{"id":18442,"date":"2015-11-21T21:17:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T11:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=18442"},"modified":"2016-11-13T08:26:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T22:26:53","slug":"a-weekend-in-melbourne-for-pax-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=18442","title":{"rendered":"A Weekend In Melbourne For PAX Aus 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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O<\/span>ver the Halloween weekend, Jen and I travelled to Melbourne to attend our third straight PAX Melbourne show.<\/p>\n

For the uninitiated, PAX is an expo that focuses on the culture and community of games. \u00a0It’s a broad umbrella that incorporates new technology, console gaming, PC gaming, competitive gaming, retro gaming, portable gaming, board gaming, indie gaming and just about every other subset of the genre you could think of. \u00a0Jen and I find ourselves coming back year on year because we’ve always found it to be a lot of fun, impeccably well organized and its a great to excuse to visit Melbourne, one of our favourite cities in Australia.<\/p>\n

PAX Melbourne 2015 didn’t disappoint. \u00a0We got to do all of our favourite things – attend panels with interesting speakers, try out new games and chill out with some coffee and donuts while playing a bunch of board games. \u00a0Here’s a few highlights from the weekend.<\/p>\n

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The Sony booth was the biggest its ever been with\u00a0Uncharted 4<\/em>, Star Wars Battlefront<\/i> and\u00a0Ratchet and Clank<\/em> being amongst the highlights. \u00a0Playstation VR was there but unfortunately only behind closed doors. \u00a0It was interesting to note that despite the imminent release of various VR products, it probably had a smaller presence at PAX than the previous two years.<\/p>\n

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Every year I try to make time for the reto games section. \u00a0This year I played some Marvel vs Capcom, a shooting game on a Colecovision and Baywatch pinball.<\/p>\n

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It was interesting to have a chance to play a Steambox device – a games console that runs Steam as its O\/S. \u00a0It has a unique controller than has a touchpad interface where the DPad would normally be as well as an unusual placement for the four face buttons on the right. \u00a0I played a\u00a0game called\u00a0Screencheat. \u00a0<\/em>In the game everyone is invisible so you have to look at the other players screen to see where they are. \u00a0It’s a strange concept riffing off the good old days of local multiplayer split screen games.<\/p>\n

I found the controller to be pretty weird, although you eventually get used to it. \u00a0I don’t really understand the point of placing the XYAB buttons where they are though. \u00a0Overall, I was rather underwhelmed.<\/p>\n

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Every year I like to sit down in the handheld section and pick up 500 Streetpass hits for my Nintendo 3DS.<\/p>\n

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The board game auditorium.<\/p>\n

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I’m pretty much over\u00a0Cards Against Humanity<\/em> so it was nice to play a game that has a similar format (card based, simple rules, crude humour) but with a fresh angle. \u00a0Slash<\/em> is a game where players take turns drawing a character card describing a well known fictional character from literature, pop culture, film and television etc. \u00a0The other players have to try and find a suitable match for them with the cards in their hand. \u00a0Very simple but a fun game nonetheless.<\/p>\n

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Machi Koro was a fun resource management game. \u00a0Simple rules, takes twenty minutes to play.<\/p>\n

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Pirate Cove was probably the most complex game we played and ultimately the most engaging. \u00a0You get to do everything you’d want in a pirate game – hunt for treasure, sail the high seas and engage in ship to ship combat with rivals. \u00a0I kind of regret not picking this up while I was there and hopefully can track down a copy one day.<\/p>\n

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I’m always impressed with the cosplay at PAX. \u00a0The outfits that people come up with are pretty incredible.<\/p>\n

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Here I am disarming a stormtrooper. \u00a0Clearly I have no idea how to hold a gun.<\/p>\n

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Thanks for having us Melbourne! \u00a0See you again soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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