Have you ever been to a gaming con (convention)?

have you ever been to a gaming con (convention)?

I LOVE SUSHI

Never have. I live in a small town and I don't travel like at all so it's like I'm always stuck in my own small world.

yeah

it was kind of boring

AW SMELLY CAKE

Nope, hang out in the gaming hall at anime conventions though if that counts

GIRUGAMESH!

I LOVE JAPAN, PERIOD!

guy bang

No

I desire no interaction with your average lolxd gamer type

SAKURA CON IKIMASU

metrocon's afterparty. It's $10 and filled to the brim with jailbait

I know that feel bruh
Shit sucks

Deliver pics

Yeah. I've been going to my local 1 together with friends for the past couple of years. Mainly to buy shit and to people watch (some of these people only come out for cons and it's hilarious and cringy as fuck) and maybe go to a talk or something if we finish early.

I saw Troy Baker perform a small concert last year. not my style of music but he's a talented guy.

I went to one in Korea a while ago.
It was pretty video games.
Also for some reason I find Korean neckbeard nerds a lot more tolerable than European ones.

GAY BANG

Get/buy any interesting stuff?

>I find Korean neckbeard nerds a lot more tolerable than European ones.
That's because a good percentage of the population are technically "neckbeards" in mentality without its physicality most of the time.

I LOVE JAPAN EVEN THOUGH I'VE NEVER BEEN TO THE FUCKING COUNTRY BEFORE

I went to one by myself and I can assure you I didn't have fun.

yeah. went to RTX sydney and saw kojima live. he's pretty humble and didn't want to talk himself up too much.

found a retro merch stall and bought a pack of team rocket pokemon cards for 50 dollarydoos. met up with some youtubers and tested the switch. all in all it was pretty cash.

It's something enjoyed with a group of friends moreso than being enjoyed alone.

I went to E3 in 2011. It was boring as fuck.

It wasn't really a 'buying' kind of event. The first time I went I got a lot of swag bags but last time the spoils were a bit meager. Looking forward to going again this year if my schedule allows for it though.

Yeah, them generally being underweight instead of overweight probably helps, and they're generally less obnoxious as well and keep to themselves a bit more.

AND MANGAAAAA

There's a certain miasma in anime,comic, gaming, tabletop, sci-fi, and fantasy conventions. I went to one of each and will never do ao again.

Been to four anime/video game conventions and a fighting game tournament.

Won GGXRDS at one of the cons.
Took 3rd in MKX at another con.
Got 4th at SFV at yet another of the cons.
Drowned in pools in both BBCF, GGXRDR, and UNIEL at the actual tournament.

Good times, looking forward to this year's EVO and Revolution.

>UNIEL
Which character did you see the most of? How good was the competition?

I've been to 4 GDQs and participated in 3 of them. They're fun if you know other people there. Got highscores on Ghosts 'N Goblins and Roadblasters arcade games last GDQ.

I only entered for fun, didn't really pay much attention to it. I barely play UNIEL. BBCF is my main game.
Gordeau and Hilda got 1st and 2nd IIRC, don't remember which was which.

>Got hit by EX Grim Reaper reversal into 4k damage in my first match
Couldn't even be mad, I got completely outplayed.

A few in my area (LONDON) but I suspect it's all artists so I avoid them

Went to pax prime since 2012, and I saw it go from mega success to corporate shill hole. It started out that you went hoping to see some of your favorite devs there and maybe got to see something cool. Now every single major publisher is there promoting their newest piece of garbage game and they make you install an app to get a pass to wait in line to play the game. Even the indie game section went to shit, with only recognizable names there, the only good part is the parties and those dont require a pass to get in to. If you are planning on going to a con find a local one they are the best.

BBCF technically is the fighting game I've put in some legitimate time in playing its online and practicing but something about UNIEL I really love that I really want to get real good at it.
>Gordy and Hilda
No surprises there I guess.

no. i have not.

It's fun and it has a lot of unique characteristics. Had a blast with my boy Merkava back when it just released.
BB is definitely more my style though, even though a lot of the new mechanics are really irritating to play around.
I'll try to enter EVO this year alongside some online buddies. Probably gonna drown in pools, but it should be fun.

Pax twice.
First one was alright, tried VR and some upcoming games.
Second one was shit, had literally no new games to try out outside of KH 0.8 but i met mates and Brote Ampill.

a guy I know used to go to a few big conventions and sell drugs. a lot of socially awkward people are trying to fit in and sometimes drugs can do that, so they would buy from the guy I know. he said he would eye people up to see if the were rich - sometimes it was in the way they spoke, sometimes he would see hundreds in the wallet, etc. those were the people whose party invites he would accept. then he would go to their after hours party at a nearby hotel, socialize for a bit, get people loaded, and then his partner in crime would run down the hotel hallway yelling "COPS". Kids would scramble out of the hotel room, and then the guy I know and his partner in crime would sort through the refuse and take any valuables that were left laying around.

Went to San Diego Comic Con 2012
Was pretty neat but it was already becoming normie central
From what I hear it was the last year that was actually good

GIRUGAMESH

those are major wastes of my time and money
i dont wanna see the same shit i look at daily when i go to con so i´d rather be looking at anything else than games when im in a con

also my faggot friends only wanna see youtubers live but im thinking about burning that bridge soon

I've been going to Chicago Comic-Con since 2014, managed to snag SSX Tricky for gamecube for $5.

I visited the year when Stan Lee was one of the guests.

Been going to ACEN with my buddies instead since I didn't want to spend more cash for another 2 day hotel stay

Say what you will, but the narrative copypasta still slays me.

Big gaming conventions are cancer. Its pretty much pay money so you can walk around to buy stuff. Smaller ones are legit because they tend to actually have free events going on where you can actually meet people and have fun.

My friend drag me once, it was pretty awful.

I went to E3 last year with a press pass. It was the best experience of my life. I met the creator of Dark Souls, sat down with the dudes who made Darksiders and fanboy'd with them over beers, and even got to meet and befriend a bunch of people from Koei Tecmo. It was the best three days of my life. I also ate a fucking TON of Chinese food and watched a shit ton of Batsu games in our hotel room

Usually every month or two.

I got with my husband to help him man his booth so he can take breaks and we can draw more buyers in.
Good excuse to get away for a couple days too and I can make my work schedule around it.

Why didnt you guys tell me about this

I go to Evo, but that's a tournament, not a con

I've been to two Smash Bros./fighting game tournaments because some friends went there and an anime expo which was absolutely shit.
Both were so smelly you could literally feel the room's ambient more dense.

Went to my first con earlier this year (SacAnime) and had a really good time. Did a bit of cosplay, bought some neat stuff, got to meet Charles Martinet and get his signature. Was fun.

Also seeing all the artists there selling their stuff makes me consider trying to get into that myself. See if I could sell some vidya game prints or stickers or something.

My friends and I go to PAX East every year and I it to just be exhausting. All you do it wait in line to be advertised to. I wouldn't go at all if it weren't a yearly excuse for us all to spend the weekend together.

Anime conventions are fun, though. The games rooms have stations set up for rhythm and fighting games that you can just jump on to, people are more daring with their cosplay, and every event and panel isn't an advertisement like at PAX. You can spend the weekend actually doing things instead of waiting in lines. It's fun to look at the Japanese toys the vendors have and take pictures of girls' butts when they aren't looking.

Närcon in Sweden. I went there with a few friends, had fun and looked around at all the cool shit, played some retro games, bought some neat merch and then got laid with cosplay girls.

Nice back

Went to one of the few gaming cons in my country a long time ago. I remember it being very small and kinda boring. They didn't have any real fun games and other activities were meh.

"I LOVE SUSHI!" exclaimed the woman in the thick-rimmed glasses. "Ah, excellent," Kobayashi thought contentedly to himself, "they are enjoying themselves." "I love Japan, period" said the middle-aged man in the blue shirt, slight southern drawl lending a down-home earthiness to his earnest proclamation. "Oh my, it is such a joy to have such enthusiastic customers!" Kobayashi said to himself, beaming with pride at the delight he had brought to his customers. It was an idyllic day in Kobayashi's small sushi shop. But then things took a turn for the worst. "J-ROCK!" screeched a greasy-haired delinquent, quite obviously high on something. "Oh my, someone should be watching over that poor child," Kobayashi thought to himself. But, before he could finish that thought, a rotund man burst forth from the masses, the make-up on his face still smeared across his fleshy visage. "GIRUGAMESH!" the horrifying painted man exclaims, stabbing the air vehemtly with two massive, pudgy digits.

"What has begun here is something terrible," Kobayashi thinks to himself, rooted in place by equal parts fear, and morbid fascination. "I LOVE ANIME!" shrieks a curiously toupee'd customer, the disparity of voice and adornment calling into question the beast's gender. "AND MANGA" yells the man-lady's back-quatto, the horrifying extra upper torso protruding from the hermaphrodite's back, malign intent dancing across his/her eyes. Kobayashi is speechless at the spectacle unfolding before him. "AND GAYMEN!" an infernal scarecrow man drunkenly spews forth, every diabolical syllable dripping from his tongue an affront to sanity and dignity.

"Uh...DDR?," says a man quite plainly. "Finally, a respite from this madness," Kobayashi thought as he heaved a breathless sigh of relief. But what he had seen so far could never prepare him for what came next. "SMILE D.K." squealed the man's bloated pig-wife, barely managing to stay balanced atop her chair.

As these things happened, a realization dawned on poor, poor Kobayashi. "These people, these DEMONS, have taken all I know and love and made it wrong, corrupted it. I can not, no, I will not sit idly by as these creatures from beyond the veil wreak havoc in my shop!"

"HEYYYYYY!" Kobayashi growls, brandishing his knife like a modern day warrior. "SAKURA-CON NI IKIMAAAAAAAAAASU" he bellows, the traditional war-cry of his family. As Kobayashi leapt over the table, the gathered masses began morphing, face tearing asunder to reveal rows upon rows of sharp teeth, as new musculature rippled forth from beneath their clothes. Many dropped to all fours, revealing their true bestial nature, snarling and snapping their jaws at Kobayashi. Like a true warrior, however, he dove fearlessly into the throes of battle, slicing sinew and bone alike with a precision afforded him by his years of chef training. He laughed maniacally as bucket upon bucket of blood was spilled, the organs and flesh of his former patrons spewing forth like water down a hill. He and his restaurant alike were soon strewn with every type of viscera, and he gave an animalistic howl to the still-rising moon.

Kobayashi goose-stepped over the knee-high pile of cadavers, and, having finally exited the restaurant, he wiped the blood clean from his cleaver and strode off into the horizon. He knew that he had honored his ancestors with this true act of bravery, and helped to rid the world of a grave evil indeed.

I haven't read this in like forever
Thanks user

Thanks for reposting this, always good for a laugh

What country?

Estonia

Stop making up words for fantasy worlds

I've only ever been to Comic-Con. I live in SD so it felt necessary to see what all the hype was about.

I've been twice now, it is overrated.

Our convention center here in SD cant fit the sheer number of spergs, fatties, and autists who come from out of town for this convention. It is crowded, sweaty, and gross, especially on the main convention floor itself.

Both times I've intended to spend the full weekend, and both times I've gone for a day then left feeling super burnt out.

Comic-Con is gay.

I went to a retro game expo in so cal last year, but it wound up just being nothing much beyond vendors all trying to sell almost the same stuff at the same prices, and it was just the popular stuff.

Real bummer.

Reminder that Troy Baker interpretated Ocelot as being like Final Fantasy's Cid in that he's different in every game.

valve advertised a joke convention to be held at some tiny hotel and banquet hall in northern minnesota. I wanted to go just in case they hired some poor sap to give valve items to any poorer sap who actually went. but I didn't. and now I'll have to live with that regret, not knowing whether or not I could have been given a shitty valve hat that wouldn't have fit my malformed giant skull

>also my faggot friends only wanna see youtubers live but im thinking about burning that bridge soon

You sound like a fucking pretentious ass

Oh i'm not defending the guy's Ocelot or saying he's the best VA in the business. Cause he's not. All i'm saying is the guy's got more talent than me and has a solid singing voice.

I used to go all the time, and then I got older. Going to cons in your 20s is a blast, but now when you're in your 30s it's more of a rage/cringe fest.

Yeah MGS V was my first encounter with him, I'm just shitposting.

He's gets alot of hate for being in almost every AAA game these days but most of he's work i find good to decent. BUT FUCK ME he ruined crazy uncle ocelot. (granted idk how involved he was with ocelots dialogue and character in MGS V but lordy jesus it was bad)

I went to EGX in 2015.

It was really funny, the further left you went in the place the more AAA it got, and the more AAA it got, the less they put into decorating and more into shills handing out free shit. Really shows the difference in attitude.

I live for them

Cosplaying at them is fun too

I went to one with a friend i met on Sup Forums. We did le epic ironic male touhou cosplays. God i fucking miss him.

is that cow your gf

No, and I never will. Unlike the majority of people on Sup Forums and those who play video games these days, I was born before the 360, and remember when games used to be single player. That's how I like my games, me, alone. I don't want to go to a gathering of autistic virgins and cosplaying sluts who don't even know who they dressed up as. Shit like this is what ruined this hobby.

I find gaming conventions hugely more boring than anime conventions. Anime conventions emphasizes socialization. Gaming conventions is basically an introverted activity, but now everyone comes to be introverted. If I wanted to sit down and play games, I'd be at home. I'm at a con to socialize, so gaming cons tend to be pretty boring in that regard.

O great oldfag, dost thou not know that gaming started in largely social arcades with multiplayer games?

yeah, went to one when I was 14, and one last year with a couple of friends who'd never been to anything like it before

really fun, I wish I could go to more but my job is full of cunts and I can never get days off

no i don't have anyone to go with. I really want to go to dreamhack but going alone seems like it would be pointless

I was playing atari 2600 and using DOS as my first gaming experience, and I still enjoy conventions

stop trying to act superior for being socially inept

I go to dragoncon near where i live every year since like 2006.

Momocon is also near me and yearly but it's weaboo. Still fun though.

How far back do you want to go? Before there were arcades, there was Pong and other home-based consoles. However, I mean you could argue that historically Casinos were much akin to arcades and have been around for thousands of years. I think we should clearly separate home-console based gaming from arcade-style. I will concede that you make a very valid point though.