We Talk Over the E3 2018 Ubisoft Press Conference

I love that Dan can still say things after like 4 years of being on GB that makes everyone incredulous haha. Both that it happens at all, and that he is honest and just like yeah I didn't know that.

Dan is aggressively pro corporation and brands in large part because he doesn't care to know any better. It's a crappy position and he shouldn't be defended over it.

In case it helps:

"HTML5" version cuts at ~14:30 for me, "Progressive" loses sound at around that point.

Using latest version of Firefox on Windows 10, ftr. Appears to be the same on Edge. cbf checking Chrome.

EDIT: also the "Progressive" version is only ~30mins long, whereas the actual (apparently working) Youtube version is just over 2hrs long.

Video is broken. Audio cuts out halfway through the 30 minutes of it that are still accessible on the GB version even though it's supposed to be over an hour long @unastrike

yes pirates just stole things

@doncabesa: I know Dan has ridiculous pro-corporation tendencies, and I wouldn't ordain to defend most of them, but I don't really think this is the same thing. He has a certain outlook on achieving success etc, and it's definitely a privileged one, but it also doesn't feel completely ignorant? Not defending him whole cloth.

Looks like it's fixed now, at least for me.

I never thought I'd say this, but God bless Dan Ryckert, who didn't know that pirates actually stole things.

Yeah, exactly. In this regard, I actually think that MGSV: Ground Zeroes did a better job at this, because it IS that Hitman-sized compound. Big enough to have all of the ins and outs you could want, not big enough that objectives are so far away that it's tedious to get to them. I would've vastly preferred if the missions in TPP took place in GZ-sized compounds.

I hope the character selecting in assassins creed works. The series is strongest when the main character is interesting. Bayak and Aya were amazing. I worry that since these 2 new characters are interchangeable within the story that they may be written very flat.

Oh indeed, you also see this exact line of thinking on Brad and Alex' faces, it seems to go beyond an "oh Dan's just goofing again" impression, into outright cringey disbelief.

Ubisoft was great but no Splinter Cell was a huge misfire.

@effache: Didn't he get his start in the industry writing reviews for free? I'm not too interested in defending him (I really do think he's ignorant by choice of how shitty life can turn out for some people and I can't get behind that), but a guy who got his dream job by starting with doing unpaid creative labour not getting objections to people doing the same is at least understandable.

I hope someone clipped that video of Dan not knowing anything about Pirates. That was that best moment of E3 so far !

Man, the part with Miyamoto on stage for Starfox and the big Donkey Kong orchestra really made me miss when Nintendo did actual conferences.

DAN

I'd like to think that at this point the guys on staff would be willing to conceded being wrong this whole time about the likelihood of Beyond Good And Evil 2 ever seeing the light of day, but I should know by now. Always happy to tell you they knew something about a thing before you did, rarely ever willing to concede on a bad guess about the same. Ah well, tis' the way of the internet.

As soon as that creative crowdsourcing for Beyond Good & Evil 2 was touched on, I knew that would become a huge minefield if not handled well.

Dan's a guy who doesn't know what a pirate is but will buy a toys to life game and play it once just 'cause Star Fox is in it.

I should probably give For Honor a try.

"And the Crew 2 is also here"

Aaahhh, the Frenschhhh video games...

Goddamnit Dan, why don't you know everything already?? [/s]

More Yves and Miyamoto together, they're so adorable.

Seriously, them saying "That's why pirates are badguys" is ABOUT as ignorant as "Wait, pirates steal shit?" just on a different level.

There IS a Cahlifohrniya video game...MADE for that SAME Frensch exshellensh...

Someone did actually, and it's amazing

Hooooly shit Dan just hit a new level of stupid. I was in the same position Ben was in (head cupped in hands) for like 5 minutes after that bomb. -_-

Who is actually bailing out Ubisoft, TenCent or Nintendo?

Dan's comments about pirates being funded by countries is actually pretty close to the mark. Most "pirates" were really privateers and were given license by a country to raid the shipping of hostile nations. In return they would turn a blind eye to some illegal actions. It was officially sanctioned crime.

Alex and Brad were the stars here. Barely any comment, straight up disbelieving facepalming.

Disappointing to see Ubisoft going back to the yearly schedule for Assassin's Creed, especially with Odyssey looking so similar to Origins.

Dan, why did you think the Microsoft pirate game was called "Sea of Thieves?"

Wow...this single video has created a mind-blowing new perspective of Dan. Sure, he's been ignorant in the past, but wow something about Ubisoft brought it out in him.

The pirate thing is dumb, but to be honest most of the pirate media of the past while really hasn't shown them robbing people per-say so that might be why he didn't think that.

But he seriously didn't understand the difference between art/assets being put into BG&E2 and people just making drawings on the Mii Verse for Splatoon???

New depths have been reached here.

I have zero tolerance for Dan's ignorance. It's one of the many the reasons why I don't watch GiantBomb anymore. I envy the people that find it endearing because I just can't help but wonder how the hell this man is allowed out in the world.

Watching the Skull & Bones trailer, there was confusion about why the pirate ships would ever fly pirate sails or a pirate flag. Why not just fly the legit flag from the origin country? I'm pretty sure the reason for the black pirate flag was for intimidation, so that pirates could get their target to potentially surrender and hand over the goods without even needing to fight. I think there was a reasonable chance that the boarded crew would make it out alive, if they didn't resist.

I think them playing "I'm Still Standing" as the song that leads into and out of the conference is more than just a "hey this is in Just Dance"... It feels like it was a statement now that Vivendi isn't a threat anymore.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7Jgsv-F4oY#action=share

Greetings Duders,

After the dark events of Giant Bomb's E3 Ubisoft Conference, I prepared episode 1 of D.E.R.P. (Dan Ryckert Education Remediation Program) so that Dan and other unfortunate souls will know exactly what it takes to be a pirate.

I won't pretend this is of high quality, but the idea and video makes me laugh so I thought I'd share it in case others also have a lame sense of humor like me.

Happy Fourth of July!