DF Retro EX: Konami E3 2010 - Revisiting THAT Notorious Press Conference
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- There have been many poor E3 press briefings across history, but none are quite so weird, wacky, bizarre and surreal as the Konami's E3 2010 'event'. Join John Linneman and Audi Sorlie for a blow-by-blow look at one of the event's most notorious conferences.
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Since Richard was present at this conference, he should have shut it down by moving his hands and shouting "ENOUGH WITH THIS LEVITY!"
Hahah
can u explain the joke? lol I don't get the reference
@@StayFractalesque Richard is known for his wild hand gestures when he speaks on camera.
@@StayFractalesque Richard moves his hands, and he once said 'Enough of this levity.'
@@schumachersbatman5094 yeah that moment stuck with me too it was so funny. What video was that from again?
I miss the times when E3s were funny bad, not just bad
I miss the times where E3 was actually something
@@stijnkulche5932 I miss the times when getting hyped for games meant something, not rehashed "safe route" shit we see today. Flip flop assets and call it a sequel. These recent AAA games don't even justify acquiring new hardware.
People are way to hyperbole here. E3 hasn't actually changed much with the exception of journalists being pissy because the convention is public now. E3 is only as good as the publishers who presents interesting new games. In the past two years that wasn't really the case because a new generation of consoles is coming up and COVID-19 is hindering the full potential of every gaming related convention. So many people wish E3 to die, yet I've seen so many annoyed comments about this lame "Summer of Gaming" invented by Keighley and IGN. These folks who want to see E3 dry out to put out their own content. If this was a simple test run this year, well, they better come up with a better concept next year when there are hopefully no pandemic excuses anymore.
@@TheAufziehvogel E3 is dying because publishers would prefer to do their own shows instead of sharing the spotlight.
Dunno what you are watching E3 has been killer for years
"It's like your dad trying to explain his foot fetish to you"
Who said that
@@BigBoss7777777 20:53
That's a very specific analogy.
Can relate
As a guy who has foot fetish I can't fathom the idea of being indifferent to a beautiful woman's feet. It's like a curse and a blessing. You know others know it's weird but that in itself just amplifies the fetish that much more.
OH MY GOD. This conference is legendary. I've never been able to watch it through without pausing to de-cringe
LOOOOL same
Anyone who can watch it all, without pausing and full audio feed, is a masochist. It is extremely hard to watch.
It's more sad that at least they were still trying back then with high output of full, flat priced products with some creativity, but microtransactions and gambling have infected the best publishers. We are seeing the pivoting change from the 2008 crash (GFC) and mass migration of all the jobless, sleazy execs and MBAs from finance into the booming gaming industry - and they brought their banking fee-based, nickel and diming, consumer-tricking schemes with them.
Imagine seeing it in person and being unable to stop it and take a break. I don't think I would be able to handle it.
You guys have to do the Star Wars Hans solo dance challenge now that you said it.
"You will be sucked" is my favourite grammar mistake of all time
No comedian or artist could ever come up with this, it's the most spontaneous form of cringe and embarrassment possible in a natural way.
Rights. It’s so bad it’s good 😂
Haha! This is a perfect example of reality that surpasses our imagination! 😅😂
idk always looked like a andy kaufman bit to me.
There's nothing natural about this cringe. It's straight up supernatural
Most console reveals are like this. In the Ps4 Pro reveal I remember Marc Cerney dancing around the stage spewing out a lot of bullshit with bullshots playing behind him. Xbox always seem to drag out "Major Tom", who you never see for years util they release another console. When Microsoft promise your console to be a powerhouse, then the games are under 30fps within 2 years of release Major Nelson is nowhere to be found.
I want to see the Star Wars Kinect Han Solo dance challenge please.
Please
Ghey
Fun you guys covered this legendary conference, and some insightful comments. However the cringe of the moments doesn't come across anymore since you guys talked through everything, even the "best" moments, and covered the awkward silences and hall atmosphere.
I have to agree made a a chaotic and hilarious conference seem very dry and boring.
They outright cut out some of the cringe too. Example: "One of the best things about hip-hop is... BARACK OBAMA" That line never made it into the video, feelsbadman
@@Hachado Especially after watching DF's hilarious coverage of the Xbox one and PS3 reveal events
Welp. I've finally made the big time. That is me at 11:13. Easily my strangest E3 memory but this moment is the gift that has kept on giving. 🤣
Congratulations! You're a part of gaming history
I took notice of you in the video before reading this comment, because the look on your face. I can't quite tell if that look of confusion is acting. Looks semi-authentic. Admit it: there was a part of you that was genuinely thinking "What is happening right now?"
12:05 Genuinely thought Audi was a native English speaker (and a pretty eloquent one). I've certainly never noticed any unnatural pauses. You speak better English than me.
20:53 WOW that is definitely an analogy lmao
Finally a good presentation is covered on this channel.
R.I.P. La Parka.
Though two years late, but i remember hearing about his passing while watching Telemundo. real sad :(
1:01:18 That gruesome, demonic, serial killer-like DEATH STARE is my personal favourite part of the show! 😂
It NEVER gets old! 😅
Lmao that's why I clicked on this vid
Goodness, he's scaring ME
Watching this live was the most amazing video game related experience of my life. I thought I was losing my mind.
Legendarily Bad. I will never forget this press conference.
Wan mirrion troopa!
I've been pushing XXXX YYYY XXXX YYYY ever since 2010. Hasn't worked for me yet.
They should add it to one of their games to get infinite Heath
Have you tried to unplug and replug the controller?
You have to press it again...
That guy totally screwed up the Konami code...
We will never witness a conference of this caliber of hilarity ever again.
The Xbox 1 reveal was probably equally bad for the company (or worse) but not even close as entertaining. This is the most legendary for sure, PS3 Ridge Racer! next 😆
@@markwebster4996 Blizzcon 2018 comes to mind with the mobile Diablo thing
I wish richard was in this one too, because his sarcastic comments would be sooo hillarious, and this conference itself was a goldmine for that.
Konami E3 2010: “It comes off as well as your dad trying to explain his foot fetish to you.” - Audi Sorlie, the GOAT.
He must have had some experience...
I'm just here for the hype Rave Racer OST playing in the background
Me seeing Zone sama in the comment section 1:01:25
probably the last person I'd expect to be here
@@Lisa_Minci96 yeah honestly this is weird
Love you Zone!
Zone's animations are responsible for producing ONE MIRRION TROOBS in my pants.
ONE MILLION TROOPS, thank you guys love these conference retrospectives 🙏
Wooooow. 😯
Hey DF, I just wanna say this is my favorite series you guys do. I'd love to see you go over nintendos 2012 e3 sometime. keep at it!
Don't you mean 2010?
Ravi Drums?
Like a British household, roasts are becoming a regular Sunday tradition for Digital Foundry.
The only time I can think of "being a celebrity on stage" working is when Tom Hanks was contractually obligated to do a thing for Sony and he spent the whole time ragging on them
Who knew Audi's obscure knowledge of Mexican wrestlers would come in handy?
Audi Sorlie is sweet and positive, but I miss Richard's wise words and geezerish harshness.
Audi is the type of guy who only gives you one chuckle when the rest of the crowd is dying of laughter.
I'm Norwegian so I can't laugh. I'm born this way, don't hate me.
2010 was the dark ages of Japanese games. I think the popularity and impact of Call of Duty and how the stars aligned for Microsoft with the Achievements and Xbox Live was the only reason they found success with the 360. I don’t see them ever getting that kind of success again.
Yep. Microsoft have no clue of what they're doing
Sorry, this DF Retro Revisit does not feel right. The energy and dynamic just is nowhere near the same.
Yeah I'm about 11 minutes in and the chemistry isn't there. I think one more person watching would've really balanced it out nicely.
I've got to disagree. John and Audie have their own gentle chemistry. Audie has a fantastically bone cracking dry sense of humour which he combines with a Richard standard of knowledge and insight.
@2B Or not 2B I've very happily watched every single one of these so far... but I'm still at 11 minutes in this one. I know Audi's just trying to explain how hard it is to do a show like this and how nerve-wracking it is, but all of us already know that. The point of these is to have some fun having a laugh at a weird old show, seeing what holds up and what doesn't. Without anyone pressing back and having a laugh it kind of saps the energy right out of the video.
The early 2010s weren't a great time for games? You guys are buggin' on that one. 2010 in particular was a fantastic year. (Mass Effect 2, Red Dead Redemption, StarCraft II, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Super Meat Boy, Limbo, Deadly Premonition, Dead Rising 2, Alan Wake, Splinter Cell Conviction, Mafia II.)
Back when E3 conferences were held in random high school auditoriums.
Oh Dear, I was not expecting you guys to react to this but thank you. This one is legendary
Yes! Heard the Giant Bomb crew talk about this recently. So happy its back in the spotlight. I miss this era of E3.
I only knew about this conference before cause of Crowbcat
Strangely, I just rewatched his cut of this conference 3 days ago.
This still has my #1 E3 moment which I like to call “The Konami Stare Of Death”. I still have the clip of it, when someone added the music from JAWS to the background. CLASSIC!
OMG yes! That part BROKE me!
Rumor has it then when you die and go to hell you find yourself at this conference for eternity.
I never leave comments, but I felt compelled to leave one for this video. The guest in this video is about as dull as dishwater and made this whole experience of one of the best/worst press conferences ever to be a total snooze fest.
I wish it was John and Richard on commentary and maybe Alex too.
When this infamous conference went down... I was not watching it live because I wasn't much of a Konami person at the time... I kept hearing people talk of the Konami conference at the time as the BEST CONFERENCE they've ever seen in their lives on a forum I used to frequent... but I would soon find out they meant it in the sarcastic/ironic sense. I had no idea cringe could reach those levels... and I was well aware of E3 cringe even by this point... but nothing at this kind of level at the time... wow
quite possibly the best and most valuable to preserve game conference to date, not even exaggerating
Audi is the type of person where the jokes are rather unreliable but also hit you the hardest by far when they do. He is surely a precious character.
Press: Omg omg did you hear we all got a free Xbox!?
Press: Publishers don't influence our reviews in any way whatsoever.
_facepalm_
Audi is so wrong about the "quality' of this conference that its funny. He empathizes to the point of blinding himself.
The dude making excuses for everything is driving me a little crazy
He's sucking the energy out of it for me
@@CecilMcW00t lol for real.
both of them are. the channel is politically correct
Kojima Productions couldn't actually get the Idea to Pan out. Kojima actually went to Platinum Games after it was technically cancelled and asked if they might be Interested. Platinum only accepted with the agreement that the setting be changed to after MGS 4 ( instead of between 2 and 4 ) to have more creative freedom with the story.
Gotta be honest, the guy going over this with John is talking way too much over this.
John: wow look at this
Other guy: yeah hang on I wanna tell you this long story
It makes sense here, the dude was AT the conference and he has a lot of actual experience about what hes talking about. I bought that AAA wrestling game at launch, so hearing someone with Lucha Libre knowledge, who actually spoke to La Parka, is a plus.
Agreed, irritating!
Yeah, not trying to hate on Audi but he kind of just blabbers when I’d like to hear John’s thoughts or the conference..
Even though I didnt play any of these games, this brought back the AAA 2010 games that came out. God of war 3, black ops 1, halo reach, red dead, bad company 2, and bioshock 2. Good times
2010 had so many strong titles
Black ops is for pregnant women.
This was only 2010 but it looks like it was filmed in the late 1990s.
I'm still sad Steel Battalion hasn't been ported to VR yet. A VR port would have been such a perfect fit :(
Absolutely love Lord of Shadows, shame the 2nd didn't hold up. That first big fight against the Ice giant... back then it looked amazing and so much fun.
I love how it's such a small little stage, and yet they bring out wrestlers and the Glee brigade.
I want MS press conference:Usher Edition
This will forever be the best E3 press conference, nothing will beat it.
I survived the Konami conference 😎 Thanks for yet another great episode. Question/suggestion to DF: any chance of going back all the way to the 1995 E3? That would be super interesting and to hear what’s your thoughts about that conference. Cheers!
your co-host is so boring that he manages to make the craziest press conference in the history of the world seem dull.
38:18 my man here lookin like 80's rockstar
it would be great if you didn't talk over *everything* especially since the E3 presentation wasn't working properly. As a viewer of this video you have no idea what's even going on most of the time unless you know that presentation by heart as you guys apparently do.
1:01:30 The only E3 conference with real life clipping issues
it's interesting to me that the game Neverdead got a solid 50 critics score and 50 users score on meta-credit. That's what I call a perfect average game! Very mediocre! So mundane!
The irony is the director and producer of NeverDead was the director of Metal Gear: Ghost Babel and Acid series.
He lost the track right there. Shinta Nojiri
I am leaving a comment as per instructions for the Star Wars Kinect challenge. Make it happen, John
I had never seen this before... i'm glad my first experience was through you folks
I love these retro conference videos.
Ohh man,I've been waiting for this so long.legendary conference.keeps entertaining us more than any recent Konami game,never gets old. Thank you DF
ahahahaha thank you for doing commentary for this one. Truly a masterpiece
The most memorable E3 conference ever
34:06 I love the way they edited in some covering stuff onto the girls to show a little less skin than what was really in the footage. :D
Dont know why I thought DF have already covered this recently. It kept popping in my feed today and I was surprised the video is from yesterday
the dance masters portion of this conference always makes me laugh, i'm a sucker for those scripted "casual" back and forth conversations, it always cracks me up.
Why Richard I would of loved hearing Richard's opinion on this
When I spotted the Y,Y,Y and X,X,X guy in the thumbnail, I knew that the time has finally come!!!!!
You’ll be sucked!
This is the best E3 conference of all time.
Sony 2006 and Nintendo 2008 were pure cringe, but Konami 2010 not only beat them in that regard, but it was also genuinely hilarious.
Damn, this is THE conference! I wonder what they're smoking..
Thumbnail instantly makes me think of Crowbcat's video on this.
Amazing, I never would have thought I'd have watched this conference from beginning to end. It's only because you guys made the commentary so enjoyable that I managed to survive the infamous Konami E3 2010 conference, one decade after it aired!
What a crazy timeline we're in...
This is terrible. Definitely needs someone with more charisma like Alex or Richard to better manage.
John is the man as always, the other dude just keeps giving excuses for the stupid ass conference that they should have just been laughing at and making fun of
@@poopscoop5836 there wasn't much to really riff off of in a funny way really, like John even said towards the end, people look back at this conference as being funny but the majority of it was just pure boredom and cringe.
Yeah the other dude was like “oh i cant make fun of this because i know how much work goes into this.” Then why do this commentary? The people that were a part of this would almost surely laugh at it themselves. Its not mean hearted, it is just terrible to the level of hilarity. That said, i love these DF retro videos. Keep it up guys 👍
@@jayg339 Yeah. I like Audi he's cool and his retro stuff with John is usually top notch and informative. But it would've been more interesting to hear his take on these and what he was thinking as he sat there during the presentation.
We really need another DF take on this with Richard, Alex and John to go over this.
Please keep doing these!!!
This conference is single-handedly responsible for me saying "very very exercise" every time I walk into a gym or go out for a run.
It's amazing that this is already a decade ago...
It's too bad though that Konami pretty much ruined all of their IPs. They could've done a lot of remasters & collections on current consoles, but they still have not.
Zone of the Enders 1 should've gotten a PS4 remaster as well.
They could've done a _Lords of Shadows_ collection on PS4.
They could've done a complete Silent Hill remaster collection.
They could've done a complete Metal Gear collection but they haven't.
And a lot of Dance Dance Revolution home releases :(
They could've brought back Rocket Knight...
Retake this with Richard
25:13 That has happened so much and it really comes off as companies thinking that it will make the products more relatable because people are seeing someone they know, like an actor. - One of the times that it worked perfectly was with Keanu Reeves "crashing" the CyberPunk presentation, but only because he played a character in the friggin' game, so it makes sense. AND, if he does something there's usually something genuine about it. - But then you have something like the "Fast and Furious" game (which looks like it came one or two generations too late) presented by Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez this or last year. And while it was very similar to how Keanu kinda read his lines while having some fun in between, nobody cared for a "Fast and Furious" game or Diesel and Rodriguez being there, so it was just awkward to the point that the whole presentation felt like it was from 10 years before. And it didn't help it was, I believe, shoehorned in at the very end of the VGAs.
Whoever comes up with the presentations just needs to think a little more about it as to whether or not it makes sense.
But yea, many decisions might come from the suits above. A company like CD Projekt Red doesn't have that issue, as they pretty much have total control over their stuff. And while the "Fast and Furious" game is by a Codemasters studio, the publisher is Bandai Namco. Sooo... coincidence that it's another Japanese company who comes up with an awkward presentation?... It's probably also an issue of Asian companies (or companies that come from other cultures, even like Ubisoft, which seems to be in its own French world) not understanding how to deal with presenting something to a more "modern west" audience.
It certainly didn't help that Michelle Rodriguez mispronounced Tekken, saying it like "Teh-ken" instead of "Tech-kin". That whole presentation just came across really phony, honestly.
I was there! E3 2010 was the first and only E3 i ever got to go to. Shit was so fun but these conferences we didnt get to see in person probably for the best haha.
The moment Konami shat itself. And was never really the same ever after.
Woke up earlier than expected, but noticed this video was posted. So instead of going back to sleep, I made coffee and waffles to enjoy alongside this madness xD
Now every time I see a DF notification I hope to see something like "Cerny invited us for a closer look at the PS5"
The only time a celeb helped hype a game on stage at a conference, is when Keanu Reeves talked about Cyberpunk 2077. "You're breathtaking!"
You speak of this as if it happened like generations ago or you just discovered it.
@@rickylovesyou Given how long 2020 seems to be stretching on due to the whole world going to shit, it's understandable to think of the Cyberpunk 2077 thing as something that happened "back in the day, when World War I was finally over".
The Birdemic of E3 Press Conference.
I have been waiting for this. Thank you DF
I think the other guy is making way too many excuses on why the conference didn't work out. Just admit that it's a bad conference. I would perfer John and Richard making jokes about this E3, rather than hearing over and over why it's not as bad as people think.
Audi is like that dude everyone knows who has had so many jobs that he has a story about almost anything.
It is so great to have the context for the lucha game. It’d be a shame if it just went down in history as “that weird thing Konami did for no reason”.
If I remember correctly, Microsoft’s E3 had them trying to trick people into thinking Metal Gear Rising was exclusive to 360. They showed a video and said all the games featured are exclusive to 360. MGR was one of them and Microsoft were forced to clarify that it’s not an exclusive. It might have been the year before this or same year but just before.
This conference is a piece of Art... Horror Art
41:03 I really want to see you guys do the Hans solo dance challenge
11:14 Seeing Nick from 4PlayerNetwork pop up here never fails to make me laugh at his reaction.
About 'Silent Hill: Downpour'; You said that all issues are fixed when you play the X360 version on XBO. But what about just the X360 version? - I was looking into a whole bunch of console-only (PS3/X360) games and which console they worked best on, of which "Downpour" would indeed be on X360. - I also found that they had patched the technical issues, so I don't know if you took that into consideration while commenting on this. - So what about the X360-version? Did you recommend playing it on XBO just for the extra power and thus have a better framerate or are there other issues with the X360 version as well? - Because the only reason I'm looking into it is to cover some exclusives (or better versions) on that with some cheap refurbished X360 and I'm not going to invest in an XBO. I'm fine with some framerate-drops here and there for a game like this.
Was the Wii U reveal conference any good?
I remember how bad Konami’s awful E3 Conference, but at least it features one of the funniest lines ever “ONE MILLION TROOPS.” Between this and “Giant Enemy Crab” (Sony E3 2006), this one is EXTREME.
In my opinion, E3 2010 is arguably one of the worst E3’s of the last decade.
Wow. Just watched the Crowbcat super cut twice yesterday. My gosh its so funny.
When the wrestlers start man handling the announcer 😂 "G-give it to me!"
(whispers): "Extweeeeem"
HOLY SHIT JOHN I was just watching that conference yesterday lmao wow