Favorite E3 or Direct Trailer of All Time?

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I was looking for this old Halo trailer and finally found it (I kept thinking it was from 1999 but it was 2000). This was a frequent watch. When Xbox bought the rights to it, it forced us to buy an Xbox.





Doom 3 and the MacWorld video with John Carmack really stuck out for me. It's not even my favorite DOOM but its the video I watched with a friend multiple times at the time. There was something so amazing about a door opening and seeing light pour into a room.

 
Easily the Nintendo conference from 2004.

I even made a huge post about it on GAF like 15 years ago, which then resulted in the greatest thread on GAF I ever made by far (which was about Waffle Crisp…. It's hard to explain.) Hell, I even bought a DVD set of the conferences from that year.

But that presentation was just so iconic. Reggie had his first public appearance, Miyamoto said the whole "I am not Link, but I do know him!" thing after a hype Zelda trailer, Iwata pulled the DS from his jacket, then he teased the Nintendo "Revolution". It was peak E3.

It's worth a watch if you've never seen it. I miss E3.



The MGS2 trailer is a close second for me.
 
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2004

Aging Matt Damon GIF


Followed by Konami 2010
 
Rockman33 said:


The original trailer got me pretty fired up back in the day.



This new one with the same song did it all over again.
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Came to post this. The OG Gears on 360, the first trailer, was one of the best ever. I'm glad this new one is going back to origin stories and hopefully a more true Gears 1-3 than the last couple.
 
mortal said:
As someone who followed the game since its inception in the Versus XIII days, this one was very special.
Such a shame that this version was never realized after a decade. What could've been... "lollipop_disappointed:

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Nomura was certainly done dirty when Square Enix took his baby away from him.

I'd trade the Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy for his original vision of a Versus trilogy without hesitation.
 
joeygreco1985 said:


This trailer sold me on what the PS2 was capable of. 24 years later and it still impresses me as far as what they were able to get out of that hardware
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This trailer pretty much buried any pretenses Sega might've had up until that point. It showed what the PS2 was capable of and some of it we didn't see before. And nothing of it was bullshots, the full game looks exactly like it.

This MGS2 trailer also brought a sort of blockbuster grandeur to gaming.
 
Dacvak said:
Easily the Nintendo conference from 2004.

I even made a huge post about it on GAF like 15 years ago, which then resulted in the greatest thread on GAF I ever made by far (which was about Waffle Crisp…. It's hard to explain.) Hell, I even bought a DVD set of the conferences from that year.

But that presentation was just so iconic. Reggie had his first public appearance, Miyamoto said the whole "I am not Link, but I do know him!" thing after a hype Zelda trailer, Iwata pulled the DS from his jacket, then he teased the Nintendo "Revolution". It was peak E3.

It's worth a watch if you've never seen it. I miss E3.



The MGS2 trailer is a close second for me.
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There was only one answer, it really ushered in a new era for Nintendo.

TintoConCasera said:
Was going to post this lol.

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This is the definitive video, the view from the crowd. Early leavers running back to their seats to see the "one more thing" (back when it was not so cliche). The eruption of cheers as people recognized this was the realistic style Zelda they thought Nintendo had forgotten. The guy pointing in disbelief as Miyamoto appears with the hylian shield and master sword, to a standing ovation. Literal grown men in tears witnessing their favorite games from childhood growing up with them, recognizing how legitimate video games were becoming as a form of mainstream entertainment. While I wasn't there, I was watching live on a crappy stream and it was the E3 finale from a dream - couldn't have asked for a better moment. I still get the feels watching that video today - somehow 20 years later.
 
Im not even a big DMC fan anymore (didn't like 4 or 5) but DMC3 was magic and I rewatched this trailer a hundred times as a kid

 


Not that Home was that special, it's just that the ad/trailer is fantastic and this was a time when the PS3 was firing on all cylinders and just a damn fun time to be a gamer. Brings back a lot of good memories. That generation was so effing fun!
 
To many to pick, Maybe before but everything from this
joeygreco1985 said:


This trailer sold me on what the PS2 was capable of. 24 years later and it still impresses me as far as what they were able to get out of that hardware
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Was pure gold up to 2015...2016 wasn't bad either
2002 was mad because Konami alone had Zone of the Enders the 2nd Runner, Silent Hill 3 and MGS2 Subsistence and they just released ZOE1, SH2 & MGS2SOL
complete madness
2007 was special too
Mirrors Edge, Prince of Persia and Assassins Creed
What a time man.
And 2013 😳
Sony was on fire
analog_future said:
This one was absolutely incredible for me:




When that Firefly emblem showed up on the sign I lost my shit
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And this is when it all went to shit
Not the Last of Us 2 announcement, but something was off then and everything just got worse after.
 
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Easily either Final Fantasy Versus XIII, Metal Gear Solid 2, FFVII Remake.

Nothing else will ever come close. Maybe a Fortnite/Minecraft remake trailer in 30 years time.

The Versus XIII trailer is just masterpiece work. Betterr than Kojima's wannabe-movie personality.

Bonus to Kingdom Hearts III full reveal. That was also grand.
 
fart town usa said:


Not that Home was that special, it's just that the ad/trailer is fantastic and this was a time when the PS3 was firing on all cylinders and just a damn fun time to be a gamer. Brings back a lot of good memories. That generation was so effing fun!
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Home on VR would be amazing.
 
I'd say the one that got me more excited than any other is probably the TLOU2 gameplay reveal in 2018. No wonder, really, because it was downgraded quite a bit by release, but man did that trailer just look staggeringly good at the time, and it sure seemed like it was real.

If we're talking of all similar events, then it's still the first Mario 64 showing, by a mile.
 
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