Well folks, it's finally time to get around to covering the highlight of my summer: Otakon! I'll begin the coverage of my trip with my friends Blake, Bryan, Patrick, and Ian, and I'll hopefully cover it in two to three segments.
To begin the weekend, Bryan and I stayed over at Ian's house the night before and played some video games and what-not. The other two couldn't stay the night so we picked them up in the morning. Good thing I stayed over at Ian's, because I was able to discover my favorite Street Fighter character: Zangief. I seem to enjoy playing as the grappler characters for some reason. I think it's because of my love for those flashy, lengthy, cinematic types of moves. Everything started with the Bloody Roar video game series. It sparked the interest in fighting games for me as a kid. We also played some Burnout: Revenge, which is my favorite racing game.
We left in the morning, and because Tom had to drop out from the group, I did't have to take my car to Baltimore with us. Therefore I went straight to my house in the morning while the other two went to pick up Blake and Patrick. Thankfully this had happened, because my car isn't in the best of shape, and the air conditioning no longer works properly. The trip wasn't too long, as it only took us around an hour and a half. We got to the hotel and they let us park there even though it was too early to check in. After that, we headed over to the convention to get our badges and check out the first day of the festivities.
One of the first places we went to check out was the video game arena. Boy was that huge. I'd bet it was around 1.5 football fields in size. They had everything from Super Smash and Halo to Naruto and all sorts of other Japanese games. Actually they brought in many Japanese consoles to play some of these Japan exclusive games. From there we ventured to the Dealers Hall...
Well, I'm out for today!
Till Then...
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