Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - 2026 Video Game Predictions: Month By Month - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: January 19, 2026

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Go to boot.dev and use code Kind of Funny to get 25% off your first year on the annual plan. If you want to get our shows ad free and our exclusive shows, go to patreon.com slash Kind of Funny. Yo, what's up? Welcome to Kind of Funny Gamescast for Monday, January 19th, 2026. I'm on your host, Blessing, Adia Jr. joining me is The Master of Hype.

So Mike Mike. Big bless, great to see you. You know, it just came to my mind since Roder Damas is here predicting. I should check out my fantasy critics, see how it's doing right now. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? Because I already drafted all 10 games. Yeah, there's no maneuverability there.

Nothing's happened yet. Yeah. You know what you drafted. Why are you checking? Every day he's going to check though. Just in case. Something by the changes. Oh, my God.

You're like somebody who's checking their like savings account or like their retirement account. Yeah, it's like, can I add any money this month? Definitely didn't. No, we didn't. All right. How much money to have a checking? Not enough. And of course that is the tastemaker.

The Rostradamus. Roger Bicornie. Good day, Kim. Oh, I like that. That's a throwback That's a throwback right there Come on, come on. Roger, how are you doing?

I'm doing great. I feel a little nauseous, you know what I mean? So if I throw up all over Mike, that's good. Definitely don't. That doesn't look good. Doesn't look good. Is it because you're nervous

or is it because you're feeling kind of sick? No, I'm new pills. You know what I mean? Like, I'm on new medication. So it's just like doing all crazy. I'm getting like dry throat. I'm going crazy mode right now. I feel you.

My brain's all mushy. But you know what? I see the future. And I think these pills are helping me see the future. Oh, I mean? Like I see it on last night. I just kind of sat down in front of the TV and I just went, I was closing my eyes and I just wrote down all these things.

So I don't even know what I wrote down, but I know it's the future and it's all going to happen. I can't wait to talk to you about your predictions. Month by month, 26, what's going to happen? And also what happened in 2025. But before we get there, Mike, I'm playing Final Fantasy 10. Oh, wow. We don't got to talk about this too much because I talked about it on TV.

I listened. Okay, so you already know. I'm enjoying this game a lot. I'm glad that you experienced Blitzball, no matter what you think about it. I'm just glad that you experienced it. No matter your wrong opinions. What happens is at the end of that

Blitzball tournament, shit pops off. And when I heard you say that, I knew exactly where you were going. Ricky! Let me tell you about one character. His name, Oren. Barrett, can you look up A-U-R-O-N? They call him O-R-N because he has O-R-R-A.

This man, this ballfogers. I'd be calling him Ar-N, but I like it. Ar-N, I don't know. Orrin. Yeah, yeah. Aaron. Aaron, Orin, Arn. Let me tell you.

He's still late. Let me tell you. I love this character. This guy's cool. This dude, he like walks around. He, like, has his arm in a strap or whatever. But, like, I don't know what he does because that arm definitely works. I thought this was nursing it.

He's nursing it. You got to keep it. Yeah, it's like in a sling. I thought that was Vincent from Final Fantasy 7. No, Vincent wishes he was fun. Yeah, Vincent wishes he was. All right. Vince was pretty cool.

He had that PS2 game where it was a shooter. That was pretty sick. No. When you end the game, we're going to talk about this guy. This guy is, oh, I love this guy. I'm working on a list. My top, top baddies of Final Fantasy 10 ranked.

Yeah. Orrin, I mean, there's number one. Orin might be number one. No. Lulu, right? I mean, Lulu's in the running. Lulu's top three. But also, I just met this guy,

Seymour. You know about Seymour? Deep V. Seymour's a bad. A real deep V. Seymour's a bad. You'll be rocking that deep of a V. I mean, I hope so.

I'm trying, listen, I'm trying to get there. I'm trying to rock a V so deep. you're all going to kick me on me. You got to put on some clothes. You got to put on some clothes. And then, shout out Lulu. And then there's one more baddie. What's her name?

Donna. You know about Donna? Hot Donna. That's what I'd be calling her. Hot Donna. Come on. Come on. Shout out of final hands.

I get right to the points with Donna. Enough about that. Of course, if you're watching this show live, you can be a part of the show by super chatting in over on YouTube. com slash kind of funny games. I want you guys to superchat in with what your predictions are month by month for what's happening this year. Of course, shout out to our Patreon producers.

Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney the song-twining. For now, let's begin with topic of the show. Tots, tuts, tuts, tuts, tuts. Our 2026 video game predictions month by month brought to you by the one and only Rod Codomis. Roger, around this time last year. Yes. You came on this very show.

I did. You gave us your predictions month by month. Kind of like against your will. Tim kind of just... Yeah, yeah. I thought it was going to be like a group. Group activity and it's like, Roger, we're going to make fun of you. And it's like, awesome.

You pitched it as a group activity. I was like, Roger, that's such a good idea. We're just going to have you do it. You play. You play. And I did it. And you came here? Put this podcast on my back and we did it.

Do you want to go through how you did in 2025? Oh my gosh. It was amazing. I have a lot of predictions here. So we're just going to run through them. I'm going to let you know if I did good or if I did not so good. Matt Carnage in chat says he was wrong a lot. Oh, well, you know what?

I have the document in front of me, and there's some green and there's a lot of red. Can I ask a question? Yes. Were you at least right at least one time? Yeah, multiple times. Oh, hell yeah. Okay, let's go. January, Switch 2 is announced.

I think that was kind of a given at that point. We all knew that that was coming out. Wait, in January? Yeah. Like you thought that was going to happen in? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did that happen? It did happen in January.

Oh, yeah, yeah. Sabrina Carpenter's of the trailer, and I said the big feature is that the switch can send a switch signal to the dock wirelessly. I still wish that that happened. You know what I mean? That would have been sick. Why? sick. I use my switch is in handheld mode and I'm lazy. I don't want to get up. You know what I mean? I just want press the bun and go I understand that. So it looks like ass on your TV? Well, no, they would

have had the technology. They would have figured it out by then. You know what I mean? AI, the power of AI. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. See, barely figure out game chat, dog. I like, they figured it out, bro. And when I'm playing GameShare, it's like 144P and like you can barely see what's going on in Hyrule Warriors. And I'm like, Lanzah, you got to hop in. You got to help me out in Hyrule Warriors. We're going to make this happen. So we're giving you like half a point on that. Yeah, I'll give a half a point. Half a point, okay.

What's to bring a carpenter in it? No. No. Who was in, didn't they have a celebrity? Uh, they ended up having Paul Rudd eventually in one of those ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Uh, February, uh, GTA6 trailer and is delayed to 2026.

Uh, this happened in May, but I got a ride. There was a trailer and it was delayed. So I'll give a 0.5 on that one. So that counts as one in total. I don't know. I'm going to be a point for that one. It didn't happen in February. For real on you.

Yeah. Wow. Okay. March, I called this the February fallout. This was me predicting where games would perform and how they would perform. I said shadows and avowed would underperform. Incorrect.

Probably half of that. Shadows did really well. Avowed didn't whatever. Siv and Yakuza does about expected. Wilds is the biggest monster hunter in history. And I said, Blumen Rage gets lost in the shuffle. So I'll... You're definitely right about Blue Rage.

Yeah, I got some of that right there. Switch to launches in April. I got that wrong. But I have the launch window line up here. And one of these, I'm going to give myself a big old pat in the back, okay? Okay.

Let's go through the ones that I got wrong. Animal Crossing, of course not. Didn't happen. Eldon Ring, where the fuck is that game on Switch?

Where is Alder Ring on Switch? Runs at 20 FPS, so they got to figure that one out. Metrored Prime 4 came on December, so not launch window. I said, every first party game has a 4K upgrade for $7,

and I broke in parentheses included in NSO. So a little bit right with the Thieves of the Kingdom, breath the wild thing. Yeah. But the one I'm going to put on my fucking shoulder.

And I didn't get it, I didn't get it fully right, but I fucking kind of got it. I said Mario and Donkey Kong Odyssey. And I'm like, that's kind of what that is, bro. I know it's not Mario, but like, I got Donkey Kong. If you take away the Mario part, I wrote Donkey Kong Odyssey. That's kind of fire. I'll give you 0.75 for that. Hey, come on, bro. I'm like, I was right there, bro. I was right there. I saw it. I give up a point five for it for that one. Because like, if you just remove the Mario from it. Yeah, come on, you got Donkey Kong Odyssey,

but come on. It is Donkey Kong Odyssey. Bang. It's Donkey Kong Odyssey is that game. Yeah. And this is before everybody, remember, this is before I start taking the pills. These super pills, I see the future now. So this is all like kind of me figuring out. Roger's noggin has grown since the pills. I'm going crazy right now. I got dry throw and I see the future. May, PlayStation showcase, of course didn't happen.

That said happened in May? No, there's no place in a showcase at all. There's state of plays. Oh, state of play. There hasn't been a PlayStation showcase in going on three years. Yeah. Which is crazy. And you all call me crazy when I tell you they don't know what they're doing with these showcases.

New IP from Sony Santa Monica, of course not. Agosiote trailer, sure. Wolverine trailer. We saw that in one of those state of plays. Game I will talk about later is revealed, which is until dawn. Until dawn, too. Which didn't happen.

Bloodborne remake, of course, did not happen. Summer Game Fest, June, Sonic Adventure Remakes. Oh my God. Remakes is what I said. I said two. I said two remakes. Versona 6 teaser for 2026.

Splitter Cell gameplay. We were in such a different place. This is the kicker. No Silk Song got that one right It wasn't that summer game fest Yeah Prentices dev hell question mark Which is hilarious

Because Silk song might have been the first game That was in Dev Heaven You know like that game They were like Oh no nothing went wrong We were just taking our time We wanted to make sure we're making a masterpiece Listen I'll give myself some credit on this one

Okay because I saw this one I'm glad that I put it on the list Ubisoft is sold probably to Tencent And I put in parentheses This is the explanation of what I got wrong and right They created a subsidiary that houses most of their big franchises with a massive investment from Tencent, and that happened in October. So I'll give a point 25. Yeah, I'll give you something. Yeah, give you a little bit of something. Now going back to back, August, Phil Spencer retires and resigns from Xbox,

okay? I'm still surprised he's hanging in there. Yeah, I mean, he's still there. September, this is TGS, Tokyo Game Show. Kingdom Hearts 4 is we revealed. I did that for Mike. Should have believed that's not happening. New York is a game. That did happen. That was Guami 3. And I said, more project century, we did not get more project century. December, no, October, until dawn two releases. Shout out, blessing. That didn't happen. That didn't happen. November? Hey, this is good.

I called this in January. I said, new call of duty comes out. It's Black Op 7 7 and it's rushed like Modern Warfare 3 and it sucks. That's exactly what I said. You're at all of that. I said all of that. You know what? I'll give your pops. I'll give you a pop seven too. That's a good one. I'm wearing my Black Op. Seven hoodie. That game fucking sucks.

I don't want to have you know. Roger was really... That shit was mad predictable. I would have said the exact same thing. That sucks after Blackop Six? I would... Because they're following the exact same thing. The reason why the last Modern Warfare game sucked

is the same reason why this one is is because they're following up and they're rushing the next game. They're like, we're going to do two Black Ops and two Modern Warfares. But you're actually right. You're absolutely right. I don't want to get yums.

I'm now. And then of course, that's a December Half Life 3 is announced at TGA. So, you know, a little bit of a mixed bag. I got the new pills. I'm feeling good. and I think I see the future now and I understand how this game works

now the future works because I was seeing the multiple like the branches of the timeline and now I see the one timeline the sacred timeline I think that was a Give me the Doctor Strange one really quick Raj

there you go Thank you. That first year was a building year you know what I mean like you were spending that 2025 Rochester drama segment yeah

coaning that craft and honestly I see I see so much potential I like it I like it there's a lot of good shit in there thank you bro and loyal

loyal freak of the chat says Burrow went four for 25. Okay, listen. We don't got to put numbers on this. Just shooting shots. Just shooting shots. This is what I want. Who said that? Loyal freak. I want you to give one of your predictions for this year.

Wow. We're going to hold you accountable. We're going to write you accountable. We're going to write down here too. Now, this is what we're going to do. We're going to do the same thing that we did last time. Roger's going to take us through a journey month by month. Give us his predictions. We're going to talk about them. But Rogers made a request for this year.

Yes. That each of us on the hosting panel bring one prediction for one month. Each of us. Each of us. Each of us. Bring one prediction. Uh-oh.

Is that Mike's prediction? Watch out. He just made that up on the five. Mike called his word association. Mike just dropped a little yakuza teaser for you. Mike told us for the show he didn't bring a prediction. Now I have one. It's just Ichban that he exists.

He's going to appear somewhere. When we get to that month, we'll speak up on like, okay, this is the month I have a prediction for. Roger, what do you want to start? I'm going to start with January. January is almost done, so it's like that was a tough one. Let's start with High Guard. I think High Guard, I'll read what I wrote.

I said, High Guard is primed to be a failure. The internet fucking is annoyed at it. They're talking about where's this game. It ended game awards and people were mad about that. I think the game is going to be a success. I think it's going to launch pretty high with 150,000 concurrence on Steam, which is lower on the end of like a free-to-play,

but like that's enough to get you started and to kind of build a community. And I do think that they're going to kind of knock this out of the park in terms of starting up and just having the, hey, the game's out, here we go. And it's going to be fun enough

to kind of build that community. I don't think it's going to be a massive failure as people are acting it out to be because it's free to play. And honestly, I don't think this trailer looks as bad as people are on the internet are pretending it looks.

I think this looks really good. I'm excited for this one. Mike, where are you sitting at with High Guard? I want to see it. I'm definitely on the area of like, you know, I've had my time with Art Raiders. I'm in the next search of like what is going to kind of be my first person

shooter for a month or two. And so, yeah, I'm hoping High Guard delivers for two weeks to four weeks. That's my goal. That's what I need out of this. I'm looking forward to this. Of course, it's hard to predict how these things are going to land. And also the long tail of this.

And the long tail is really tough to predict. I will say, I don't like all the Internet's treated this game. Yeah, I agree. I think the Internet's been very mean to Highgard. And I don't, I understand why I don't think this game should have closed the game awards. From what people have been talking about since this game was announced was that like they didn't

even pay for that spot. It sounds like Jeff Keely might have just given them that spot because Jeff Keely saw it and really dug it and was looking for something to close out the show. I don't know how true that is, but I say that to say that like, you know, I don't know if you could have advertised to this game in a way that would have gotten the entire world on its side. I think the only way it would have been to do the apex thing of like the game's actually out right now. which I think they're trying to do it at the same time. It's the tough thing where Apex had the benefit of EA, right?

And it's respawn. And so they can shadow drop a game. It was a Super Bowl too. They did that as well. Oh, was it? Yeah, it was like it was like a Super Bowl like ad and they were like, hey, here we go. It's out right now. Let's play it right now.

And they have such a big, they had such a big machine behind them. High Guard doesn't have the same thing because they're not EA, right? Like this is an independent company working on a big multiplayer thing. And so I could see them trying to emulate the strategy by going, all right, will appear at the Game Awards, go silent, and then the day of release, that's when we start marketing, doing all that stuff.

I think that's them trying to emulate. I think the tough thing is that that game awards thing, I don't think they expected that to get the reaction that it did. And so I think that's really tough. I also think that, like, it's tough when you announce this game and you don't really tell us exactly what the game is.

You need a preview. What is the raid shooters, right? What is a raid shooter? We still don't know what this mean. You needed to put out preview impressions alongside the announcement, in my opinion. But I'm not writing it off. I mean, again,

for a free to play game, I think it's going to be successful. I don't think it's going, in the very beginning at the least. A year from now, will this game be around, will be super successful. But I do think it will find, it will be a pretty positive opening of like, hey, this game is fun. And it needs some issues, it has some issues, and we'll work it out. But I don't think it's going to be a disaster like people are acting like it's going to be. That's a pretty safe one, in my opinion. Before you get out of January, can we jump on January?

Yeah, do you have your prediction finally? Next week. I mean, this week, I guess this week, the Xbox underscore. developer direct. Oh shit. Yeah. That is a good one. I should have done that.

And you talked about last year you said the fallout, but you didn't mean fallout. You said the fallout again. Fallout 3 remastered. It's finally revealed and real. And we'll be coming out in spring. Spring. Yeah. It'll be about a month.

Be about a month of two away. Let's say first week of March. What was? What was Oblivion? Wasn't Oblivion just kind of shadowed, announced and drop at the same time? Yeah. And we will get to that.

We will get to that. Right. Talk about February. February is a big one. It has a lot of multiple predictions, but we're just going to go through it. Valve's big February. First week of February,

Steam Machine launches at the end, sorry, launch it at the end of, sorry. Steam Machine is announced, and here's the prices of Steam Machine. Steam Machine is going to launch at $750. In parentheses, I put, this was the price of the Valve Index

at launch with Headset. setting controller. I think this is the price that they're trying to shoot for. I think once you get into the $850,000 range, it's going to be really tough. I know that with RAM and everything, it's always a fluctuating situation, but I think 750 is kind of the price you want to go. And also, with the leaks that have been happening from the, I forget what European website that was in the kernels, that included tax and everything. So once you take it away, 750's around where you're going to be at, I think that's a solid place. We're talking about C-machine the box. Yes, the machine the box, but it comes with the controller. It comes with the controls. It's already control.

It's already confirmed comes with the controller. So I think 750 with the controller is where you're going to be. Steam Frame, which is their new meta-quest type deal. I think that's going to be $1,000. This is the same price as the Valve Index with all of its sensors. So I think that's just going to replace that skew. And I think the controller is going to be $90. So I think it's going to be a more expensive controller

in order to try to get more people to buy that that aren't buying the steam machine to hopefully recoup some of the money that they're maybe breaking even at and make a profit off of the controller. So that is the first week, February. Those are the prices that I'm saying right now. Second week of February. Stay with me, everybody. Half-Life 3 is announced.

Okay. There will be an explicit reference in the trailer to Aperture Science, but you will not see a traditional portal gun. The date for the steam machine and Half-Life 3 will be March 23rd, the sixth anniversary of Half-Life Alex. Oh. And the end, and the VR headset. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh. Okay. So that's, and I also will say right now, everybody, if Half-Life 3 exists and we'll come out, but my pills are saying they will, it will be an open critic score of 94. 94. 94. Which, I believe Alex was 92 or 93. Yes.

So not that far off. Yeah, it's up there. But I think Alex is a different thing. You know what I mean? I think Alex being in VR, feeling like a big step forward for what they were doing in VR, I feel like that gets at those extra points. I think I would love, I would love to see. Half-Life-3 come out and, like, feel like a 94 on OpenCritic or Metacritic, I just wonder how

hard it is it to innovate in, like, the first-person shooter space slash first-person adventure, whatever you want to call it, right? It's, to me, it's like, what is the thing that they're doing, like, the gravity gun, right? What is the thing that they're going to do that is going to push gaming forward that's going to push game development forward? And I do think that there's that pressure within Valve to not just do a, hey, we're making Half-Life 3, and it's just Half-Life 3 is kind of what Half-Life 2 was, it looks better. they're going to do something weird.

They're going to do something crazy. They're going to do something, whether it's with physics, with motion. They're going to do something crazy that is going to feel like the portal gun. And I think that that is going to push forward this game to be having that excitement where everybody plays it.

You know what I mean? Not even the Half-Life Sick goes. Like everybody at this company will play this game and get excited about it. Can I make a prediction on top of that? I think what the gun is going to be, it's going to be like a gun that deconstructs things. It's going to be kind of like Fortnite,

you know, breaking down like buildings or whatever. It's going to be that. I think you're going to have a fully destructible environment and like you have a gun that's going to be able to kind of like suck in materials

and then like re-spit out materials and we're all going to be like this is dumb. But then it's going to come out and we're going to be like this is the best thing ever. This is the coalition of all time. We're all going to be like

they're fortnighted or whatever and then we're going to play it and we're going to be like oh shit this is the greatest technology ever made. Berturo says like Gary's Bonsort of yeah that's actually good call. Yeah the portal

to me I'm a little I'm like 50-50 armed right because I've already played portal we just had Splitgate halo with portals right So it's like the portal gun itself Is not wowing me in any way right now Well I'm not thinking there's gonna be a portal gun in this game

I'm just saying well It's all in the same universe So I'm saying like they will they will try to build out this thing Of like hey aperture science is in this You're saying like the next portal gun Yes yeah what is the type of thing that they're going for I fuck with that Yeah so the 750 price point for steam machine

God I hope I hope I don't know I feel like that's the last number that you can get. That is like, okay, sort of reasonable. That's about where like a new iPhone's at, right? Like, new, like that's okay. 750, maybe 800. Once start getting to 850 to 900, it's like, ooh, yeah.

Once you get to 900 stuff. I think if we get a price that's below 800, the controller's not going to come with it. I think it'll just be box. Yeah, they renege on that. Yeah, they're like, hey, you can buy the controller for $100. Which is fair. Honestly, that's a smart way to save the money,

because I don't think everybody needs that controller, but also the controller's really dope. And I think that they've been showing a lot of people. I'm sure they really, want to sell the controller. But with these RAM prices, oh, yeah. Yeah.

Okay. I like that. That was February. It's a big February. Now we get into an even bigger March. Whoa. Nintendo direct time, baby. And this is the big one.

We got to see what's going on in 20206. And I'm just putting fucking dates. Again, the fucking pills spoke to me. And I saw the dates and I looked at the calendar in my mind. And here we go. I like the confidence here. Fire emblem, fortunes weave. July, 26.

We're just moving. Okay. We're just moving. Okay. Comedacci life. June 2020. I don't know why Tomodachi but I just feel like

we could just put that game out there who cares like June is work you know we were talking about this on KFTD what companies give summer vibes Nintendo very summer vibes that's a summer company right there oh yeah you know what else is a summer game

yoshi 2026 June I think that's exactly right Rhythm Heaven that's a cozy game that's December 2026 December I just feel like you end the year with honestly I agree

100% agree you just end with a rhythm heaven Splatoon, now that's a September game. Splatoon Raiders, September 2026. That is also where Splatoon 3 landed. So I think that's a good place for them. Right before GTA 6th, you know, September, I think that's going to be. September's going to get very packed, I feel like, but

that's probably a smart place for that. And then we get, oh, Dustbloods, I said, for August with a direct delving into it in April. I like that. I like that. You wouldn't expect Eldon Ring to come out before Dust Bloods? I mean, I'm sure. Elden Ring so small.

When you guys are like, where's Eldon Ring? It's like, what, what's the rollout here? But it's got to go Eldon Ring into Dustblood, right? But also, they're not the same. Like, it's like a publisher's Bandai Namco and then this is Nintendo, right? It doesn't really matter to them. Like, that's Bandai Namco's fucking problem. Nintendo's not thinking about.

Elnering got delayed out of 2025 to 26, right? Is that what happened last time? Yeah, I think they're just struggling with what to do with it. I think Elmering might just show up and be like, hey, it's coming out next month. And I think that could happen in, I think that could happen in February. I think they could be like, hey, it's out in March. Or in March, I think they can be like, it's out in April. I think right now they can't think about strategizing

dustbloods around that because it's just a chaotic factor. It's like, hey, we've already kind of fucked up with what we're doing here, you know? People in the chat are mentioning of Dustblades feels Halloween in October and that's actually a good call, but I'm sticking with my August just to have it. But, you know, also, I'm saying October if it gets late.

You know what I mean? I said the words. We can splice it together. And then I have two. Now, this is where we get kind of crazy. I have one that we've been talking about forever. I feel like we have to have some type of Zelda thing. So, Ocourine of Time,

remake, November, 2026, they go right into the GTA thing because they don't give a fuck, right? And the reason I say that is because that's six months before the Zelda movie, just like Galaxy released six months before the Galaxy movie.

So I think they want to have some type of Zelda thing that's like, here's the one that you can play right now. And of course, Galaxy 1 and 2 was a port, it was a glorified port. this is probably going to be a little bit more than that but we're going to get Ocarina of time

on the Switch to November 2026. The pills are speaking to them. The pills are speaking to them. Do you believe it, Mike? We have the Zelda thing, right? What is that Zelda thing? I mean, you're right, we do have to have a Zelda thing. But, like, I just don't know if at the same time as GTA6. I know what everybody's going to say

different audiences. Yeah, they're not moving. They're different, whatever. Like, it's Nintendo. Do they care as much? I think they do. Chad also points out Pokemon is usually November. That's true. And we do have a new generation of Pokemon coming. Oh, see, I think that's even more fascinating. This Pokemon move.

Do they? Because, like, I think with Zelda, they might carry a little bit just as far as, like, the conversation online, like the media coverage, all that stuff, getting eaten up a little bit by GTA6. I think Zelda might be a thing where it's like, hey, put it on October, actually. But Pokemon, though, do they got their big old fucking Pikachu balls swinging? Oh, yeah. With Pokemon.

He's got some big old nuts on him. Are they like, yo, fuck G. We're Pokemon. It's the biggest IP, like, what is the most successful money-making IP in history? Like, they don't give a shit

about GTA. They understand that those are completely, even where there's a Venn diagram, like, that Venn diagram's still going to buy both. I think if there's one thing that would be like, hey, yeah,

we're going to release the same week as GTA, it'd be Pokemon. Yeah. And then my final one. This is the one where the pills really spoke to me, and I just saw it.

I was just thinking about, we have this Mario movie, right? And they've had a long time to develop this, Mario movie in conjunction with Nintendo. So we have Galaxy. It's like, okay, are we getting Galaxy 3? It's like, fuck now.

Like, that just seems like two, like fantasy booking. Like, I don't, also don't think we're getting a 3D Mario game in this year. I just don't feel it. I don't feel it in the air. So what can we do that fills that kind of hole that we have here? And I was like, fuck, they're going to make a Rosalina game. They're going to

make, a super Rosalina, and she's going to be in space, and she's going to be doing her thing, and it's going to fill that void of a 3D Mario game. Like a Princess Peach for the time. It's going to be better than that. It's going to be an actual video game. It's going to be an actual video game that everybody wants to play and not for little

children. It's going to be like a Zelda Echoes of Wisdom type deal where it's like, okay, it's Zelda, but it has a, you know, a little bit of a twist going on there that makes it a little bit different than the mainline stuff. That's what I'm thinking. Do you think it's top down like a Zelda? Like what do you know? No, no, no, no.

I think it's going to be more of like a galaxy than anything. It's going to feel and look more like a galaxy. but it's going to have, I don't know what that, you know, twist of the gameplay is. Maybe she's spawning these, you know, stars everywhere and that's how she creates her platforms or whatever, but like, there's going to be something there. And I think that she's the main star and they're going to try to push her as a secondary thing. I don't hate the idea. I just don't know.

I feel like you're splitting. I think with Yoshi coming out this year, I don't know if you put out a Yoshi game and a Rosalina game in the same year. I feel like Nintendo will give you one of them. a year. But I think that that takes the place of what this Yoshi game is the Mario thing for the year? Yeah.

Yeah, because I think Mario, I think Mario usually gets two to three things. You'll get the sports game or the Mario Party, right? You'll get a platformer and then you might get like, I don't even know what the third thing usually is. Maybe it is more like two things. But yeah, like I think those slots are filled. I could see, honestly, I could see a Rosalina game coming out next year. Yeah.

Maybe like right after the movie. But the movie comes out pretty soon from now. What, March? Yeah. So on October game? The movie comes out this year. Yeah. Yeah.

Very soon. That's what I'm saying. I'm saying like if we have a full-ass trailer, oh, this is March. So this is March. So this is March. If I'm saying that this Nintendo Direct is March, right?

This is before or right after the movie comes out. And all the kids are like, oh my gosh, Rosalina. I love Rosalina. Rosalina game. Bang, here we go. I think that they have enough time. They had enough time to actually think. about this for once.

Like, the Mario movie was in, you know, motion and everything when they're making the first one. Now they know that game was a hit. We have three to four years to make something right now. Buck, let's make something. And I don't think that Nintendo is dumb enough to not take advantage of it. I would be interested to see how they felt about the success. No matter what we commentary people think about Princess Peach Showtime, what that was success-wise for them internally. Because, like, if you can't get a Princess Peach game to hit, I don't know if we're

going to be able to sell Rosalina as their own title. I just don't think Rosalina has it like that. I love Rosalina as a character, but I don't think they would look at that as like, we put the name Rosalina on the box of the game and it's going to sell, unless they make it like a very small thing. Yeah. I think that's kind of Princess Peach, you can wait, I think it has a way higher sales potential and that game felt like a bit of a smaller thing that they made. Yeah. I think for a Rosalina game, you might have to go even smaller than that. Like, it would have to be a, like, a side scroller Or like, you would almost have to look at another game and be like, hey, clone that game and put Rosalina on the box. You're right. You're right. Or it just says Super Mario Galaxy 3, but then it crosses off Mario and it says Rosalina.

So it's like the Birds of Prey movie where they have like Birds of Prey and the Fantabular story of Harley Quinn. You know what I mean? Like we just have it all in there. We just say it all. I love that. But yeah, I think because I think Mario Galaxy, the remaster, the remake they just put out, I think that's going to do the kind of the carrying on the game. side and then yeah Yoshi and Mario tennis fever would be the things do we know that

Rosalina's in fever yet have we seen Rosalina because I could see that I could see that being like the thing of hey Rosalina's in the game or like here's a Mario Galaxy level

for an update yeah I think my thing is like man there has to be a Mario 3D something and it's like I know that Rosalina wouldn't sell that well but also it's like the perfect timing

I don't know I just don't believe in the Odyssey 2 I don't believe in it I don't believe Odyssey 2 or Galaxy 3 is coming to any days yeah we got Rosalina the game. There she is. She's flying.

I'm so pumped up to buy those plastic tennis rackets. It's ridiculous. Are you going to try to like... I cannot wait. You want to play tennis? Tennis rackets? Yeah. Well, for like Nintendo. Whenever they, you know, like the wheel for Mario Cart, like I can't wait when they come out with those shitty plastic

tennis rackets for my little Nintendo Switch JoyCon. I can't wait. Do they do that for aces? I believe so, yeah. Oh, really? Or party ones, yeah. I can't wait. I can't wait for this game. Yeah, we're going to be playing this. Party mode.

And we're going to be swinging away. When I was sick over the weekend, I was playing a lot of Mario Tennis 64. Nice. Just because. I've been getting a lot of tennis tic-tops as well. Okay. They were doing this thing at, I forget if it was the Australian Open.

There was some tennis event that was happening recently where they were doing like best of one. And like, it's like a fun mini tournament. Whoever wins gets a million dollars type of thing. Very fun. Very fun to watch. All right. April.

April. Ballah three remake is released. There is no mention. of New Vegas. The honeymoon period is fairly short. As your internet, internet discussion overwhelms the with questions of New Vegas. So I just think that like, people are going to be excited about it. They're going to have like a week. And I was like, what the fuck is New Vegas?

Like, why did you guys put this together? Like, I think that's going to be kind of the vibe around this. I'm like, yeah, sure, fine. I want to do Vegas. Like, and I don't know. I don't, I'm not a believer of like, they're going to do both. When is, they're no. They're going to stretch this out.

We're going to wait to the next season of fallout to do the thing. But I actually think that April is a good. place to have one of these remakes every year if Xbox wanted to do it because that's where they had the oblivion remake just kind of shadow dropped so it would be nice if Xbox needs to be like hey every April we're just going to give you one of these and uh i mean i think i think it's new Vegas i think fall three has been more rumored and so i'm maybe they've been working on it longer so i could see that being this year and then new Vegas later down the road it just sucks because i feel like to the opposite of what we were just talking about with

nintendo i feel like their their timing has been so off right like we should have already had new Vegas by the time the TV show is coming out. Like, we should have a version of New Vegas that people can go and play that is like modern and remade or remaster. Do like whatever. Yeah. That should be the vibe right now. Um, hey, like I'm excited no matter what. If it's a fallout three remake, I'm excited for it. But yeah. Yeah. And then I also put Marathon does pretty well from the jump, but Peter's out over the year. It launches on Steam with 150,000 concurrent. That's my number right there. But that's pretty okay for a, you know, $40 release, but also not great for, a bungee type title.

I don't think it's going to be a hell divers too or anything like that. Yeah. Now is that April? That is April. Before we move on the next month of the year, which is May.

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that wasn't when you type and shaved bear on Google you wouldn't imagine it comes up. Yeah, no. It's very scary. May. Roger. I've got one before we let Roger go. Oh, Eric's got his. This is my one. This is my one for May. For May. We finally hear back

way quicker than we're expecting from Team Cherry about all of their updates that they talked about at the end of last year. We get a shadow drop of Hollow Night Nintendo Switch 2 edition. That free update for Hollow Night 1 that's like out now.

The Sea of Sorrow DLC, not as quick of a announced to release as we saw actual Silk Song. It'll be early July. Early July. I like it. Okay. I like it.

Just to give some time between Hollow Night 1 Nintendo Switch 2 edition and this DLC drop. And I like this because it's not a Jeff's thing, and I feel like that's the most realistic thing is that it just ends up on a random May, and it's like, all right, yeah, I guess. They're ready to talk about it. Yeah, we're just ready here on May.

Okay, I like that. I like it. Well, talking about announcements, PlayStation showcase, finally, it's been three years. This is, this is the moment. This is the moment we're looking around. It's like, what the fuck is going on with PlayStation? Where, what are we announcing? This is what it's going to be.

Somehow, Fair Games is back and releasing next year. Prencisees, probably won't come out next year, but they're going to say it is. Yuck. The studio is still around, the game's still being made. They're going to have to talk about it. And they're going to show a trailer and we're going to be like, yeah, it looks like a video game. All right.

I'm going to go the opposite way. I think by May, we know that fair games has been canceled. Okay. Blessing. By May, fair games is canceled. Jade Raymond isn't even at that studio anymore. That's insane. I'm just thinking about that.

That was her project. Like, that was her game. They founded that studio to make fair games and then Jade Raymond left. Yep. That game's not. not going to come out, unfortunately. God of War, unannounced project, which is probably like that 3-2.5D,

thing that's been rumored for Jeff Grubber million years. Yeah, that's shown for August released, so pretty fast. So that makes a lot sense to me. We can have that at, you know, summer game fest, we can show that off if people can play it or whatever. I think that's probably a good place for it.

Wolverine, I said October. Oh, right there. Okay. I think that's not bad. Horizon co-op game is dated for early next year. So we show that off and we're like, hey, this is what this is. Is it like Monster Hunter?

or is it just something different, whatever. Now, which Horizon co-op game? Not the NC soft one, like the actual one that's being developed by Gorilla. Yeah, Gorilla. Yeah, I think we show that one off there. I don't think that NC Soft one would ever be shown at a state of player showcase. I think that's going to be like one of those weird ones where it's just like, a blog post and it exists and it's like, okay, we hope that China gives us money.

Yeah, they're just going to put it out, and we're going to be like, all right, this exists on the score. I say that this is where we see the Witcher 3 DLC, and it's shadow dropped here. This is the place. This is the May. The date was the, we're getting it in May. I think that's a perfect place to just be like. like, here it is, and it's out right now.

I like that. Play it right now. There will be a big presence from Sony Studios, films, and television department. The reason I say that is because Sony has kind of restructured their entire film business and television business around the video games. They're very focused on this because clearly they have karate kid and all these franchises that don't work other than Spider-Man. And they're like, we're going to fucking make PlayStation movies until we die now.

So there's going to be some type of maybe fizzint, not fizzin, but you know what I mean? They're going to be like, come out and be like, oh, and also here's the the head of Sony film and he's we're working on you know here's here's the building here's pat upon we're working on helldivers yeah here's the first trailer for the gravity rush anime exactly right yeah or they're going to announce like hey you know we we announced god of war here's the cast and we're filming here like they're going to talk about it in some way and try to connect these two worlds more and more uh and i like that's something to look forward to no bloodborne no intergalactic no intergalactic no intergalactic and it's a showcase

here's so here's what i'll say right it's a PlayStation showcase if they call it a showcase they got to bring some of the big guns. Yes. So what's a big gun that we're going to see? We finally see Corey Barlog's project to close up the show. I like that. It is not a sci-fi space game.

It does not look like intergalactic. It is not a space sci-fi game. It might be sci-fi elements, but it's not anything like we can, we see from intergalactic. It does not feel similar. What did Jason Shrier say about it recently? He said that it's like,

because we've been expecting new IP and I think Jason Shrier was like, it's not a new IP, but it's kind of like a new thing. Yeah. And so I'm still What is that? What is that?

I feel like he might have said something about the fantasy aspect as well. Yeah. But I forget if he said that it's not fantasy or if it is. Or sorry, not fantasy. Space aspect.

Yeah. I think he might have said that it's not, but I got to go back. Is there anything I'm missing here? Is there any game that I should be looking forward to that the pills didn't see?

I was going to say I think you would pair this with the co-op horizon game. I think Horizon 3. Oh, you just showed both? No. I just never feel like that works. Every time I do the

prediction of like, oh, we have like a block of Horizon stuff. We do multiple, I don't think they ever do that. But I think it's time for that game. It's been, what, Horizon Forbidden West came out in 2021, 2021, that game ended with a cliffhanger, right? Like that game ends with a baton pass to, hey, we'll see you in the third game. Whereas, is that

a PS6 thing? Yeah. It could, maybe they do the insomniac thing where it's like, hey, we do the Horizon thing. And then also here's Horizon three, like they did with Miles Morales and then Wolverine. Yeah. Yeah, I could see that. I could see that. it was ghost of Yote Legends out by this time. Oh, that's a good call.

My pills didn't see that. But I would assume so, yeah. I think that game's out in the next, like, one month, through, I'm gonna say by April. Yeah, May is a long time to wait for legends. I don't think, I don't think May is way too long to wait for legends. Yeah.

I'm surprised Legends hasn't already been talked about. Yeah, honestly, too. I'm surprised we didn't end the year talking about legends. I'm just going to say shadow drop at the state of play next month. Okay. Yeah. Oh, is a state of play next month? I mean, there's always.

There's always. Yeah, like a February or March. The pills didn't see that one. And that was it. That's all I had for May. Just to follow up on the Shrier stuff, I finally find it. Basically, nothing is known about what the game is. Some have theorized that is a new IP, but Shrier said that's not true.

It's not a new IP, but it might feel like one. Maybe that's why people are confused, unquote. There you go. Layers back for that. Oh, wait, hold on. Keep it on the screen. After that comes really is spread out. Suggesting the company might have, oh, never mind.

This is more context. So he didn't say anything about the sci-fi part of it. So maybe it still could be. that. Well, that's not what the pill said. June. Assassin's Creed re-synced is announced for August

and Sansa-Time is announced for September. Wow. This is also, sorry, this June is summer game fest. So, yeah. Re-syncing Assassin's Creed Black Flag. Yes, for, yeah, Black Flag Resyned. So you think Black Flag gets announced

and released before Sands of Time? Yes. Crazy. I think we just, I don't know what the fuck is going on at Sands-D-Time. I don't, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. what's going on. I know those rumors were all hoaxes that were supposed to come out last week.

I don't think this game, I think we're just going to show it at a thing, be like, hey, wait two months, you'll play it. Whatever, three months. You will not see Judas. We will all question if that game is coming out. I like that. I like that. And then this for you. New mainline Sonic game will be revealed. It looks better than it has any right to be.

There will be a chow. Will there be a werewolf? I mean, a werehog. That's the big question. Will there be a wherehog? Here's what I'll say. I think you're right. except it will not bear what did we say i didn't want to see a foot you said for the next games daily not for games cast not for games cast god damn do you think that's what his feet look like he's five toes there that's that's crazy um

i don't think it'll look better than it has any right to that's my that's my one thing i'm like i think we'll see a new mainline sonic i don't i think we're gonna be like oh yeah that looks like how a sonic mainline game looks like i think it's that we're still gonna love it for all its flaws. I think it's going to be Sonic Frontiers, too. And we're going to be like, you think me too?

Yeah. Yeah. And I think we're, I think what we're going to say is, man, why'd y'all keep the pop in in the trailer? Like, I think that's going to be like,

I think that's going to be like, why'd you keep all the dumb shit or like, all the like, all the, like all the rough shit in the trailer. You're not going to edit that out? Like, why don't you hide it better? I think that's going to be the reaction.

Oh, God. I want him. I prefer this over the feet. Because this happened. This is real. This is beautiful. Did he kiss a human girl? Just knuckles just watching in the cuff chair.

Just sitting in the corner. Sonic is a franchise with many moments. All right. July. This is when we come to the months of, there's not really much going on. So it's like, I'm just saying shit. And I like this one, though.

Electronic Arts reveals a major game. And, whoa, what the fuck that I write? Electronic Arts reveals a major game. And it uses generative AI. Mask off. No fucks giving. I'm talking full on with something like the Sims. Inzoid did it, and they're about to be bought by Saudi Arabia.

So who gives a fuck? Fuck you. We don't care. You're a casual gamer, so we don't have to try with you. We will put AI in the shittiest way possible inside of our games, and maybe a chat bot, maybe some type of Gen. But they will put AI in one of their big franchises, and my guess is going to be, it's going to be the Sims.

They're going to announce something with the Sims, and it's going to be like, it's generative AI, who gives the fuck, we're doing this because, you know, we don't have to worry about anything anymore because we're with Saudi Arabia. I think it would be specifically. because of Inzoi. I think they're going to look at the success of Inzoi and be like, well, they did it. Success. Quote unquote success, right? But, you know, they're going to look at the, I guess, the fervor around

Inzoi and be like, yo, other people are doing it. People are throwing money at AI. Fuck it. Yeah, and I also think that this is the franchise that they would do it in. Right? Because it is for casual gamers, right? It is like the most baseline. And also, you can talk to the Sims or you can tell them to do something and they will do something crazy. Or you can tie something in and now you can have a pink house that's, you know, automatically. You don't need to build anything. This is the franchise that they will just shit AI into and they'll be like, well

it's fine. It's not like the core franchise, it's one of these for everybody's. Who cares? Yeah. This is the one that they will do it in and I think it will happen this year. This year. I think they will just shit it out and they'll be like, we've been working on a new Sims project. It's a free to play project, whatever, and then it has a bunch of AI in it. Sad.

Wow. Yeah. I think that's a good prediction. Yeah. One of these companies are going to do big AI shit and I just think electronic arts, electronic arts has the capability to just go mass. golf and not give it. See, I'm going to go, I think that's going to happen, but I think not this year, but soon,

um, what's the company that makes arc Raiders in the finals? Uh, that is called Embark Studios. I think Embark Studios, whenever we see their next game, it's going to be even more AI. And it's going to be AI to a degree where it's like, damn, like y'all really said fuck the haters.

Yeah, we're going, we're doubling down. Even more in, yeah. We're not like these guys Larian Studios that will back off on anything. We're doubling down. Because they're already dip in their toe. They're already doing that shit, right? They had the AI voice announcers in the finals. They had the shit, the, the, VO in Arc Raiders.

And I think they're going to look at the success of both those games and be like, oh, we still sold. We can just do this. Yeah, we sold so many million copies. Our peak or our concurrence are still fucking high. Like, this is a net positive for us. Yeah. To save on doing this work and making this much money.

Yeah. And it's going to be depressing. It will be depressing. There will be a lot of AI depressing. I don't think that bubble's popping next year. We all wanted to pop, it's not how about popping. There's too much,

there's too much riding on the AI and the powers that be that will continue to pull the strings. Yeah. We're gonna have another year. How much money can continually just pass through the same companies like they're actually doing something

until it all just, just like the crash of 2008, you know? Yeah, we have a few more years. I think the bubble popping, at least on the video game side for AI, is not going to look the way that we wanted to look at now. I think the bubble popping

is going to look like more. like more of like a little deflation, right? Like the bubble's gonna, gonna, a little bit, a little fart, you know? Like, yeah. He's gonna do that. And then like, AI is still going to be around. Yeah.

Um, and shit's gonna get worse, right? Like, the games that we wanna play are gonna get more expensive to make, more expensive to buy all that shit. It's not gonna be like, hey, the bubble pops and now you can afford RAM or anything like that. No, no, GPU. It's not gonna be the bubble pops and nobody's doing the shit. I always point out to the fact that like, people are like, oh yeah, eggs prices are down.

So it's like my, my safe way. eggs are fucking 899 still. Like things don't go down anymore. Like things go up inflate and then the bubble pops, but then everyone still has to pay the more amount of money. So it's like nothing to change. Like when the bubble pops, it's going to be disastrous for the economy.

And we will have to pay for it. Yeah. Well, in August, sadly everybody, I was wrong. I was off by a year, but it's going to happen. Phil Spencer will resign from Xbox. He will resign because I'm happy about the idea. No, but like it finally happens.

Yeah. You know, of course there were the rumors last year of like, oh, he's like setting himself up to, you know, to resign, those were debunked pretty fast, but I don't know. I still will say this every single year because I don't see Phil Spencer being in here for the next four years. Like, I just don't see it happening. I think there's going to be something he just has to go. Like, I think not because he's doing a bad job or anything, I think he's doing fine, but like, as there's been so many, how many times can you get the cuts? How many times can

you see have to fight with Microsoft and have to fucking fight for this division? And I just don't see a world where he is going to be able to look around and be like, okay, well, I'm going to continue to have to lay off studios, close shit down, and then be a shell of what Xbox's is. How many times can you have a vision and have Saty and Adela come through and kind of and fuck up that vision and be like, well, shit, you know, we did X, Y, Z thing. We bought these studios. We're going to do this, this, this, this and this.

And Big Microsoft came through and said, no, no, no, cancel, cancel, cancel, like, you know, like, if I'm, I don't know how Phil Spencer has been there that long. Yeah. If I'm Phil Spencer, I'm tired as fuck. and I'm like, hey, I did my best. I did all I could. I couldn't do shit here. Yeah, I mean, maybe he's,

I know this is a dip, we're not in his head, we are not in this world, but like maybe he's waiting for the wins. Maybe he's waiting for some wins to go out a little bit on top of like, hey, I put out four banger games. We don't have a bad call of duty this year,

whatever, but yeah, I think this seems like a good year. The one thing I'll say that might be against that idea is that I, I think we're close enough to the next gen that maybe you just get the next Xbox out the door. But maybe that's the perfect time to be like, hey, I'm bowing out. This generation's ramping down.

We're going to ramp up on the next generation handheld, whatever it is. Sarah Bond, here you go. Yeah. Here it is. You know, take this fucking affordable Xbox. I mean, yeah, but I mean, there's probably the best time to go out then instead of having to deal with, you know, competing against the steam machine and doing all this stuff. It's like, okay, I made another halo.

I'm out. Do we just, what happens, Mike? I mean, I look at it as a 25th anniversary. Right, like no better time now to celebrate the big anniversary than like end of the year. Be like, this is my time. Sarah Bond has already been in the face for quite some time. We're all adjusted to Sarah. We know what she wants to do.

We're going to get right with it. So I have no problem with that, Roger. I'm a, you know, I don't want to see him go, but I get it. Yeah. Well, September, we're not stopping when it comes to Xbox because September, Halo campaign of vaults will be released. and so will Halo multiplayer revolved both for $40.

You're an insane person. And that's why they did it. So they can charge you $80 for one video game. Oh, no. That's why they're doing it. That's why they're doing it. You're an insane person. So what is the multiplayer then?

It's Halo one multiplayer. Oh, it's going to be Halo one multiplayer. Yep, you can buy them both for $80 or you can buy them separately for $40. It's so good because then how they sell it, Roger, all on game pass. It's called Halo Campaign. evolved. Why not Halo multiplayer evolved? Put it together. 80 bucks. I hate it. It makes

so much sense and it was the moment when the pills spoke to me and it sucks, but it makes so much sense. They're talking like, oh, well we have, when this one we're focusing on the campaign, we have something for multiplayer eventually and we're thinking about it. It's like they're not going to make Halo infinite again. That would be the dumbest decision in the world. What are they going to do? They're not going to make a free

to play, another free to play Halo thing. Just make Halo 1's multiplayer by itself and then have Halo campaign by itself and then just do that. And that's what they're going to do. The Pills are speaking. Why not just put out Mass Chief Collection on PlayStation? Well, because they want to redo

all this, because that's one package that's 60 bucks. Right? So then they can charge you $80 every few years for Halo 2, Halo 3 Reef. Oh no. That's what they're going to do. I guarantee you that's what they're going to do. I fucking guarantee you next year or the year after that we're going to get Halo 2 and then we're going to Halo 3 and we're just going to keep on doing this for three to four years until they're ready to make Halo

Infinite 2 or wherever the fuck they want to do. Wow, Rod. That's what's going to happen. The pills are speaking. That's what's going to happen. Mike, do you buy it? I mean, I'm not, I'm not opposed to her. I think I see it.

It's hard not to be like, yeah, that sounds about right. How about this? You do, you campaign evolved this year, multiple evolved next year. Year after that, Halo 2 campaign evolved. After that, Halo 2 multiplayer evolved. Like, you stagger the years. Halo every year forever.

I also started thinking about this. I was like, maybe this is, I think this is, I think this is, is what they're going to do. And then I also think that this is a test for, could we do this for Call of Duty? Could we do this for other franchises? Could we do this for Gears of War? I don't know. You can't do it for Call Duty. Maybe. Look back at those campaigns. Most of them are swimming in sixes and sevens. I mean, is there a contingent of people that was spent

$35 to $40 on just the campaign and then maybe a few months later get the multiplayer when their friends are playing? Well, we did go back to the multiplayer maps recently. Yeah. And Call of Duty Modern Warfare, three? we did all the old multiplayer maps, if you remember. Yep. And that didn't go as well as I think they thought it would. I think there was a lot of excitement for it, but when it got there, I don't think many people were like,

oh, now I'm really happy to be here. Yeah. So, I don't know. It just spoke to me. It just spoke to me and it just thought that one. That's a crazy one. I like that one. I think that that is their way because they're like,

oh, we're not doing $80 anymore. It's like, okay, well, no, the game's $40. And so is this game. And they come into a package at $80. Yeah, there's a different, yeah, that's a different conversation. The one into two is an interesting conversation because, like, yeah, why remake one? Right?

If we're just going to go to Halo Infinite 2 here, right? Like, why are we remake and one if we're not going to remake the trilogy here, especially for PlayStation fans? So that makes a lot of sense of like, yeah, we're clearly just going to run this back, right? We'll call it the side passion project while they make the big one, right? And they just remake those three.

You really don't think that it's just going to be a free-to-play multiplayer experience at the end of the year? Hey, we heard Jall's feedback. We've already been working on it. This is a free-to-play multiplayer experience available on everything. You can buy Campaign Evolve for $40. But the free-to-play multiplayer, it's out everywhere. I just don't see what that is.

Like, it was Halo Infinite. Like, are they going to now reb- Is it just going to be off the back of Halo campaign evolved? It's going to feel like Halo 1 multiplayer? Or is it going to feel like all the Halo games? Like, I just don't see what that game is. Well, it will feel like all the Halo games. games now because they've all morphed into

a modern FPS, right? It is not, no sprint. It is aimed down sights. Like, all of these have morphed into now just the modern first-person shooter, but it is Halo 1 OG maps, remade and Unreal Engine 5.

For free. But then what's the monistication? It's just the... Yeah, it's just Hala skins. Yeah. I don't know. I just, I think that that is something that you wait for, or you have to, you have to nail it. You have to nail it. I mean, Halo Infinite nailed it for the first four months. Like that was a great package.

I just don't think they got it like that. I don't think also I don't think like the nostalgia of Halo 1 can kind of push you into a free-to-play model for the next year. Like unless you were- Three months. I don't think it's going to year. So then what are you doing? You're then just doing, are you then going to start bringing Halo 2 and three maps into this? And then just making that to Halo-Iffman again?

No, no. You just do this. You're just, but for free to play? I don't think that's a free-to-play game. I think that's a $40 video game. I think that's its own thing. You just let that. live or die by the $40, have that community, and then eventually we do a Halo Infinite.

It's either free to play or it's included in Halo Combat Evolved or whatever. They've already said they're not doing that, right? There's no way they're selling two different products here. There's no way. Like, I love your prediction. I love that the chat, like, freaked out because it is one of your best predictions of like, this shit is wild. There's no way that they will do two separate products and try to sell you two $40 things.

I just don't see, I just don't see the world. of how we're going to be able to bring in multiplayer in a feasible way. And that's free to play. That isn't just doing Halo Infinite. So that's the cookie that I can't. Why can't they do Halo Infinite? As a free to play game, I don't think that works. The Halo 1 maps?

13 maps. Yeah. You're selling just skins. I mean, we're talking iconic maps. But then what are you going to do inevitably when you do Halo 2 campaign of Alder? You just get then just add in Halo 2. I mean, I'm making it like a yearly call of duty.

What happens with the Call of Duty? Okay. You get called duty. It's 10 maps. Three months later, you go, man, I'm bored of these 10 maps. And on a yearly cycle, they give you DLC and give you new map packs. But like, Halo 1, it's like, hey, we gave you Halo 1. You have the full Halo 1 package now.

But then also, I don't think. We'll see you next year with whatever. I just don't think that. I think people would get everything that they want out of that and never spend a dollar. Like, it's not like, it's even less interesting than Halo Infinite. That's like giving people call of duty multiplayer for free. Yeah, but they might not spend a dollar. but people will spend.

And we always talk about this with free-to-play games, right? It's like, you can take your stance on, I don't want to jump into the monetization or it's scummy. I hate it, whatever you're-s. But it's like, there's a pie chart here that shows 40% of people will buy the $5 skin and selling $5 is more than just nothing. Sure, but then also, I will go back to my point earlier where it's like, that's like giving away call duty multiplayer for free.

Right? It's not like a war zone. It's not like a battle royale. It is just, hey, here is just something that should be, paid or traditionally paid for free and I just don't see the benefit of that and I think that Xbox wants money right now. They clearly do. They need these franchises to be successful

and giving away Halo multiplayer, which is undoubtedly one of the most important and valuable things in their portfolio for free. I think that doesn't work out, especially when the way that people consume that specific type of content, not like a multiplayer battle royale which is very different. Well, I agree with you. I think this needs to be bundled as one. There is no splitting this, right? Like if it is a

Halo 1, C-E-remastered multiplayer. It needs to be in the bundle of the product. It is a $40 remastered product. It is everything that Halo 1 was with multiplayer and campaign. That's it. It is not split down the middle. And if it is split down the middle, there has to be so much more, right? It's like there is something else to this, whether it be an extraction shooter, a live service.

But I say that, you say that, but it's like, destiny doesn't matter. I genuinely, and again, I'm not, this is not me, you know, saying that this is a good business practice. I think this is fucking, this sucks. But also, I would pay $40 if I was, you know, somebody that was outside of the industry for Halo multiplayer with the right. No, you wouldn't. No way. I think that is the thing that I'm more excited about than the campaigns for me,

specifically, because that's the way that I engage with Halo. So I don't think that that is out of the realm of possibility. Again, fucking Mario Kart World is $80. So I don't, I don't think it's in the heads of these executives for them to be like, hey, $80 for the package of both of this game remade. I don't think that's $40 for just Halo one multiplayer. Dude, we were talking about them literally. I don't think it's out of the realm possibility,

even if this thing that I said does not come true, that Halo campaign evolved is not $40. I don't think that thing is ever going to be $40. Have they said the price? No. I think it's $50 to $60. I don't think that this is going to be as cheap as we think it's going to be.

I definitely do not. And that's just for the campaign. That's my thought process. It's like, if they split it down the middle and they give you both products separately, and you can pick and choose what you want, it's $80, that seems like something. Xbox and Microsoft would do. I'm not saying I can condone it, but I also know that that would make a

fuck ton of money. All right. It's going to be a fun one. I'm so interested on what this strategy is. We've talked about it since me and Tim went up to Seattle and saw it, right? Our first reactions when we left that billing was, wow, this looks great, this plays great. That's crazy that they're not adding in multiplayer. That's crazy that this isn't one full package. What are they going to do? And we have no idea until it's finally time in June or all the way out in November when they finally make this move. And if it's true or not. Yeah, for sure. I'm scared that.

Man, all lies on Halo. October. October. Modern Warfare 4 will be really good. Not as good as Black Up 6, but it will be really good. Do it another modern warfare? Yeah, they are. Yeah.

Yeah. We're back to it. We didn't do a double up years, but you know, we're back to it. Yeah, yeah. Then we will find out there's more Gen. Gen. last time and it will still also do the same about numbers in terms of sales than Blackop 7. So it's still going to be a call of duty decline. It'll be number one game of that month or

whatever. It's going to be huge. But we're going to find Gen. AI in it. It's going to be monorfer four. It's going to be pretty okay. But the sales are not just going to fucking magically skyrocket because there's so much stuff in the marketplace and everyone's playing Battlefield. And I don't know how Battlefield's doing right now. I know it's kind of in a dip. But there's competition in this world and GTA 6 is around the corner. I don't think that that's going to save that franchise and give it the huge bump. it might need or want. November.

Surprise. Grand The Thought 06 actually comes out. Oh, shit. It's here. That's my big one. Yeah, I don't, I was going back and forth with delaying it, yada, yada. I don't know. Something about me feels like they're like, we need to make this happen, like now.

Because our entire years take two, it depends on it. We need this. The game industry is moving away from November, like the fucking plague. I think it's going to happen this year in November. Even with the boiler room explosion? That would be great. It's like, it's like Pixar when like that one computer like exploded and then they lost the entirety of Toy Story 2. I love the idea of like them putting up like a new poster of video that's like, hey guys, we promise we thought November was for sure.

We could not have predicted this. Like I'm sorry. Like I don't know what you want from us. There's water everywhere. What do you want? It's like the Rizz's basement of flooding. It's like, oh no. Oh God.

We lost half the game. It doesn't seem like anybody was harmed. So do we think it's coming out in November? I think so. Yeah. Greg sent something to KFGD, I thought, where it was like, there's a fan who's terminally ill. I saw that.

Oh, yeah. They have given kind of like a version of GTA6 to be able to play. That's a little heartwarming story. Yeah. It really nice. So it's one of those, like, I don't think they would have done that if they don't feel confident that it's like, almost there. Like a state where it's playable.

So that gives it like, even. in that little story. I think it's a flip of the coin, right? Jason Schreier did a thing on it last week where he was talking about like, yeah, it seems like it's good, but like if there's a pixel that's off, they'll delay it.

Like, if there's anything, they will be willing to delay this game if it's if there's something off, if it's not shaping up, they do not want, they cannot fuck up this game. And so I think it could just as easily delay as it can easily make it. So I'm kind of 50-50, but I'm leaning toward the idea

that it comes out this year. Mike, we're in December. Do you have a prediction or? I have my. Mike gave me. Oh, yes. Yeah. Why would you attack me in such a public forum, Roger?

Mike looked to me. Mike looked to me earlier today. It was so funny where he was just uptight. And then he's, I was like, why are you uptight what's going on? He just said, Roger, you know my muscles hurt. My muscles hurt. My muscles hurt. Why would I?

Just golden gay bridge. No way. First time. It's a beautiful experience. How would I know? Really? Loved it, man. That's fucking awesome.

You ever done it? No, I've never done that. Oh, it's cool, man. And did you walk back? My fourth? No shot. I never knew it was more than a mile. I was like, oh, this got to be like a half mile.

No, it was more than a mile. Yeah, no, it's pretty long. It kicked my butt, but it was beautiful. Wow. Got to watch big old Air Force bomber jet fly over top. Then a cruise ship came underneath. Yeah. It was a bad ass day.

Beautiful Sunday. Okay. Sunday beautiful. Wow. Park on the other side. Yeah. Marine County side, walk back over there, get a little coffee bagel. Oh.

Back. That's the move. You know what? You're inspiring me. I might try that. I like walking. You would like it. Yeah. Especially if I can go to the cross, get something to eat and then come back. Because after a mile, a mile and a half, I want to eat something. I'm zapped. But yeah, I was all crabby at Roger. Yeah. My body hurts. No, I haven't predicted my thing yet because my prediction is for December.

Either an early access game is nominated for Game of the Year at the Game Awards and everyone is mad about it. Whoa. Or an early access game isn't nominated, sparking discussion. that it should be. This year, I don't know what the game is, but there will be an early access game that's in the game of the year discussion, and it's going to cause everybody to go crazy.

Even more crazy than we went with Shadow of the Earth Tree. Wow. Damn. Yeah. Well, it's not deadlock. I don't think it's going to be a deadlock. Okay. I'm leaning towards a surprise.

No. I'm leaning towards it comes out, and like, it's a game that we just don't expect. That comes out of a left field where everybody's like, yo, this shit's like a balotro, you know what I mean? Like a blueprints. But whatever it is, it's early access.

It's early access. We all fucking play it and we're like hooked on it. I like that. And we're like, yo, this is fucking incredible and it ends up

in that conversation. And will it end up on kind of funniest game of the year list and upset a lot of people. God, I wish Deadlock ended up on the game of the year list. Haven't buried, you's like just

redacted. It was one of like, am I going to have to find assets? I did that, yeah, yeah. There's no official assets for this game. How am I supposed to make a video?

Like I was, did you all see the, Andy's top 15 through 11. Yeah. Like the deadlock video on the wall was going to have to look like that. Yeah, that's sick. I like that.

But yeah, my argument here being that early access has become a bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger thing in recent years. And I think early access is only becoming more popular. People are playing more early access games, right? It's becoming a more natural, normal way to release. And so I could easily see something come out where that takes us all off guard.

We're like, yo, this is fucking amazing. but also technically could be Minecraft too. To be Mike. I too. I don't think it's early access and it's out. Is it?

I think it's early access. December, of course. Game Awards as Blessing alluded to. I have a few, I would say modest ones. I'm not doing Half Life 3 this time, but I got some, I got three.

I got three right here. Witcher 4 gameplay. I think this is where we start. We start actually saying, hey, Richard 4, I don't know if they say, I don't think it's 2027, but 2028. Right?

We just, we keep on every year or so. We're like, hey, we're showing this. This is what it is. Which are four gameplay, 2028. Devil May Cry, six is revealed. It's the one more thing.

It's the last big thing. I think he likes Capcom. They have that connection. That seems pretty realistic to be like the one last thing. You fucking, I don't know, you had Dante comes out in real life.

We're just trying to think of a name of any devil make cry character. I was trying to think about music and I was like, I don't know what any of the music. Dante and Virgil. There's Dante Virgil. There's V.

Yes, there is. I've only played three. I, I almost booted up double-minute cry five again for the first time in like five years. So many systems in that game. So many systems. My brain can't do it. V is a freak in that game. He is a freak. It's like, what are we, he's just summoning things. He's doing all this shit. And then my final one, which I have to do it. Every year. I got to predict it. As Jeff is speaking, he's speaking. He's doing his thing. Oh, man, game awards. I love video games.

Video games are so cool. Fucking, blu-d-d-d-d-d-lice turn off. Holy shit. Yeah. Oh my God. He forgot to pay the electrical bill. What's going on? Oh. lights go on the screen. Spinter Cell is showing off. 2027 window. And what I wrote, it's a big deal. You think Ubisoft can afford all that right now? Big deal.

You think he can afford somebody to turn off the light switch at the game awards? And it's like, oh shit. Oh shit. And they're like, Michael Ironside comes out. Finally, remember when he was supposed to come to gamescom? People thought he was going to gamescom? Yeah, he was trapped. He was trapped in a fucking loop and now he's finally here. They finally got him there. Listen, Ubisoft's going to have Michael Ironside handing out pamphlets like it's a mixtape outside, outside of the game boards. Be like, hey, guys, we got splinter's self. Please, it's all we have left. If this doesn't work, we're done, we're finished, please. That is my year, everybody.

I like it. I like it. What do you think the success rate is here versus last year? Yeah, what were you last year? Four of 25? Yeah, four of 25. I would say six to 25. Okay. I think I got a lot of, like, you know, like I put like, oh, I mean, I got a lot of, like, you know, I put, like, also here's the open critic here. There's a lot of things

that I can kind of like point two fives out of this but I think I'm gonna do pretty good. We're gonna do pretty good everybody. I like a Rosalina game, everybody. Look out. Somebody, hold on, let me see if I can find it. Rosalina's big time. Big time in space.

Here we go. King Toast 24 says, I think you're more likely to get a Captain Toad in Space game than a Rosalina game. Our prediction for this year is a new Vanilla Ware game. Here's what I'll say.

Because I'll say like, I think a Rosalina game would basically be another game but like a clone version. I could see a, like, a Captain Rosalina game. Not called Captain Rosalina, but it's a Rosalina, like, puzzle box style of game. Just a half, yeah, just to come in there. Okay, I could see that.

I do like the idea of a new Vanilla Ware game. I hope they go back to more 13 Sentinels. When did the, what was the last game that they made? No, not I didn't know where you're talking. Unicorn Overlord. Yes. Was that two years ago? Yes.

Okay, okay. Very recent. I don't think we see one come out this year, but I can see an announcement maybe. Same with Atlas. I think we could see P6 announcement this year for the anniversary, but yeah. Dead Brain writes in and says, Half-Life's weapon arsenals often left out of the conversation, the crossbow, FBW rocket launcher, etc.

So imagine Half-Life 3 with an array of aperture devices. Oh, that's sick. Dude. There's a bunch of weird gadgets. I got emotional last night watching, like, footage of Half-Life 2. and like just breakdowns of it all. I was like, man, like this in 2026 would go so fucking crazy.

God. Yeah. Still waiting on that and video remix of it. You got to play Half Life Alex. That's the next one is I'll put the headset. Yeah, put the Head Setters. Yeah, I got to play episode one and two first. Oh, yes.

Oh, yes, you didn't. That's Half Life 2. Yeah. You finished Half Life Alix 2, but there's still more. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Half Life Alex is important. Black Mesa.

It was tough. The gameplay wasn't clicking with me. Like, it feels like an older game. You know what I mean? But I want to push through it because I like the world. crazy music in those games. I wish I could, I wish I could finish those games

without throwing up. Oh yeah, I got nauseous, yeah, I got nauseous every single one of those. I had that, watch all the gameplay though. Dude,

I had crazy motion sickness playing, oh, what's the first person shooter on the Wii that also has like swords in it? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah,

I know, I know, samurai or something. No, it's like two of them also. Steel, steel, red steel, yes,

your mind is my mind. That went, that went triple platinum on X play, bro. They were talking about that game all the fucking time. for no reason, dude, I was playing Red Steel. I got like maybe 30 minutes in,

I had to turn off the Wii and lay down. It was so bad. There was a weird, like, two-year arc in high school where first-person shooters would just give me ocean sickness. I couldn't play, I could not play first-person shooters. Then I got over it. And then we have one from Ambrosia Jam. There's a Red Steel 2?

Yeah. Bring up footage of Red Steel 2. Red Steel 2, big jump. Big jump from Red Steel 1. Was it also on the Wii? Yeah. Okay. And they were banging out.

Yeah, Red Steel 2 was going crazy. And then, yeah, Ambrosia writes and it says, I predict generative AI will be used in a game, and it will blatantly use slurs, but still not be canceled. Isn't that what happened with Fortnite? Yeah, with Vader and Fortnite? Yeah, they have a meme, or is that real? Oh, yes.

They were working Vader over, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. You get stuck in a loop in a sequence, and all of a sudden, you'd be breaking more Vader down. Poor Vader. Poor Vader. And that's it. Do we have footage of Red Still, too?

It would be great if that game never existed. Like, blessing, I can't find this Red Steel 2 game. What the fuck? It is like... It's more stylized. Oh, wow. This looks way better. Art style looks like early borderlands. Yeah, dude. I fuck with Red Steel 2.

Yeah, that's dope. With me back and it made you sick. You should watch whenever I make Andy and Nick put on the headset. It's always funny. They quickly get sick. Yeah, I don't handle motion sickness as well. There's a moment in Astrobot. Astrobot

Rescue Mission for PSVR one where they like you go underwater and that shit was trippy but then they put you on an elevator Oh that elevator I had taken I took off the headset I was sweating I was like oh god

That's the thing When I play like any MetaQuest game I'm just sweating I'm just like playing shadows And I just couldn't I had to stop after like 30 minutes That sucks so bad Did you see that Bruno Mars

Concert and Roblox that I sent You got like 12 million concurrent Oh that makes a lot of sense sense, yeah. That's crazy. That's crazy. Wait, hold on.

Bruno Mars had a concert that had 12 million concurred. Yeah. In Roblox? Do kids love Bruno Mars? Yeah. Everybody loves Bruno Mars. He's back. Have you heard that new song?

I mean, yeah. Bruno Mars makes music from like the 80s in 70s. When Bruno's on. But then he was also part of the, one of the like, breakout songs from last year, the hot. I also think it was in, um, captured the brain rotters and like steal the brain rock game, which is like one of their most popular games right now. Have you seen that game?

No. What a game. Steal the brain rot? Yeah, steal the brain rot. It's like, imagine if you had a giant runway down the middle, a walkway, like a catwalk, and then it walks, all these small items come out, and they're like super expensive to super cheap, but they're all like brain rot themed items. And your goal is to grab them, run to your base, and then lock them up.

And then you look at other people's bases that are in the game, and you go, oh, my God, they got the super skimbyty toilet that makes like $5 billion a set. second, I need to steal that. So when you open up your door, I can go into your base, steal it, run to my base, and then I have it forever. Children cry. I watch Laser Beam make a video on it. I shout to my man, laser beam.

It sounded like a haiku. That's real. Steal and skittany toilet. Children cry. People make that. A lot of time. A lot of money, too. They make a lot of money.

I think Bruno Mars is an AI. I, his music is too. perfect you know what I mean like to like it's like you took manufactured it's like you took every pop artist and put them into an algorithm and spit out the perfect man yeah he's got the voice he's got the moves but like but there's something about it where I'm like it's too it's too good yeah it's so good that I can't enjoy it with the with the silksonic thing that they did with um yeah it's like I love Anderson pop but it's like together she's like this is just too rounded off the edges yeah yeah exactly round it off the edges is the way to put it

too perfect to me. That's it for this episode of Kind of Funny Games cast. Roger, thanks so much for bringing your predictions. I see the future, everybody. Thank you for these pills.

We'll keep track throughout the... Did you say what the pills were? You just took pills? No, we'll just figure it. You don't want to share with the pills were? There was some aspirin. If the pills work, I'll give them a shout out. Maybe they'll sponsor.

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