Was at a party hanging out with friends and one of them is a tourist so naturally he likes E33 and wanted to see how many awards it was going to win, so he had the event on, occasionally we'd tune in with him and we came out with the game 'spot the gay' where we'd speculate if whoever comes on stage is from the LGHDTV community or not through their looks. The numbers were disproportionate. It got out of hand when the whole E33 devs got onto stage at the end.
I'm personally most interested in the not-Yakuza game and the new game from Frictional. Megaman had a grand reveal but I still need to catch up on the series to get any sort of excitement yet. The soundtrack cue from Megaman 2 was cool though.
When reading about the bizarre final game reveal, I've realized that publishers actually pay Geoff millions to get their games features (never thought about it before), and it gets Kore expensive the longer the trailer goes, so this got me thinking, its probably one of the reasons why we get so many of these worthless short CG trailers instead of real gameplay segments, most companies only want to shill out 1-2 minutes of ads on this event and I guess that's not enough for a proper gameplay showcase.
Of course this isn't to say that's the only reason this happens but it could be one in a list of them and I just found it interesting. The independent events like the 3 first party "Direct" mostly show actual gameplay from what I remember, so this further proves the theory above. In short: Geoff is to blame.