That’s right, It’s time for the Penny Arcade Expo talk. Join Lorelai, Franny, and a returning special guest in Solon as they talk about their weekend at PAX. It’s a long one as they go over everything they played at the show from big companies like Nintendo, Bandai Namco, Square-Enix, and Capcom to smaller companies like Buffalo Buffalo and Dread XP. We also talk about some of the outside events like the Seattle Indies, industry parties, and a whole discussion about AI in gaming.
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Edited and Produced by Lorelai
Here’s an excerpt by Crystal:
Solon: We’ve been here for long enough where we’ve got some pretty specific PAX traumas. There’s some trauma response happening at certain points of PAX for me this weekend. Once I noticed that I was like, “Yeah, we’ve been here for a long time.” But, bigger picture, we have changed so dramatically since when we were 20 coming to this show, we have grown and evolved, the spaces that we take up are different, and because of that it allows us to have a lot more freedom than we used to have.
It’s been really good. It was very affirming to be on the PAX show floor and be like, “I am very different from how I used to be.”
Lorelai: All right, since we are running out of time, final topic before we go on to questions. For each of you, what is your game of the show that you played, and second, what game are you most looking forward to? Because they can be separate things. My game of the show was Towa, but the game I’m most looking forward to is Onimusha because it scratched my Nioh 2 itch.
Solon: Oh, that’s a really good question. I don’t have an answer yet.
Franny: It might be Entropy for both of me, honestly. It vibes with me so well. I did like Towa. I’m really excited to see how Valor Mortis shakes out. It’s gotta be Entropy, I think, for both. I had so much fun with it.
Solon: I think the best on the PAX show floor, and this is gonna be really dumb, it was SpyParty. It was. Seeing SpyParty in the same corner that they’ve always been at, I got teary-eyed seeing them.
Lorelai: I remember when that game was first announced like 20 years ago, that’s the same corner, the same setup, everything. It was beautiful.
Solon: That ReedPop finally figured out how to get them back in there, it connected PAX tradition in a way that felt so validating and real; “Okay, things are kind of normal again, SpyParty’s here!” And getting to see kids playing SpyParty for the first time being like, “Woah, cool!”, and seeing people my age being like, “I gotta show you this game!” It was nice. That was my favorite. It hit me so deeply in my core, seeing them there and being about to cry. It’s like, “Wow! How have you been, old friend!”
