{"id":16903,"date":"2017-09-08T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=16903"},"modified":"2017-09-07T05:56:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T05:56:21","slug":"pax-west-2017-part-3-the-rest-of-the-mega-mans-and-marios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/08\/pax-west-2017-part-3-the-rest-of-the-mega-mans-and-marios\/","title":{"rendered":"PAX West 2017 Part 3: The Rest of the Mega Mans and Marios"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Usually when I write these PAX articles, I\u2019ll talk about my favorite companies first, like Capcom and Nintendo.\u00a0 But this year I decided to change things up and save them for last, and let other companies have the spotlight first.\u00a0 So for my final PAX West 2017 article, let\u2019s take a look at what some of my other favorite game companies had at the show.<\/p>\n

Before I go any further, though, I wanted to say that there was WAY more at PAX than what I\u2019m going over here.\u00a0 It\u2019s just that I\u2019m only one person and couldn\u2019t cover the whole show by myself.\u00a0 I just looked at what I was interested in and what I had time for.\u00a0 For instance, Ubisoft was showing mostly stuff like FarCry and Assassin\u2019s Creed, two franchises I\u2019m not as familiar with, so I didn\u2019t take any pictures of what they had.\u00a0 If they had shown off the Mario + Rabbids game at PAX, I would\u2019ve set up a meeting with them.\u00a0 They said they didn\u2019t show it off because it had already been released. Yeah, like two days before the show started!\u00a0 I\u2019m sure people would\u2019ve still been interested in playing it at PAX.\u00a0 Anyway, just remember that PAX West was bigger than what I am making it out to be here.<\/p>\n

Bandai Namco<\/strong><\/p>\n

Namco is my favorite video game company, mainly for their classics like Pac-Man, so I\u2019m always happy to see them make a presence at PAX.\u00a0 Unfortunately they were only showing off two games at the show: Project Cars 2 and a new Dragon Ball Z fighting game.\u00a0 I was hoping they\u2019d at least show Ni no Kuni 2, as I enjoyed the first game and wanted to see if the sequel would be worth my time.\u00a0 But oh well.\u00a0 I got pretty far in the first game, but I never beat it in the end anyway.<\/p>\n

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Capcom<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another one of my favorite game companies is Capcom, and they had a really big presence at PAX!\u00a0\u00a0 They had a lot of games at their booth, but the one that garnered the most attention was Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t play it because the lines were too long, but it only comes out in a few weeks anyway so I can wait.\u00a0 They did have this neat display that I did take a picture of, though.\u00a0 In the game, the evil robot Ultron from the Marvel universe and the evil robot Sigma from Capcom\u2019s Mega Man X team up and become Ultron Sigma, and here they are sitting in their favorite chair.\u00a0 Unfortunately, you couldn\u2019t sit in their lap and tell them what you wanted for Christmas, though.<\/p>\n

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One game I did get to try at Capcom\u2019s booth was a new Puzzle Fighter game!\u00a0 I loved Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo in the arcades and on the PlayStation, and I got really good at it, too!\u00a0 This new game is on mobile devices, and features 3-D graphics for the characters, but they are still in chibi form like in the first game.\u00a0 You can play as characters like Ken and Ryu, Morrigan, someone from Resident Evil and Devil May Cry, and even Mega Man X!\u00a0 Since it\u2019s on mobile, you use touch screen controls to move the pieces around, which took a little getting used to.\u00a0 It still plays the same, but with a few differences.\u00a0 Like if your stack reaches the top, you don\u2019t automatically lose, you\u2019ll just lose some hit points.\u00a0 And you only see your screen in the middle, the other players screen is really small and to the side.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t even notice it the first time I played.\u00a0 But there a button at the bottom of the screen that you can push to unleash a super powerful attack.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure about all the gameplay details since I didn\u2019t know what I was doing most of the time.\u00a0 But the guy manning that area told me it\u2019ll probably be a free-to-start game, and you can pay for the full game later. But that might change. I hope it also comes to consoles later on as well, as that\u2019s where I\u2019d rather play it.<\/p>\n

Capcom\u2019s area at PAX was so big, they even had a separate section for Monster Hunter World!\u00a0 I\u2019ve never gotten into the Monster Hunter games, but I thought that part of the booth was cool, so I took a picture of it.<\/p>\n

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And speaking of Capcom, one of the only cosplay pictures I took this year was of someone dressed as Chun-Li.\u00a0 At PAX and other game and comic conventions, sometimes people dress up as their favorite characters, and that practice is known as cosplay.\u00a0 And it\u2019s gotten more popular over the years.\u00a0 Normally at PAX, I take a lot of pictures of cosplayers and show off my favorites in my final article.\u00a0 But this year I wasn\u2019t impressed with the cosplayers.\u00a0 Most of them were dressed as things I had no idea who they were, and the other ones I knew were from Overwatch.\u00a0 Lots and lots of Overwatch cosplay.\u00a0 Even with this Chun-Li picture, there were two other Chun-Lis I saw at the show (this one was just the best one).\u00a0 So yeah, a serious lack of originality in cosplay at this year\u2019s PAX West.<\/p>\n

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Nintendo<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was hoping Nintendo would have a bigger presence at this year\u2019s PAX.\u00a0 Their booth was half the size of both Sony\u2019s and Microsoft\u2019s booth.\u00a0 But I guess it doesn\u2019t matter because Nintendo\u2019s booth was always crowded and impossible to get anywhere near it.\u00a0 From the look of their booth, you could tell they were all about Super Mario Odyssey, but they did show off other games at their booth and had contests for Pokken Tournament DX.\u00a0 Even though I didn\u2019t get to see much of what Nintendo had, their booth was still pretty cool looking, so I took some pictures of it anyway.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a side view of their booth.\u00a0 I just like the street sign with the question block.<\/p>\n

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There was also a neat Mario statue you could take pictures of.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThat\u2019s the second biggest Switch I\u2019ve ever seen!\u201d\u00a0 On the back of Nintendo\u2019s booth wall was a painting of a giant Switch.<\/p>\n

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I did manage to take a picture of something inside their booth, though.\u00a0 I WANT THIS SO BADLY!\u00a0 My birthday is in a week.\u00a0 Will somebody get this for me for my birthday?\u00a0 Pretty please?<\/p>\n

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At the show I did find out that Nintendo had another area, a room where you could play some of their indie titles.\u00a0 But the wait to do that was two hours long.\u00a0 And there was really only one game I wanted to play in there if they had it.\u00a0 It\u2019s called Yono and the Celestial Elephants, and it\u2019s an isometric Zelda-like game where you play as an adorable baby elephant.\u00a0 And I didn\u2019t even HAVE to play it.\u00a0 All I really wanted to do was give m business card to the developers and let them know I would be interested in reviewing it.\u00a0 I could\u2019ve just been in and out of there in a flash.\u00a0 I do wish that Nintendo could make things a little more accessible to the media at PAX.\u00a0 I think with some minor tweaks on how they run things, they could do that.\u00a0 Square-Enix has them beat on that!<\/p>\n

Nintendo did have an interesting way to help people not have to wait in lines to play games, and it kind of reminded me of those FastPass tickets you can get at amusement parks.\u00a0 What you could do is open up the MyNintendo site on your phone, and if you\u2019re a MyNintendo member (it\u2019s their rewards program), you could open up a QR code for them to scan at PAX and set you up a time to play a certain game.\u00a0 I tried this to get into the indie room, but it didn\u2019t work out for me.\u00a0 They only had it open to do that at noon, and then you had to wait in a line to get your QR code scanned, and they\u2019d fill up after 30 minutes.\u00a0 So yeah, kind of defeats the purpose.\u00a0 But they did scan my QR code and gave me a free MyNintendo pin, so it wasn\u2019t a TOTAL loss.\u00a0 Better luck next time, Nintendo!<\/p>\n

Conclusions<\/strong><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all I did at PAX!\u00a0 Before I go, I do have some final observations I\u2019d like to point out.<\/p>\n

At this year\u2019s PAX, I was especially surprised with how many people remembered me.\u00a0 Whether it was PR professionals, developers, or even other gamers, they would recognize me long before I could recognize them.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s because I\u2019ve been doing this for more than 20 years, but it just surprised me since I don\u2019t see these people more than once a year.\u00a0 It just really made me feel special.\u00a0 It\u2019s nice to be remembered.<\/p>\n

And now a couple of negative things.\u00a0 At PAX there are helpers called PAX Enforcers who volunteer to help out and make sure everything runs smoothly and safely.\u00a0 In years past I\u2019ve found them to be very nice and helpful, but this year many of them were rather rude.\u00a0 When I want to take a picture of something at the show, I\u2019ll try and look around and find a spot out of everyone\u2019s way, then I\u2019ll quickly get out my camera and take a picture.\u00a0 It takes only about two seconds.\u00a0 Well, multiple times when I tried that this show, a PAX Enforcer would yell at me to stop taking pictures and move along and get out of the way.\u00a0 Seriously?\u00a0 I understand they\u2019re just trying to do their job, but I think they could\u2019ve stood to be more polite about it.<\/p>\n

The only other bad thing about this trip is that on the way home, American Airlines lost my luggage!\u00a0 Luckily they found it the next day, but that\u2019s the second time that American (or one of the airlines they own) has lost my bags!\u00a0 How does that happen?\u00a0 Next time I may be a little hesitant to use American Airlines, or at least I may look into alternatives to keeping track of my luggage.\u00a0 Maybe.<\/p>\n

But aside from those minor quibbles, this was still a pretty fun PAX trip. I always bring a family member along to help me get around places better since I\u2019ve been blind in my left eye since birth, and this year I took my dad again.\u00a0 So it was great to spend time with him, too.\u00a0 In the comments section, let me know what you think of my PAX coverage, and if you have any questions, too, just ask!\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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