Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - 2022 Video Game Predictions - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: January 26, 2022

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What's up and welcome back to the kind of funny games cast. Of course, I'm Tim Gettys and I'm joined by the new face of video games. Blessing at a yo-ye, Jr. Tim, I have in my hand some Ulawn tea, which I'm enjoying. And earlier today, I had some Ulan tea. I was holding it. I was looking outside the window. And I noticed that the leaves on the trees were a certain color to indicate that it is a certain season that we're entering.

You know what that season is, Tim? Spring? It's review season. It's a review season. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, you motherfucker. The ever clever.

The ever clever. Plus, you got a junior with tea boys today though. Oh, tea boys. Look at that. Look at that. What are you fighting? You fighting the sickness? No, it's like tea.

It's like, wait. It's cold. Really? Yeah. I've never heard that about you, Tim. Yeah, exactly. We've had this exact conversation. You got all the kind of funny games cast, but it is what it is.

You know what I mean? See, guys, here's the deal. It's been really cold in San Francisco, but then every once a while, it's been really hot, in San Francisco. So I ought to be prepared for everything. So that's why you do a wield. I got my ice cold, LeCroy, and then I got my hot ass tea.

I'm prepared for anything. I triple wheeled. You're crazy. Oh, shit. You got a triple wheel. What are you using to hold the third thing, Andy? Well, it's just a can't. So it's always, you got an energy drink on hand. I have a Coke zero sitting over there on that shelf and then water.

How old is that Coke zero? Oh, you know, I'll alternate. I'll alternate. Okay. I like how Andy's like looking as if he's talking to someone in the room right now. He's looking at what's growing on top of the Coke Zero right now. Of course, that is the nitro rifle, Andy Cortez. Hello, great afternoon, everybody.

I have something to announce today. Really, really, really big stuff, everybody. Yesterday I was on PS I Love You, and we talked about flame and hot snacks. We did, yeah. And for the first time, blessing, I've ever seen. and purchased Flamin Hot Puffcorn. Oh. It's unfortunate that it's Flamin Hot,

but I am happy that you finally saw puffcorn on the wild. Wait, what do you mean? There's other popcorn? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, there's butter and there's cheese, and those are by far the way better flavors than Flamming Hot. Yeah, the Flamin Hot puffcorn, I don't think is where it hits.

But it's weird, though, because I think that is the most available. I see that at my local 7-Eleven all the time. So, I mean, this could be one of those. things where it's like back of the day when I was a kid, until I noticed that my friend's parents had a white minivan. I saw these white minivans all over the place, right?

It's one of those things that like, they were probably there the whole time that you just weren't in your consciousness. I swear this is the first time I've seen a bag of puff popcorn in my life. Like, no joke in my life. And I bought the bag yesterday and I housed that shit in about, I don't know, two, three minutes. I was just like inhaling them. So fucking good.

I will say, I will say that was so aggressive. Sorry, I like legitimately, it might be my favorite snack of all time. Like puff corn specifically. It's ridiculous. I will say I liked them, bless. They were really, really soft, though. Like, I wish I need a tiny bit more of her crunch.

I felt like I was crunching on a flaming hot like air. Yep, just a, exactly. A pocket of air. Wait until you have the butterfly. I'm going to go on Amazon. I'm going to send you some butter flavor. Barrett, message me your address. I don't know if I want that.

I'm going to send you some butter flavor. It's going to meld you not me. He's going to melt me. Except the gift. He's trying to be your friend. Okay. And rounding out the crew, we have the big daddy himself, one of the coolest dudes in video games, Greg Miller. Hello.

I can't be the only person right where you look at your credit card bill and you're like, no fucking way. Like, you're kidding me? How do these numbers add up to that giant fucking number? Yeah. That's just insane. The popcorn. I made a purchase, Greg. I made a purchase a couple days ago that I'm really, really excited about.

Sure. Can you introduce me? Ladies and gentlemen, he's Forbes 30 under 30, AKA the second best baby blues in San Francisco. You can stop right there. It's been years, but I finally did it. You dyed your eyes green. No, you see the circles.

The circles in his pupil. Well, that's performance enhancement drugs. That doesn't count. That doesn't change your status. You know, this is what your mom decreed that Cool Greg has better blue eyes than you. So it's sorry. Well, it doesn't, it doesn't change the status of it.

They're still just what they are. But I was excited because I was, I was thinking all day. I was like, oh, we're going to do the show. I'm going to debut the ringlight on the shows. And Greg's going to do the intro, but I'm like, I host this show. So I'm not going to get my intro. It's a whole thing.

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I'm going to be honest with you. This is a very special episode of the Kind of Funny Gamescast. One of my favorite episodes of the year that we do, which is our predictions. We look forward to the year ahead. Each one of us bringing five predictions to the table. We go around the table, the boxes, whatever you want to call them these days,

this table, all that stuff, one by one. and if somebody uses a prediction, you cannot use that prediction anymore. That prediction is then the owner, the first person says it owns it. That's it. Then at the end of next year, we'll look at the results

and see how right or wrong some of us are. Some of us are more rights than others. Isn't that right blessing? I mean, I don't know where you asked me. I won. I didn't win last year. Just throw salt in the wound. Thank you, Tim.

Greg Miller, you know, your hand raised. Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't want to get too far into, you know, this thing before I just tie a bow on this. I want you to know that I was so certain the credit card was trying to fuck me over. I copied everything and put it into a spreadsheet and then some, and this total is accurate.

And you might say, where are all, Andy, you want to know where all the money's going? Only fans. I don't know. This fucking kid. Are you aware? This kid was going to cost this much, Jen? No, I'm Canadian, no. Yeah, American healthcare did not do us well on this one. I'll tell you what.

Gee, woof. I thought it was going to be the Patreon, uh, executive producer. Yeah. done the last couple months. No, again, I used the, I used kind of funny his own card for that. So, like, the kind of funny money was just cycling, but like, is that not 10% or whatever? Yeah.

Yeah. No, no, no. That's how that works. Worst investment we could possibly make. Oh, my God. Did you not enjoy it the first time it happened? Sure. Then it's seven times not as funny.

Great. Greg Miller's back and better than ever is now a thing I am forced to read every show that I do. Oh, your life's still fucking rough. How am I supposed to be out here buying ring lights? Greg Miller. I don't know. I didn't stop you. You bought the ring light.

stop me. Definitely didn't stop me. Can't stop me. We have human being and bend the bill of your cap. Right, Andy? Come on. Put some bend in it. Why you do that? Ben the brim of your cap and go take some ground balls in second base. Yeah, exactly. Turn it around, get out there, throw the football around in the parking lot. Have some fun. What is this? You can't mint off card. You're the Tim action figure over here. Nobody wants it. Ben the brim. Luis Agriar, the chat says, isn't that called money laundering? And it is the worst money laundering of all. all time. Because we're losing money at the end of day with this. I hate this company. Legally like through drugs or anything. It's just like our own money that, yeah, it's bad.

It's a bad system. It's not bad. It was a funny bit that inspired other people. There's so many people like at our home right now, like, oh my gosh, when it's time for me to propose, I can put it as a Patreon producer. When I want to, when I want to, you know, advertise my business, 1,800 junk bonds. I can put it as a Patreon producer, all right? When they want to say, when they don't agree with how Blessing reviews their favorite video game they can ride in, be like, Blessing was wrong. You know, this game is great. Pat, don't do it.

We are eight minutes and 40 seconds into this episode, and nothing of substance has actually been said yet, but I assure you that the rest of the episode will go a very different way. And on top of that, this show's awesome and it's about to be awesome for the next couple months. I can guarantee it because we have so many video games, whether it's Pokemon Legends, Dying Light 2, Horizon Seafood.

We have so many games coming out that I'm sure we're going to be doing a ton of reviews for, a ton of impressions for, all the fun stuff for maybe some spoiler cast so please if you're not subscribe to youtube dot com slash kind of funny games or the podcast all the stuff i already said but this show's going to be a lot of fun the next couple we shows all of our shows but this one in particular i feel it everywhere let's get to the predictions all right 2022 i want to start with blessing the man who lost last year's predictions got it i lost because of you gregg i know because i'm so

good because i know because i listened to podcasts beyond over the years and uh other kind of funny podcasts over the years now listen to you do predictions every single year and you would do the thing where you would detail it up you know you would put in so many like different asterics and you would go for the the like the decimal points sure and i realized last last year that was a bad strategy i call that in the industry we call it sprinkling in the sex that's what we call that we've never called it that that was never sprinkle in the sex right there because the the basic plot points kind of whatever, sure. Hey, Madden is going to come out this year.

Sprinkle in the sex, they're bringing back, you know, terrible athlete who died. Yeah, something like that. See, the problem is, though, your analogy right there, blessing is that I can watch Dale Earnhardt Jr. Whip around that track, all right? But I try to do it in the mini Cooper. I roll it because I'm watching a professional, someone with millions of years of experience at this, all right?

But you try to step up and pick up the infinity gauntlet and this happened to you. You burned out. you lost. I'm sorry. You know what I mean? I'm going to go for some sure bets. Without being said. I think that's going to be my strategy this year. I'm not going to get too cute with it. I'm going to go straightforward and go for what I know is going to happen because I pay attention to the industry and I'm not out here trying to like nickel and dime people the way

Greg Miller does with his predictions. Project Spartacus will be announced and released as just PlayStation Plus revamped. It'll be three tiers, tier one being what PS Plus is now. Tier two, getting a library of PS4 games. Sprinkling in the sex right here. Sprinkling in the sex, but it's sex that I know is guaranteed. Tier three being a library of backwards and paddable games. I guess this is where I'm going to sprinkle in a little bit of sex, Andy. Reception will be lukewarm.

The service will be fine for what it is, but the conversation around it will be about how it's not as Gita's game pass. I think that's a bullshit prediction. You need to have some more fun there. There needs to be something more spicy. details in that. Yeah. Well, then here's the thing.

I thought you said you weren't going to do that. With that, no, with that amount of details, I think you need to do a double or nothing bet on this. And you either get points or you don't get points. It's either all the things or you're not. You make the call on that.

But I'm just saying. Every game pass subscriber, free Domino's. So wait, now you're saying double or nothing is what you just offered. Not double or nothing. You either get the points or you don't. Okay.

My apologies. Okay. I'm confident enough in this prediction that I'd say, yeah, either it's 100% true or I get nothing. Okay. Say it again. Say it again. Okay. So from the top, right?

Project Spartacus will be announced and released just as PlayStation Plus. It's going to be called PlayStation Plus. It's just going to be revamped. There's going to be three tiers. There's Tier 1 being what PS Plus is now. Tier 2 getting a library of PS4 games and Tier 3 being a library of backwards compatible games. The reception of it will be lukewarm. If people aren't going to be like, oh, this is terrible or whatever, people aren't going to be mad at it. But the conversation is going to be, uh, this is fine, but it's not what game passes. It's not getting me my PlayStation games day and date like I do on Game Pass, right? The library isn't as

expansive as that. I think that's going to be the conversation and it's going to be people, it's going to lead to by the end of this year, people being like, all right, yeah, it's fine. It is what it is. But it's not necessarily this big, grandiose thing that we wanted to be. So what's the difference between what you just said and kind of where we're at now? Like that tier two, isn't that just the instant game collection or whatever the hell they called it with a bunch of PS4 games? Yeah, I think they expand that, right? You're talking about PS Plus collection, which I think is, I think that's going to be part of it. I think this is kind of the evolution of that.

And this, of course, comes from the rumors and the reports of what Project Parthicus is, right? I think the tier two is going to be essentially game pass, but just the previous gen games, right? It is just going to be the persona, persona fives of the worlds. And, like, the, the games that PlayStation would essentially put on PS Plus for PS4 games, but included in the service. And then Tier 3 is going to be PS1, PS2, PS3. I don't want to get into detail about how that's going to be the case. I don't want to talk about streaming.

Yeah, I want to ask you of like, do we think they're confident in being able to finally download PS3 to PS5 hardware, right? And how do they do that? Not including it in my prediction. This is just me just speculating. Off the right. Off the rec. Yeah.

I think they make PS1, PS2, MPS3 games downloadable. I think if they don't, then that'll be a big disappointment. I think they're all down the mark's already batten right for backwards compatibility. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Use spoof clocks and whatever. That is thing is I think they emulate PS3 hardware via the PS5.

Like when they did like when you have to load up Wii mode on the Wii games. Yes. Something like that. I don't know if you'll have to boot up like a PS3 menu on the PS5. I feel like that's a step too far. But it will be essentially you're playing the PS3 but on your PS5. What that means though is that you're not going to get the benefits of PS5. you're not going to get quick loading and all these things.

Maybe you, but I don't think, I don't think they're going to emulate in that way. You're not, you're, you're going to get that. But I think that's how they solve the issue of the PS3 being such a weird thing to emulate. And I think that also makes it easy for them going back to PS2 and PS1 games of going, oh yeah, just emulate the hardware and go about it that way as opposed to re-releasing all these different games, having to figure out how to make these games, make sure that these games work with the SSD, with what the hardware is and doing the work that Xbox on their side have done, but have proven that it takes years and years and years to do that.

a way that is going to evolve into something that we can finally sit down and go, oh, this is awesome. Oh, this is reached full potential. I think that's a long journey for PlayStation. And I think for them, the easiest thing is to go, cool, just emulate it and get people a library. And we'll see how they, how they receive it. And we'll take it from there. Mark, certainly will personally install a self-process in everybody's PSI. Whoever requests it, though, it's by, you've got to like request it.

It's like the backbone controller attachment. Yeah, exactly. It's like trying to get one of them, uh, one of them analog pockets. Tim. How expensive is the library at launch? Oh man. It's not as not enough is the not as expensive as you want it to be. Not as expensive as you wanted to be but I do think it will be everything that's on PlayStation now already as far as PS3 games. I think those will be on there and if we're talking about PS3 games, the PS now library isn't bad. Like there's a good selection of PS3 games on that library. I think it'll be at least that if not a little bit

more. I don't expect a lot more than that but I think it'll it'll sit at least that. and PS1, they'll definitely have to expand more because there's not a great selection of PS2 games on there right now. There's not a selection of PS1 games at all on PS now. So, PS2 games, I think you do have to get in there and add more games. The question is, what games and what deals are worth making? And that gets difficult because PS2 is such a weird and diverse console, if you're talking about the catalog and the amount of, the amount of games that gave life to that console, that deal-wise would probably be difficult. You know, it's probably not easy to get the Tony Hawk games on there. It's not easy to get the

the EA Sports big games on there. It's not easy to get X, burn out, or X, Y, and Z game on there, right? So you kind of have to dig into that first party library, which on PS2, I wouldn't say, is as vibrant as the PS4, for example, where it is, this is why you're coming to the console. So, yeah, I think you expand that, but I do think at the end of the day, that might be a little disappointing people. And then for PS1, I think the PS1 library will look like what the PlayStation Classic looks like, the little PlayStation device that they released a few years ago.

I think it'll be comparable to that and maybe a few more games here and there. but I don't expect anything. I don't expect it to be like most of the libraries here. I expected to be a good selection of the library. My last question, does it launch with Persona 3 FES? And will you stream it if it does? I think it'll launch with Persona 1 and 2, right? Because those are part of the original PlayStation Classic?

Yes, I think. Persona Revelations or whatever. I think those will be a part of it. Persona 3 gets interesting. If they're doing PS2 games, you know. I'm you know what I'll say yeah I'll say yeah I think I think it'll be there you think about PSP games yes yes yeah we'll have PSP games Vita TV well I'm gonna say yeah since we're gonna be go forth since we're in the you this thing here my dog Nick

96 in the chat says end of day I just love for trophies on my PS1 PS2 games you need to get that blessing no it's a lot of work okay good I was gonna say like half the say stuff you're saying is bullshit but like if you're gonna say trophies on PS1 and PS2 I get the fuck out of here, not a chance. Do you think that there'll be like enhancement stuff, like resolution and frame rate and all that? No, I don't think so. And I think people will be upset by that.

Fair, fair. Greg Miller. I want to get to your prediction. You just blacked me some breaking news. Do you want to tell the people? No, no, I was just letting you know that you're allowed to say that the dying, like two reviews next week. We said that on PSI Love You already, of course.

Yeah, we're playing Nighting Light 2 and that the review will be next week's games cast. So I know. Breaking news to me. Breaking news to you. Well, thanks for listening to PS, I love you. You're welcome. You're welcome.

Like, don't remember, I don't listen to every interview. A lot of these movies you guys watch are garbage, but come on. Beaz I love you. And this is a great. Here we go. Since you're unsullied soil, all right. If I told you I fucked a cup of water, Tim, what would you think? If you fucked a cup of water?

That's correct, Tim. Yeah. Because I'm pushing pee, but I want to know what you think it means. Oh, God. I don't know if you're keeping a pee, Greg. This is super pee right now. I don't even, I don't know. Well, if you listen to PS I love you, you can find out.

Andy didn't know either. And I didn't know either. So don't worry. Was I wrong? And honestly, nobody knew until they Googled it. So I was wrong. I think I knew. I think I had told you what it meant.

I forget what you said, Andy. Andy didn't know. A cup of water. I said that you like, he said I drank the water really fast. I said you fucked it up super fast. Like, no. See, no, that's incorrect.

That's not what. That's not a couple of water. Okay. Okay. I just, I just, I don't, I don't, I'm not even let. you'll listeners know what just happened. Y'all, you know, you want down this rabbit hole, I'm sure, but I just googled fucking a cup of water.

I cross is so wet. And there's the top Reddit post. It just says, not going to lie, fucking a glass of water is a weird yet oddly pleasurable experience. It feels like you're almost deep in nothing. Classic Redditor. Thanks for bringing that to this show. I told you guys were getting a good one. What's your first prediction?

I don't know what you want me to do. I'm just bringing you the things you missed on PSL of UXOXO, episode 100. My first prediction. All right. where do I want to start here? Right now I have a list of 12 and then I have a bunch down here like weren't all the way filled out.

So I have plenty to go. But the one I'm feeling like getting spicy with already, all right? Throw in some shade. All right, right off the bat. Why the fuck not? I think by the end of the year,

either. I'm gonna quit? No. Well, is this a predict is the predictions episode where we usually lose somebody after you all right? That is it, right? Shit, fuck. Andy,

Andy, no quit. Tim, might be your time. Might be your time to sunset. So it's getting low. By the end of the year, I think either Saints Row hasn't released or sits at a 77 or below on Metacritic. Oh, okay.

I think I'm excited about it's 77. Yeah. I was expecting you to say 65 or something. You watch it or play it. I forget. Some people gave it high fives and low sixes and some people gave it like low eights and high eights. that's what a 77 means to me it's one of those

you know obviously delayed out of last year even when they said they showed not even this remember they showed the teaser trailer and we're trying to say it was going to be this year blessing it's seen it of course behind closed doors but I just I want to believe I want to believe Saints throws back

but I also believe it's 2022 and I watched this gameplay footage again and it just looks so generic it's so empty and it's just I don't see it being the time and I it's one of those it got delayed and I'm sure it got delayed obviously to you know for polish and everything else but I also think it got delayed because they looked at it. Like, oh, it's not ready for prime time.

But I don't know, you know, the core that looks like this. That's what you're building on if you can make it ready for prime time and make it the real return to Saints Row. Yeah. That's interesting. I feel like it'll hit this year. But I think that then it goes into the ladder of your prediction where I don't expect this to be hitting eights much. what do you think I think that the score that you add it on is going to ultimately fuck you because I do think that the game

will turn out to be pretty good I don't think it's going to be this big disappointment I think they've had enough time to learn after the cyberpunks of the world and how all that shit lets people down I think people hop into this game

and go oh shit the cops actually like follow you if you do something bad this is a step above what cyberpunk game was because we haven't really had much But I mean, just look at like in Barrett on the Ural back. Just look at it and don't look at the actual gameplay of your character. Look at the environment and what's happening there, how empty everything is. Like it just doesn't look, this looks like.

Promise over Delo. I guess. Yeah, and again, like, you know, this is a game in progress, obviously. But if this is the vertical slice you put out as your like gameplay for it to get you excited for it, I don't know, man. Was was Saints Roel game that always had this sort of sprawling metropolis with a shit ton of civilians? or was it just always kind of more crackdown based where, you know, you're kind of, it's you and the bad guys on the map. And sure, there might be some civilians, but they're not going for this ultra, ultra realistic cityscape.

It's kind of, yeah. I mean, I played Saints Row 3 and 4. And it is kind of that, right? Like, it's a Grand Theft Auto clone. And so I think they go for trying to have somewhat of a living, breathing world. But it is not Grant of Otto in terms of what they actually attain, right? Like the streets aren't like filled with civilians. It isn't like a super like you have the open world city that you can that you can explore.

But I would probably compare it more so to a crackdown. You know I'm not played crackdown so I don't like I assume the streets aren't empty and crackdown in terms of like people being being in there. It's just like I feel like when you're walking around a city in GTA, the the civilians are very present. And you're very aware of their existence where I feel like in crackdown, they're as present as. a fucking light pole. It's that. They don't really feel like they are, like, this living, breathing person, you know? I mean, it's definitely that.

Like, Saintsville is definitely the kind of open world that you come to to fuck around and do all the destruction. And you're not really, like, living in there. You're not really, like, you're not looking for that, I don't know, like, big RPG-driven, like, experience where you are. Oh, yeah, like, this character, they're like, there's a blip on my map that is, like, showing a random event, like in GTA-5. Let me go check that out and see what that is.

Saintsville is very much cool. I'm fucking around. I'm blowing shit up. I am hopping into cars from like the front of the car, like drop kicking people out of the car so I can hop in there in a second and then zoom off. I am flying or I am driving flying cars. It's that kind of game. And it's a game that I think it's,

Greg's prediction is interesting because I think the 77 number puts it in a place where I don't know if even Saints Row fans would disagree in terms of metacritic. what Saints Real is. I think Saints Real sits in that middle spot of, we love these games because they're ridiculous and different and fun, but we don't necessarily look for the top of AAA polish from these games. Right? Saints Row 4 is a game that as a superhero, I'll fly around and just fuck shit up

and had a blast doing that. There's sandboxes, right? And I know that gets done around and is used for a lot of different things. But Stansfro always was the sandbox game because you just jumped in, like you're saying, do fuck around, pick up a dildo bat, getting the cat thing, superhero, whatever. I think that in 2020, that's a tall order. There is a lot of games that are letting you be a sandbox, letting you be a sandbox, letting you exist in sandbox worlds that do something

different. So as you look back, I think, you know, I'm looking at Metacritic now. And granted, I'm looking, you know, one version of them, right? But Saints Row 4 on PC, 2013, 86, Saints Row the third, 2011, 84. When they put out reelected in 2015 on PS4, that got a 75. 2020, Saints Row reelected on Switch gets a 71, Saints Row 2 on PC in 2009, 72. Like, you saw them go up as time went on, but I feel like that has passed. And so many other games have done that sandbox world so well. Yeah, I was going to say, like, I think the, I think the, not necessarily a gimmick, but I think having an interactive open world was still such a big wow sort of selling point at that time in game development, that if you had it,

it was going to give you a lot of brownie points. And I do think that nowadays, we're kind of used to that. We've seen it done really well before. So what else does it got going for it? Is St. Roe going to deliver on a story? Is it going to have great dialogue and awesome characters that you meet? From that trailer, I don't think so.

I feel like Far Cryed kind of does that already, like in some ways that where it's, you know, this is an eight out of 10, seven out of 10 game, you know. And I think, you know, the comparison to crackdown, maybe not, you know, street to get to get down to the minute details of like the street and the citizens there. I think it's a similar story in terms of what it was when it dropped and got popular and then the amount of time that passed before you got there, right? You look at crackdown 2007 on MetaCrick and 83, crackdown to 2010-70, crackdown 3, 2019, 60. And it's that thing of just like gaming tastes and what's popular, you know, there's obviously gameplay is king, that kind of thing, sure,

but like types of games exist for a reason or are for a reason. And I think that if GTA was still just being what it was in GTA 2 it wouldn't be there right like GTA evolves and changes and you know really iterates on itself Whereas I think Saints Roe is trying to get back to center of what is the Saints Roe game? Oh, it's the sandbox we get to do stuff I do see I'll go for it. Well, I was going to say I do see this this Saints rule being that for them because they're also coming off of the ages of mayhem which came out in 2017 and if you're talking about Metacritics, right? I'm on Metacritic for PS4. Let me guess. Yes.

Four out of ten four out of ten it's sitting out of sixty two on Metacritic Oh shit, that's way higher than that oh yeah, and he's gonna play it tonight on stream But it is that it is that game that came out from volition that was different from Saints Row and Some people tried it and it came out and it totally got passed by because one it did come out in 2017 Which was which was an ultra-stacked year for video games But then also it just wasn't what people wanted from volition in terms of hey we're making a game that Is this you're switching between these superhero like characters? but all or not superhero, but like, like hero characters, like Overwatch, that type of hero.

We're switching between these characters, but it's not multiplayer, it is single player. You have a third person action like in Saints Row, but it's not Saints Row, right? Like it existed in this weird space that kind of sidetracked them. And I think a game like that makes them look at themselves and go, how do we come back from this? How do we make, how do we get back to form and how do we go back to our roots and make a game that gets people in? And I think them rebooting Saints Row is them trying to do that. I think if they were making Saints Row 5 and it was the same characters and it was them following up on the superhero story and figuring out some other gimmick to try and make it work, I would probably be in the same place where I'm like, I don't know if this is going to work because Saints Row 4 alone was already kind of controversial because it started off as DLC turned into a full game and like you just added superpowers onto this character and you're pretty much selling what is essentially a big expansion pack, right? Like that's kind of how people talked about it back then.

even though now looking back, I still really do like Saints Row 4. Saints Row, the reboot, strikes me as them stripping back. And I think part of this is from me watching the behind closed door preview, is them kind of stripping back and going, what makes these games great? And I do think a big part of it is personality and humor and all these things. And that's where I'm with you, Greg, that they're not really displaying that stuff super well in the trailers and the marketing so far.

Like I'm not blaffed while watching these trailers so far. I get the sense that they're trying to go for some of the, tone that they had before, but with how the world has changed within the last decade, right? Comedy evolves. The things that we find humorous, right, evolves. And, like, is Saints Row humor from 2013 going to work in 2022? I don't think so. And so it seems like they're going to have to figure that out, which I think they are. And I think that's why you have the shift in, like, the main characters being these millennials that are starting a startup business, essentially, that is, like, this big crime thing that they're calling St.row. I think that's where that comes from. And then I

look at the open world and I think that they talked about as well in that preview was talking about the terrain and the different areas and how like, okay, yeah, you have the city area, you have the desert area, you have different types of vehicles, you have the destruction, you have all these things. I, right now, for where I'm out with it, I think I'm more on the side of the marketing is bad, more so than I think it is an indication on what the game is going to end up being. Just because, like, the things they say about it give me belief and also the fact that like we've not gotten many open world city games recently we're getting a lot of open world games especially this year between dying light breath of wild and all these things which i'm sure is

going to come into the conversation into a review score horizon right that's for sure going to come into into the conversation for review score for uh saints row but i think the fact that like when i think of big open world games that take place in the city the last one i can think of maybe maybe there's more that i'm just i'm not i'm just forgetting but the last one i think of is cyberpunk and then like i do go to things like gta watch stocks too watch stocks too watch stocks too much Watchdog's Legion. Yeah, that's a good one to throw out there too. Yeah, Watchdog's Legion came out last year or two years ago at this point. Those are few and far enough between and it's been so long since the Saints Row game that I do foresee this game coming out and feeling like a breath of fresh hair, at least for Saints Role fans and for fans of those types of games. Maybe for the wide player base, not as much because you got you have all these other games come to. But yeah, that's kind of where I'm at with it. And that's why I think it's interesting to bring up Watchdogs Legion, which was a breath of fresh air for that. that game, let alone that genre, right, and put it out there. And it was that, hey, we're going to give you all this cookie gameplay and different things and

characters. And it just didn't hit work. Like, he just didn't work for people in terms of, you know, mega success. I don't remember what actually came down for reviews. It's on average. Wash dogs. Yeah. 66, 72 here for PS5 and PC respectively.

76 on Xbox. How that game come out almost two years ago? Jesus. Dude, it's been 2020 for a year and 270. But, yeah, 2020. So moving on. to the next prediction. Andy, do you want to go? Do you want me to go? I can go. Go for it. I think one thing to kind of keep in the back of your mind, Greg Miller, keep in the back of your

mind. Blessing and I have talked about this on Games Daily before, but I think the more and as time goes on, the Nvidia G-Force now leaks seem to be more and more correct. And the big omission there for me has always been that there is not a blood-borne rematch. And it's something that we, you know, come to PC, BloodBorn, it's easy. Just port it to PC. But, you know, Lance McDonald on Twitter has done it before and put it on cracked PS4s or whatever. So I think the reason, I think that not being on that list is really telling. And I think that makes it even more clear that BluPoint is working on the Bloodbourne

Remaster. I don't care what they've been talking about. I don't care what the, what's Sony saying about this is original content or whatever. whatever. I think they're going to re-envision it the same way they did Demon Souls. Or else it would have been on that list, along with Ghost of Susha coming to PC, along with Ratchet and Klank coming to PC, along with God of War and all the other stuff happening. So I think BluPoint is remaking Bloodborn and we will see it. We'll see a preview of it this year. I don't think it's coming out this year, though. I hope.

It's going to happen. I think some of the details you said might be a little bit iffy in terms of like the remake, remaster, blah, blah, blah, all that stuff. But BluPoint being involved is also one of the things that I'm not convinced about. Them making new content, them doing that stuff. That makes sense to me. But at this point, I don't see them being the ones putting Blue Blood Board on PC in any way or whatever that is. Like I think that there's more of a chance of us getting Bloodborne remastered that is just the frame rates and all that stuff. But I don't know about the Blueprint involved.

I wasn't saying necessarily even PC. I was just thinking they do this. demon souls treatment with bloodborne where it comes to PS5 not even that it comes to PC necessarily like the the idea that it's not the idea of the bloodborne is nowhere to be seen on that list along with all those PC remasters when it likely should have been because it's one of the most popular most sought after games right now to come to PC after such a long time of it being out the I do think it's just going to be like a PS5 full remake um full assets like same engine most likely or you know whatever blue points doing with their engine but um it will be a full

remake top to bottom would this be the first time we've ever gotten a remake of a game one generation later last of us isn't that happening i mean that we still don't know that that's happening that's the thing that's everyone's talking about but even remember that was a PSD that's two generations yeah yeah that is the one reason why i find it difficult to believe is that like i i i do think bloodborne feels so recent still, even though that was 2015. But even with that, I think there's enough diehard Blood-Born fans that if you're to remake that game this soon, I think it would get nitpicked to death in terms of, oh, the original Blood-Born, the lighting looked like this, which signified the moon-changing or

whatever, and then you look at blue points and it's like, oh, you change this texture, which means that like this, the artistic integrity of Miyazaki is lost. I think it will have way more of that stuff than something like Demon Souls, which, you know, for as old as that game is now, right, which isn't that old, but old relatively to Bloodborn. Yeah. 2010 or whatever you. Yeah.

I remember seeing some of those takes, but they didn't drown out the conversation just because I think people were just happy to have that game playable in a new form. Bloodbourne is still very playable and it still looks great. Like I think that's the kind of game that you can get away with doing just a regular remaster of and adding in all the PS5 benefits. Like do a PS5 director's cut of Bloodbourne. I think that would sell as much as a Blue Point remake of Bloodborn, honestly. And I think you can get away with it that way and satisfy the fan base.

How does the fan base come down? You think if the rumor of BluPoint making Bloodborn 2 pans out. Does that get them around that? No. No. I think that's even worse because that's essentially BluPoint coming up with their own lore, making up their own story where... It's like giving Metal Gear to somebody else.

So much of the secret sauce is Miyazaki. Yeah, like a Middle Gear game without Kojima, what even is that? And I feel that whenever people ask me, like, Andy, when are you going to play Neo on stream? It's like, okay, like I know people love Neo 1 and 2. I know those are really, really good games, like mechanically. But so much of the experience is getting that Miyazaki touch. And I know that those games don't have Miyazaki. Whether it's still good or bad or not, I don't know.

I haven't played them, but that would not go down well whatsoever with the hardcore souls community. I'd still love it. I think it still be cool. But like the hardcore people who nitpicked demon souls to death would absolutely hate that, would hate to any added story content being thought of in a world that Miyazaki created. Yeah, it's going to be fascinating because I think so many things get kicked around for Blueprint, you know, what they should be working on what they are working on.

And then, yeah, even after they said, right, that they were working on something original. People are still like, well, a remake could be original. Well, a sequel could be original. Give me Shadow Colosses too. Oh, dude, I'd be so weird. Right. I was just thinking there have been remakes that are one generation later. Mario All-Stars.

That was NES or NES to S&S. There was Resident Evil, the GameCube remake. That was PlayStation. And then Twin Snakes, same thing. That was a long time ago. Yeah, that's the thing. In recent times, it's been more remaster. Or, yeah, remastering go for there.

I mean, I mean, that's what, I mean, like, the thing is, it's 20, a game in 2015 that still, they were learning the early sort of, like games in 2015 at the beginning of that generation seem like they almost even looked like two generations ago as to when they were made. So like, if I predict this thing will be coming out in 2023, let's say, that. I think eight years is a decent amount, a decent chunk of time to see some sort of update to that. Because if it was just getting a PC ported, I think it would have been on that leak. One thing I'll throw in there too is I know now we see BluPoint as being the studio that specializes in these big ground up remakes right between Shadow Colossus and Demon Souls. But once upon a time, they were doing remasters and they did do the Shadow Colossus, Eagle Collection and Uncharted and all that stuff. I could see them being like, hey, we just got down with Demon Souls. Let's take on a bit of a smaller project comparatively and just remaster Bloodbourne and not do the full remake treatment.

We'll do our own, like, don't call the director's cut. He's not the director. But, you know, let's take this in ourselves and polish it and have it be the same core game, but make it run as smoothly and make it look even hotter just in terms of like reducing up the textures here and there. We don't have to remake it, but like let's do work on it. But that's the thing. Even if they did work on it, in my opinion, it would have been on that leak. It would have been on all the other PC port leaks, just like God of War and Horizon and all that shit was or whatever. I forget it was on the list.

But yeah, I think if it was just getting that treatment, I think it would have been on that list. Yeah, it's an interesting point. So is your prediction that it will happen or that it won't happen? That it's getting a full remake. PS5. Our next project on PC. Not a PC thing, yeah. Our next project, we're working on original content right now.

We're working on original content right now. We can't talk about what it is, but that's the next step in the evolution for us. We'll see. Multiple projects at the same time. Yeah, totally. Our next project. And I don't get up out a day after. It's the normal, you know, every, you know, every so often on Games Daily when we look way too much into a quarter, tweeted, we're like, why are you overanalyzing this?

And yet it's because I've been doing it for 15 years and people will. bend and break definitions left and right to make it so it's like the words are picked for a reason original content so is it a remake with original things in it is it a sequel to with it's your original idea is it fucking metal gear like what is it who's it going to be what's it going to be we'll see i guess my first prediction tim i want to hear your first prediction right now in 22 igN will give three games a 10 out of 10 oh oh i like this prediction i like this a lot so far okay Yeah, because the thing with that I was looking into it, and that sounds wild to me. Like, like, holy shit, there's definitely never.

I wanted to, yeah, exactly. I was like, it's unlikely to me that there's been a year with three. So I thought three would have been breaking, breaking the mold. But it has actually happened in 2018 and in 2020. Yeah. And 2021 had two. So to clarify for this, I am only counting new games, not counting, like rematch, rematch, masters reports or whatever.

If it's a full-on remake and it's a new, like new game, you know what the hell I'm talking about. That counts, but Disco Elysium final cut got a 10. That doesn't count. But Death Lupin, Forsa Horizon 5 got tens this year.

And then in 2020, Spalunky 2, Crusader Kings 3, and Last of Us Part 2 got tens. But in addition to that, flight simulator on Xbox and Overwatch got it. That doesn't count. What was the third game in 2018? Because I know it was God of Orr and Celeste.

Red Dead Red Dead Redemption 2 Undertail Red Dead Red Dead Redemption 2 2018 Undertail is Undertail came on 2015 It was Red Dead Red Dead Redemption 2 I'm looking at IGin.com

It's Undertail and Red Dead Red Dead Redemption 2 So there was four that in 2018 Undertail wasn't a new game though Undertail is on IGN listed as a 2017 game It was Reddard That's when it came to PlayStation It came out on PC in 2015

It got reviewed That's game of the year 2015 Not 2017 you know Cool. I'm just looking at IGMS. But three games, 10 out 10 in 2022 for my GN, specifically for my GN. I don't know what they're going to be.

Oh. Boom. The three games are going to live. Sprinkle in the sex. Sprinkle in the sex. I either get it a point or not for the three. That's what I'm saying. They can't just be having bullshit-ass things.

I want partial credits of two. fucking games get it. I don't deserve two thirds of the points. Oh, man. Shifting, we're shifting away from the predictions. We know at IGN and just like start. Hey, guys, I know this game was at 10, but what if it's a 9.5? Yeah, what if it's a 9.9?

So then shifting away out of your prediction then and just talking generally, do you have ideas of what would get a 10 out of 10 this year? I mean, so the point of my prediction is that there's a lot of potential this year for amazing quality games. Like I, and I don't want to say too much because I think it would spoil a future prediction that I'm making. But I think that we are going to get. one of the greatest years in video game history.

And I think that we were primed for that with 2020. And it ended up actually happening, even despite all of the chaos of the world. Like, we end up getting multiple 10 out of 10 quality games, things like Last of Us Part 2. Last year was where we really started to see the kind of like issues of things getting delayed, the big projects getting pushed back. And like, I don't want to say none, but the majority of the major titles that were planned for last year did not happen less. year. They're now happening this year with more time, with more understanding for developers to be able to work at work from home conditions or whatever the state of the world is. Sure, there still might be some games that don't make it. Does Breath of Wild make it? Does God of War make it? I don't know. But I think both of those have a lot of potential to hit that 10 out 10. Horizon, I think has potential to hit a 10 out of 10. From looking at the review today or the preview that Dornbush did on IGN, I think it's going to get a 10 out of 10. So we'll see. I think that'll be the soonest one we, we get.

that blessing you pretty you pretty much can't without one of my predictions and so i'm going to i'm going to cross this one out but i was going to make the prediction that by the end of this year there will be a debate on whether or not 2022 is as good if not better a year for video game game release is than 2017 and my argument was going to be that at the forefront of that conversation will be horizon forbidden west breath of a while to god of war ragner rock starfield Pokemon legends rseus and surprise game of the year contenders that we don't know about yet you didn't even mention elden ring oh fuck yeah see i didn't even mention elton ring that's a good point I think Eldon Ray now to be 10 as well.

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Sega. That's a prediction. I make that prediction because I think it'll be their way of trying to get a, trying to grow their market in Japan alongside getting big IP like Sonic the Hedgehog and others. But I think being able to own Yakuza and persona and have Atlas in their pocket, I think that goes a long way in terms of getting them, in terms of selling Xboxes in Japan, right? I think that's the thing they've been trying to do for a very long time and have not,

not had as great of success with. And they've been, I think they've been proving for a while that, like, they really want to try and make it work. And on GamePass, you see all these Yakuza games come into the service. You see Final Fantasy, you see plenty of other Japanese. You saw them announce Fantasy Star online two, or just online. You see them announcing that game years ago and that coming to Xbox as well, right? I think they're making moves, and I think that them acquiring Sega is going to be their biggest move. See, that's going to happen, and then Persona is still only going to release on PlayStation for some of Z.

I predicted almost every year that Sega gets it. acquired by Sony and I still think that it's more likely to be Sony than that Xbox. I know that the acquisition conversations right now is all over the place and you can just throw out a ton of different words and there's a 50% chance of it happening just based on where we're at. I don't think that PlayStation is in this like snatch and run type situation where they need to catch up in any way. They're doing their own thing and I think that they're going to stay the course of their

plan. So to me, it's only going to happen if that was already the plan. them to require Sega, not like, oh, fuck, we have to react to what Xbox just did. What can we do? But I do think that that conversation has at least happened over the last couple of years. And I think that it is more likely to be PlayStation than Xbox. I think that we might even see, like Blessing has mentioned right now, really wanting Yakuza, I think we might see maybe some sort of timed release stuff for Yakuza in the future as opposed to just buying them up completely because we've seen the love that Xbox game

Pass has gotten with the Yakuza series and how popular those games have gotten because of Xbox Game Pass. And I could see some sort of relationship furthering there where, you know, maybe we get the next couple games in this series timed exclusive sort of stuff. But what I wanted to say first was I would love it if like Phil Spencer was like, yeah, we know, I really want it. I really want Sega like, oh, because you want like persona and Yakuza? No, I just really want Master Chief in the Super Monkey Ball. I just got to have him in there. I got to see his ass in there. Last thing I want to say on that, too, is I don't think we're going to see Xbox acquiring Japanese studios. Like, your point is a really good one of them wanting to.

I don't think the Japanese studios are going to go through with it. I don't think that's Sega specific. I think that Capcom, Sega, Konami, like, I think a lot of them are, that is going to be the next level of shock for me when it comes to acquisitions. This reminds me of Smash Brothers, where it's like, there's the rules of character reveals. And like, well, shit, third party's option now. damn that opens up the floodgates like so so much to different options i think that's kind of where we're at right now when you look at xbox and it's been a bunch of western developers and i think that's just a western type of business that they're doing um so i i think that's why i'm still leading on

the playstation side being a japanese company even though that's based in america for playstation and all that stuff do you count square annex in that i do yeah square capcom and square capcom Konami and Sega are the ones and then Nintendo, but that's a whole other conversation. Prediction number two, Greg. Here's what I want to do. I want to have a question real quick. I want to have a sidebar here. Of course, infamously this year, I was falsely persecuted by all of you for having boring

predictions. predicting games weren't going to come out and stuff like that. I'm willing to lay those aside for this year and let the dice roll as long as nobody else is going to do it. Nobody else is going to come out here and be like, breath of the wild isn't happening this year. That kind of shit. Are we all the gentleman's agreement on that?

Or should I use that right now as my pick? Because that's written on my thing. I'm not saying I need to say it right now. I can keep it spicy. I can keep it. I think you go for it. I think you go for it. I think you deserve this.

Right. What are you going to cheat? I'm a friend. You got a red eye. You don't have to ask this permission to have boring predictions. You can just have a boring right now, Greg. But while I'm trying to, and I want to make a fun show for you, bless.

I want to make sure you're happy. So you don't quit like Jared, or Ambron and all the other people who die after this song. Either me or Andy. It's either me, your Andy. I'm saying. Dark Horse could be Tim. I want to balance spice.

We got to figure out which one of what is going to do. So do you want me to, what do I do, Tim? You're the host. Do I need to. I want you to listen to your heart. You can see, I mean, you already just said that, save that prediction for the last one. See where we all go. What you're doing right now is you're trying to shift blame for the end of the year when we tally up the predictions and go, oh, Greg got last place.

Oh, well, that's because I asked to you guys. And you guys said to like to go spicy. That's why I got last. That's exactly what you're doing. Greg, no matter what happens. It's like no matter what the predictions are whether he wins or loses, like, we're talking shit. Okay, here we go. Gentlemen's agreement.

Number one games journalist Andy Cortez. What are you saying? Gentleman's agreement. All right. We don't give you shit if you're right. However, you need to put a date on it. And if that date is wrong in 2023, minus two points for you. Holy shit.

Retroactive. In 2023. Yeah. For the 23 prediction. that's devious Andy yeah yeah yeah I agree 100% and that I will not fucking not at all I'm not playing with that that's fire instead what I'll do is this I'll let you know ladies and gentlemen this is one one that I love that I believe in but I don't actually think will happen this year but I want it implanted all of your brains so that when it does happen you can say Greg was wrong

but Greg was right you know what I mean Greg was wrong for the year but he was right so I I massaged this one a bit because I don't think you get an official announcement really right but here it is more is learned about assassin's creed infinity remember this game assassin's queen infinity the we're having an assassin's creed thing they'll be able to give you more content throughout the years uh clin hawking's working on it it's ubisoft montreal and quebec working on it together but here's what i think will leak out namely it stars cassandra from assassin's creed odyssey as she crisscrossed history tracking down the alien artifacts and all that shit i played all of odyssey for like a gillion hours i played the crossover stuff you're seeing here with

We're both in Odyssey and in Valhalla, and I don't even fucking remote. She's, we're getting, I'm getting balls that make people mad. I think they're from the fucking, I think they're pieces of eating. I don't even understand what the fuck's happening in the overall asses creed shit anymore. I just understand this. Do they eat the balls or what? No, no, you don't eat the balls. It just drives you fucking crazy when you touch it.

Even the ring of power. Spoilers for the content that you should have played already. I think that this is why out of the blue, we got this crossover with, Alhalla and Odyssey where you see Cassandra here talking to Avor. The Assassin's Creed Odyssey part of the story DLC is very much the epilogue to Cassandra's story. I've talked about the show I know before. Maybe PSI Love You Where, you know, it's her going on a vacation that's supposed to be a weekend.

It lasts for like six months. Her friends have to come get her and be like, you got to come do this thing and some bullshit. They start up, but then it runs her into a lifelong quest now. And if you aren't, spoiler for Assassin's Creed Odyssey, if you're not aware, she's like a mortal. But when we get to Wahala, she crosses over with Avor because obviously she's an assassin too. The whole thing's there. There's another piece of crazy shit happened there.

I think that that is how they will set up the infinity game. I think the idea there is that maybe, and I use stars, Cassandra, maybe rotates or revolves around her as a better way. Because I could see, you say, if it's going to be that you're going to be playing as Cassandra, it might get wonky of like, well, what are you leveling up and how do you keep going It might be her going to different times, different places where we get a new assassin and we go through and do it. You build it up and you get all your RPG points and yada, yada, and then when you come to your infinity screen, you choose. I'm getting into the weeds.

What I'm saying in this prediction is that at some point, in the same way, Bloomberg, you know, broke the news of Assassin's Creed Infinity, then got a confirmation from Ubisoft. Somewhere in here, you're going to see the rumor start. And I don't think you'll get a confirmation from Ubisoft, but it'll be that this game, Assassin's Creed Infinity, is somehow revolving around Cassandra. and her timeless quest to go throughout history doing this. Interesting. Barrett, you're my Assassin's Creed boy. What do you think of that? I think it's a cool idea.

It's, I think it's too cool enough idea of what Ubisoft is going to be doing in the future with their games. So I don't think it's going to be that cool of an idea of whatever they do with Infinity or whatever the fuck it's called. So, yeah, I could,

I would love that to be the case of like Cassander being the through line there. The lynchpin, yeah. Yeah, I just, I don't have hope for whatever the hell this project is. But if you are correct, I'm going to check it out. Yeah. Eddie. All quiet on the Western front, everybody. Okay.

Maybe the Eastern front, because I'm talking about Australia. A little developer named Team Cherry. We're going to get a Nintendo Direct indie in, in, I don't know, I'm not going to call the month. It's going to be in the summer. Oh, okay. It's going to be in the summer. We're going to get a Nintendo direct indie.

We're going to finally see Hollow Night Silk Song. And we're going to get a release that fucking day, dude. That goddamn day. It's been so long. Where has this game been? Team Chair recently kind of updated their Gog profile, the game's Gog profile on a game, good old games or what's it called good that's right you know i think they just call it goggleine i

rarely ever hear yeah i usually just say guck um i think we will get a day and date uh sort of release of like here it is it's hollanite silk song it's available to buy right now and we're gonna lose our shit and gregg's gonna go greg's gonna say uh holy holy ding dong that's what you're gonna say on the review when we do the the reaction is what you're gonna say yeah when we're watching live and then Nintendo Direct. That's for extra bonus points. That's tip of the cap bonus points. So if he doesn't say it, not on me. Yeah. Everybody, I will need help remembering that line. So every morning before Nintendo Direct, please just tweet me wholly dinged on. No context needed. I'll remember.

If he doesn't say it minus points for him, in fact. Well, yeah. Man, you're tough but fair, Andy. I appreciate it. I think you're your spot on, Andy, that when we do see Hollow Night Silk Song, it will be a, and it's ready today release. I don't know exactly if it's going to be in a Nintendo Indy thing and the timing and all of that, but I do think that that is the I don't think it's this year, Andy.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry, bud. I think Silk Song is the new Cuphead DLC. See, I'll say if Cuphead DLC can come out, I got faith in Hollenite Silk Song, Andy. I think it's going to happen. Thank you, blessing. Somebody believes in this. Cuphead DLC, I think, was announced before

even Hollow Night came out, right? Cuphead DLC was announced before Cuphead came out. I don't think that was for a very long time. My next one, this is the follow-up one. 2022 will be the sequel to Nintendo's 2017. And at some point in the year, and this is where it gets iffy because of pandemic and all the stuff and delays and shit.

So I'm not saying these games are going to come out this year. That is the plan, though. And that is my prediction, is that the plan is for these games to come out in 2022. But my prediction is, at some point in 2022, Nintendo will have announced Splatoon 3, a new Mario cart, a new Mario 3D game, Breath of Wild 2, all with 22 dates.

Or 2022 can be the date. You get what I'm saying? Yeah, the window. The window, yeah. But at some point this year, we'll have that. And none of us are going to believe it, But they're going to say. We didn't get that for a

Splatoon 3, right? We just got. I don't know. I think Splatoon 3 might have been. They might have said that already. But at some point, I think that their plan is to do that. Because in 2017,

we got Odyssey, we got Breath of Wild, we got Mario Credit Deluxe, and we got Splatoon 2. So I think we're going to get all those again. And when you think about what that means for Nintendo's year, it's fucking insane. Because that's not even including,

like, Pokemon Legends coming out this week. And then later we got a, like the Kirby game and all that stuff. But keep it in mind, in 2017, the Switch came out in March. So they didn't have a January and February to have fun with. So I'm feeling good about that. And this is just the tip of the hat, spicy shit.

I think that two of the three games from IGN are going to be Nintendo games. I love this prediction. It also, this is another prediction that steals one of my predictions. And so good game, Tim, you're killing it. The prediction I was going to make was that Nintendo would finally announce Mario Kart 9, and it'll come with an interesting twist, possibly bringing back double dash mechanics or something of that ilk. Something that makes this play.

They call it 10. Oh, yeah. That's what everyone's saying. But that's the, isn't that the report? You're just predicting in the report. With that there, which, which part? There's an interesting twist. Yeah, you can do it.

I talk about you so much on games daily that I forget which ones are real and which ones are fake. Predicting a report's going to happen. I think it's totally fair game. But no, the, the rumor is it's going to be Mario Kart crossover, but the cross over. is like an X, it's going to be a Mario Kart 10. Okay. Which I buy and I, that excites the fuck out of me. Cross- I would like to add the shit.

I would like to add a tip of the cap to Tim's prediction, but again, he gets minus points if it's wrong. Blessing will become a really big spletoon fan for at least like a, at least a couple of weeks. He will finally see the light and like finally become the person he was meant to be a Splatoon fan. Yeah. A squid kid. I hope so. Squid kid. I also really hope Tim's predictions right. And I think, and I think I think I, I I agree with you. I think this year might be the second best year for the switch. I could, I could, if Breath of Wild two hits, of course, like if that hits, if Pokemon Legends RCS is great the way that it seems like it might be great, if Kirby the Forgottenland looks or

comes out as good as it looks because that game looks great for a Kirby game. And, you know, if we get a cart in a Mario, I think that'll go a long way in terms of us going, ah, shit, this year was the shit. Like we're really here again where we're experiencing peak Nintendo. I think that's a possibility. I think what gets like spiciest for me is asking for both Mario cart and a 3D Mario is like so much. But when you think about those teams, you think about what they have been or have not been doing the last couple of years, it adds up. And like that's the other thing too is the Mario Kart team in year one of the switch in 2017. They did arms as well.

And that was both that year. I don't think we're going to get in arms. But I think arms is replaced by Kirby and things like that. We also got a Bain and a three, which Bainette is two got a 10. out 10 from GameSpot, right? Like, this is a highly anticipated game as well. That's how I was going to ask about. That's all I was going to ask about.

Yeah. Next prediction. Bless. Video game TV shows will only increase in quality and output. And there's going to be no less than five video game series TV adaptations of quality released in 2020. And by of quality, I mean things that we would compare to something like the Witcher or Arcane in terms of, oh, man, this video game adaptation is incredible for a TV series. I think we're going to get at least five of those this year. And this isn't part of my prediction, but I'll also say that I think leading that charge will be the last was HBO show.

Dude, me and you, same wave like there. I had a prediction that was for video game TV shows and movies, which there'll be more this year than we've ever seen before. There will be more good than bad. So yeah, that's a fair assessment. It's interesting. Halo trailer announced to be dropping this Sunday. So we'll see how that goes.

We have the cuphead trailer right here, which I'm pretty excited for. And yeah, if we talk about things that are announced, right? We got Halo, we got a cuphead. we got LastVus and I'm sure there's more announced that don't cut in my head because I don't think about TV as often as games but like that's three right there that I have big faith in at least Cuphead and LastWus I have big faith in

Halo I've not been keeping up with but I've not been hearing bad things about that either You know we're going to get a hint of Tim this is my I'm throwing this on there just as a bonus for me okay tip of that for me tip of that we're going to get a reveal this year likely at Netflix's what do they call it their Geek Week week. Geek week, yeah. At Netflix Geek Week, we're going to get a glimpse at the Hyperlight Drifter

animated show from Adi Shankar. I thought I guess the devil made cry. No, I mean, that probably, that made too. I mean, shoot, Tim, don't get me wrong. I think the Hyperlight Drifter show is something that he was asked about, it's something that I failed to ask when we had him on the game or when we had him on the kind of funny podcast. And he was asked from other people about it.

And he was like, we're making a lot of good progress on it. Really excited about it. Yeah. Yeah. We'll see. We'll see how this goes. We're going to get a glimpse at it this year. Speaking of all that, too, like there's the, I know people aren't as excited about

cyberpunk anymore, but I know they announced that anime a while ago. And I think that probably hit 20, 22. And maybe that's incredible. You know, maybe that's good. And then there, yeah, there is like the Far Cry stuff too. And all those UBS soft stuff that they talked about. Yeah, at E3 that is still pending in terms of when that stuff's going to come out. But yeah, I think video game TV is only getting better and better.

and yeah again no less than five is like my official prediction that's interesting my prediction i was also including movies and like so just off the top of head there's uncharted there's sonic and there's mario uncharted i think that overall the reception is not going to be great but i don't think it's going to be a trash fire and then which is an improvement over video game movies of the past sonic two i imagine will be at least as good as sonic one and mario i think it's going to be a banger so we'll see how this all goes great what's your next What's your next prediction? I want to go with you right now, Timothy.

We're going to go here. Well, this is sad for me. Nobody else cares. Avengers ads She-Hulk this year, but around their two-year anniversary, they announced their ceasing development beyond regular maintenance, you know,

to keep it for upkeep or whatever, but like active development is done. Nothing beyond that because they're going to work on, dot, dot, dot, dot, a new Tomb Raider. Are you going to say Avengers? There's a lot. So do they, I have two questions for you, Greg. Sure.

One is, do they actually announce the Tomb Raider Project? And two, why Shee Hulk? All right. So number one, do they actually announce the Tum Rating Project? Honestly, I think they do. And I think it's because give the bad news with some good news, right? Like, you know, hey, you know how they're going to do it, right? We learned a lot from Avengers.

Hey, you did a whole bunch of things here. You know, we tried something new. We branched out. we did all these different things. We've accomplished what we can or whatever. We want to it. And now we're going to go back to, you know, what Crystal Dynamics is. It's Tomb Raider.

We're going to go back to that. I think, you know, I don't think they're going to talk about what it is. I would think it's going to be a reboot. I don't think you go back to the series you've done with Shadow and all that stuff. I think that, especially after the last one, which was Shadow, right? Is that right? That was, like, poorly received. And granted, it was done by the folks up north and not them.

They helped out with it, yada, yada, yada. Anyways, I think they need a fresh start with it, something fresh, probably even pare it back a bit. because I'm sure these people are anxious to put something out that single player and can just be what they love doing, which I would think is Tomb Raider, even though I know they are helping on a perfect art. However, so that's what I think for number one. So I think you do say that, so you have something good to say of like you don't make it look like it's all doom and gloom. Be like, hey, we're ending Avengers, but we're excited for our next project. We're just going to be this.

And then the question why She Hulk? She Hulk's been rumored forever. And over my time off, somebody, I forgot. was tweeted whatever the fuck about sheholt. Somebody. Tweeted about Shehawk being in the game or whatever. Like, and I forget if it was off of a leak.

Because again, she's been leaked before and stuff like that. But it was basically like, hey, this voice actress is going to play Shehulk. And that voice actress like quote tweeted it and put like a green and purple heart. And then quickly deleted it or whatever. Yeah. Because somebody was like, that's not an official announcement.

You need to do that. So it's almost this question. I'm, I put it out there because again, it seems like it's a foregone conclusion that they would still add her if she's out there accidentally talking about it or whatever. I almost just at the last second pulled up and just put it that it's over this year because that I think is definitely happening. I think, you know, they get there. But it's like even right now you go to the Avengers subreddit and it's aflame with posts that are just like, is this all over? Like, is it done?

Because like social media is just advertising stuff, the roadmap they promised for 2020. two that was supposed to happen in 2021. They announced in December, hey, it's not there yet. We're not putting it out yet. Don't worry, though. You'll get it. They still haven't put it out or communicated about it. Like, and, you know, it's that push and pull obviously all the time of like,

I'm sure the developers would love to talk about what they're working on. But if Square Nix is, you know, sort of damnicles above their head as always, they are the ones holding it back and where does it go? But if she hooks that far along that has, she has a voice actress, that seems like they're ramping up to something. I would think they still do it. And of course, Jeremy, Donathan Lepchat

calls out the Disney Plus show as well Maybe for once they're trying to time You know what I mean To actually get it to go around the same time Of like all right cool She eke's in the game and on Disney Plus And maybe they're trying to make it like a Black Panther thing Even though I doubt it would be not nearly that big

But it'd be bigger than Spider-Man Who knows but I think the sun is definitely setting on Avengers I'm sorry Greg It's okay It's that thing where I've had my fun with it I've had a great time with Avengers obviously And now that I have the kid I never have time to go raid or anything

so what doesn't be matter to me? Andy Cortez. I think this year we get definitive presentations about Riot games putting their games on console. There's been a lot of talks about how Riot has been interviewed and mentioned, yeah, we're experimenting with putting Valorant on console. We're experimenting with Wild Rift on console. I think there will be kind of a big blowout news day that they end up doing, similar to like getting a blizzcon,

but it'll be that Valerent is coming to consoles, League of Legends Wild Rift, which has been highly rumored to be coming to consoles, that it's actually coming to consoles, and we'll get a date whenever it's coming. And then we'll get a date for Project L,

which is their fighting game. Please. I think that's going to be a big, I think that's going to happen this year, likely this summer, around the time of E3. We'll get some sort of news about that. I agree. I think with Project L especially, that's a game, I understand why Valoran doesn't come to console day and date, obviously, because that is supposed to be something that's more akin to a counterstrike, right? That is a strategic, tactical first-person shooter that you want people to have mouse and keyboard to be able to be on par with each other and have that competitive nature to it. And, you know, it's obvious why other Riot games aren't on console as well. I think Project L does change the game in terms of, yeah, if you launch this day-and-date on console, this game can live there. Like, the console could do a lot for the, for,

for this game because this isn't the type of game that you need to have a PC for that PC does any better against console console for any particular reason. And I could see that being the thing that leaves that charge and then yeah, flows into you. Also we're putting these other games out on console as well. This is our big push. My question for you, Andy, is what do they call their Blizcon?

Ooh, I don't know. Right. Fucking, right, right, right. Something of like Riot Day. Let's have a riot. I'd say like the Riot Day or Riot Night or something. Yeah. Oh, Riot Night.

Right night. I like Riot Night. Yeah. They're going to have their version of BlissCon. It's going to be Riot Night and we're going to get Wild Rift on console, like, release date, Valorant on console, release date and Project L. Maybe not the release date, but just a, here's a deeper look at it as opposed to the, we kind of were forced to show it because of leaks, you know.

my next one Xbox finally does what I've been thinking they're going to do and now think they're going to more than ever release a dongle Xbox series something and it's going to be a dongle that allows you to just

plug it in you're plugging in control you have to say the letter you have to say the letter D XXXS series D get that no it won't be D it will be Z it wasn't like Z a room I don't know.

I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't a letter. You know what? That's my predictions. It's not a letter. Xbox series something that's not a letter. And I can see them doing it because to explain with the devices and differentiate it from the others, I think it won't be a letter.

But I think it's a foregone conclusion. We're going to get this thing. It's just a matter of timing. And I do think it's going to be, I think originally it would have been later than 2022. to, but I think it will be this year because we're still in such a chip shorted situation. And Xbox, if it's not obvious, have been geared up for just a complete takeover of game releases that has totally started last fall with back to back to back to back bangers. And they're just going to kind of continue that.

As we're leaning into Starfield, they want as many people to be able to play on GamePass as possible. And they're going to keep giving reasons for people to be able to do that. I don't think that they want to limit their own supply of consoles with how limited the series S and XR even now. Granted, they're not the hardest things to get now, but they minimize any difficulty to entry to get people playing these games. So I think that that'll happen.

That also could get them in the conversation of hardware sales up. Like Xbox has been focusing on the GamePass numbers so much because they're super impressive. But I think putting out a super cheap dongle, like $50 or less, could really kind of turn the tides in like their hardware sales of just being able to put a number out there being like there are x amount of x-box series consoles in the wild including these things i i just checked my document to make sure it's private because this is three for three now of tim taking predictions that i also wrote down uh i 100% agree i could see it i think it makes sense i think it

is part of the strategy and i think yeah it helps them to to get xbox anywhere and everywhere they can and yeah smooth out as many barriers as possible in order to get into that ecosystem and play game pass games and so yeah I'm surprised I'm honestly surprised they haven't already done it me too by Andy just trying just clear it not my video did it get clear what if they call the chats I the one to call this out what do they call it the Xcast for the stick I make sure we see them all right to make sure we're on the same page I so that's already for a fight I'm ready for we sue them or they buy us who knows?

I think that they'd want to keep the series branding because I think the series gets confusing with like the whole, is it a con like between, I feel like you keep this. Is it a console? I don't know. To the consoles and then you just call this something else that's not a Xbox series.

But that's why, but I think that they're going to do it because they want to count this as a console. Yeah. I want this to be a console for that. I think that they have XCloud. They have all these other. ethereal things and apps and stuff.

Like their hardware, I think, is going to be this Xbox series line of hardware. Like series I, the internet. Like just the, it stands for something or whatever the fuck. Series I, the internet, it stands for something. Yeah. It's all in the box.

What's your next one? This is one that is going to be two predictions in one, but I think they're a little bit linked, which is why I'm combining them into the same prediction. PlayStation VR doesn't release in 2022 and consoles will still be really difficult to get by the end of the year. I link those because I think the reason why PSVR 2 doesn't come out at the end of the

year is because consoles, PS5 specifically, are going to be very difficult to get and it's not worth releasing PSVR2 if it's still super difficult to get a PS5 and there aren't as many PS5s out there. But to even elaborate on that more, right? I think, I think this isn't, I don't, I'm not going to include this as part of my prediction. This is just me talking now. But I think by the end of this year with how the chip short, where the chip shortage is at and consuls being out there is at, I think it'll finally be in a place where we're like, oh, this is bad. Like, this is really bad for the console business. And it's starting to become a problem for how many people can't get their hands on next-gen

consoles. Greg Miller. Andy Cortez, number one games journalist. Wasn't there a gentleman's agreement that we weren't just going to predict things that weren't going to happen? Because I had that on here as well, you know, right next to breath of a while, then got a war Ragnarok. If it does, if it turns out, blessing is right, he has to set a date in 2023.

Thank you. There you go, Bussing. If not, minus one and a half points instead of two points. Next. Minus one and a half points next year. Okay. PSVR two comes out in 2020. Set a date.

This is why you have to risk it if you want the biscuit. Maybe you get the easy points this year in 2022, but 2023, you're uphill. You're uphill. Yeah. Is this all, I don't think my prediction is like obvious, though, right? The PSVR two is not going to come out this yet. Greg Miller's been saying that shit forever. Yeah.

Ever heard of Greg Miller? Thanks. But his eyes all fucked up. I'm going to say PSVR 2. God, I'm going to scream myself for next year. Just give us a month. Just give us a month.

I was going to give you a season. I was going to stay fall. Jesus, Andy, if you... I was saying, I was thinking month. I mean, like, Greg, I don't know. You got to risk it if you want the base. I'm saying it right now. This system doesn't work.

We can't do the take away. That's great, though. It's great. It's awesome. It does just for funcies because we have to actually count the votes in January. Oh, they'll remember. No, no, no, no. No, no.

You're missing the point. Like, if PSVR doesn't come out in 2022, Blessing gets the point. It's next year then. The tabulator has to be like, yeah. Yeah. At the beginning of 2024 is when I'm feeling the ramifications of this. Oh, I love that. And 2024, we're doing it.

And it's like, and then also, with negative 1.5 points is the late great blessing out of hearing of year. I thought you were going to put me at like G4 or something. No, no, no, no. You're not going anywhere. You're not going anywhere. You love it here. Oh, man.

Where do you see this studio? I'm going to say November. November, 2023 is when PSVR 2. Wow, I was going to say that. I was going to say that. Yeah, that's good. I appreciate that. I appreciate the boldness.

Yeah. I like that. Greg Miller. Oh, all right. He's gonna do it, ladies gentlemen. Eldon Ring wins, kind of funnies game of the year. Oh! Dot, dot, dot.

There's no way. Or it's terrible. It's good. That's like there is a spectrum there, right? It's either literally going to be our game of the year at wins game of the year or it's just a trash fire. Wow. There's no way. It's an interesting.

prediction based on the year we're about to have. A lot of games are going to be split in those numbers every which way, depending on what games actually come out. But I do think that it's going to be high up there. I think there's going to be a strong contingent of people if it's good that are all going to have it very high. And as we know, as we learned a couple weeks ago with the game of the year,

every point matters because our top five was like off by one point. Blessing. I need you to look me in the eyes right now. I'm looking at you here. Eldon Ring, we both put it at our number. number five in our top 10. And that way it doesn't win game of the year. Fuck Greg Miller.

That way. I like this back. I like Ray and stuff. Especially with how many people voted this last year, if we keep up that amount of votes for the next year, I don't know if it's guaranteed. Even if both of you put it at number 10, I don't know if it's guaranteed to be number one. Because I feel like you two are the most hardcore, like, souls. That's where I'm at.

Where it's like Psychonauts too got two Game of the Year votes and then, you know, got a couple of other votes, but it was still pretty low on that top 10 list. I think it will be a life-estrange true color situation where me, Andy, and maybe a couple other people have it high, but then other people just either didn't play it or couldn't get past the first

five hours because it's a soul's game, and then it gets shifted toward the middle because of that. Because as I look through, right, I look through the list of people, I'm going to play it, Andy's going to play it. If the game is great, we're probably going to have a high, but then I get to Greg Miller, are you going to play it through Eldon Ring? And are you going to like it as much as like...

I'm trying it for sure. Okay. And then like, I know Tim's going to try it. Yeah, I'm not, I'm not, it's not going to make my list. Yeah. There is a 3% chance in the world that this ends up in my top 10. And so I go down the list and I'm like, I think, I think Eldon Ring will make, we'll get in one or two more people from kind of funny into this type of game

and probably end up high on their list. But I think to get number one, you got to be, you got to be a rationing clink and be somewhere on everybody's list. Here's what I'm saying. Here's what I'm asking for the people that are going to try it. That while you're going through this experience, getting to the meta of looking for story meanings and sort of like lore implications. Because you know, bless what we know, like the Souls YouTubers are going to be like Souls YouTube is going to be unlike anything you have ever seen this year.

When this game comes out and there's going to be people releasing videos of like, I just discovered this. What does it mean for that? Like, I've seen all these lore videos from all these different people with different interpretations of what's happening in the story. But it's like, it's so interesting that this is going to be happening in real fucking time. This is going to be like unlike anything I've ever experienced in gaming. And like, I think if you are on the ground floor of that, it's going to just add to that experience. It's going to be so awesome. I can't wait for it.

Next month. Where are we out here? Andy? Oh, damn it, I had mine. I just forgot. Hold on. Oh, this is kind of weird one. It's kind of weird, but I'm going to throw it out there. I think Sony is going to make a statement this year about their pursual of the blockchain and NFT technology. God damn it.

And it will be walked back within. a couple of months because of or maybe not even a couple of months but just like i i think enough fans will get vocal about it i think that sony still strikes me as a company right now especially with with sean laden gone and i feel like jim ryan has been very like business forward which isn't a bad thing because sony's still doing really really well but i i feel like jim ryan is the type of person that would want to get in on it and maybe not and marie he's going to be like, don't fucking do it, Jim. You know, they're going to have that conversation.

They're going to have a conversation. And I think it's going to be walked back. I think it's going to be walked back. Don't fucking do it, Jim. Jim, you fucking do us. I'm out. You know, like, it's one of those things, you know? And then he goes, you're really going to, you're really going to, like, end this friendship

over this. And he goes, Jim, you know I will. And then he goes, all right, so be. Show me you're here. So shall it be written. So shall it be done. and then it's over. Sounds like the worst episode of House of Cards I've ever done.

But yeah, I do think that they'll walk it back after there's a lot of fallout. Like, I know there's been a lot of followout, especially with the Troy Baker thing. And I think the gaming industry as a whole has kind of seen enough notable people be against the technology and the implementation of it. But I still think that Sony's going to want to pursue it because it feels like a very Jim Ryan-ish thing. You flew close to one of my predictions. but not close enough that I'm going to cross it. I'm so going to keep it. Oh, okay.

Man, I, I, I, it's rough because like, you know, we're hosts of PSLWXXO between me and Greg. And like, you mentioned Sony and blockchain in the same sentence. And I'm like, oh, there's no way. But I also know that deep down. There's that one percent chance that like, we're in that timeline where it happens. And I am bummed out beyond belief. Guys, it's either that thing.

It's either that thing. This gets nipped in the bud because everybody hates it and it stops. or in three years everybody's doing the shit. It is one or the other. Yeah. Like there's no midground where you're going to have one

that isn't doing it. It's either going to infect everything or somebody's going to wake up and be like, man, this whole thing is a griff. Or I think they go for, I think so does the NFT stuff and it becomes their

three years down the line and will go, whatever happened to the whole NFT thing. And it's going to be their version of when they got like Guy Kai. Like, when they,

But I just became PlayStation now. Yeah, but like, you know, you know what I mean? Exactly. That was supposed to be a more, you know, that, I don't know. I think the only way they get away with it would be to market it as this is your way to own your digital games and share them between friends or like sell your digital games. I think if they lead with that foot, it'll be an easier pill for people to swallow. But the people that are like still in the know, like the people that listen to the podcast and read the news stories will still be like, but wait, like, no, like that's fine. But also like, look at all this other NFT stuff that we don't like.

like, why are we still doing this? But everybody else is going to go, yeah, but like, I can sell my digital games back to PlayStation and use that money to them buy another digital game. And I think that might be where I think that might be how they, how, let me not even say they specifically. I think this is how you push the conversation if you're a developer or if you're trying to push a store in that way. Is he that the gateway drug?

Yeah, I think that is the, it's the, it's the, it's the gateway drug to NFTs. Yeah. Interesting. my next one interesting is an amazing idea I came up with that I am not confident in but I like having fun on this show on this Fredixon show so I'm going to make

this one a two-parter where one I think is more of a slam dunk guarantee but I'm going to add a specific of what it is that gets crazy Greg Nintendo will do another game this year in the vein of Mario 35 or Tetris 99 that's the easy prediction i think if it didn't happen wouldn't be shocked but if it did it'd be like

yeah cool great great prediction tim but here's what the game's going to be and think about this from a gameplay perspective of what this could look like wario wear you're just going through a bunch of fucking micro games competing against others and it's just how long are you lasted and all that stuff i'm a little hesitant about it because they just released they just released the new Mario Ware. Is there an anniversary? That's the thing is I don't know if there's an anniversary. There wasn't a Tetris anniversary.

Like there doesn't have to be. That's true. That's true. But counterpoint to myself, then releasing Warrior Ware last year proves that they at least remember it's a franchise. So it's like I wouldn't be surprised. They're like, oh, hey, we had a lot of ideas from this. Like, why don't we?

Like, I'd imagine there's a team on Nintendo that is just thinking about those type of experiences. Tim, you're one year off, man, because you're, here's the thing. 2003 is the first Wario Ware game. And so we're at the 19th anniversary this year. So it would be a perfect 20 year anniversary of like, Warrior Ware 20.

You face off against 19 other Warriors and do all this. Yeah. Yeah. But I think that it makes too much sense from a gameplay perspective that I don't know that they'd ever do it. But like, Nintendo's been weird recently. And I think that them announcing that would be speaking to the right type of audience. because the people that excited about,

get excited about the 99 and 35 games aren't necessarily like the mainstream gamers. It is the people that are a little bit more dialed in. And I think that Warioware is speaking to that audience more than than anything else. So that's what I'm sticking with. I mean, that's the best game mode,

Tim, and the GameCube Warioware where you like pass along of the controller between everybody and like whoever gets knocked out, gets knocked out. Like that's a perfect formula for Wariware. COVID though. See, that's one where I imagine if I, If that got pitched in Nintendo's, somebody would be like, actually, we should release that as a full game because that is a really good idea that like, do we are we sure we want to put this on Nintendo Switch online?

I hope it happens because I think that is that is phenomenal. My only counterpoint would be that I think if you're going to do one of those games this year, it would probably be Kirby because they, it is that, uh, it is that, uh, anniversary. I think we talked about this this week, right? It's Kirby's 30th anniversary and like Kirby is the kind of franchise that like one goes also the rumor of like possibly a new Kirby game announced, maybe not. Who knows? So there's that. And then also, I think Kirby is the kind of game that you could translate to that formula as well. And like there have been so many different weird iterations of Kirby that I could easily see them doing it just because like, why not if it's easy to do?

Yeah. Next up. Plus, final prediction. I'm worried to do this one because I, this one strikes me as one that Greg Miller is going to be like, oh, it's too easy. Don't listen to the old man. Wait, Andy, even on my side this whole time. Andy, even on my side this whole time. I'm not you, bro. I'm going to keep a P. I'm going to do this one.

I'm going to do this one. This is kind of coming off with the Andy's prediction as well. NFTs will be the biggest and most ongoing topic of video game news in 2022. That's a prediction. And then as a bonus, I think a AAA third party developer

will ship a game with NFT implementation and it will be divisive as hell. But that's like a count that as like point two. That's what I'm going to say, my prediction for people tabulating. So what's in a... I don't know if you can put the numbers on it. Negative minus one point for next year.

My question is, so you're saying, give me the words again of what this is going to be. NFTs will be the biggest and most ongoing topic of video game news in 2022. So by the time we get to the end of the year, when we're talking about what were the big, biggest news stories of 2022, we're going to go, oh, obviously it was NFTs. And the way that last year we're like, obviously it's the Activision Blizzard fiasco that's been on that's been going on for the last six months. I think NFTs will be that for this year. I think the talk about NFTs is going to get bigger and bigger and bigger throughout the year.

And by the time we get to the end of the year, it's going to be that. It's going to be the big thing. There's going to be like a story a week or two. Yeah, exactly. Greg Miller, question for you. Yeah. We're flash forwarding to December 2022. Sure.

And we're looking back. Can't believe we lost this year. The words blessed you said, Tom, about this type of new story. Do you think it goes to NFTs or do you think it goes to acquisitions in their roundification? I mean, you're generalizing a bit with, I think NFTs have a great shot at it because I think of loot boxes. And I think of where loot boxes,

where I think of micro transactions and I think season passes and stuff like that we've seen come and go, right? Acquisitions is an interesting one because I think acquisitions, you know, I can't imagine Microsoft making a bigger acquisition this year than Activision Blizzard.

And so then if we're there, I think we're talking about the ramifications of Activision Blizzard when we get to December. I don't think Sony's going to answer the way people want them to answer with a giant acquisition. I think they're going to double down on what they already do. So I would think it's, and in what you just said, column A or column B, I would go, it's

going to be the NFTs. Yeah, I think the thing with acquisitions too regarding like the bigness of the news story, like the biggest news story we've ever done on Cape Chd, I think is the Activision Blizzard acquisition. But I think we're talking about ongoing topics and how things stay in the news. You know, by the time, like this week already, right? like we're already having headlines that aren't about Activision Blizzard anymore. And that's because like nothing can be a headline for every single day,

multiple weeks, multiple months in a row. But I think the fact that we're going to be talking about NFTs nonstop is going to keep it in our brains more. And it's going to be a thing of we're going to get later into the year. If you are going to be tired of hearing about it, we're going to be tired of talking about it. I think it's going to be one of those ones. Whereas the acquisitions,

I think are more flashes in the pans in terms of new cycle, not in terms of like gravity of the situation. Sure, but you talk about it and we move on. Exactly. It becomes a thing, whereas NFTs are just like we're talking about with loot boxes. That first year of kind of funny games daily, I remember people being so sick of me and Andrea and Gary talking about loot boxes. Yeah, I think they're going to be closer than we're kind of talking about here. Because I do think that we're going to talk about NFTs a lot.

But I think that the ramifications of the acquisitions of whether or not this is exclusive, whether or not that's coming this to that, blah, blah, blah, blah, like all that stuff. Like, thinking back to the Bethesda acquisition last year and like how much conversation came from that, not just from when it was first announced, but like, over time. I think that we're just like multiplying that by a bazillion when it comes to all the Activision Blizzard stuff and whatever else is to come. And I think that that's, that's the other thing. I don't think this is the end of this. There's going to be so many add-ons to the last story that just happened. There's going to be so much, so many more clarifications on another article the next day. Yeah. But we'll see. This is going to be a fun one to grade next year. Greg Miller, final prediction.

At a PlayStation state of play, we get the trailer from Metal Gear Solid 3 remake. It's followed by news of the Metal Gear Solid remasters. I think that virtuous rumor is true. I think the time is nigh to pull the trigger on that and get that out there. I think it's speaking to what PlayStation is trying to do with their own. You know, we had a whole piece. I love you about how do they respond to Xbox and their internal is stay the course and be PlayStation.

I think this would speak that way. Andy Cortez from Kindofoney.com. Bonus points, Greg. Bonus point opportunity for you if you'd like to take it. I'd love to take it. Or is this one thing, though, if I get it wrong, like, you cut off my finger. I can't tell you that right now. Not shit.

Unfortunately. Okay. Bonus point opportunity for you. What sort of camo tie-ins will we see? Oh. You mean like kind of like how we're, you mean like third party sponsors kind of thing? Like how they did like Doritos and Peacewalk or not even third party. Like, do we see him in a ratchet, uh, ratching and clink style thing?

I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying. I don't think they go. with it. I think you'll have Death Stranding tie-ins. You know what I mean?

A backpack that looks like Sam's thing, maybe a BB that you could put onto your chest kind of thing. Okay. It cries. Yeah, probably that kind of shit to drive Mike crazy out of the controller.

Cool. I like that. Okay. Andy, final prediction. Final prediction is one that we had some news of today because spoilers.

I forgot we were doing predictions today. So I've just been kind of off the cuff, off the old dome. You've been crushing it. All right. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you, everybody.

Today, the Rock announced he's going to be in a movie, a video game movie. And a lot of people are assuming that it might be a call of duty movie because he said it's one of his favorite franchises. I'm going to predict that. I'm going to agree with that and say that it is a call duty movie. And he will be in the next call duty black ops game that will come out whenever the following year. He will be like the lead actor in the black.

ops video game that comes up that'd be interesting I had on mine I had in mind the the Rocks video game movie is Fortnite I thought I think he's gonna be in a fortnight movie Andy I think that too I can see that he's gonna be playing what's his character's name in fortnight the Federation the foundation the foundation a lot people are on Twitter to think it's gonna be years that's just because he looks like a huge character though right but I think that's also like another game that he really likes he has the same proportions as them yeah This is interesting because Fortnite officially has a movie being made.

Do they? I didn't think that I had. That wasn't the fake news story, right? Where the story was that it was going to have a sex scene in it. Well, that was fake. Yeah. The movie existing. I don't remember if it was just to leave.

Sprinkle in the sex. But then a call a duty movie, like, I think we're far away from that. Really? Just IP-wide. and stuff, yeah. Like, I don't know. Like, who would be making that? And all that complicates it even more.

Oh, really? Oh, I just meant, like, I mean, I don't think the acquisition or anything really changes that necessarily. Would it? Not necessarily, but, like, just, I can imagine there's just a lot going on. So then also leaning into movies, when, to my knowledge, they haven't really before. Like, we've got, like, Skylanders, like, obviously the show.

There's the... that's all I'm thinking about Skylanders there's the Crash Maddacut like crossover thing but Activision movies and TV stuff let me sprinkle in some sex Tim here comes some text this is the first year that we will

now fuck I'll say this for 2023 Naraman there's not a chance you remember this is sex sort for subtext is that where you're going for here is just no no no no no no no I was gonna Let us bring on some sex and say that we would get an announcement of some sort of official

Overwatch show. Because even though Microsoft just acquired Activision Blizzard, I think a lot of people at Activision Blizzard are like, damn, Riot's been killing it with, you know, they just put out arcane and that's incredible. That became, we've had the ingredients to have this amazing meal to stuff down our faces. And we just haven't done anything with it. Feed us. Satiate us.

Yeah. I would say this is the year that like even though they don't have anything planned, Tim, even though they're not in pre-production, it's like, hey, we're putting on an Overwatch show. Yeah, we're committing to it sort of thing, you know. I like it. I hope. My final prediction, it's an oldie, but a goody. And I still think one day it's going to happen. I think it only hasn't happened because of the pandemic and everything.

Xbox, Game Studios, which now has expanded. Just a bit. We'll make a Marvel game that's exclusive to Xbox and in the same style that Insomniac has done for PlayStation. And sure, we've talked about this forever. And Greg, what did we always predict it would be? Wolverine. You sold me on a Wolverine.

I bought all the hype. And you were kind of correct. You were kind of close. I believed it. But it was insomnia, which is really exciting. And I'm probably best case scenario for me personally, actually. But I do think it'll be a Marvel game.

What is it? I don't know. Dr. Strange. I don't know. But I do think that it, it, it won. be the most familiar things that we have. Like obviously guardians and Avengers are taking care of. Spider-Man Wolverine are taking care of.

I can see it being an X-Men game. Like a full-on X-Men game. And I think that the world is gearing up and getting ready to have X-Men back in their lives. I don't think it'll be fantastic for it. Tim. Why not? Daredevil or No. No.

See, those are both interesting. I just, I think that they'd want to swing, like, bigger. A team base kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. That's fair. I don't want that. Yeah.

I don't want one team. I just want one dude. I was sexy dude. I just want one sexy moon night to control. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. I think Derrtle has a chance. I think Moon Knight does not have a chance.

Moon night being in the game, I think does have a chance. chance. What about Team Cherry, Moon Night? It's a joke. Shut the fuck up for me. Yeah, we'll see. But I do think that we're going to get an Xbox first-party studio exclusive Marvel game.

Okay. It'll be really cool. Announcement, right? Just like a, hey. Just an announcement. Yeah, yeah, it's not happening this year, for sure, for sure. But the announcement would be this year. I want to hear more about that MMO from the DCUO team.

Yeah. Do you think we hear about that more this year? No. Well, maybe, but I doubt it. I would think that's further out. Can you elaborate, Greg? What do we? There was a rumor going around, I think, while I was gone. That the team behind DC, U.O, of course, one of my most play games of all time.

No, they changed their name again. Again? Oh, shit. Yeah, because they were day bringing on a studio money. Here it is. Dimensional Inc. Games. Oh, and DC Comics MMO by Dimensional Inc. Games and Daybreak Gamecom. company. So I guess daybreak, I don't know, they were Sony online entertainment. Then they

became Daybreak as part of the Daybreak company. And now I guess they're dimensional Inc. games underneath Daybreak. I'm rusty. Anyways, they made DC Universe Online, of course. And then, yeah, there's this rumor now that, or not even a rumor, I guess, the fact that it was in, I'm reading from PC games. N. The Q3, 2021 investor presentation for Ened Global 7, the holding company that owns Daybreak reveals that an unannounced massively multiplayer online game at Dimensional Inc will be, quote, Marvel IP based in AAA and will be led by City of Heroes designer Jack Emerit, who is also currently heading up DC Universe Online. Fuck, yeah. I would love that, especially, you know, DC Universe Online, you know, as a game I adore, but it's 11 years old and feels like it when you play.

I'd love to see a modern AAA Marvel MMO. What that is going to be? I wish it was just, I, I'm just thinking like, what if it's just an X-Men game? What if that MMO is just you make your mutant? I think that would be a lot cooler than just kind of like having it would feel a lot more contained in that you you're not just like a random super you're like these are all mutants and these are the sort of powers

the the power bases you can choose from whether you have electric powers invisibility all that shit I think that would be really cool. It feels more like realistically contextualized in the world yeah it makes more sense for the IP whereas like DC Universe Online I'm I think I played like 30 minutes of it and it was like, I don't know what this is and then bounced out. But like that was you created a character and I think you were reported to another character. Yeah, yeah, exobites had been rained down by future Lex Luthor on the planet Earth because we're going to need more superheroes and super villains to fight what was coming, Brainiac's invasion. So yeah, if you played right at launch, it didn't have a great onboarding.

It had a great, it had that amazing trailer that we can all right. Yeah, yeah, Christmas sleigh. Great Christmas sleigh. Great Christmas sleigh for sure in the holiday fest. But then, yeah, you wake up on the ship, you know, from one of Brainiac ships and either Barbara Gordon or the, the bad guy, the calculator, calculator gets you out of it. No, no, you had underlings before you ever got there. That's why it's such a big deal when you, you know, hit max level and you got to go into the wash tower and go into the room with Batman Superman and Wonder Woman is amazing. Real big deal.

Well, there are your predictions, the official predictions for 2022. to we're about to do the official patreon exclusive post show for people subscribe to patreon.com slash kind of funny games but we'll give our extra leftover predictions anything that we did get to this show some fun stuff some of the low-hanging fruit and all of that or get to that in just one second for everyone that can't join us for that i love you i appreciate you goodbye