This was my first time attending PAX and I wasn't sure what to expect. My original intention or purpose for going to PAX was to film cosplayers as PAX is a gaming convention as opposed to an anime / Japanese entertainment convention--so I was hoping to catch some sweet video game cosplays... I knew that PAX wasn't a cosplay event but given an attendance of 60-70,000 people I figured that there should statistically be a reasonable number of cosplayers to feature... NOPE. A massive cosplay drought was detected. Given that I can't really release a video featuring as few as 3 cosplayers it looks like I'll be doing an event montage as opposed to a cosplayer montage. It's hard to pass judgement right now, perhaps all the cosplayers are waiting to make a big debut tomorrow, I'll find out then.
Aside from the shortage of cosplayers, PAX is a pretty cool convention. If you go with a friend and play tons of new unreleased games you're sure to have a blast. The developer booths in the exhibition halls are really awesome with lots of gigantic statues, display screens, and fancy lighting. As I mentioned previously, it's an event for gamers, nearly every booth at PAX has playable games with tons of slots and there's tons of free stuff to be grabbed as well. I attended the Tokyo Game Show (TGS) last summer and PAX is by far a much more entertaining event (again industry vs gamer). You could go to TGS and you would be fortunate to get to play more than 1 game. At PAX the lines were reasonable and many booths had open spaces to play.
I'll probably release whatever splicing of footage I manage to capture tomorrow evening sometime--stay tuned!
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