Expectations for E3 2016?

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Probably Half-Life ...
Wait was it again?

You know Valve can't count to three.

Half-Life might as well be a dead series. Its just stupid how fans obsess over it, in my view. If it ever got made- I doubt it would be good at this point.

Valve is too busy making all the money from Steam junk to care about making games anymore. People need to move on already.

I expect it to be a pointless game industry circle-jerk like it is every year. I expect game "journalists" to care way too much about it, and gamers to care way, way too much about it.

The rest of us can sit back and laugh about it.

From the Sony press conference, I thought Horizon Zero Dawn looked really good, but I was expecting that. Detroit looked like it might be good, but I would probably want to play Until Dawn first given it's a similar type of game I have yet to play, and reviewed very well. Resident Evil 7 coming to VR has my tepid interest, and honestly only because it's a big budget product available in VR. Hopefully they can make the franchise fresh again, because there's not much about the trailer that looked particularly compelling. It looked like a fairly bland indie horror game which is what I thought it was until the title card showed up.

Other than that nothing else really interested me. There were a lot of things that looked like experiments more than games for VR, including some that made me scratch my head - FFV with gamepad controls? And then I was a little bit excited when Kojima took the stage, but it was for yet another obtuse trailer that explained nothing. Last Guardian's showing was nothing but perfunctory. And then it all ended with an incredibly generic looking zombie shooter - a very weird way to end things.

Well I liked what I saw until now, but got nothing that blowed my mind. I truly hope nintendo saves the event and leave me in a insane hype mode today.
Sony conference was "ok". I liked how the new God of War is looking like now, gameplay wise. If they make combat more deep than it was on the last games it might be a big improvement. Nobody wants to spam square, square, triangle and kill everything as in the previous games.
I Was truly surprised by how the new Resident Evil was looking like. Survival horror is finally back to the series?
Horizon is also nice, with the problem being the fact that Open World games like that usually end up being way too easy. If they create a game that will not have me fighting stupid AI with overpowered weapons where the only challenge is to find that weak spot to kill them I might end up enjoying it.
And we finally have a date for The Last Guardian! I hope it delivers the adventure it promised, specially after so many years waiting for it.

Now it's time for Nintendo to come in and show enough of the new Legend of Zelda to make want to sleep and only wake up again at the release day.

Yeah, pretty much.

So far, this aspect goes quite well. Pretty much as predicted.

I'm looking forward to Dead Rising 4. Frank West is back. I've been wondering what he's been up to since 3.
Also looking forward to South Park: The Fractured But Whole.

Also, God of War looked interesting. I've never liked the franchise, it always looked really one note featuring button mashing combo based combat, with lots of over the top gory violence and sex. This new one looked a lot more... subtle, with more thoughtful combat. Looks a lot like Dark Souls now, while still retaining occasional excesses from the GoW franchise.