PAX East 2011 全程纪录

[GordianZ]

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Penny Arcade eXpo
下周末将在Boston参加PAX East, 大家有什么感兴趣的项目并且和我计划不冲突的话，我可以顺便做coverage. 三日全程将在V2EX首发连载。另外求赞助 XD

所有项目列表
http://east.paxsite.com/schedule.php
Show floor map:
http://east.paxsite.com/expo_map.pdf

现已确定会参加的项目
Friday
11:30am - 12:45pm
Penny Arcade Q&A #1
1:30pm - 2:30pm
A Live Demonstration of RAGE
9:30pm - 10:30pm
Penny Arcade: The Series Screening

Saturday
2:30pm - 3:30pm (Will leave early for next event)
2027 - The Near-Future: Live Demo of Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Dev Team Q&A
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Guild Wars 2 - Fantasy MMO Redefined
10:00pm - 11:00pm
An Evening with Day[9] and Husky

Sunday
Nothing decided yet.

云输入法sucks.

And I will try out Firefall and several other demos if I still got enough spare times.

[Livid]

RAGE!!!

[GordianZ]

OMG, Guild Wars 2 will be playable at PAX East too, definitely gonna try it out. Can't keep waiting.

@Livid You wanna the live demo recorded? I dunno if there will be any playable demos.

[GordianZ]

Added plans:
Need for Speed SHIFT 2
Deus Ex

Can't wait, it's this weekend!!

[GordianZ]

Packing right now, gonna leave tomorrow.
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[GordianZ]

已经在会场了，虽然下雨，人还是很多。看到Monday night combat的吉祥物了。

[GordianZ]

刚看了bf3的演示，震撼无比

[GordianZ]

firefall的站台一个人都没有，大家都在看Guild Wars 2和旧共和国

[GordianZ]

Today's actual schedule:
0810: Got into the expo center, wait in line to buy PAX Tee. BioShock Infinite statue and trailer in the waiting lobby.
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And there were tons of zombies...
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0930: Waiting in line for expo hall to open.
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1000: Wandering in expo hall, found BF3 booth, lined up right away :)
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1015: Got into the BF3 demo booth.
No filming, so I can't post any in-game images/videos. It's basically a full walkthrough of this gameplay trailer. http://www.v2ex.com/t/9153
The sound effect and destruction is fantastic!
Spotlights:
* Better sound effects: http://www.v2ex.com/t/9104
* Prone. When you're prone, aiming accuracy will increase, even more so when you are using weapon with high recoil(rocket launchers, machine guns, etc)
* Better structure destruction: AT4 rocket launcher fire at a sniper nest inside a 20-level hotel across the street, the facing side of the hotel was torn apart. You can see concrete was flying all the place, while the rebars still hole the building straight.

[GordianZ]

1035 BF3 demo finished, passed by Portal 2 and LA Noire, too crowded. Definitely gonna check them out tomorrow.
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1155 Didn't go to the PA Q&A, line is way too long, chance to get in is 0. So I wandered around. Saw a familiar face around the Red Faction booth. It's Husky! he's really nice :)
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And what do you get after ten years of waiting? Duke Nukem Forever!!! Playable demo at the booth.
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1200 Had some food and rest. Too tired. Sour shoulder. Will bring less stuff tomorrow.
1300 Tried out SHIFT 2, the helmet camera is so intuitive. The D-BOX setup is really cool, but not really "affordable" unless you fell comfortable to throw 15k USD into it.
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1330 Rage demo!!! Still no filming T_T
It's quite like the Borderlands, with a realistic rendering. Other things that are noticeable:
* Brilliant AI: They KNOW how to hide and flank, no more dumb AI. The DOOM already did it good enough though.
* Dynamic lighting: id is always good at lighting, from DOOM to QUAKE. This time is huge outdoor world with cinematic style color grading, made it looks cooler and futuristic, and differentiated from other modern shooter games.
* Vehicle combat: Nothing NEW! Which is a big letdown, I expected something groundbreaking, but all they have is in Borderlands already. Thumbs up to Gearbox, accomplished something even id cannot improve? :(

[GordianZ]

Other wandering stuff:
Tabletop gaming FTW:
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Expo hall overview
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WTF are you doing here, Tencent?
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Naughty Dog and 2 Player production panel, some interesting trivial talk about the development of Uncharted 3 and the documentary filming.
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Watched Guild Wars 2 live demo at Alienware booth, mostly things that were already covered in previous interviews and dev diaries. Hope tomorrow they got more things to show.

Spent around an hour playing at the PC free play area. Mostly TF2, played 1 round of SC2(No lan no fun).

Overall, people at PAX are super nice. Everybody is so easygoing (might not be outgoing, but are more friendly than most other places). You can easily have conversations with people standing in the same line. Nerds/geek/cosplayer everywhere...

Tomorrow is gonna be tough, gotta choose between Deus Ex and Guild Wars 2. The current decision is latter, but it's subject to change.

All the loot I got:
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From top to bottom:
Black PAX Tee/PAX Guide
Grey PAX Tee/WD Keyring with magnifier =.=(I was going for the 10krpm HDD)
Rage Tee/Brink flyer
SHIFT 2 Tee/SHIFT 2 branded earbud
Uncharted 3 Tee/Uncharted 3 weapon skin DLC code

Those 2 PAX Tee cost 30 USD, all other things are free (to certain attendees).

[Livid]

Wow, you've got a lot. XD

[Livid]

Thank you very much for the great coverage.

[GordianZ]

看了portal 2,
guild wars 2的队提前一小时满了
挤进deus ex的剧场了
正在放 http://www.v2ex.com/t/5685 里的视频

[Livid]

So, there will be no BF3 hands on?

[GordianZ]

接下来的游戏demo不能录影，我就专心记录了。

[Livid]

卡片上的 30916，莫非每个人的卡不一样？

[Kai]

@GordianZ 敬业！

[GordianZ]

看了deus ex, 觉得做得比crysis 2要好多了。
nano suite在crysis 2里还不如一代好玩

[GordianZ]

@Livid
嗯，每个人都不一样，会场至少几万人吧。

[GordianZ]

@Livid 嗯 没有可玩的版本，现在还在Alpha阶段，显示的效果跟预告片一样。他们说还会优化，展示用机配置非常夸张，中间依旧卡帧过几次。