Day 2 of PAX East was quite crazy, there was a lot more people there. There was also a lot more booth babes, actors, and promotional events happening. However the crowd size made doing or seeing anything pointless. For as big as the venue was they can definately do bigger.
Biowar's SWTOR booth was still the most popular one. The line to play was well over six hours and they even made an anouncement that people waiting in line may not even get a chance to play. Lucky they had large screen showing people playing so I could at least watch that. The graphics are really starting to grow on me and he animations are pretty nice too. I like how there is a good mix of story telling and action. I was a little disappointed with how they chose to do the demo. It sounded great in theory but not sure it was so great in practice. They arranged it so that was a demo of higher level group content that lasted about 40 minutes. This is great except you are tossed a character with about 20+ skills and you have no idea what they are or do. Also there appeared to be a lot of people that got a chance to play who I am pretty sure have never used a mouse. Since it is group content with story involved the pace is then that of the slowest person. Now in live released play this is fine, but in a time limited demo this could get fustrating, especially when someone has a hard time walking through a doorway and keeps walking in the wall. With that all aside it looks really good and can't wait for beta or at least a beta invite.
Because of the large number of people at the exhibit hall we found ourself in the tabletop area. This was great because we had planned to see what Wizards of the Coast had to offer these days. We all I can say is the tabletop market is getting pretty popular again if the size of the crowd there is any indication. Nice thing about this crowded area opposed to the Exhibit Halls crowded area is you get to sit down and it is a lot quieter.
We got into a Dungeons & Dragons Learn to Play session for 4th Edition. I really liked the changes that they made to the character setups. They really streamlined it and made it much simpler to get into. I can imagine some old schooler not liking the "dumbing down" but I am sure they must like the new blood willing to learn now. I ended up playing a Human Cleric Storm Warpriest and I loved it. This would not have been a class that if I had to create a character would have picked. However after playing one and reading through the class a bit more in the Dungeons & Dragons Essentials: Heros of The Fallen Lands I think I might acutally make a character for myself with this class.
Picked up a few other games like Pirate Fluxx which is awesome and a ton of fun. Also picked up this interesting card game for 2-3 people called Haggis. We took Haggis with us to the bar when we out for dinner and it caught the attention of a few patrons. It looks and plays very much like traditional card games like Bridge or Hearts.
Had to check out the game Action Castle. This is a funny game because it is like the old text based RPGs. Spin is that everyone takes turn doing only one action. The game took place in one of the theaters so you have 30+ people playing it, so it gets really funny.
We finally capped of the night with a play session of Dungeons & Dragons board game Castle Ravenloft.
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