or something. But just seeing a plain looking pc app, while the guy was describing stuff... didnt work out for me. Then again, I was pretty exhausted.
And although not really a panel, I was disappointed by the freeplay sections. The wait was so long that it really wasnt even worth it in my opinion. My friend and I came to PAX expecting huge rooms with a lot of consoles and stuff.
My favorite would have to be RoosterTeeth though, that was fucking epic. Even better was the question Nihilist asked them when they're were doing the Q&A (I'll have to crop that part out of my recording for you guys). Or if he reads this tonight, he can get it done because I don't have the footage.
EDIT: Well... I have this part at least, which left a big mark rather quickly on Youtube. I think it's kinda funny reading the comments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCAJ_q5ZM6Y
On the other hand, the Beyond D&D panel was pretty good. I have never heard their podcast, but they seemed like cool guys and all three systems they showcased are neat stuff.
I agree that the Dragon Age toolset demo was dull and the Spore demo was a lot of fun.
The talk about sex and games started out good but then went limp (sorry... couldn't resist). It was awesome to get the Japanese perspective but the translations lost the nuances of the questions.
not really a panel but Family Feud kicked ass.
Dorkness Rising was really well done. I'm going to order a copy and get the D&D crew over for a screening
Casual Games panel was decent (Wil Wheaton was the star of that one as expected).
Didn't get to any of the other smaller ones, although can someone next year please not schedule Wil Wheaton at the same time as the PA Q&A.
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They didn't say that men were pigs or make me fear for my nuts, just, well, for the issues of women as characters in games, it was that the chainmail bikini isn't always needed but can still be in there and if I have to rescue a female character, give her broken ankles or some other reason to be helpless, but that felt like it was more of the fact that escort missions suck in general.
They said that guys can play female characters and that's fine but they don't have to play up the ditzy female.
There also needs to be a lot more fanservice for woman, because appearently the guys in WoW look like shit on a stick.
Sex and Violence where is it heading, was really...dull, I liked hearing N'Gai's questions, I just didn't hear answers. I dunno I enjoyed all the double entendrés better.
The piracy panel at least made me more educated about the issue and let me know that:
1. You can prevent piracy by making your system so mod friendly that the game itself becomes a platform (HL2, UT2004, TES3, TES4).
2. If you build a better mousetrap, the web will build a better mouse.
edit: I still thought that the piracy panel could have gone batter but at the very least I learned something that I didn't know before, unlike the violence and sex panel.
How did the sex panel by Pink Godzilla go?
Hmmmm...the guy who did not like the piracy panel owns a store that installs mod chips and uses a skull and crossed sword graphic on the site to promote the service? Just saying
Also, Wil was the star of the panel by far... most insightful comments... he impressed me.
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[15:02] Tajah: I like you BR but I'm not letting you nom my box
[15:02] BigRed-Worky: Did I mention I hate you all? cause i do
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He's a special guy.
Pax 05, i saw him on the Gamecloud couches eating ramen between the cushions.
I dubbed him Ramen Boy, because I just thought he was dirty.
Pax 06, I approached him tried talking to him and it was very obvious he had a form of autism.
Pax 07, during Mega64's panel he kinda rambled on at the Q&A about Megaman and Parappa the Rapper.
This year, he was playing TWEWY...and they jokingly mentioned the hat. At the end - he asked for the hat.
After the omegathon, I was in the bathroom and my cell phone rang - I have "never gonna give you up" by Rick Astley as my ringtone.
So he turns to me, dick still exposed as he tucks it away and says "You rick roll you! You rick roll people everytime people call your cell phone!"
All i did was smile, nod and say "yeah. Yeah i do."
Saturday's Make-a-Strip and Sunday's Q&A were a lot better though.
The Video game policy panel (moderated by gamepolitics.com) was very dry, but informative.
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Most Dissapointing: PC Hardware panel. Seriously. The 2 panelists were from Sun (who make servers) and Razer (who make mice). Uh... okay... The guy from Sun was okay because he knew what he was talking about simply because he's a gamer. At least he was entertaining. But Razer? Sure, they were an exhibitor, but guess what? So was Intel, and they are more relevant to PC Hardware than peripherals IMHO. As a PC purist (ever since the death of the Sega Genesis), a good mouse is a good mouse is a good mouse. Talk to me about processors. I'm pretty sure Intel would have wanted to be on the panel had they been given the opportunity. A lot of the questions seemed to center around physical feedback from peripherals (which really isn't something a lot of PC gamers want) because of the weak panelists. There were even times when the guys sitting up there said "That's something you'll have to ask Intel." Most of the time the Razer guy just sat up there staring out at the crowd. Lots of stumpage. Also, I love Jeff Kalles, but get someone who knows hardware to moderate because the moderator can help drive better questions.
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I just wanted to thank everyone who came out to my panel sessions. I was on the Piracy in Gaming, PC Futures and Code Monkeys panels. It would have been nice to have had Intel, nVidia, etc. up there in the PC panel, but I tired to hold my own. As a life long gamer, I tried to balance the responses with my personal views without speaking for Intel, AMD, etc. As for Sun making servers, we also make a whole line of x86 desktops so our participation was somewhat relevant
The reception from all audiences was fantastic and just wanted to thank all who attended for their time and consideration. See you next year at PAX!
-Chris Melissinos
EDIT: And thanks Astayonix for deeming me entertaining at least! If you really want to speak candidly about where processors are going, off the record, PM me
Completely the opposite over here.
I really enjoyed the Art of the DM panel and wished it couldve gone on for longer. It was nice to hear different perspectives on the subject.
The Beyond D&D panel was 30 minutes of "Lets all rip on D&D, but not really. Heres a bunch of reasons why D&D sucks, but we're not saying it sucks, but if it did suck, these are the reasons why" followed by 30 minutes of crash course lessons into other RPG systems.
A full hour of in-depth disscussion about RPGs wouldve been much better.
The only real disappointment about that was it was more panel and less lecture, which is what I wanted - the four seated writers came from a wide variety of backgrounds (Gilbert with Monkey Island, there was a woman who did research for Harmonix, one for Guild Wars and another from Telltale Games) and I really would've liked to hear them talk about how they wrote.
It turned into a Q&A and there were a lot of really good questions asked, though, so it wasn't what I expected, but it was interesting just the same.
Agreed, I actually bumped into Marlo (woman on the far right) at Gameworks, and was chatting to her and her boyfriend (who works for Wowhead) and they were giving me a bunch of great advice for my blog, and just chatting about games.
I feel bad that my question came across kinda badly, I was the dude who asked for advice getting on pr firms radars, but they thought I just meant "free stuff", I meant more like interviews and things like that. Still the answers I got were useful.