Post by bl00k on Aug 5, 2009 13:47:06 GMT -7
Hey squad! I thought I would start a new thread about the Omegathon. I'm so excited about being an Omeganaut. The odds of being picked are so slim I never even considered it a real possibility, and now that it has happened I'm already feeling the excitement and nervousness. If you are unfamiliar with the Omegathon it is a big tournament held at PAX every year. They randomly pick 20 contestants from the preregistrants to compete in a series of various games, all leading up to the Final Round*watch the first 3:10 of this video then switch to This One. This was the most amazing thing I've seen. It was EPIC. The game played for the Final Round is a closely guarded secret so no one knows what it will be going into it. Past Final Round games have been the original Pong, Atari's Combat, Tetris, Excitebike and Halo 3. I have to say that the The games leading up to the Final Round are quite varied. Past games have been; Marios Cart, Diceland (a tabletop game), Halo, Quake, Karaoke Revolution, Dance Dance Revolution (I hope this isn't one this year), Doom, Katamari Damacy, Boom Blox and more.
I'm hoping to do some hardcore training before PAX because I'm a PC gamer and have very little experience with the latest generation of consoles. Since it seems the majority of the games played on on consoles I want to get my hands on some to get familiar with them. Jake and Poop have offered to let me borrow some systems, which is just awesome of them to do that. The list of games probably won't be posted for 2 or 3 weeks so I'm trying to come up with a list of games that I think might be potential Omegathon games. If you have any ideas as to what you think the games might be let me know. The other thing I could use help with is competition. I need some people to play against to make me a better player. The more you can kick my butt at something the better.
Further speculating, I think that The Beatles Rock Band has a strong chance of being the Final Round game this year. Both Gabe and Tycho love Rock Band and The Beatles is coming out about a week after PAX. So no one has played it yet and it would really hype the game up right before launch. They did this with Halo 3 so I think this is a very likely candidate.
Here's the list of games I think are possibilities so far:
Plants vs Zombies
Ping Pong (Gabe and Tycho <3 Ping Pong)
Punch Out
Rock Band (likely The Beatles)
Mario Cart
Street Fighter 4
Jenga
I'm hoping to do some hardcore training before PAX because I'm a PC gamer and have very little experience with the latest generation of consoles. Since it seems the majority of the games played on on consoles I want to get my hands on some to get familiar with them. Jake and Poop have offered to let me borrow some systems, which is just awesome of them to do that. The list of games probably won't be posted for 2 or 3 weeks so I'm trying to come up with a list of games that I think might be potential Omegathon games. If you have any ideas as to what you think the games might be let me know. The other thing I could use help with is competition. I need some people to play against to make me a better player. The more you can kick my butt at something the better.
Further speculating, I think that The Beatles Rock Band has a strong chance of being the Final Round game this year. Both Gabe and Tycho love Rock Band and The Beatles is coming out about a week after PAX. So no one has played it yet and it would really hype the game up right before launch. They did this with Halo 3 so I think this is a very likely candidate.
Here's the list of games I think are possibilities so far:
Plants vs Zombies
Ping Pong (Gabe and Tycho <3 Ping Pong)
Punch Out
Rock Band (likely The Beatles)
Mario Cart
Street Fighter 4
Jenga