Well today was the first day of PAX East that is being held in Boston. This is my first time to PAX and it is absolutely awesome. I am going with my Fiancé who is also a big fan of games, so I will have someone to keep my company while in lines. We got there a little over an hour before they opened, so we were sent to the queue room. There we were able to get our lanyards and swag bags. The swag bags contained various little promotional items; nicest of all was a 30-card deck of MTG which came in handy for the hour wait to get into the main Exhibit Halls.
After making our way through the Exhibit Hall to the Alienware Arena we made our first major stop, Guild Wars 2. They demonstrated the new class the “Thief”. They also had several playable 40 minute demos running.
After drooling over the amazing graphics and audio of Guild Wars 2 we decide to take a little walk around the exhibit floor and see all the cool stuff coming out. They had Gears of War 3, Battlefield 3, Duke Nukem Forever, Portal 2, L.A. Noire. Tried to get into the Bioware SWTOR but the line and crowd was just insane.
The next big highlight of the night was Premier of Kingdom of Amalur: The Reckoning. I was pretty excited to see this as I have been following Curt Schilling since he won us the World Series, of and because I love anything written by RA Salvatore. I was completely blown away by this demo and will give a much more detailed review of this in a later post.
The big highlight of the day came that evening when we got into the Meet and Greet for NC Soft’s Guild Wars 2. Was open bar and included some really nice swag and a 40 playable demo. Nice thing is they had the demo area fenced off so you didn’t have people breathing down your neck. Also we were given cards that listed the time for our play session so we were able to mingle until it was time for us to play.
All in all we had an absolutely great time. The Guild Wars 2 Meet and Greet will be something I will remember for a long time. I am hoping that we can get in to the SWTOR Meet and Greet that is happening for Day 2. For Day 1 we spent most of our time in the video game area, for Day 2 we will focus more on tabletop gaming. We plan to sign up for some the Dungeons and Dragon 4th Edition introduction sessions. We are also hoping to get into some other tabletop games that will be on display.
Now time to head on out for PAX East Day 2!!!
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