The Cosplayers of Gamescom 2010

by Kyle Orland on Aug 23rd 2010 7:20PM

Given the hundreds of thousands of people who turned out for Gamescom 2010, the number of cosplayers in attendance was surprisingly small. Or maybe it wasn't surprising, given that this year's show didn't even encourage the costumed patrons with a feeble world record attempt or anything.

As you browse this collection of photos, see if you can spot:

The two guys who I suspect may have been gang members and not actually cosplayers
A character that is usually not seen eating popcorn eating some popcorn
Link pulling a reverse-Michael-Jackson (you'll know it when you see it)
The best use of a pacifier for Day of the Tentacle cosplay you will ever see

Gamescom 2010 Cosplay

Tags: cosplay, gamescom, gamescom-2010

Reader Comments (25)

Cosplayers...the nerds of nerds. Ironically female cosplayers are usually pretty hot.

@Kid Icarus

Female black Link (pic 13) would like to have a word with you . :P

@Kid Icarus Normally it's only the hot girls who dare attempt cosplay. Men don't have as much shame.

@Grey

"usually"

@Kid Icarus

You know, I've been to a convention thing with a friend and I didn't see any good looking female cosplayers. Most of them were just average. Like these, they're not ugly, just not... great

http://www.joystiq.com/screenshots/gamescom-2010-cosplay/3288320#/1

The majority of really hot cosplay pictures you see online are photoshopped to hell

@Kid Icarus

Sadly female cosplayers whom are hot, always choose characters I dont know so I gotta look at em longer...

..wait, thats a good thing isnt it? ;)

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2
actually, i think the second girl is quite attractive.

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2

Its more about the skimpy outfits than anything.. usually there's a ton of makeup on anyways. But somethin about a girl roleplaying as a game/pop culture character...its pretty f'n hot

@Kid Icarus

That is so true

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2

There were a load of really good cosplayers, Joystiq just didn't find them. Neither did Kotaku actually. My brother went around as Ezio. He actually get his photo taken by a Ubisoft guy, he got a free hoodie and we got to skip the queue and go straight in to see Brotherhood. Other than that, there was a girl dressed as Lightning. It was amazing. She pulled it off perfectly. There was also a really good Vanille, Snow, Rikku, Little Sister and a good few others. They were all there for the duration of Gamescom. I'm shocked Joystiq missed them. I've got pictures of them all so I'll try to post them.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/daojones/4921443609/
Pyramid Head girl is still the coolest girl ever. Took this at PAX East.

@AnimaOnline Lightning? As in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_%28DC_Comics%29 or someone else?

@Kid Icarus

I'm having trouble identifying the "hot" cosplayers in this gallery, anyone care to point them out for everybody?

#19 only.

I gotta be honest, most of these sucked, with the exception of the Star Wars ones and the witch

The girl in the back of picture 9, is that Vanessa from Virtua Fighter?

C'mon, Storm Troopers? That is SO last season.

My thoughts on the gallery:

#2: Wigs need work, and Miyuki is missing the idiosyncratic glasses.
#8: Complete agreement with Joystiq.
#10: Possibly the least attractive Miku cosplay I've ever seen.
#13: Revitiligo?
#15: I didn't recognize a lot of the costumes in this gallery, but I feel like I should recognize the pink-haired girl in this picture. Who is it?
#21: Pretty good Jak.