Sit in a room with like-minded individuals and experience a master class on sheer, unadulterated lunacy.
Konami's E3 press conferences are The Room of E3 press conferences. Each year is like some magically delicious disaster of seemingly unrehearsed ludicrousness that almost morphs into a kind of bizarre, surrealist performance art. After the Rock Revolution debacle of 2008, I thought they could reach no greater peak, but 2010 somehow offered up an even wider array of non-stop insanity, most notably with the introduction of both Tak Fujii and Naoki Maeda and whatever the hell was going on here. Then again, at least there were luchadores...
Can Konami come up with someone more huggably bonkers than Naoki Maeda? Probably not, but I can't wait to find out! So, what could possibly be in store this year? No idea yet, but Konami is banking that you'll want to experience the awkwardness firsthand. Konami plans to promote its unique brand of ramshackle press conferencing--which will actually take place on June 2nd, five days before the show officially kicks off--by setting up live viewing parties for the event at cities around the globe, including, but not limited to, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, São Paulo, and Mexico City.
== TEASER == Yes, for real. You and your friends can attend a real life local screening of the Konami E3 2011 press conference and participate along with the rest of the audience as they shout hilarious callbacks at the screen, like "ONE MILLION TROOPS!!!" and a creepily whispered "Extreeeeeeeeeme..." Just don't be the jerk who yells "Riiiiiiidge Racer!!!" That's like shouting Rocky Horror lines at a Birdemic screening.
If you're not in one of the participating cities, or just don't fancy the idea of sitting in a room full of Konami fans while watching trailers and presentations full of long, excruciating pauses where laughter is presumably expected, you can also stream the conference online and enjoy the hilarity all by your lonesome. Regardless of method, you should almost assuredly tune in. Maybe this will be the year when Konami announces it's all been a gag, that the previous press conferences were purposely weird in service of a long-term, Kaufman-esque black comic prank. How great would that be?
Konami's E3 press conferences are The Room of E3 press conferences. Each year is like some magically delicious disaster of seemingly unrehearsed ludicrousness that almost morphs into a kind of bizarre, surrealist performance art. After the Rock Revolution debacle of 2008, I thought they could reach no greater peak, but 2010 somehow offered up an even wider array of non-stop insanity, most notably with the introduction of both Tak Fujii and Naoki Maeda and whatever the hell was going on here. Then again, at least there were luchadores...
Can Konami come up with someone more huggably bonkers than Naoki Maeda? Probably not, but I can't wait to find out! So, what could possibly be in store this year? No idea yet, but Konami is banking that you'll want to experience the awkwardness firsthand. Konami plans to promote its unique brand of ramshackle press conferencing--which will actually take place on June 2nd, five days before the show officially kicks off--by setting up live viewing parties for the event at cities around the globe, including, but not limited to, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, São Paulo, and Mexico City.
== TEASER == Yes, for real. You and your friends can attend a real life local screening of the Konami E3 2011 press conference and participate along with the rest of the audience as they shout hilarious callbacks at the screen, like "ONE MILLION TROOPS!!!" and a creepily whispered "Extreeeeeeeeeme..." Just don't be the jerk who yells "Riiiiiiidge Racer!!!" That's like shouting Rocky Horror lines at a Birdemic screening.
If you're not in one of the participating cities, or just don't fancy the idea of sitting in a room full of Konami fans while watching trailers and presentations full of long, excruciating pauses where laughter is presumably expected, you can also stream the conference online and enjoy the hilarity all by your lonesome. Regardless of method, you should almost assuredly tune in. Maybe this will be the year when Konami announces it's all been a gag, that the previous press conferences were purposely weird in service of a long-term, Kaufman-esque black comic prank. How great would that be?
Somehow during the ferver for Metal Gear Solid 4, Konami seemed important enough to give a dedicated E3 press conference to. It's long past that time and Konami seems to be more out place year after year.
" Somehow during the ferver for Metal Gear Solid 4, Konami seemed important enough to give a dedicated E3 press conference to. It's long past that time and Konami seems to be more out place year after year. "
Well we should have some more info about Metal Gear rising, if that tickles your fancy. I really hope they announce a new home console Suikoden game. That would really be awesome.
Hope we're not building this up to much. If it's just a decent press conference I'll be so disappointed. it NEEDS to be train wreck! Don't let us down Konami!
"ONE MILLION TROOPS!!!" and a creepily whispered "Extreeeeeeeeeme..."
You know alex, I came darting in here to write just that, damn you.
I am so down for whatever insanity they have this year, I loved their press conference last E3, it was probably the best part about it, given that it was the only one that needed to be seen, and not explained.
EDIT: Sweet jesus, Toronto is on the list. Well I know what I'm going to get drunk and go visit on the 2nd.
Man I remember last years Konami press conference, or rather, I only caught the end of it, but it was still crazy. Afterwards the "some japanese guy" streaming it started up a vocaloid program that read all the comments in the chat out loud. It took a while before someone realized and when everyone got it and things just went nuts.
I'm still disappointed that nobody at GB at the time covered last year's. There were a few references afterwords, but nothing big. It could have been its own Bombcast's worth of content.
Never seen these clips before. The failure at Rock Revolution was funny enough, but when she said "and that concludes our presentation" I fucking lost it.
Guessing this year will be two million troops, something about Japanese schoolgirls with chainsaws riding bears with people dressed up in panda mascot outfits morris dancing while the team who did the Katamari games fills the sky with all kinds of nonsense exclusive for the n-gage & maybe the virutal boy.
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