Bioshocker
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Yes, of course it is. Like mostly everything we discuss here. Personally I prefer Sony's and Microsoft's press conferences. They had tons of games last year.
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Nintendo E3 Plans: Digital Event On 06/16, Nintendo World Championships 2015 on 06/14
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Yes, of course it is. Like mostly everything we discuss here. Personally I prefer Sony's and Microsoft's press conferences. They had tons of games last year.
Yes.
The E3 conferences are fucking horrible and Nintendo are right to find a better format, unless you actually like having faked PC footage passed off as console games and a bunch of talking heads stretching the definition of the word "exclusive" to breaking point. E3 conferences are so cringeworthy, especially their tryhard attempts at "cred", and Nintendo were even worse than their competitors when using the format 90% of the time.
The combination of Treehouse and Nintendo World Championships is a great idea in an era where
a) millions of people are happy to spend hours watching gaming-related streams if the content is there.
b) competitive gaming is massively popular and growing.
Personally backing them going with the cast of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" this year.
The Gang try to win the Nintendo World Championship
Bioshocker
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Nah, I just want them to show something good. But I am clearly not their target audience.
Best one yet, holy shit.
Reggie: Ohhh Dee you stupid bitch!
Going by that logic, everything shown at the PSX event was shit.
Bioshocker
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Sometimes they are, but not always. I think both Sony and Microsoft have been better at focusing on games and not diagrams and chatter the last couple of years. I expect something similar this year.
And E3 wouldn't be E3 without stuff like this.
A good game is good, no matter if it's presented in front of clapping employees or in a recorded stream.
I'm kind of marking out over here.
Nostalgia overload: Here's a video of the VHS tape that was sent to all 1990 Nintendo World Championship participants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXC20eO8QiU
And here's a nice bonus trailer for The Wizard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEbqd2QMkuw
(think I'm gonna go rewatch The Wizard right now, actually)
Nostalgia overload: Here's a video of the VHS tape that was sent to all 1990 Nintendo World Championship participants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXC20eO8QiU
And here's a nice bonus trailer for The Wizard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEbqd2QMkuw
(think I'm gonna go rewatch The Wizard right now, actually)
Frank: OK, all right, what makes me happy is, like, you know, at night, a ride around town in a limousine, partying, having a good time. When I'm on my way to E3, I'll pass someone going to the Xbox conference. I take a box with some Wii U stuff in it, lob it out and bean him. He only gets a couple of the games. He doesn't get the whole thing, most break. He doesn't even have a way to play it! And you say, "Hey, how do ya like a taste of the good life, ya sack a' shit?"
I really do wonder if that "Mother 3" bit was still a joke or not.
Nintendo didn't mention any Mother or Earthbound stuff (barring Lucas dlc) in the past year.
Kinda miffs me if it was. Nintendo had to look at it and ok it before showing the world in their direct.
that was one of the worst moments in gaming history, to be honest
Pokemon Stadium 2 is half gold/half silver. When Reggie knocks it over, it's only one color
Thunderous applause at the fact that they aren't screwing the consumer. I facepalmed so much that day.
So many idealise these past moments of E3 conferences. Sure, some were fantastic (even though the reaction video people link to for Zelda in 2004 isn't what we saw at home, we didn't have like 80% of the reaction applause), but many of the dull, boring and overlong parts just get forgotten. It's why I'm glad Nintendo are on the Digital Event path now.
Perhaps, but we don't even know what's Retro Studios doing.
It seems to be a fully gold cart, Pokémon Stadium 2 was half gold and half silver.
it's embarrassing that such a thing was even necessary.
HUELEN10
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Haha it is Rocco, fuck I know his voice
Ask him for an MP3/AAC of the whole song!
The only gif of this whole thing that matters...
I clearly played it wrong at EGX last year as I wern't having nearly as much fun.
How can I tell if I should be happy unless I have a clap-track?
Bioshocker
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What...? It was brilliant entertainment.
Grylvak
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I'm so glad gifs exist.
Perfect!
Oh fuck, yes I need to do that asap, I really hope they have a full version :O
I know Im being trolled here, but Mega64 did a lot of this video so I would hazard a guess that Nintendo themselves didnt spend an extraordinary amount of time on it.
it was something we'll just leave it there haha
SpacePirate Ridley
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OMGGGGGGGGGGGG
Dr. Buni
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Supposedly it isn't Metroid, but I don't know how trustworthy this site is.
Solid SOAP
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Tbh I don't expect this year's E3 to be great, but I'm not too bummed out about it. There are plenty of games I haven't gotten on the 3DS yet that I want. I just hope they have more coming on 3DS in the future.
rrvv
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That conference is pretty much the most brutal conference ever
That's a bit hyperbolic but yeah, it was really embarrassing.
I'm not being hyperbolic at all, actually
that bit is a perfect encapsulation for where we are as an industry
Yeah. Press conferences are really good when you want a reaction to a surprising reveal, which is why I think they'll go back to them next year with the NX and Zelda U. But there's also a lot of downtime, and things the crowd clearly does not care about will drag on. Like, last year at Sony's press conference, the guy who took the stage about an hour into it? That was like 15-30 minutes of just pure downtime. They could've cut that out and people would've been much more positive about their press conference.
Adam Prime
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Are there any GIFs of the Power Pad punching? That was great. So was the Virtual Boy.
Great video all around, very funny.
Great video all around, very funny.
I was about to ask for this essentially. I wonder if he knew before that video that it was faster to get on your hands and hit it than running for speed purposes. Classic good.
Also, It just hit me that they fired Bill because the kid spoke really fluent Japanese. That kid could work at Nintendo soon enough if he's actually a dual linguist like that. Wonder if it was someones son or something.
While TF came out in Feb, the actual game was done by November of 2013. Nintendo held the game back. Retro hopefully has had enough time to show whatever they've been working on.
For all the wrong reasons. E3 should be about the games. The fact that Sony even had to go there was pretty depressing. Of course, the finger can be pointed at Microsoft for making it necessary.
I just feel that, at E3, the entertainment should be derived from the games more than anything. The fact that some consider a company going "Hey, we're not going implement shitty practices on you!" is considered an entertaining highlight at E3 isn't a good thing, at least not in my opinion.
The Digital Event last year cut away a lot of the unnecessary fat - if it does the same this year, Nintendo have my sword.
Uhh, didn't people complain about Sony's Conference last year talking about crap like numbers they sold and shit which no-one cared about?
Like the whole section with "President Business"?
http://kotaku.com/the-many-hand-gestures-of-playstations-new-ceo-1588458775
TheSlySoul
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Oh yeah, you are right.
I think they are both Star Fox games because the N64 cart looks a bit like the big red robot on the N64 cart.
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