At the end of what feels like an unending day of E3 pre-show press conferences, Sony showed off ninety jam-packed minutes of its wares to an audience that seemed somewhat more vocal than those who attended the day’s previous press conferences—maybe it was the alcohol.

Sony kicked things off with a gameplay video of The Last Guardian, which creator Shuhei Yoshida was particularly excited to introduce; this segued directly into yet another post-apocalyptic adventure called Horizon: Zero Dawn (which Ars culture writer Sam Machkovech judged to be “HELLA BALLER” in all caps).

The mad skipping through genres continued, as we then got a cinematic trailer for a new Hitman title—with a PS4-exclusive beta and PS4-exclusive assassination missions—followed by Street Fighter 5, which is a PS4 exclusive. In fact, “PS4 exclusive” was a running theme in this event.

Space exploration/shooter No Man’s Sky was up next—another PS4 exclusive, though it will eventually be available on other systems. Creator Sean Murray played the game for several minutes, showing off the depth and breadth of the galaxy, before warping to a new and unexplored planet, landing, and shooting up the native flora and fauna (because war… war never changes). We’re getting our own look at No Man’s Sky tomorrow, so we’ll see more of the game then.

Next came an odd title by Media Molecule called Dreams, which was part animation studio, part nightmare factory. The game appeared to allow players to create “dreams,” which were linked together in a “dreamiverse,” implying that players could see and alter each others’ dreams as well as create their own.

We got a very fast, very muddled look at Firewatch (“an intense mystery set in the Wyoming wilderness”), and then we spent a significant amount of time listening to Sony’s Adam Boyes tell us about the next Destiny add-on, called The Taken King. It arrives on September 15, and, as with most of the other games presented here, there’s PS4-exclusive content.

Following The Taken King was Assassin’s Creed 497: Killing Some Dudes. Ha ha, that’s an E3 joke! But there really was another Assassin’s Creed, this time titled Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate. Narrated by what Ars UK hardware/game editor Mark Walton called “the worst British accent I have ever heard,” the game is set in London, and players can be a guy who kills people or a girl who kills people. I’m pretty sure you wear a hood, too. Oh, and there are PS4 exclusive missions.

Next up were two Final Fantasy announcements. The first was for World of Final Fantasy, which featured short super-chibi characters that appear to have been designed for the express purpose of selling figurines. After that, the scene shifted, and, through a series of slow burns and pans and moody narration, we were shown a familiar city and a familiar spiky blond hero with an absurdly oversized sword. Final Fantasy VII is getting a remake—something that made the audience actually jump to its feet and cheer. Both World of Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy VII are PS4 exclusives.

Of course, that was nothing compared to the insanity that followed: none other than Yu Suzuki himself came out on stage and told the audience he was soliciting money for his Kickstarter to create a third Shenmue game.

The audience exploded. There were actual tears. Kickstarter's website gave up and started throwing Varnish cache errors instead of serving pages. It’s been about 90 minutes and the Shenmue III campaign is already at about 50 percent of its $2 million goal. (They didn’t say it, but we’re pretty sure the game will be a PS4 exclusive.)

After the introspective interlude provided by the Shenmue footage, we were then shown the corpse of The Joker burning in a crematorium, followed by some violent shooting and choking and stabbing footage from Batman: Arkham Knight (with PS4-exclusive missions).

A brief Project Morpheus VR update followed, and then the audience got to look at the latest Call of Duty game, which was really loud and had a lot of guys running around yelling and shooting. Also, PS4 owners now get map packs first—we’re not sure if this is a matter of Microsoft not being willing to pay enough, or Sony being willing to pay more.

There were a pair of Star Wars announcements—a Disney Infinity kids-styled game and some gameplay footage from Star Wars Battlefront—and then the presentation closed with a look at Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. We actually got to look at some of it twice, because the presentation froze and had to be restarted—but, hey, at least we got confirmation that it was running live! The demo footage showed Nathan Drake doing the things that he does best—cracking wise, shooting, driving, shooting, cracking wise, shooting, driving, shooting, shooting, cracking wise, and shooting. No release date was announced, though.

The presentation ended after that, and with it, our first day of E3 2015 came to a close. We’re all exhausted over here, but we’ll be up bright and early to bring you gameplay impressions and interviews from the show floor when E3 actually starts tomorrow.