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Worst E3 moments?

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Marco1

Member
For me nothing can surpass Nintendo's Cammie Dunaway or Microsoft's kinect acting presentations.
Seriously MS stop trying to make the tech look 1:1 tracking, yes I bought one because I thought it worked but it doesn't. I used to love MS when they were into gaming with their own shows but kinect for me has ruined them. If the tech worked then it would be great but it leaves my 4 year old son and me just turning it off and turning on the wii.
Also anything Dan Mattrick says, the man looks and sounds like a car salesman forced to try and sell shitty cars.
 
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Synth_floyd

Banned
Jamie Kennedy was full of win. The fact that he completely had no idea about any of the games he was promoting, completely bombed in front of the live audience and insulted most of them in the process made it one of the most entertaining things in videogame history.

That and the Konami press conference from 2011 or 2010 with the crazy Japanese guy who could barely speak English and his friend who lacked any kind of charisma whatsoever. They should do a buddy comedy together.

Worst moments?

The PS3 reveal, most Kinect stuff (especially that cirque de soleil thing), Wii music.
 
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Kusagari

Member
The Nintendo conference where half of it was them sucking their own dicks, by showing numerous videos of the mainstream press talking about the Wii.

And James Cameron boring the hell out of everyone by talking about the Avatar game for over 20 minutes.
 
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-KRS-

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Mr. Sam said:
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To be fair to the guy though; who the fuck moves like the dude in the game unless they have back issues or something?

Mama Robotnik said:
One of my favourite "worst moments" was when Macworld claimed that Apple unambiguously "won" E3.

Even though Apple weren't there.

The inaccuracies in the article (see the fabricated description of the Wii Goldeneye control scheme) strongly suggested that the writer wasn't actually at the expo even though he claimed to be. It was a low point for E3 related journalism at least.
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Oh wow. "can't play fps games on the wii." Yep, I think there's something wrong with his arms. Perhaps he's been sitting in front of that Macbook Pro a bit too long. And oh yeah, Metroid. That game on the NES that totally hasn't been brought back since then. Hahaha. xD
 
Shrennin

Shrennin

Didn't get the memo regarding the 14th Amendment
Everything has pretty much been mentioned but I laughed at when Nintendo announced Nintendogs...+ Cats. Perhaps not a "worst E3 moment" exactly, but I found it extremely funny at the time (and definitely not an E3 highlight).
 
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Gomu Gomu

Member
Good choices in this thread already. So far the worst has to be either High School Musical game conference or Kennedy's Activition bit.
 
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Anth0ny

Member
Sony 06 wasn't the worst. It was hilarious.

Nintendo 2008 and Microsoft 2010/2011 could constitute as the worst in my book. Just painfully bad to watch. I mean, the gifs were funny, but actually watching the show live was fucking horrible.
 
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twobear

sputum-flecked apoplexy
C'mon, nothing even comes remotely close to the Sony '599 US dollars' conference in terms of trainwreck.

After a conference filled with trailers for games that nobody wanted to play (giant enemy grabs, rrrrrrridge racer), they revealed their REVOLUTIONARY NEW CONTROLLER (a DualShock with stolen Wii functionality a year after dismissing motion as a gimmick), then they announced that they were pricing themselves out of the market.

There has never been such another even remotely as spectacularly terrible E3 'moment'.

Microsoft and Nintendo conferences have been filled with games that you might not care about and the occasional glitch (avatar foot, etc.), but Sony's conference was them committing PR and commercial suicide in front of thousands of viewers.
 
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Tuck

Member
Wii Music, Kinect Dancing, The entire Konami press conference last year.

Also, I think it was a Disney conference. Maybe Ubisoft. They called some people up from the audience to try out a dancing game. The people they called were clearly paid actors, and really, really over excited and over enthusiastic. I think that is how it happened? I could be remembering wrong.

Plus, great moments can be ruined by stupid things. Presenters should not be clapping at themselves. Ever. The Microsoft guy does this a lot and it pisses me off. Over excitement can also ruin things - the presenter is supposed to be excited about his games, but there is a line.
 
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GodfatherX

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Para bailar La Bomba said:
Seriously Reggie could sell ice-cubes to Eskimos.
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really? I thought he looked rather surprised to be put on blast. Then to follow this up with the follow up interview last year or the year before, I've never found Reggie to be great at selling his ideas, but I know others eat it up. He's always been like that crappy high school teacher who's only their because he's job as a crappy wrestling coach requires he teach at least 1 class.
 
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JasoNsider

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godelsmetric said:
C'mon, nothing even comes remotely close to the Sony '599 US dollars' conference in terms of trainwreck.

After a conference filled with trailers for games that nobody wanted to play (giant enemy grabs, rrrrrrridge racer), they revealed their REVOLUTIONARY NEW CONTROLLER (a DualShock with stolen Wii functionality a year after dismissing motion as a gimmick), then they announced that they were pricing themselves out of the market.

There has never been such another even remotely as spectacularly terrible E3 'moment'.

Microsoft and Nintendo conferences have been filled with games that you might not care about and the occasional glitch (avatar foot, etc.), but Sony's conference was them committing PR and commercial suicide in front of thousands of viewers.
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Yes, I find it funny that the OP in this thread tries to play it out like it's boring and let's move on people. Heh. There's a reason people write it out like "five hundred and ninety nine US dollars." It was by far the most important E3 moment I've witnessed and not something to just sweep under the rug. We have gone over it before but it can't be understated how big of a moment that was - everybody (well, most) knew what this meant and that nothing was going to be the same.
 
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Photolysis

Banned
MS E3 2010. That one Kinect child was fucking creepy.

Wish I could remember which MS presentation had this really really awkward silence though.
 
R

Roto13

Member
Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox 360.

Not because that was really a bad thing. Just because the internet chose that moment to collectively learn the word "coup" and were throwing it around everywhere and it was so annoying.
 
Rukes

Rukes

The front page still gets no respect
Nintendo booth in 1997. When Pokemon first premiered. The booth had this automated Pokemon at the top, and i think it was every 30 minutes it would turn on, dance/sing and then shoot out these mini zippered pokeball stuffed animals into the crowd.

Each time it happened, the crowd got bigger and bigger because of word of mouth. Towards the end, it became a huge crowd of people just trying to get a toy.

Unfortunately it never saw the end of Day 2, as a handicapped person in a wheelchair happened to be in the crowd of people looking to get a pokeball. In the mess that ensued, the person in the wheelchair ended up getting knocked over by the people around them trying to grab one. From that point on, it was shut down completely, and the pokeballs just became something given away by the Nintendo staff.
 
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Marco1

Member
Imagine the board room after that kinect reveal with kudo and the back of his shoe ?
I can see them all fighting and agreeing to stage every kinect show after that and saying to kudo," I told you the fucking thing isn't ready and never will be."
 
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AngryMoth

Member
How about the laser tag at ubisoft 2010? Or that wierd breathing game. Joe McHale's reactions were hilarious. Cant wait to see who they get to present this year
 
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JasoNsider

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Foffy said:
Holy shit, how long has Nintendo been on this course? It's like Iwata was seeing the future back in 2001.
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The funny thing is that people have almost always slammed Iwata and even Yamauchi for saying the pretty harsh things they do when they say them...and then after some time they are right on the money. He's a leader who has made games and is incredibly forward thinking.
 
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pargonta

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AutumnAve said:
Here's another good one. Twilight Princess reveal, listen to that overreaction, ugh. I understand there was crying in the press.
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That was arguably the greatest end of conference reveal in the history of E3, and was a real important moment between Nintendo and it's fans (yes, while their profession may be journalists etc, those were fans in the audience). The reveal carried incredible weight after the art style controversy from Wind Waker, and I don't think the reaction is embarrassing or bad. If you're a journalism student pining for strict unbiased ties between press and companies during conferences I see your point, but coming from the framing of Video Games, this was a defining moment in the GameCube's final hours and one of the Best moments of E3, and history will know it as such, your opinion not withstanding.
 
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WiiRevolution1

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Vanille said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VpeuCW-3dU#t=1m02s
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I've never seen this.
Wtf? lol. "The core gamer has Animal Crossing" I love animal crossing but seriously wat.

The worst for me would have to be;

-Obviously, Nintendo's 2008 conference. I would say 2009 aswell but NSMBWii and Mario Galaxy 2 were enough to get me hyped.
-Skyward Sword stage demo fail.
-Zelda part of last years conference lasting twenty+ minutes. Zelda is one of my favorite franchises, but dang, just get on with the show.
-Every Kinect demo.

Lots more, but those are the ones that stand out to me.
 
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watership

Member
amar212 said:
I still do not understand what is exactly the problem people had with this price tag?

For me it was absolutely fair price for such beast of machine in 2007.

It was cheaper than damn stupid smartphones backthan, better smartphone was more than 1000$/euro then, same they cost now.

Still can't comprehend the shitstorm, I still think it was great, great price for everything PS3 delivered as the overall box.
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It was bad. 400 dollars was way to much for the 360, and then the PS3 just made it worse. It's even worse now, in retrospect. At the time of it's announcement it was a bombshell, for sure, but most people believed at that time that PS3 was going to be significantly more powerful than the 360. 6 years later it could be argued that the PS3 is just marginally more powerful than the 360, and that in practical game performance most multi-platform games run better on the 360. Blu-Ray won the format wars, thanks I think to the PS3, but it was also a bitter sweet win for Sony. Streaming has taken over physical media and Blu-ray was never the success that DVD was.
 
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Fantastical

Death Prophet
I love the "ONLINE!?!?" one. Pretty much my exact reaction.

Ravi Drums and $599 US dollars take the cake for me though. Jamie Kennedy is also great.
 
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