I was really just looking to put my ideas down and have some people tell me some things I haven't noticed or bounce some ideas around.
So from the trailers and Kojima's statements:
We know some creatures have inhabited the planet now. We see them moving around via handprints, we see them floating in the sky, we see them killing that dude in the 3rd trailer, and we see them take Norman under in the newest one.
Norman Reedus' character is Sam Porter Bridges (and from here on I will refer to Norman as Sam), "the man who delivers". In the last two trailers, his suit has said Porter down the side. This has a double meaning as I see it. His middle name is Porter, and he is a transporter. The E3 gameplay shows him traversing several terrains while carrying boxes or bodies on his back. This raises several questions for me though. How many people are still alive, who hires him, what is his compensation, is he carrying things to his own base like a scavenger, etc. Lea, who he speaks with in the newest trailer, appears to be a transporter of some kind as well. Her suit says "Fragile Express" and she asks if he would like to work with her. So she must run her own company or something.
His whole convo with Lea is pretty interesting but I don't understand it all. She says some things I honestly just can't make out at first. It sounds like:
Lea - "...the man who delivers. Tears. (???) So, you have tools like me? What's your level?"
Sam - "I've got the extension factor but I think you've got me beat."
Lea - "You can see them right?"
Sam - "No but I can sense them."
I really don't know what to make of this conversation at all, but it seems like whatever they are talking about, they help you to detect the creatures.
Revealed by the newest trailer, if Sam is eaten by one of the creatures, it causes something I couldn't make out the word they used, but it means that he'll come back to life but it will leave a huge crater where he died. In the 3rd trailer, Sam woke up in a crater. Just before this, Sam is in an underwater scene passed out/dead. I believe Kojima has said this underwater sequence is essentially the game over/restart after a death so it makes sense that he woke up in a crater now.
Rain is actually called Timefall and it speeds up time for anything it touches, which causes people to age rapidly and plant life to grow rapidly. In the newest trailer, Lea eats some bug that supposedly keeps the Timefall from effecting her for a day.
In trailer 2, we see planes, tanks, and soldiers but I'm not sure that any of these are actually good things for Sam. You can see black streaks coming from the planes, and the soldiers escorting the tanks all appeared skeleton like. Could possibly all be under the control of the creatures. The one difference is Mads Mikkelson. He appears human but is covered in black sludge. All of his soldiers are skeletons and are all connected to him through black ropes. So he controls them and he appears to be a villain.
The babies appear to be the power source for Sam's shoulder light, which helps to detect the creatures. So the babies act as a battery of sorts. Del Toro also plugs into his baby in trailer 2, but he has no shoulder light. It just caused the incubation pod thing the baby was in to light up. In trailer 3, when the 2nd man is about to be grabbed by the creatures, he throws down his baby and the shoulder light dies. Then Sam picks it up and his activates. I've seen speculation that when you die, the baby is a clone and Timefall will age it up for you to play as, but that doesn't seem like the best interpretation to me. How would Sam keep getting babies (he wouldn't resurrect by a bunch of clones right)? How would the Timefall stop aging the baby at exactly the right moment? How would Timefall work if the baby is stuck in the pod when you die? It seems too problematic to me.
In the newest trailer, the picture that Sam finds looks like it has him, Lindsey Wagner, and an unknown third person (sister? daughter?). But Lindsey looks older in the picture than she does at the end of the trailer in her reveal. So is she an apparition or has she somehow found a way to get younger, while Timefall makes everyone/everything else older.
Kojima and Wagner did an interview post E3, where she said that she wouldn't have done this game if it was just another violent gun game, and Kojima said that you could brute force your way through, guns are available, but that is not the way he intended for the game to be played. We have only actually seen two guns so far (not counting skeleton soldiers). In a trailer, a man had a pistol and killed a man being taken by creatures. In the gameplay at E3, Sam appeared to have a gun when standing up on a cliff. It is shown at about 3:08 in the trailer, right after the toenail scene. He also appears to be looking down at a settlement or possibly his own settlement.
And that is basically everything I've noticed or think that I've put together. Anyone noticed anything else or think I've interpreted something the wrong way?
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