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Gamespot - Stupid Pants Operation

Posted by Zonk on from the awesome-title dept.

I don't know why it's on the video page for the upcoming Legend of Zelda game, but Gamespot has up a documentary shot at last year's E3 about their coverage of the event. Clocking in at almost an hour in length, it's an exhaustive and interesting look at all that they have to do to bring the coverage they do during the event. Well worth the time to check it out. (And hats off to those folks for their hard work.)

7 comments

  1. I don't get it. by kniLnamiJ-neB · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What's a "Stupid Pants Project"? Can anyone explain what that has to do with a documentary on Gamespot? I could almost make the logical leap if it was a story about how dumb of an idea this documentary was, but the OP seems to appreciate it... so what does this mean?

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    1. Re:I don't get it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Perhaps No Pants Day

    2. Re:I don't get it. by Reignking · · Score: 1

      Like I'm gonna click on that link :)

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    3. Re:I don't get it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      For fellow confused English chaps, the translation is "Stupid Trousers Project".

    4. Re:I don't get it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Maybe they don't like to wear pants, and are complaining that they have to wear pants in order to do whatever was needed to be done. i.e. I hate these stupid pants, pants are stupid, the stupid pants make me feel uncomfortable. They're probably fat and prefer to wear shorts, like me!

    5. Re:I don't get it. by The+Eagle+Maint · · Score: 3, Interesting

      On of the guys in the video said that "E3 is definitely a 'seat of your pants' operation", meaning like it keeps you on the edge of your seat I think... the guy he was talking with mistook him for saying 'stupid pants operation'.

      I wouldn't have pointed it out, but I did watch the video and noticed that part. As someone attending E3 this year for the first time, it was pretty interesting to see how stuff goes on there.

  2. Gamespot's "Best of E3 2004" by dmaduram · · Score: 4, Informative

    Just for a distilled textual version of the documentary, you might want to check out Gamespot's Best of E3 2004 feature.

    I personally thought that the documentary was rather long, but perhaps it's only to be expected, given that "GameSpot's coverage of E3 2004 included about 1000 previews, 12,000 screenshots, and more than 1,300 movies of more than 600 games"