That uncharted demo was insane. They are magicians honestly, the size of that area, the interactions with the background.....
Now, about the other things in that conf i must say i'm a little confused by the famous three announcements..
About the Last Guardian, the good thing is the gameplay seems really good, and the game great, ok. My problem is with the fact that .. i'm pretty sure it's as advanced as it was 6 years ago. i'm even sure the old trailer had some footage of that gameplay sequence already. And the game wasn't update graphically.. That's a little fishy there.. What did they do all this time ? Did they show us an old demo or what ?
About FFVII, i'm really cautious here to. it feels a little like déjà vu. Actually, the PS3 target render was showing more than what we saw. so ok now the dev is official, but that sounded so vaporish, no release date, and the scale of the project is so big.. Cautious, Cautious..
Then we have Shenmue.. Well it's a little embarrassing there. Especialyl the demo they put together which is horrendous at best. There are better ways to show the world you'll do good with their money.. I just hope this doesn't complete a list of broke japanese dev using the fan's obsession to promise something they can't deliver.
So yeah all those killer announcement and yet everything seems kinda vague and uncertain in some way.
The MM game was wonderful but absolutely fucking vague to.
In the end Horizon was the only concrete big sony reveal and it looked fantastic.
I share some of your sentiments, but E3 is about hype, and they delivered.
A bunch of this stuff isn't due until next year. TLG actually has gameplay, it's moving along, and I understand why the game was so challenging, trying to have an AI cute dragon tag along for an adventure is crazy.
What GG did with Horizon and ND with UC4 though, leaves me no doubts that PS4 is a capable machine. We know FF7, TLG, and Shenmue are not due this year, but they exist. For this E3, I think that was enough.
And to be perfectly honest, the third party stuff looked incredible. Destiny, Battlefront, Batman, and Black Ops 3 all delivered. Forum people like to snuff at third party on stage, but those demos were well executed.
Also, don't get why people are pissy about Shenmue getting help from fans lol, it's shenmue 3 you crazies!!! It's REAL!! and it will reach it's goal or Sony will probably finish the funding itself! All these games are likely leading development on PS4, but it doesn't seem like Sony is trying to pay for things to stay off other platforms later. Seriously, this conference was gold. You xbox guys can be happy you can play X360 games I guess. But the same Halo/Forza/Fable thing did nothing for me. And Gear 4 closer was terrible compared to UC4.