I mean, at first, I was excited about a new Kojima game (will finally get the chance to experience one from scratch!), then the trailer started creeping me out, then those weird floaty things appeared and now I'm excited again.

Heh. You should probably know before you get your hopes up too high; Kojima partnered with Sony after leaving Konami... Death Stranding is a PS4 exclusive.

I mean, at first, I was excited about a new Kojima game (will finally get the chance to experience one from scratch!), then the trailer started creeping me out, then those weird floaty things appeared and now I'm excited again.

You mean those weird floaty... people? Look again - definitely people.

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PS, check that Days Gone gameplay at the end of the show, it looks crazy intense.

Outstanding show all around.

Good to hear that, a good friend of mine from graduate school is a writer working on it :)

Word is that they used that gameplay demo at the end instead of a Red Dead 3 reveal because of thematic similarities to the recent Orlando attack. Rumors, of course, but I'm happy to say that thanks to the gameplay demonstration, I'm looking forward to the game. Got a real Last of Us vibe, with some State of Decay and World War Z thrown into the mix. Real excited to see what the rest of it is like.

I don't think we watched the same show. Sony had a flipping trailer-fest, and it was boring as hell to watch. I hated it precisely because there was never any word from presenters. There wasn't anyone on hand, ever, to give any context at all to what I was watching, before, during, or after. Maybe more of those trailers made some sort of sense if you're actively in the PS camp? If that's the case, they did a crap job convincing someone that isn't to buy one.

Yeah, this event seemed to have been made for Playstation fans first and foremost. With 40M+ units sold and a 3:1 sales rate over the Xbone (if the somewhat-unreliable VGchartz is to be believed), I don't think they're aching to convert players (they certainly aren't killing off their own platform to push people towards PC), so I guess that explains the lack of hawking of wares, and more showing the existing fans loads of gameplay and announcement trailers. I'll take a couple minutes of gameplay footage over a teleprompter speech telling me that I should be interested any day.
But yeah, I can see how they may have not given much context for folks who aren't completely familiar with the Playstation franchises. Still, like I said, gameplay should speak for itself, and boy did it.

Also, Kojima. What in the unholy hell was that? I'm somewhat used to seeing him pull some sort of bizarre music video trailer thing out of his hat for a presentation piece, but this was a whole new level of "what the fuck?" I suppose, at the very least, it gave us a naked, handcuffed, uncanny valley Norman Reedus looking hilarious as he cried and held a naked baby. Or something. This was a prime example of an announcement that could've used some context. Any context. Even vague context.

If you played PT (It was a huge PS4 thing a couple of E3s ago), the trailer (and symbolism) would have made more sense. That said, people are already digging through the thing for well-hidden details and such, so it's a lot of fun for fans of Kojima's weirdness. Once more, it's something for existing fans.

I'm not saying MS was perfect, far from it with the devs on stage that seemed wholly uninterested in talking about their project, were completely wooden, or were so scripted it was cringeworthy, but at least they marched someone out to talk about the game I was watching. I also appreciate the fact that their execs make at least a half-assed attempt to not look like execs. I swear the two Sony guys were wearing sharing the same suit.

I showed Sammy some of the Microsoft stuff, and Ubisoft's opening number before the Sony stuff started, and her response was "well, they don't need a dancing giraffe to get your attention" once the classy orchestra started pumping out epic music.
Presentation was great, I thought. And not a single stupid Sports game in sight (unless you're one of those that considers racing a sport).

Whatever. It's E3. I don't think about Microsoft and Sony in terms of "winners" and "losers". I think about it in terms of who showed me something interesting to get excited about in the next year, and that's entirely subjective.

That's true. For me, Microsoft had exactly zero games that interested me. Most of their trailers were CG crap (did anything besides the same-old same-old Gears get a gameplay presentation? honestly can't remember), or are going to be PC releases. Also, Microsoft didn't exactly make me feel like I missed out since I never bought a Kinect (did they even mention the word "Kinect" once?). Edit: State of Decay 2 is something that I've been looking forward to since the launch of the first game, but the pre-rendered teaser didn't do much to increase that excitement, other than hinting at co-op.

Ubisoft was completely boring outside of Wildlands (which was another CG trailer), and EA was painful to watch (sorry Mass Effect, but sports!). At least Bethesda showed off a glimpse of Skyrim, which gives them a pass.