Top 5 Experiences of PAX Prime 2015
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,113 words · ~5 min read
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Pax is great Pax has always been great Pax always be great but what made it
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great this year well today Linda is going to help us go through all the top
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five experiences of PAX Prime 2015 an
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experience can be essentially anything just what made the show awesome if you
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want to see more videos on pack stay subscribed to see us check out PAX East
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in Boston in
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March rocket League had arguably the most talked about Tournament of the
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whole event despite not hosting it in the main convention buildings the
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tournament was hosted in an auxiliary theater not that this is a bad thing at
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all just makes it a lot harder to get them proper exposure then there was the
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lands there's two main public computer lands at packs first you have the PC
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free play section where anyone can sit down and play a whole slew of games for
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about half an hour before getting booted out to wait in the line again then
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there's by which stands for bring your own computer this area is somewhat
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protected and only those with special badges can get in both of these lands
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were completely consumed by the sounds of Rocket
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League of course there were a few people playing League of Legends or using their
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super expensive computers as Lightning Fast Facebook machines but you could
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constantly hear shouts yelling and cheers from the rocket league players
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there were even multiple in-house tournaments set up by random attendees
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because there wasn't an official land tournament for Rock Rock ET League which
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says a lot in my opinion next up we have the PS 10 in Penny arcade's own words
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each year a group of 50 industry experts select the 10 best Indie Games in regard
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to gameplay and overall fun Factor if you guys remember videos from previous
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packs events you may also remember my old top five of the Indie Mega booth
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videos so this kind of thing is right up my alley this year they chose Adventures
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of pip assault Android Cactus battlef Brigade dark Echo darkest dungeon from
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light grapple ninja tag tumblestone and
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zarvot I feel like we need to get the devs of darkest dungeon and from light
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to talk to each other to make an illumination neutral game H terrible pun
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anyways the top 10 this year was great but I did notice something interesting
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and that interesting thing was assault Android Cactus if you check out this
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video you'll see that last year in my top five I actually selected assault
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Android Cactus not trying to make a point about how I can predict the future
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or anything just an interesting fact one of my personal favorites is number three
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the sheer amount of VR demos a Sude demos HTC had demos NVIDIA had demos
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Oculus had demos and more it felt like every few boosts I would go to had some
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sort of VR headset rig to go along with it and there was long lines for each one
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not a ton has changed fundamentally in the VR space since I covered it last it
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feels much more like valve and Oculus are now focusing on polish instead of
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game CH changing features which at this point in the game is probably the right
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thing to do here's the VR Making Waves in 2016 then there was of course what
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lonus and I covered from Intel's drone zone and a bunch of random attendees
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trying to beat Cloud9 players at random stuff to Hardware Galore and a couple
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system showcases this year was packed with awesome stuff which I hope you guys
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enjoyed some shows that I go to I have a hard time kind of finding enough stuff
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to cover for you guys this year however everything seemed to kind of fall into
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my lap and there ended up actually being an excess of videos which definitely
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isn't a bad thing PAX Prime and Gamescom are always interesting events because
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it's basically foreshadowing of the holiday season's releases which for both
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games and Hardware is often pretty epic finally no matter how cheesy it is the
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people attending PAX Prime and hosting PAX Prime are always the best thing
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about it say what you will about Gamers online and honestly if it's negative
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you're probably right with different communities being known for how
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aggressive and an an agonizing they are and with developers building functions
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into their games to attempt to stop people from being dicks it's pretty
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clear that the gaming community may not necessarily be a well of positivity that
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seems to change in person however at PS
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people are accepting talkative helpful and generally seem happy to see you this
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was my 10th year at PAX Prime and I can honestly say that even though it's grown
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so much and people have come and gone over the years I've never failed to bump
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into a small army of awesome people whether it's just chilling and hanging
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out in BC in an absurdly long line together or just asking random questions
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of each other I can accurately assume that the average attendee will be warm
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and welcoming person and while it may seem cheesy that's pretty damn cool do
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