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tax is great pax has always been great pax always be great but what made it great this year well today Linda is going to help us go through all the top five experiences of pax prime 2015 and experience can be essentially anything just what made the show awesome if you want to see more videos on PAC stay subscribe to see us check out pax east in boston in march rocket league had arguably the most talked-about tournament of the whole event despite not hosting it in the main convention buildings the tournament was hosted in an auxiliary theater not that this is a bad thing at all it just makes it a lot harder to get them proper exposure then there was the lands there's two main public computer lands at PAX first you have the pc freeplay section where anyone can sit down and play a whole slew of games for about half an hour before getting booted out to wait in the line again then there's BYOC which stands for bring your own computer this area is somewhat protected and only those with special badges can get in both of these lands were completely consumed by the sounds of rocket League of course there are a few people playing league of legends or using their super expensive computers is lightning fast Facebook machines but you could constantly hear shouts yelling and cheers from the rocket League players there were even multiple in-house tournaments set up by random attendees because there wasn't an official land tournament for rocket League which says a lot in my opinion next up we have the PAX 10 in Penny arcade's own words each year a group of 50 industry experts select the 10 best indie games in regards to gameplay and overall fun factor if you guys remember videos from previous pax events you may also remember my old top five in the indie mega booth videos so this kind of thing is right up my alley this year they chose Adventures of PIP assault Android cactus battle chef Brigade dark eco darkest dungeon from light grapple ninja tag tumblestone and Tsar vaught I feel like we need to get the devs of darkest dungeon and from light to talk to each other to make an illumination neutral game nah terrible pun anyways the top 10 this year was great but I did notice something interesting and that interesting thing was assault Android cactus if you check out this video you'll see that last year in my top five I actually selected assault Android cactus not try to make a point about how I can predict the future or anything just an interesting fact one of my personal favorites is number three the sheer amount of VR demos a suicide demos HTC had demos and Vidya had demos oculus had demos and more it felt like every few booths I would go to had some sort of VR headset ready to go along with it and there was long lines for each one not a ton has changed fundamentally in the VR space since I covered it last it feels much more like valve and oculus are now focusing on polish instead of game-changing features which at this point in the game is probably the right thing to do here's the VR making waves in 2016 then there was of course what Linus and I covered from Intel's drone zone and a bunch of random attendees trying to beat cloud nine players at random stuff to Hardware glower and a couple system showcases this you was packed with awesome stuff which I hope you guys enjoyed some shows that I go to I have a hard time kind of finding enough stuff to cover you for you guys this year however everything seemed to kind of fall into my lap and there ended up actually being in excess of videos which definitely isn't a bad thing pax prime and gamescom are always interesting events because it's basically foreshadowing of the holiday seasons releases which for both games and hardware is often pretty epic finally no matter how cheesy it is the people attending PAX Prime and hosting PAX Prime are always the best thing about it say what you will about gamers online and honestly if it's negative you're probably right with different communities being known for how aggressive and antagonizing they are and with developers building functions into their games to attempt to stop people from being dicks it's pretty clear that the gaming community may not necessarily be a well of positivity that seems to change in person however at PAX people are accepting talkative helpful and generally seem happy to see you this was my 10th year at PAX Prime and I can honestly say that even though it's grown so much and people have come and gone over the years I've never failed to bump into a small army of awesome people whether it's just chilling and hanging out in byoc waiting in an absurdly long line together or just asking random questions of each other I can accurately assume that the average attendee will be warm and welcoming person and while it may seem cheesy that's pretty damn cool do you want to become a game developer do you want to have your own booth sitting in the indie mega booth or do you want to develop a new skill to move forward in 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