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The Official E3 2013 Konami Pre-E3...Thing Discussion

It's officially E3 time, duders! If you haven't experienced the insanity of E3 before, the show starts off with press conferences from each of the three console makers as well as a few of the largest publishers in the industry. These presentations are prime real estate for game announcements, debut trailers, live gameplay demonstrations, and meme origins.

In an attempt to keep the E3 shenanigans organized, the mods institute these official discussion threads for each conference so that everybody has a go-to place to discuss them before, during, and after the show.

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Specific Announcements

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To help you get where you need to go to talk about anything announced or shown during this press conference, we have created a list of them right here:

• Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2014
• Kiefer Sutherland is now the voice and body of Snake

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Where Can I Watch?

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• Giant Bomb Chat
• Official Konami Site
• Gamespot
• GameSpot Xbox Live App

Hopefully the crew do a stream or do something appended to TNT like 2 years ago.

I think I'll sleep and catch the archive... can't keep my eyes open this time 'round.

Yoohoo E3 is here!

Whoa this thing is today?!

I had no idea either. Will the GB crew be doing a live stream like they did last year? I might skip it if they don't.

As far as we know its pre-recorded but you don't want to skip it if you are interested in MGSV or Castlevania. This one is really big.

Scrubbing through the Konami press event as it goes live is one of my favourite #E3memories

I don't care who's voicing Snake/Big Boss, just give me the road to Outer Heaven!

so anyone call Zobek? I'm sure he'd appreciate being invited to the festivities.

The new voice is either David Hayter or Joakim Mogren.

The voice doesn't really matter too much, because I know that the MGS V trailer will be amazing.

While I'm sure konami has some cool things to show, I'm just excited that E3, the konami part of it at least is starting.

No chat?.

I don't expect the guys to do any commentary on this at all but are we going to be able to at least watch in the GB chat room?

We're looking at setting this up, but it might not make sense. Sounds like they're doing the same fake "live" thing they've done in the past, so the full video will go up alongside a streaming version.

So, you know, skip to the end to find out Kojima's dark secrets, I guess.

yeah probably also its only fun with reactions and commenting on it like with the PS4 and Xbone event.

Can not wait!

@turboman: They just don't make 'em like they used to.

I'm betting $2 that Tak Fuji will make an appearance today.

@turboman: I'm a huge fan of your work, sir.

I will continue to swear at them under my breath until the give me Suikoden VI.

No Hayter confirmed.

My reaction to the new Voice Actor is this.

Spoilers to 24.

David Hayter ‏@DavidBHayter

Look, I tried to warn you...

Kiefer Sutherland as Big Boss? Ehhhh............ I thought he was voicing the masked man?

FUCK YEAH KIEFER SUTHERLAND!!!

THEY MOCAPPED JACK BAUER!

By tweeting cryptic shit that made everybody think something was up ? Great job on that, David !

The New Metal Gear Theme

booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

As long as Vinny plays some Lords of Shadow 2. I'll be alright.

Man, what was that?

That Castlevania trailer had to be as long as it was, or else the whole show would have been only 15 minutes.

so...

PES has Heart

MGS has Jack Bauer

Castlevania has bad Mega64 skits

did I miss anything?

Oh cool, I won. Thanks!

Man, that was among the worst presentations I've ever seen.

Oh, it's just another one of those pre-recorded things? That's... underwhelming.

Wait, it's over?! Did I miss anything good?

@coafi: Keifer is Snake now. PES is using Fox engine. Social games. There's a Dog in LoS 2.

The masked man is Big Boss, that whole escape sequence is a coma dream.

I honestly think Lords of Shadow 2 looks amazing.

So what uh, what was that whole chubby Dracula live action thing?

Seriously, I don't even come close to getting it.

No new Suikoden? OK. I'll go back to sleep then.

Or maybe the masked man is Kojima, and you find out that Snake has always been Kojima.

@sparky_buzzsaw: Best part about Suikoden dying is that V is by far the best one on PS2; but hey at least I own a rare game now.

oh fuck i missed it?! well, i don't feel as bad as i thought it would.

Will it be archived?

Glad I went to sleep!

I honestly didn't think they could get someone to replace Hayter that I'd be happy with, but fuck yeah Jack Bauer.

You can watch it any time you want at the Gamespot link above. There was no commentary by the Giant Bomb guys.