E3 Movie Cache Highlights Microsoft's Apprentice Spoof 31
Thanks to Kikizo for its newly posted mammoth collection of freely downloadable E3 Expo-related game videos, recapping (if a little late) games and press events from "this year's massive Los Angeles event." Especially notable is Xbox press conference spoof 'The Novice' (58mb WMV) [there's a much better-quality 8MB WMV version at TeamXbox], which 1UP.com described at the time as "a send-up of reality show The Apprentice... portraying [J.] Allard, fellow vice president Peter Moore, and chief Xbox officer Robbie Bach trying to curry favor [regarding online gaming] with the real-life Donald Trump." Somewhat lost in the E3 rush, the spoof is worth re-visiting, not least for the ending, where the losing Sony team (with "actors portraying Sony vice-president Ken Kutaragi, SCEA head Kaz Hirai and SCEA vice president Andrew House") collectively get fired, at which point "none other than Bill Gates himself ducks under them and steals the cab before they can get in."
Preemptive anti-slashdoting (Score:4, Interesting)
easier (Score:2)
Mirror (Score:5, Informative)
For those too lazy to copy and paste, here:
http://www.students.bucknell.edu/cbarker/the_novi
Re:Mirror (Score:1)
Re:Mirror (Score:2)
You are slashdoting my school webserver, not theirs, and my school doesn't have a bandwidth transfer cap, so I could care less (besides, I don't live on campus).
The older server on a slower line mirrored tons of images and video of 9/11 for slashdot (done by another student), so im sure this one can handle something in the "games" section of slashdot.
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What's E3 good for? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, alright. The _real_ hardcore game companies are the ones that don't have any money to go to E3. Like me for example. See my sig for details.
Re:What's E3 good for? (Score:2)
But yeah, nice app. Too bad my risk addiction didn't last longer than a week, or I would have purchased it (actually, i had to stop it cause i would have failed courses).
Re:What's E3 good for? (Score:2)
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yeah.... (Score:2)
Re:yeah.... (Score:2)
Stupid playstation troll...
Re:yeah.... (Score:2)
Rob
The Novice? (Score:2)
I swear, the Dell Interns was a much better idea.
Did they really just spoil the ending? (Score:2, Insightful)
Way to go guys! Might not be the best idea to branch out into movie reviews though.
"Not least for the ending, where we find out that Tyler Durden has in fact been the narrator's imaginary friend all along."
Re:Did they really just spoil the ending? (Score:1)
Re:Did they really just spoil the ending? (Score:2)
Amusing, but... (Score:1)
Re:Amusing, but... (Score:1)
As far as how much Microsoft is losing, who cares? If there is a loss (I'm not sure one way or the other), they seem to be able to deal wit
Re:Amusing, but... (Score:1)
A Donald Trump MMORPG? (Score:2)
On another note, what does Peter ask that guy who wants to play "Ninja Gaiden, Halo 2, Final Fantasy stuff" online? It sounded like "How about [Japanese name]?" and got a big laugh from the audience.
"The whole online thing has been a complete and total disaster"--well, except for that little thing called "Final Fantasy XI," anyway.
Rob (NFL Fever? Give me a break!)
Re:A Donald Trump MMORPG? (Score:3, Informative)
It's a japanese puzzle game with space mice trying to avoid space kitties. Sounds wack, but it's pretty fun.
Linky [all-reviews.com]
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Re:Maybe Microsoft (Score:2)
shhhhhh, then I'd be out of a job! How else can I afford my PS2 and all these games?
ARRRGGGGG!!!! (Score:2)
Quality is subjective, I guess... (Score:2)
Actually, I preferred the first one, which had a higher resolution, and wasn't kind of washed out. But I guess that's just me.
(Don't mind me. Just poking fun at the unobvious attempt at sarcasm.
I know I should be made at this but... (Score:2)
Seriously Bill Gates robbing the cab from the ps2 guys, the ps2 guys sleeping off at the hotel room, oh and the face of the pressident when they fire him oh that was precious!. This is the equivalent of Bart Simpson mocking his principal with a crude school parody video, everyone knows is wrong but no o