Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Official Summer Game Fest 2023 Predictions and Bets - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: June 6, 2023

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It's the most wonderful time of the year. Summer Game Fest is upon us, but not quite yet. So that means we get to live in La La Land, a world of predictions, a world where anything is possible. And we're going to bring the hype right here on YouTube.com slash Kind of Funny Games because this is the Kind of Funny Games cast. And of course, I'm Tim Geddes. I'm joined by the new face of video games blessing at E.O.E.A. Jr. When the PlayStation Showcase happened, I got one reply on Twitter.

When I posted the episode of Piss Love You, when we said, that this is a disappointing showcase. One of the replies said, this is your fault. And I'm ready to repeat that again. Let's make it our fault today. Let's take it on. Let's make it our fault.

You know, I always get surprised, Big Daddy himself, Craig Miller, about the reaction to all this. Like, what do you guys want? You want to just like,

hey, I'm going to have the lowest expectations possible and I'm going to predict the things that I actually think are going to be there, like a bunch of shitty commercials to things we don't actually want. No, that's not the point.

That's not the, there's nothing good there's going to be a lot. We want these to be amazing. of shitty commercials and things I do want at SGF, and I'm excited about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. We already know that. We know we're going to get some gameplay. We're going to get some Mortal Kombat 1, bless.

Yeah, we are. Oh, my goodness. Come on, man. Are you excited for that, natural rifle, Andy Cortez? I am Timothy Geddies. I'm excited for video games. I'm excited for cool vibes. I'm excited for us to be in L.A. together, more importantly. We're all going down. The four of us and Snowbike Mike, taken over Los Angeles for Summer Game Fest, for play days, for a whole bunch of fun stuff, hanging out with the games industry, but do not fret, my friends. We will be live reacting to the Summer Games Fest kickoff live to the Xbox Game Showcase,

to the Starfield Direct, and Ubisoft forward on the following Monday, all live here from the spare bedroom in San Francisco. Thank you, airplanes. Exactly. They're fantastic. So we're going to be here. It's us and Mike will be the crew for all of those things. So please hang out with us live on twitch.tv.tv slash kind of funny games or YouTube.com

slash kind of funny games. Now, bless the real question is this. All right. We're going to go down there. We're going to go to L.A. We're going to see a bunch of games. We're going to have a great time. Saturday night, we're going to drink our faces off, right?

Oh. Are you committed to joining me and we just drink all night Saturday and then go to the airport? We fly out first thing in the morning to get here for the reacts. No sleep. No sleep. No sleep till Starfield. What time are we flying back? I think 6 a.m.

Oh, God. I'm in. Let's do it. Cool. I'm in. I'd like to hear. Andy, I'd invite you, but I know you'll be at home washing your knickers, all right? That will be.

Doing what? Washing your knicker. It's the underwear. I just read up heard washing your dick. And it's like, okay. All right. You know what? I'm sick of everybody mishearing me today.

Earlier today, Joey's playing Diablo. And I'm like, I'll come join you, Joey. I'll help you out. We have like 10 minutes between a meeting. So I click in. I get in there and I go, Joey, you have my bone arrow. And everyone in the room turns and looks at me. And he's like, what did you say?

You have my bone? I'm like, I'm making like your gimley man. You know what I mean? Like my axe. I was going to Lord of the Rings joke. And he's like, it sounded like you said, Joe, you have my boner. And I was like, everybody heard. That's what it sounded like that.

He said, Joe, you have my boner. That's what we all hurt. You all got to get your minds out of the gutter. It's SGF week, all right? Show Jeff the respect he deserves. So much respect, and we're going to show it all right here live for all of you. So please hang out with us all week. I'm imagining video games of your thing because you're watching or listening to

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Why is it that all these movies at Cairns or whatever get standing ovation And then they get reviewed and turns out their garbage. We had a whole kind of funny podcast about this. My apologies. Oh, the standing ovation one. You should go check it out. We dive deep.

We did a lot of investigation. YouTube.com slash kind of funny. I was like in the field. Yeah, standing up. Yeah. I was looking at them as they were standing up like, well, six minutes long, huh? 21 minutes long.

For a goddamn Boss baby two or, you know. Yeah. Is it real? also we find out next I mean like obviously. Apparently not. Is there something you want to promote? There is actually the Blessing show.

Yeah, I believe what time does this go up? 6 a.m.? 6 a.m. and so later today around 11 a.m. Pacific Daylight Savings Time, there will be a new episode of The Blessing Show. And it is the Blessing Show. It's me breaking down what's up with game reveals, what's up with video game showcases,

and there are a lot of really cool surprises. And so you don't want to miss that out or miss out on that. So go check that out. Definitely engage in the comments. do all the stuff to help that type of content succeed here, kind of funny because we're very, very proud of it. I haven't seen it yet, so I'm very excited. I'm excited for you.

I've seen things about it that are very exciting and hype. Oh, yeah. But I haven't seen it yet. So excited for that. What about you, Andrew? Are you excited? I'm excited to be in a hotel room. Maybe eat the M&Ms that are in the refrigerator.

$14, most likely minimum. Read the little Bible that they give you. Read the little Bible that they give you. I feel like I haven't had a Bible in a hotel in a while. Yeah, right? It's kind of weird Size Bible though, right? No, it's a little one

No, it's a small one. Yeah. It's like only New Testament. It's like font size three. It's Andy's fans. It's a little keychain Bible. It's a little thing. They only got Matthew through Revelation in that.

That's a good one. That was a good one. Thank you. Is that where you're going to watch the blessing show? Yes. Yeah, absolutely. Gotcha. Got it.

Cool. We got there, Greg. We got there. It's available. YouTube.com slash kind of funny. 11 a.m. debut. Pacific time.

Right before more Diabal Diablo. Today we're brought to you by Shady Ray's BetterHelp, and I want to give a special thank to Amazon Gaming and Summer Game Fest for partnering with us this showcase season. You can go to Amazon.com slash Summer Game Fest all summer long to discover the top new and upcoming games. But enough about all that for right now. I'm going to get into it. All right. These are our official Summer Game Fest kickoff live predictions. It's been getting weirder and weirder the last couple years to do predictions episodes for what used to be E3. Because back then it made sense. One week, we each bring

our predictions for all the different showcases and go through them one by one. But now, as Summer Game Fest has kind of turned into maybe there's a PlayStation thing, maybe it's a part of Summer Game Fest, maybe it's going to be a couple weeks away. This year it actually worked out that I think it was close enough that I would count it as, all right,

it's part of the whole season. Nintendo, nowhere to be found. They're just like, we're printing money. We have Zelda, and if you don't like Zelda, guess what? We got everybody one, two, switch. Exactly, June 3rd. Everybody, one, two, switch. We're going to keep the switch. running for another five years.

I hope we don't get demonetized with that. One thing I was going to mention, Tim, is like, it's especially tough trying to explain your parents about, you know, doing vacation time because at any moment, anything can happen in this wild world of gaming. Guys, I'd love to come over, but cock media could drop it in. Yeah, exactly. It's just so, but like, it's hard for them to understand the concept of, like, But what do you mean?

Anything? And I was like, look, it's just these developers are just sometimes like, hey, tomorrow, we're doing a fucking thing. It's like, God damn it. I was doing a thing tomorrow, but never mind. So it's like, it's especially hard to do that. So I just need all the sympathy from the viewers out there and the listener. Give it to them.

Give it to them. Even the opinions people don't want to hear. It's hard on them. It's so hard, man. But, you know, because of the inconsistency here and because of knowing what this year's Summer Game Fest is, we're breaking it down where we're doing predictions just for each specific showcase. So we did our PlayStation Showcase.

I love you. We just recorded our Xbox game showcase predictions on the episode of kind of putting X-Cath that will be going live tomorrow. You little bitch. This is going to be specifically predictions for kickoff live. The Keely YouTube Live theater showcased that they're doing. And we've been having some fun rules. What is the energy of this podcast?

Everyone is on another one. What is beeping? That's my keys. in case I lose them You know I got a lot Are these your keys? Yeah

These are my keys Yeah I went around the office Trying to find these keys We were messaging people Who's keys are these? Oh I saw them on the kitchen I didn't know how they got there

Were they just on the floor Are you serious Those are the keys? What the fuck? Wait he doesn't like Where did you find these keys They were on the kitchen table And Kevin came over

We had a guest swing by earlier A friend of the show And he was like I think he forgot his keys And I was like oh damn All right so I messaged him I was like hey did you forget your keys He's like no

What do they look like There's a teddy persona a key chain on it? I mean, I'm a big persona fan. I feel like that I would have been one of the people It was Baird. Baird was a guess as well. But also the idea that like, well, best see you're

Persona 4 is my favorite one. It's like my second favorite. You never talked about. You never talk about. All of that in your pocket at all times. That's why. And then it goes. Yeah, that's why I keep pressing the button.

It's too much. You would think with air loss, the sound would have gone off. Yeah. Well, you didn't even know they were missing. If I double press the button, it then it then rings my phone. In case I lose my phone.

But if I lose my keys, I go on my phone, I press the button, rings the keys. Yeah, it's called a tile. Yeah. Pretty popular. Yeah, I haven't on my, my, why, yeah, with Android people. So Jake Makes Cakes and Co-Op 64, amazing best friends out there have given us parameters and rule sets for the predictions episodes that we have been doing this season and we're

going to continue to use those for this. It is a new system that includes each of us making three different predictions, a lock, a lengthy, and a long shot. The rules are simple. The lock is, what is going to be this? there, how long is it going to hits, and when in the showcase will it be? Then the lengthy is a classic kind of funny prediction that has multiple different caveats. Example, Final Festi 7 Rebirth, gameplay trailer shown, we see the heroes all riding chocobos

and Eretz says something about saving the earth in VO. So adding a whole bunch of extra details to get the points there. And then the long shot is the Hail Mary prediction that would make you throw a hat at a beer and ruin a computer, aka the Gatorade Get Hype moments. And then after that, we have a whole bunch of what they call prop bets, Andy. I'm sure you know all about this. We're going to say yes or no to a bunch of different predictions and over under on certain predictions that people wrote.

A lot of good stuff going on. But I want to start off going around the table, giving our lock, lengthy, and long shot predictions. We are going to start with lock. So what is going to be there that's a lock? How long is it going to be there? And when is it going to hit in the showcase? Andy Cortez, I'm going to start with you.

Obviously the most prepared here. Damn, but we were supposed to write these down? When do we get the notice for this? That's just so silly, everybody. Sorry, I can't come home, Mom. I'm real busy. It's a lock, everybody. That Keeley and Hittata Meizaki, they got a good friendship going on. We are going to see a two-minute-long story trailer

for Eldon Ring Shadow of the Urtree DLC. it's going to be some cinematics mixed with some gameplay it's all in engine there's not going to be anything like pre-rendered and it's going to kick off the showcase tim you're going to get that big pop immediately with the from software logo and people are just going to cream their jeans let me tell you oh my luck sorry do we get a release date oh release date oh shit no no no no release window release anything i'd say winder 2023 Winter. Winter, Winter,

2023, yeah. Are you happy about that? That happens. What's that due to your the nips? Oh, the nips are extremely hard. I mean, this is, we all know that whenever From Software puts out DLC, it is never just, here's a

couple missions for you. It is always this gigantic scale thing. And we've seen a lot of their huge DLCs in games that have never been anywhere as large as Eldon Ring. So this is going to be I think the reason why it is taking this long and the reason why they have been a little bit more hesitant

to put out a lot of information out there is because it is just going to be a gigantic add-on. It's going to be great. We're getting a lot of lore about Micula. Micula is the brother, Melania. Oh, shit. Whenever you died of Malania, you died to her about four billion times and she goes, I am Melania, blade of Mickelah.

And her brother, we're going to figure out what's up with her brother. Her brother was in that big egg. Remember the big egg that was bleeding when you fight Moog and all the blood and the fire turns out, Moog comes out of the blood, his hand is there, and the thing about Mikala, he's like a baby the whole time. He's kind of like cursed to be a child. Don't know that bless?

It sounds like all of Eldon Ring. Yeah, pretty cool. I was thinking of a Michelada. A Mexican drink made with beer, lime juice. Mickelope? No, Michelada. Sort of sauce and spices. They can get him in a can now in the grocery, or not the grocery. What's the difference

between Mitchelotta and a Bloody Mary? Yeah, you don't put a beer in a blood clod cover's beer. Interesting. Greg Miller. Yeah. Have you had a Michelin? Mm-hmm. Is it good? Yeah. Budweiser did the one with the clam juice in it in a while.

I didn't like the... Flamato? Yeah. Comedia? Greg Miller. Yeah. What's your lock? My lock?

And I always appreciate the fact that when we did this on PSI Love You this year, this is how we did our things. Don't look like that. You're talking. I appreciate this Monday leading in the game. There's a one called the lengthy As if every other prediction we ever made Was that lengthy, right? My lock is many parts,

but it goes like this. Hadeo Kajima and or L. Fanning are in the building. Remember, this is in front of a live audience. This is a live thing. Hadeo L are there. Good point. This is the first time.

The Summer Game Fest kicking up live is happening in front of a live audience, at least in the last couple. Actually, no ever, right? Because this started during the pandemic. So yeah, first time. We get a Death Stranding 2 trailer with that, whether it be the introduction

or whether it is them introducing it, whether it is Jeff having a little back and forth with them about it, something like it. Just don't look at me like that, all right? Come on, bless. Thank you. You know what I mean? I say it's five minutes in total,

and my placement for it in the show is it's the end of Act 1 of Summer Game Fest. Okay. You know, the first third, we're in towards the end of that first third. Can I get a little tack on? I'd love that. There's going to be a lot of splash screens

with just text. And the text is going to be like, the future is unknown. That may be one of them. Transfaring and then it blows away like saying it says, transferring. Yeah. But all the words start with a D or an S.

Yeah. Oh. Didn't see that one coming. Sike. Maybe church is on, but I'm not putting that in my fish prediction. Oh, okay. Bless. Give me your lock.

So I took the lock thing very literally. In the sense that like, you know, no offense to Andy or Greg here. I don't think those are locks. I'll be surprised if we saw Eldon Ring DLC show up. I mean, I didn't know we're insulting each other's predictions. Yeah, that was a bad one. Yeah.

I was going to say, when we get a long shot, I'll have something to say about that. Yeah. I mean, I think the Destraining thing more likely. But even that, I'm like 50-50 on if that happens or not. Pizza bet. We're pizza bed in this right now. Which one, the Eldon Ring? Both are the Eldon Ring.

We're pizza bedding it. I'm just saying that is involved in my long shot. I don't think it's a lock. Pizza bed that it's a lock. All right, fine. But here's the deal. If it happens, we have to order pizza and then you have to eat it in the car to the airport. Let's get spicy.

Are you flying anywhere? No, we're just going to send you the airport. You got a Uber back. So my lock is boring, right? Because we know that Mortal Kombat 1 is going to be there. And so I'm going with Mortal Kombat 1. Ed Boone comes out and he plays a demo. Oh.

That demo? Six minutes long. We see a pretty lengthy breakdown of what gameplay looks like. He's breaking down. Hey, these are the new features for Mortal Kombat. I won. This is what the cameo slash assist fighter stuff looks like. So my initial reaction to that is no, based on the fact that I can't remember, when's last time Ed Boone came out and gave a hands-on gameplay demo?

He comes out and talks a lot. And this isn't me like Ed Boone fake gamer. He knows it no Mortal Kombat. That's not what I'm saying. You know what I mean? I feel like that. I do believe Jeff Keely in one of his tweets or the Summer Game Fest thing on one of their tweets said that Ed Boone will be appearing.

I do believe they said that and they confirmed gameplay. Yeah. I'm just putting those things together. I like this because even if he hasn't appeared in a while or ever before, I think that Jeff's creating something new with Game Awards and now Summer Game Fest, this being the first one with the live audience, I can see him wanting to celebrate creators more than we have seen in the past. And we've already seen him kind of do that.

So, like, we don't want to just be Kojima that people get excited about. I think that they want to invest in making Ed Boone a moment to itself. And this feels like a different sort of Mortal Kombat marketing cycle. Because for the last few, it has been, I forget which conference exactly they appear at, but it usually is a two-minute cinematic like fighting trailer where you see sort of the mechanics you can kind of understand what they're going for.

Rap songs playing. Yeah, you got like Wiskelifa playing in the background. For Mortal Kombat 1, the debut trailer we've gotten has been so focused on story and focused on setting up what's happening in the narrative and then rebooting the world and stuff. I think they want to show us like what the fighting looks like. Sure.

I think that's going to happen here. And I think, you know, I don't think we're going to get them fighting over a rap song in this very cinematic way. I think this time around you would show people blatantly this is what gameplay looks like. Because the game is coming out very soon, right? The game is coming out this fall, as opposed to like usually what it is where you get an E3 and then it's not until next spring that we get the actual game release. I think it coming up so soon means that they show gameplay. Agreed. I think all that's confirmed, as we've said, they've said that.

What I was saying, since you wanted to come from me and Andy's prediction, you wanted to get hostile. is that I just don't think Ed Boone will be the one doing it. Ed's tweet says, quote tweeting Jeff's tweet on June 4th, Ed wrote on June 4th as well. Next week will be fun. We can't wait to show you the first Mortal Kombat 1 gameplay reveal video. As y'all know, I don't play games. I won't mean.

Listen, I'd never go to L.A. Go on stage, not for me. And also, in terms of placement, I think this happens in like the center of the conference. I think it's the centerpiece. Oh, okay. We talk a lot about the opening and the closer

and never much about the centerpiece. Yeah. Because you're never really sure where the center is. You know what I mean? Good point. Is that in the center? My lock here.

You don't know how long the thing is usually until the end, right? It's not like you're going to get to the hour unless this is... That's fair. I'm excited that I'm the fourth person

giving my lock and that I get to say this one because it's very special to me and up until three days ago I would have said it's not a lock. It's probably not going to be there. Final Fantasy 7 rebirth.

Getting all the tweets in the last couple days, they've been set in a nice cadence that seems to line up right into this Thursday for Summer Game Fest. Wouldn't traditionally think that a Keeley event would be where we get this type of Squarionix titles, specifically a, like, at this point, the biggest kind of, I'm thinking on the word right now, but like the Final Fantasy game, right? I think 16 and 7 Rebirth are, seven remake series are like the core. PENT poll. Flagship. Flagship's the word I'm looking for. Like flagship Final Fantasy. But I think with the way that they're marketing and talking about it, and like I was really excited to see them saying, hey, it's on track. Development's going really, really well. And it will have a story.

And it's going to have a story. And it's going to have a story. And people were tweeting today saying that the Japanese versions of the tweets that they've been putting out, this is theorizing conspiracy shit. But like, if you take the bolded green letters in Japanese, Is it like there's a message being said that's really confusing and goes against what they're saying? It sounds like the message makes it sound like it will be delayed, which doesn't seem like something that they'd want to do.

So juries out, we'll have to see. But I do think Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth will be at Summer Game Fest Kickoff Live. I get a little confused about how and what the news is going to be, like what's actually coming because I feel like at this point showing that game, we need some answer. and I think it's a little too early to get a release date. So just them reconfirming that winter 2020-3-4 space, I think is probably the most likely answer there. The Final Fantasy 16 demo is coming.

They've already said that, and we're running out of time. I don't know how they combine talking about Seven Rebirth and 16 into the same bit. So I'm not sure that they're going to. What I'm saying is I think it's a lock, Final Fantasy 7 rebirth, being shown, and we will see... Gameplay. At what point of the company? In the trailer.

I'm going to say first half. First half, final fantasy 7 rebirth. Do you think it'll make sense if they come out and just say early 2024? Because you talk about them

not having much more to say in terms of release day, right? Because it's too early. Could they come out and just reinforce, hey, this is the year since we don't really know the year that it's coming out?

Yeah. Yeah. Fair enough. He did the thinking taste. Yeah. I could be, I can see. them confirming that it's not winter

2023, that it's winter 2024. You know what I mean? As in like the beginning of the year. Making it clear that it's not going to be this year. Yeah. But that it, they're still in that same release window that they already talked about. It's just expected next year. For now. For now. How

like, any changes to Cloud's hair? Still looking good. Still looking good. Okay. How about Barrett? What's Barrett up to? He's chilling. And Marley? Be the good day. Yeah. Did they bring Jesse back?

I really hope, man. Hey, there's going to be a whole bunch of different stories for these characters, so we don't know what's going to happen. A big chain of events happening? Of my life. That would be a very big chain of event. Do you think Final Fantasy 16 being on the verge of coming out does anything for them wanting to talk about seven? I would have said for sure.

I would have said that as a couple days ago, I'd have been like, there's no way they're going to show this Summer Game Fest because 16's right around the corner. But they started tweeting about it and it all lines up. It will be there. Like I think that it would be shocking if it wasn't. do we leave off with your, and I forget, you had a

prediction for the showcase that the Final Fantasy 16 demo would drop? Was there, that ever happened? Whatever I was. That's what I was just saying. It's going to have to happen at some point, because they said it's coming, and the game comes out the 22nd. So we're like actually running out of days for it to come out. So I wouldn't be surprised if

at Summer Game Fest they're like, yeah, it's out today. You can check it out. I just don't know how they're going to integrate that with the seven revert news. I was going to ask you to give me your pitch on how Jeff would do that. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if maybe the Final Fantasy 16 demo stuff is not talked about at Summer Game Fest, but like

on Square's Twitter or something, they're just like... See, I would think it would be something along lines of here's the final launch trailer for Final Fantasy 16. Come back to Jeff, he's like, yes, and if that wasn't enough, you know, this afternoon, it's going to be available today, you can get the demo. That's not all, Square Nix said.

Take a look at this. We're all exclusive for me. I hope so, baby. That'd be fantastic. It's just a splash screen. It's always awkward. Jesse, you're still dead. No, it's just a splat when he's like, Keeley's like, and there's one more thing,

everybody, splash screen, and it's just like Final Fantasy 16, Bilo, demo available now, and that's it and it just cuts back to him. Omega Buster says there's a Final Fantasy 16 launch event before the 22nd. That is correct. That's probably where they're going to announce the demos available. Who's hosted?

I think it's just a party? I don't know if there's a host. Yeah, it is lame. Come on, guys, we're right here. You screwed us on the date once. Let's get to our lane. lengthy predictions. This is the classic kind of funny prediction that has multiple different caveats. Andy Cortez. This is kind of weird because I, you know, I do feel like we've kind of been going lengthy with it because we like being... Just do your thing. Just do your thing.

I don't like when you rush me. Okay. I'm, no, this is actually me being in your corner. I thought we were, you said earlier we're going to be against blessing. Thanks for, thanks for encouraging me, Greg. No problem. Uh, this is actually really, really, uh, funny and lame because this may have been my prediction last year. Maybe it was a Game Awards prediction. I don't remember. Uh, We get a full-ass dragon age reveal. I know Grubb said there will be no bio-aware at any of these things. And this one I'm saying, Grub, you better fucking put your face in the dirt, okay?

Wow. We're going to get story cinematics that then transition into full gameplay snippets, kind of like a super cut of the action, the stuff that sort of leaked earlier where you're seeing this God of War style third-person action-adventure type game. Glimpses into romance options. massive customization options and then all the while Solis

who's the bald guy with the ears that everybody's like super horny for he's narrating the whole trailer and he's just real ominous the whole time because Blessing

let me tell you about the end are you a horny for Solace? Oh yeah really? It's a weird thing yeah he's a little sexy elf you know but Solis by the end of Inquisition

was not there for the final battle and you're like where Solis at and then bam post credit cut scene he was up to some shit the whole time and so that's what Dreadwolf is going to be about. But yeah, I think it's just going to be sort of a longer, maybe five, four minute type trailer showing off different aspects,

sort of the stuff that you'd see in a reveal on Twitter. And I don't really think there's going to be anybody up there from BioWe're talking about it. I think it's just going to be here is Dragon Age Red Wolf. I like this. I want to go a little further than this, but I don't want to spoil anybody else's predictions. Do you guys have any EA predictions? I have a possible one for my long shot,

but it's not related to Dragon Age whatsoever. Okay, then you can keep it if there's stuff there, but it's talking about EA. I do think it's interesting to point out we don't have any A play this year. EA does not have its own place to announce games, show games off, whatever. Thanks, Austin Creed.

So if they do, it will probably be at Summer Game Fest. I don't imagine that these things are going to be at the Xbox game showcase, just traditionally with how they've done things. the potential games that we'd be excited for are Dragon Age, Skate for Iron Man. How about that? What do you think, Greg?

Dragon Age, I think's the most reasonable one. I think Skate's still not ready for prime time, and I think Iron Man's probably not ready for prime time either, but I'm only just, that's just how I feel. You know what I mean? Whereas Dragon Age we know about it's time, this would make sense. And I think, you start looking at what you just named there, If you were to call it together a FIFA and a Madden and toss him in there, right, you could have an EA play.

Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. So clearly they don't have all of them, let alone one of them, who knows. But I put my money on Dragon Age and stay off on the other ones. But again, to Grubbs lying credit, but you're sometimes right. You know, that he has said that's not going to be there. I also think Skate 4 shows off enough on socials.

They are pretty good about updating the community on what they're working on currently and kind of, hey here's some strides we've made when it comes to gnawing you know we added a gnawley they're just kind of they're really good about updating the community and it feels more like a Kickstarter type project when they are letting their bootstraps ground floor yeah and they'll have they'll probably if you don't mind me jumping off saying i agree with you and i think they'll probably the trailer's gonna drop at summer again i think they'd get behind that of like hey everybody tune in hey everybody get excited for i just don't think we're there yeah i'm i totally agree with that too and then the ironman thing interesting first of

officially announced at the D23 thing you hosted last year, right? No. The thing I did was the Black Panther slash Captain America game. So then where was Iron Man first? First announcement? Iron Man, I believe, was just like a random post. I want to say that was like a blog post. Yeah.

Because remember we saw that sort of EA super cut thing? And at the end of the trailer, we saw gameplay for a bunch of different things that were kind of projects that didn't have names on them or even finished art for that matter. and there was a couple projects that we were looking at thinking, oh, I wonder what that's going to be. I wonder if that's Motives project or whatever. And I feel like one of those games will come to surface. What gaming is, I have no idea. Do they just take Anthem, whatever was going to be Anthem 2

and make it Iron Man, who knows? The Confucian also is that there has been a reported Black Panther game that EA is making, like an open world Black Panther game. That is different from the skybound. Yeah, the Skydance one. Greg, what is your... Lengthy prediction. Let's forget about electronic arts.

And let's talk about Capcom. Theater arts. Please, let's do it. You won't like this one. I know why. I know what it is. Oh, do you? Yeah.

They're shutting down. So with the NEM? Yeah. Ends with a hunt. We're going to talk Monster Hunter. We're going to talk Monster Hunter. Jeff Keely will come out. Well, actually, the way I have it here is maybe a little trailer, maybe a little Jeff

talking. I thought it was Mr. Ethan Hunt, to be honest with you. But basically we'll have, we'll say the teaser trailer, whatever they've debuted the day before at their digital event for the final DLC for Monster Hunter Rise, Sunbreak. Then Jeff will come out and say some of the effect of our friends at Capcom had their final Monster Hunter Rise, Sunbreak digital event yesterday where they announced blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

But today they're excited to show you this, world premiere. It'll be the show. World Premiere. You like that? Yeah. Monster Hunter 2 World. Monster World 2. Sorry, screw that. If you got me, you got me think it too hard.

And it'll have a 2024 date at the end of it, and that'll be about it. But we'll see us fighting some big monsters. Yes, there'll be a Ratholus there. Don't worry, Andy. He'll be in there. I better see it. But it'll hint at a wider, more intense open world, I think. I love it.

I think that this is pretty likely, actually. I think this was one of my predictions for the PlayStation showcase, because Montserner World One was first revealed at a Sony E3 thing. Yeah. But I think that this makes sense. I think Monster World 2 being on this stage at this point probably makes more sense than a PlayStation Showcase. Was Monster World One

exclusive to PlayStation or was that No. It was on Xbox as well? Yeah, I'm pretty sure. But now that you're mentioning it. Now that you say it, it doesn't sound right to say Xbox. For sure, it was that in PC. Either way.

The PC come later? Even that. I do want to know, but I think that it's multi-plot this time. Okay. And that's why I think that GameFest makes the most sense for it as well. Now, do you think it's...

Do you think it's cross-plat? Yes. you hope so but I mean I'm gonna say no you think it's gonna be yeah like when you say you're talking about cross-gen

like on PS4 and PS5 he means be an Xbox being able to play with the PlayStation oh oh no no no I meant cross-gen my bad is available on older consoles oh I say no there is well yeah I say no I say no 24 is I feel like too late for that now but then cross-play cross-play no cross-play this is the confusion

it was sorry let's just put a nail on this PlayStation 4 and Xbox 1, January 2018, Windows, August 2018. That was the confusion. I knew it wasn't all together, but whatever. And then, I'm sorry, back to me. Crossplay. Yeah, I don't think Capcom is up for that.

Huh. I think, I mean, like, when we talk about crossplay, what are we talking about? I mean, a lot of games, but what do they all have in common? I think it's the fact that I have an Epic account. I have a BattleNet account. I have an account somewhere else that there isn't a Capcom account, right? I think there's crossplay for Street Fighter. Oh, and I think that's through some kind of Capcom.

account? It's Capcom. Yeah. Oh, my apologies. I don't play enough Capcom games. Sure, yes. That was a good point. Yeah. Interesting.

Capcom ID is what all party calls. That's what it is. Yeah, yeah. I don't know if I'm sold on the Monster Runner thing. I feel like Capcom. 2018, man. Well, I mean, Rise since then, but like Rise isn't the same team.

Specifically for like a Jeff Keeley thing and not a PlayStation thing is my thing. Because for every major Capcom game, I feel like we've gotten an announcement at a PlayStation thing. Like Street Fighter was at a PlayStation thing. The Resident Evil's are. typically at a PlayStation thing. Exo primal, I believe, was a PlayStation thing. Like, PlayStation and Capcom are like this in a way where I think if we did have a Monster

Hunter on the verge, like coming out soon, I think it would have been at a PlayStation showcase, or maybe if it is 2024, it shows up at a state of play later in the year. I don't know, I don't know if they would show up to Jeff for like the initial announcement, at least. I think, I mean, you're right about all that when it comes to like the facts of where things have been, but I think that with the amount of Resident Evil's we've gotten, I don't I think that's kind of the marketing agreement between PlayStation and Capcom. And I can kind of see Capcom wanting to like spread their wings a little bit.

And we had Dublin Cry 5 announced at Xbox in 2018. I can see Monster Hunter because of the success of world and how well it sold and breaking Capcom records left and right. I can see them wanting to not tie it to PlayStation, even from a marketing perspective. We really wanted to be like, we're on the stage live at the YouTube theater in front of a thousand screaming fans. Fair enough.

more i mean also though what if it was the other way too where just xbox is throwing around some money maybe they're trying to get some kind of uh you know monster hunter they're making it worth their wilds you still be cross platform still be you know everywhere have it be a multi skew game but maybe it has the xbox branding on it try to get intense with that try to fight there bless give me some length i got some length for you tim thanks uh so we know that cyberhunk 27 dLC

Phantom Liberty is showing up. I think with that, we get an extended gameplay walkthrough, diving deep into a mission, right? Think almost like Sparta Man, too, and how that appeared at the place Joe Mason was extended. I think we get one of those for Cyro Punk, Phantom Liberty.

I think they also show off new cool vehicles, including a flying car. I think we get a new skill tree. You think so? A flying car? Yes. I think they go crazy with it. I love this. Yeah, I think we get that. Driving barely works in the base.

They fixed it over time In the top of the work, I think. V's like just up in the stratosphere. I think we get new skill tree abilities. I think we get a new weapon. The mixes go, ooh-ee. Hell yeah.

And then to close it out, I think Idrisalba comes out and tells us the release thing. I think it's a repeat of Keanu Reeves, except this time as Idrisalva with all this time. No, you're breathtaking. Exactly. He says in a British accent. Will there be a reference to breathtaking?

It's very, very, very. possible. Yes. 100%. Do they make any reference to the fact that when we saw a lot of these cyberpunk sort of initial showcases that none of it was real gameplay? Do they make any like, this is real 100% gameplay? Do they say anything like that?

Because we all know that when they were going through their shit, it was revealed that that first sort of E3 demo was not completely real. I mean, I think at this point we know, right? Like, I don't think there's any fooling us because we, We've played the game. And so if they show us anything that doesn't look like what the game plays like, we're like, no. Like, I fucking played 100 hours of this thing. You can't fool me.

You fool me once, CD Project. So, no, I don't think they make a big deal about it, especially because they've come around to the place where they are in good graces. Sure. And so I think they can market it without having to worry about people not believing them because now people kind of do believe in them for the most part, right? Like, there's still those things. But, no, I don't think they have to make a big deal about it. Sort of thing. Yeah.

I love that. That's exciting. Tim, what about your fourth one? My lengthy one here. We will see Castlevania, but it will not just be a collection or a remaster of something. It'll feel like a new Castlevania. It could be a remake of an old Castlevania,

but more in the Resident Evil 2's type of remake, less of a Metroid Prime and Master type situation. I think it'll be a from the ground up remake that might as well be a brand new. game if it's symphony of the night or a title that we've heard before but it'll be like much much different than just an up res but i do think we get castelvania we've had so many rumors about kanami side scroller i don't know i and that's the thing that like Sony santa monica that's that's that's my problem is i feel like that like in my heart i believe that there is a 3d castlevania

out there the question is is it that high profile or not i'm leaning towards not and with the rumors going around recently that are just slowly becoming more and more true, getting Silent Hill 2, getting all the other Silent Hill projects, Metal Solid 3 being real with like all the attached rumors to it. I do think with where we're at now,

Castlevania makes sense. PlayStation is the biggest X factor to it because there are the rumors, aka just dreams and desires, Sony Santa Monica being involved. And then there is also just looking at where Castlevania as

a franchise has been forever. And like the 2D side, the 3D side, Konami wanting to partner up, BluePoint has been, all the games that Blue Point teased a couple of years ago, we've seen Demon Souls. We've seen Shadow and Lost. We've seen, they were teasing Castlevania at one point. I don't expect to see Blue Point at Summer Game Fest.

So that's why I'm like a little more hesitant to say this is going to be a 3D thing because I think if BluePoint's doing one, it's going to be 3D. But I do think, New Castlevania from somebody. rumors I think it was even from Jordan Midler and then yeah it was the DGC they did a whole podcast talking about Konami's plans for E3 before E3 was canceled and those plans involved

both Meliger which we've seen Meliger solid three or Delta and then yeah also Castlevania I think the thought would have been that both of them would appear at a PlayStation thing but maybe now that E3 is canceled maybe they do spread the love a little bit especially if they want to do I mean we have play days coming up right if Kahnami wanted to do a

physical on-site thing, they would probably go to Keele and go, hey, can we get people to play this in person as opposed to a PlayStation, which doesn't really have that stuff available? Because Kahnemi, for the last couple, the last E3s, they had physical presence there. Like, we played for two different years.

I played, we played Metal Gear Solid Survive. Yeah, never forget. And then the next year, I played Contra, whatever it was called, on the Switch. So they do like having that presence. But yeah, the prediction is Newcastlvania game. It might be a remake or something, but it will not just be an up-res,

remaster and it will not be dead cells. It'll be a Newcastlvania. A little tiny off topic. Do you think in the way that when Arcane was bought by Xbox, that maybe BluPoint was also working on a game before that full acquisition went through with Sony. So that game still may happen, but now a new Sony thing is also happening in the background. Because Demon Souls was also like there, right?

That was still kind of in those stages of getting made for the PS5. but I can't help but think that before the full like purchase actually happened, that they had something already in the works that they are, like they couldn't just release it on the PlayStation only, that this is like, no, sorry, it's got to be multi-platform. You know, he didn't buy us up yet. That's interesting. It is interesting.

I feel like with Sony owning them, though, now, they still want to own that message. Even if it's not exclusive on PlayStation, I think that they want to be like, Got you. You know. Agreed. I want to know what they're working on, Greg. Blue Point?

Yeah. Let me tell you off the fire. Yeah. Can't wait. Can't wait. Really? Maybe. Oh.

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the long shot. The Gatoring Get High moment. Long shot is a long shot. Andy Cortez, kick us off. So this isn't going to make me toss my cup, but a lot of people are going to be tossing cups of liquid all over the place when this one pops up. And it's going to be near the end.

And it's going to be just a little. little like maybe title, maybe we see a glimpse of somebody with white hair and it says the Witcher 4. Now, you know, it's a Witcher 4 development type thing. Sure. Bam, here it is. I don't think it's he just Elba talking about it. I don't think he's like, oh, by the way, bro, they also, witcher four is in development.

I don't think that happened. But Witcher 4 is the long shot for me. Okay. When you said white hair, I really thought you were going to say double make cry. Oh, yeah. I ex that. I was like, oh, Dante, let's go. Like, we're going to get a tiny glimpse of, and we're going to wonder, is that a cinematic?

Is that a thing? I was like, no, that's Unreal Engine 5, because that's what they're working on. That's what Witcher 4 is being worked in. Whether it's called Witcher 4 or not, I don't know. I don't know if they're going to do like a title still, you know. I believe they said they're working on a new trilogy, right? Right, yeah. Which could be 4, 5, and 6, but I wonder if they just give it a different subtitle.

The code name is Polaris right now, but we'll see. Does this have anything to do with the tweet today, announcing that the Netflix Witcher World premiere trailer with Henry Cavill will happen. Henry Cavill is going to be alongside the cast

of the Witcher to do their new trailer. I could see him drop. Of course, that's why I thought of that. No, I don't mean that, but I'm saying like,

with that, do you think they come out, they do the thing, show the trailer, come back, and then Henry Cavill is like, by the way, I'm a huge fan of video games

and I have something hearing something from our friends the CD project, right? I was just looking at the list of developers and I was like, you know,

I know that we got some sort of hint that Witcher 4 is already is in the plans and it's going to be Unreal Engine 5 so I feel like that is a real nice place to kind of just show off a tiny glimpse and we're going to go, holy shit, that is in game, that is fuck wild.

My question is, is it too early? Like, when do we think Witcher 4 is coming out? And also, after being burnt so hard with Cyrupunk 27 and having that be like an eight year wait for that game, right? It finally coming out and then being overhyped and all this stuff, does that make CD Project

pull back a little bit? and wait until we're closer to then announce Witcher 4 officially. I think the I think the Witcher is a known quantity though and in the lead up to cyberpunk of all the promises that were made, it felt like we were going to be living in this world

like once we got closer to release and we got more and more looks into what the structure of the game would be like oh that's, it is just a video game. We have to remind ourselves that this isn't just this life sim of you being in this cyberpunk type world. I think the witchers known quantity and

fans know what they are expecting to get from a Witcher type game. So I think that unless it was a brand new IP with crazy big ass promises of like do anything, live here, this is the future now. I think like the fact that

the Witcher is going to be an open world RPG people know what it's going to be that they're not really worried about kind of over hyping or over expectations. My only thing against the right would be I mean, the fact that I think it is a ways out and stuff like that is... Oh, yeah, it's probably like five years off.

With cyberpunk still having this DLC, Phantom Liberty, we don't have a date for this still, right? No, the whole thing we're talking about is one of your predictions. Like, I feel like you don't want to overstep that and you don't want to model the message necessarily, again, with any bad vibes that are still there for cyberpunk of blah, blah. And I do think they've done a good job of being like, listen, here's all the games we're working on.

Here's all the partners we're working with. Here is the new trilogy. It's known, and so I don't know if there's a rush. You had to get out super early and say, hey, that's what it is. But that's what long shots are all about. It is. I also wonder with the order of which they start announcing their things, because there's a lot of CD project red projects.

Because they did the whole thing during their, it might have been a financial call or then them just laying out their plans. And there's a lot of project names. They had a multiplayer Witcher thing, I think. And then like a Witcher remake slash remaster that I think might be in turmoil. And there's like a Witcher spin-off thing. Yeah. Like they just have so much going on.

And so I wonder what the pace is once they start like, like, what order do you start announcing those things. Like, what is coming first? Are we getting the Witcher remake before, Richard four? Is Witcher four going to be the thing to kick everything off? If that's the case,

then I could see it coming earlier, but... You got to expect, like, three of those things have been canceled by now. Yeah. Greg Miller. Timothy. Give me your get hype.

My long shot is just Andy's lock, right? Where it's like, I think you're going to get the... My long shot that I don't think will happen, but I'm saying is the long shot that would go hype and get crazy would be the Eldon Ring shadow of it.

Urd tree, and I put it, it would have a 2024 release window on the end of it. Wow. Yeah. That's hype. Huh? That would be the long shot, hype moment.

I don't know. I'm sorry, I'm trying to sneeze in the middle of this. I'm getting killed by, I'm rocked by allergies. Yeah. He's like, he's giving you a rap face while I was in here.

You just suddenly bust out. Don't look at me that way, too. Yeah, I don't. I mean, everything they've said makes it seem like that's long, that's a ways out, which I count as 2024 being a ways out, right? So I just feel like,

especially with armored core. Like I feel like they'd double. Again, there's such a science to it of how do you promote the next big thing, but not overshadow the thing you want. Like clearly they're riding high and all their deserve success from Eldon Ring.

Let's parlay that into armored core success. This is from those people and not say, this is from those people, but there's also more, you know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, I think that is why Shadow of the Urtree was announced

without like a big trailer, a big hype thing, right? Because when it was announced, it was satiate you, let you know it's coming. we haven't forgotten by the game there will be more content and from the reports that we've seen

it sounds like Shadow the Erchries a bit further out when I say further out like 2024ish right they want to get it out way after Armored Corps plus had two written down one of them was a skate four thing

I think I'm gonna bench that and I'm gonna go for something that I think would be a bit bigger and a bit more exciting so in the graphic that Jeff and Summer Game Fest shared talking about their partners. One of those partners is Amazon games.

And that can mean a lot of things. That can mean Blue Protocol. That can mean some New World DLC. I was going to say New World. And that's fine. God bless. I like where you're going here. But that could also mean Tomb Raiders.

Yes, it could, baby. Tomb Raiders has been gone for a while, right? Crystal Dynamics has been working on it. Their last game didn't do that good. And it's been a while since they were. They were Avengers, right? I always get them in idols. But yeah, Adventures was a while ago.

We've had some time to be working on Tomb Raider. I think now is the time. I think they come out at Summer Game Fest. I think you see an Unreal Engine 5 logo and have them tout, like, how good this thing is about to look through that. I think we get a cinematic trailer. I think it's probably early in development, so we might not get much past that. But I think the big thing is when I, it being, I look at, I found this Polygon article from this last December talking about how in a news release, Amazon and Crystal Dynamics called the next game in the franchise. quote, the biggest, most expansive Tomb Raider game to date.

I think we're going open world with it. I think that's going to be the big thing. I think in the cinematic trailer, you see the camera pull behind Lara Croft and the pulls back, and then you just see a vast world to explore. Nice. I feel like everything you're saying is absolutely correct. I just don't know if we see it this week,

but as a long shot, I'm here for it. That'd be hot. That'd be cool. That'd be cool. Tomb Raider, I think, is one of those ones, too, that is, Agnostic. Maybe platform agnostic, right?

When you're talking about not being a PlayStation thing or necessarily an Xbox thing, I know Xbox had the rise of the Tomb Raider thing, and they tried in that field. But Tomb Raider, I don't think I would see at a exclusive conference, right? I think that would have to show up at a place that doesn't really have allegiance to the other side.

Yeah, especially with the Amazon stuff. Yeah. I'm going to say, you know, with that sort of big gaping hole of uncharted, there's a big hole that needs to be filled. Lordcroft's going to fill it. Yeah. Think about this for a second. It's still crazy to me that Amazon games

released their multiplayer game Crucible into a beta. And then the beta was done. We're like, we're not releasing this after a... Like, that is the wildest thing that we don't talk about enough. That is such a crazy turn of events to have. It's normal for these games to get cans out of six months or whatever. But that was still like such a crazy thing.

That I had to Google like, oh, yeah, there's crucible. There's crucible. The game's going to be called Laura Croft, Laura Croft and the crucible, and they just put her in the game. They're like, oh, we got the IP. She's back.

It's funny because my friend and friend of the show Gabe Patillo was a voice in Crucible. And so, like, I remember a year ago, we'll text me like, hey, man, how's it going? He's like, man, you know, I'm going great. The voice acting career is going all right, but they unreleased the game I'm in. So, like, my long shot here.

It's a very Tim Getty's one, and I'm praying. I'm hoping it happens. There's been a lot of signs that we're going to get a new Sonic the Hedgehog game announced at Summer Game Fest. You got to go fast. And we've been seeing the tweets, bless. All right. We have some pretty bizarre tweets in classic Sega fashion, but we get this little calendar image. And we see little doodles all over it, and there was, like, different check marks for different days.

And they were tweeting a bunch of things. One day they announced that the symphony orchestra things going on tour. I'm really excited about that. They announced some collaborations with Minecraft and with, um, with, Crocs and like there's a whole bunch of Sonic stuff popping off. Everything the people are asking for one simple thing. A sequel to Sonic Mania and some of the doodles on this little image looks suspiciously Sonic Mania inspired. So this is a long shot for me. I knowing the team that worked on Mania 1, knowing anybody that might be involved, I follow all of them on Twitter.

They aren't the type of people that I feel like like they would have, somebody would have fucked up and said something at this point. And like, there would be rumors of like this game is being worked on. So as far as I know, this game is not being worked on. But your boys got to believe. It's a long shot. You got to go fast. But yeah, that's what long shots are for.

I'm really, really hoping. I expect we're going to get Sonic. It just, my prediction is Sonic Mania 2. That's all that I want. And what consists of Sonic Mania 2, Tim? A classic 2D Sonic game. Genesis looking Sonic game, you know? Okay.

It might not be called Sonic Mania too, but like... It better be. Yeah, I'd like that. But I mean, whatever it is, like, not a 3D Sonic and not a 2.5D, like, generations or something like that. Like, old school, Mega Man 9, Mega Man 10, that type of deal. What would you want from Sonic Plus? I mean, I would love a Sonic Mania, too. My question is, does Sega have enough sense to do it?

Like, do they understand that this is something that people want and that people will love? the teasers are so all over the place, right? Like the Crocs thing, the schedule thing. Remember when we saw that, right? Like them doing the schedule, they had the squiggly line under Wednesday. And during that week, that was the PlayStation showcase. And so, like, either you came to my desk where I can do your desk,

and was like, yo, look at this. And started talking about it. And the more I thought about, the more I'm like, I might be stretching. Like, I might be stretching too much. Like, this might not actually happen. I really wanted to happen. And, like, there's Sonic stuff fairly consistently.

when we're just talking about video games. And right now there's not really a big Sonic game announced on the horizon. And so, yeah, like, I think at any point a Sonic game could get announced. And it would be the right decision to make it a Sonic Mania two type thing. And so I hope it's either that or a 2D Sonic thing that is, because the one thing about Sonic Mania, right, is that the dope thing about that was that it was harketing back to a lot of previous Sonic games and making levels that were, hey, here's chemical plant zone and, like, here's us modernizing all these classic levels.

I think it could be cool if they were to do, we're to lean full. into the future and go, hey, we're not even doing that. Like, this is going to be all brand new content, brand new stuff that is still the same mechanics and same, like, polish and style as Sonic Mania, but focused on giving you new content. I think that would be exciting because for the new stages we got out of Sonic Mania, Studio Poli's Zone. Come on, man. Fucking fire.

And so, yeah, give me one of those. I'd be very excited about it. Yeah. Do you, I think that another likelihood would be Sonic Frontiers, DLC to come extent. Yeah, we do you know the LC is coming? Oh, do we? Officially. Yeah, there was a whole, there's a whole roadmap.

I forget where we're at. Wasn't there something weird about the roadmap about it? Yes. Something weird with Sonic? No. No. Impossible. But yeah,

I feel like Frontiers was one of the bigger games at Game Fest last year. So I wouldn't be surprised. It was the only one you can take photos of of you all play. Exactly. But, yeah, fingers crossed for mania. So those are all of our predictions. You guys have anything fun that you just want to throw out there in your backups? They did announce that we're getting an additional playable.

character and a new story. Okay. Or additional player playable characters, so multiple. Hopefully we get a ruse-the-bat. I got nothing because Bloodborden would just be a PlayStation exclusive. I got nothing. Nothing fun. I think Tim's going to be impressed with Jeff's shoes.

Yeah? Oh. Oh, I like that. I wrote down here, Skate 4, release window. They got Tony Hawk in it. That was under my long shot. Do we get any, like, chick hydromand type? No.

things happening on we haven't gotten a shik Hyderman in a long time and that was a game of words thing yeah you're right but like when I say Shik Hydromen I also mean like crash on stage and full costume like is there anything Is there gonna be a mascot costume?

Yeah a mascot sort of thing Yeah I'm sure the fucking Muppets are gonna show up again They would accuse that That's more of a game awards thing I'm saying that but I'm just saying I'm sure they're gonna show again You hate the old Muppets but love the

Muppet babies Muppet babies are great It's so weird It's such a weird They tell a fucking story, all right? Isn't there a crash game coming out this month? Yeah, there is Crash Team Rumble. I think you see Crash in costume.

Yeah. I think he comes out and fight Sonic. A couple things I want to just drop real quick. Ios' 007 game. We're going to see it at some point. I think it might be a little early. But hey, at some point it's going to happen. Final Fantasy Tactics,

Final Fantasy 9, the Invidia League candy. Oh! You know? Praise be the league. there's some of the only things left. I think there's a lot of Final Fantasy going on, so I don't know that they're going to want to do that, but potentially.

They love showing off of it. It's square. Yeah. What did Bless you say during the pandemic score just be making games? They do. I love doing that. They do.

All right, so I'm going to go. Can I toss one out that I think would be fun to do that we don't usually do? Right now on Monday, June 5th, preparing for Thursday's summer game fest. I want everybody to predict what their score is going to be. Oh, bro. We always get there. We get to the post show.

We got a five on the kind of funny scale. On the kind of funny review scale, what would you give it? Of course, everybody knows the kind of funny review scale, but in case you didn't, it's a five points ago. Five is amazing. Four is great. Three is okay. Two is bad. One is terrible.

I'm going to predict that I'm going to give it a four because it's not going to have, it's going to be missing like one or two big heavy hitters. There's also one more thing to throw out. Bioshock. Big one. Did we maybe see something Bioshock? Yeah, Judeus at Game Awards. Yeah.

You get it again here. That'd be cool. I thought about this because it was somebody tweeted when we were talking about our predictions, and I was like, hey, it's a smaller studio. Like, how much can they show of this game and not? Does the game not do much for you? No, it does.

Come on, Ken Levine. I'm all about it. I'm excited for it. But it's just that thing. I think we won't see more about that. got a date. Yeah, that's the thing. I don't think we'll see it.

And I don't think they're there yet. I am. Tim, you're thinking hard and I love that. I am. Because I don't want to give a bullshit answer, but where I'm at is kind of, it sounds kind of bullshity.

But it's, I expect it to be a four. Like, I think with the content that we, we know is going to be there and, uh, with the potential surprises and stuff. Like,

I expect a four. I think at the end, I'm going to give it a three. Like, I, I think that it's not necessarily going to hit those expectations. I do think there's all, also the possibility that it gets a five.

I'm always hopeful for that. But just being realistic, I think the biggest thing holding it back right now is E3 itself, is how that all went down and how all the deals went and how secretive some of the big guys are. With the fact that Ubisoft's doing its own forward, the fact that PlayStation

just did its own thing, so many big question marks, we have Microsoft's thing, Nintendo's nowhere to be found. Too many factors at play that are big question marks that I'm like, I'm on the lower side going into this. And for me, that's Yeah, my prediction for what I'd give would be a three out of five. And I think that's just, because there's something weird in the air right now, I feel like, with video game announcements.

Like allergies. Maybe, I mean, it could be the allergies. I'm allergic to bad video game announcements. It could also be just coming off the PlayStation Showcase where it's like, that's the thing, how is that such like a bummer? See, and that's my thoughts is. I'm predicting a three. Okay. I'm hoping, obviously, for a four or five, but I wouldn't be shocked if it was a two. Like, because they've, have they talked about this two hours? Is it two hours? Did we talk about how long this is? They have said it recently. The Xbox thing was two hours. Is that what I'm confusing it with? It's always that thing.

I remember last year is it just dragged a bit. And that was the problem that really, it dragged a bit and didn't have those like standout awesome things. And it was, you know, Jeff and Summer Game Fest doing what they got to do and putting games in there and having this whole thing. But I didn't think the overall package sung, right?

Yeah. So I'm setting my expectations for a three, hoping that they'll be above that. Is there, is like the lack of buzz maybe? No, because I think the buzz is appropriate. I think that like this one,

I'm starting at that three because we know we're getting immortal combat. We know we're getting, I'm blanking right now, but there was some things that I'm like, oh, we're getting. Alan Wake 2. We're getting stuff that, like, is going to be cool and exciting. Like, that alone is a big deal where I feel like last year we didn't necessarily have even that kind of starting place. Yeah, I feel like, I mean, I think Jeff usually does a really good job of setting expectations

appropriately. And I think I'm not seen this year coming on being like, y'all get hype for it. You know, those the one... But I kind of wonder if that's because last year's was a more middling response from everybody. You know what I mean? Or just negatives in a lot of places, too. Like, I just feel like maybe that's why. Maybe, again, we talk about Jeff being the master of this and being the student of the game as well.

So I wouldn't be surprised if he's seen before hyping it up. And then, okay, that actually didn't go. Maybe I shouldn't, you know, trying to sit there and tweak it. How do you talk and message something, but not make everybody go, this is going to be the fucking best thing in the world? world. Because I have way lower expectations for this than I did play a decision showcase. And I think that's the history of summer game fest. I think it's just in general what we're talking about with the industry at large. And I think that makes for a platform that is easier to succeed. It should be easier

on Thursday for me to walk out going, that was awesome. Holy shit. That was red. The counterpoint to that though, I think it's easier to succeed. I think there's also though, there's expectations that are going to be here that there's no getting away from. There's going to be more bullshit mobile games and not even mobile games, but just bullshit like at this point just like, I don't even know. Middleware. Games, middleware type stuff. Because that's what these shows have to be

in order to succeed and function, especially with the live stage and all those elements. So I think that it's like, my expectations for this being a four or five is just some exciting announcements of big games or things that we didn't expect to be there. Because I think that they're doing a good job of telling us what's

going to be there. And we also know what else is going to be there that we're not going to like. It's just a matter of how do you package that and how do you pace it all out? And I think that they've gotten better about that for the most part. Yeah. Yeah, I'd say the thing that I am kind of, I'd be super anxious to kind of overhype

because I would just be so terrified of leaks happening. Sure. So, like, I think it may have been last year's presentation. I know what happened in PlayStation's recently, but it may have been last year, maybe the year before, where we say, man, we would have popped the hell off of that, had that not leaked.

The remake of us. What was it? Last of us remake. Oh, that's right. Yeah. That's right, Ian. I don't know. We'll see.

I saw North Beach games on the little thing, and I was like, what's that all about? I opened that up. That's SF. I've never heard of this. Oh, shit. So Jake Bakes Cakes made a little thing for us to go through a little lightning round action here, do an over under. All right?

We're going to go quickly through each prompt here and to say, will they be over or will they be under for each of these different points? So now let's explain it very clearly because this became a mid-mid thing away for PSI-Love. It's now a lot simpler. Okay. It's over or under, and all the numbers have a 0.5, so it's very clear. Okay. There's no exact here.

So over under, 30.5 total games shown. Over or under? In two hours. We don't know if it's two hours. In summer games. Chat, let me know if I'm wrong about that. I've seen that. I'm going to say under.

I'm going over. I'm going over. I'm going to say over as well. They had 30 plus last year. I'm saying over. 12.5. new games are shown over under. Like we've never heard of them before? Yeah.

Or wait, hold on. Yeah. Because I'm now thinking about a bunch of titles that may have been said, hey, that development studios working on that, but nobody's ever seen it yet. Yeah. Like, is that a new game. It's about two hours is what he said on in the interview,

says Co-op 64. I'm going to go with over. Because I was not expecting to see that many new games at the PlayStation Showcase, and that was way more than what we thought there was going to be. I say over as well. 12.5 is the number. I don't think it'll be many more than 12,

but I do think 12 is an easy number to pass. I'll say over as well. I'm almost going to say over. Over under. 0.5 PlayStation first-party games shown includes DLC. First party or DLC for PlayStation games. So essentially, we'll be any. I'm going to say under it.

I don't think PlayStation first party will either. I'll go under as well. I'm going to say over. I think we had at least one. Do you have an idea of what? I mean, I'm always going to talk about Stellar Blade. Because, like, Stellar Blade isn't being developed for this party, but they are publishing it. And so I would count that.

Maybe a VR thing. Maybe there's a VR thing they're working on. But I think we'll see something. I think PlayStation likes Jeff enough to always have something at his thing. Like, we had something at Last Summer Game Fest, had something at Game Awards. I think at this rate we're going to get something PlayStation. I wouldn't be surprised if we did, but I'm going to say under. Over under 1.5 Nintendo first party game shown includes DLC.

1.5. Interesting. Now, here's a very interesting thing. Tears of the Kingdom DLC is going to be announced at some point. I think it's way too close. No, I see that in a direct. I totally see Tears the Kingdom something happening in a direct. Because wasn't the DLC announced a game awards?

Granted, that was many months after March when Breath of the Wild came out, or was that just when it released? I think that's when it's released. It was announced before. When we bought the game and had the game, we knew there was DLC coming. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. For Breath of Wild. The info on a Chapin's Ballad, like all that stuff.

Was that Game Awards? I'm going to say under. I just don't see anything Nintendo exclusive being here. What's going on with that Pikmin? What's that Pikmin out? July. We get a full thing for that, though. Sure, but outside of the Lakers head,

nobody gives a shit about Pickman. I'll say, I'll say Pickman, and I'll say what he said, 1.5? Yeah. Oh, so I guess under. Yeah. You know what? Oh, he's going to get horny with it. Are we still getting Mario Kart DLC? Is that we still in the middle of that?

Yeah. No. I'm going to say on that. Yeah, I'm saying under as well. I'm really hopeful we get something from Nintendo, but yeah, I'm thinking under. Also, do you guys see this? I'm thinking Apparently, like an hour ago, Capcom Showcase was announced. Well, that changes a lot of... When is the Showcase? It is June 12th.

June 12th at, I don't know what time zone this is, 23 p.m. BST. Okay, cool, cool, cool. That's interesting. I don't think that actually affects too much of the potential predictions. That's where your Monster Hunter goes. Because there's showcases they normally don't do make announcements. Like, we've seen before Resident Evil remakes. Some of them are in a PlayStation Showcase, and then when they do this, it's here, so...

I think we're okay. Should we redo the episode? Over under 0.5 Xbox first party game shown includes DLC. I mean... No, I don't think they blow their load early. Yeah, under, even if you wanted to, you know, bring out a fucking C. a Thieves DLC, why wouldn't you save that for the showcase?

Yeah. Especially with how long that showcase is going to be. That's two hours for sure. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going under. I'm going under. 2.5 non-video game industry celebrities appear.

So this also includes Vin Diesel in Arc 2 or Idriselba on stage. What's the number? 2.5. Yeah, over. Yeah. We already know the Witcher cast there. It's over. There you go.

That's at least three of them. 15.5 minutes of devs or studio heads talking on stage over, under. This is interesting because we've not had that, really. We have. For summer game fest? Yeah, yeah. Last year even. You're just going on stage talking.

15.5. So wait, what is? So this means. In total. Yeah. So like if, and again,

it's a stupid British and not having it, but if Ed Boone came out and played World of Combat and talked with that count. Oh yeah, and over. Yeah. Yeah, over.

Over under 11.5 CGI only trailers. Over. This is a key league event, baby. We're going to get so many those middleware games. They're going to look fancy as hell. We're going to get Conan the Barbarian.

Maybe an update on the Transformers game. But, okay. No, but CGI only, I think, is a big disclaimer because I think a lot of them

eventually do show in-game stuff like after they're done showing you the... I know you're trying. I don't know, not that many anymore. I really do feel like we get a lot of things that are just like Cotor.

I'm with you on this. I'm going to say I'm counting. This is like, will be over 11 and a half minutes of CGI in trailers. Oh, yeah, then over. For sure. Oh. Oh, I think,

I don't know why I'm entitled. If you're talking about CGI only, that's what it sounds like. 11.5 CGI only trailers. Similar to 1.5 the Nintendo first party games. I'm going to go under. Even with that, I still say over.

I'm going to go under. I'm going to go under in that case. I'll go. Also, put me over for the last one. I never give, I never get my answer on the previous one. I'm going to go under. It's over, baby. It's Keeley, man.

Love the CGI. Uh, 2.5, game shown over under under under under two tops I'm going over are we talking does this include a mode whether or not it does man I think I feel like meta quest always gets a lot of placement at these things do they think so yeah you're right they just had a big blow out though there's always like a a facebook meta thing talking about you know championing diversity around the world and also here's these awful games. Wow.

100%. 2.5 video games shown from Ubisoft, EA, and Capcom. So all three. Lumped into one. No, each one has.

2.5. At least. Over, under. Jesus. Okay. Ubisoft under. EA under. Capcom over. I'm saying under for all of them.

Doesn't Capcom have like a bunch of shit though? because we're, I'm making the rest the boss downer thing and they got exo primal and they got the pragmata and they got a, I think, I don't think we see Pragmata here. I think that games cancel. I'm going over for Capcom.

I might go over for EA, actually. I'm going over for EA. Over for EA under for Ubi. I'm going over for EA under Capcom under for UB. I don't know if UB has more than 2.5 games in development right now. Damn. We'll have to wait and see.

Over 2.5 video games shown from Konami, Sega, or Squarionix. There's another one that's weird that they're together. I say we can even separate them and do each of these. Konami, I'm going to say under. Sega, I'm going to say over. Square, I'm going to say over. Yeah, Konami, I'm going to say under.

Sega. Sega. I'm going to say, man, what if their Super Game shows up and it's crazy taxi? I'm going to say over. I was going to go under. I'm going to say over for Sega. No, fuck it.

I'll take it back. I'm going under for Sega. And then what was the other one? Square annex? I'm going to say over because they just be making games. Under over, over. I want to throw this out here. I'm going to go under.

No, I'm going to go over for Konami. But I think we're going to get an actual Middle Gear Solid Delta little gameplay type thing. No chance. I think so. We've seen it happen a lot where like, we just saw this thing at this other thing. And now it's here again, and they're showing off something different.

I think that's happening here. You want to see Hideo-Kijima get up from a seat leaving tears. That's what you're asking for. Uppercuts. Over for Konami, under for Sega, over for Square Enix. I'm going to skip a couple of these. Over under, 26.5 times the word world premiere are said. Under.

I feel like recently, too, they've, well, I guess Jeff says it a lot. He does say a lot. The VO doesn't do it as much. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I still say under. Yeah, under. 26 is a lot. Well, I mean, sometimes they say like

World Premiere trailer. Yeah, that counts. Wait, are we counting times where it's not like... Anytime it's vocalized. Oh, okay. Over. Over for Big Daddy Andy.

I'm gonna stay under. Can't wait for this. Let's go. We're moving on to the prop bets here. These are yes or no. Real quick, I just wanted to say that there was one that I thought was very good over or under 2.5 Souls-like games, over.

Over. Liza P will be there. It will be like 12. If you lies where you're going to be? Going here, yes or no. Louisiana's probably going to be there. Kojima makes an appearance. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Do you mean in person or are we just in general? In general. Yeah, for sure. Okay, yeah. It'll promote a new season of Spotify podcast. Ooh, the 2023 Call of Duty game makes an appearance.

No. No. No. they do their own thing now. A video game movie or TV show gets its announcement or first trailer. I'll sign a mic about this a little bit earlier because I brought up the Fallout show and how that doesn't have a trailer yet. Wow, that's coming out this year.

There's a trailer for Twist Metal, right? We got it. Well, we had like a teaser type of thing. Yeah, but it's just Anthony Mackey talking, right? Like, it wasn't like... He drove off. Sweet tooth and everything. We saw Sweet Tooth.

I don't think Jeff has the stuff. A whole twisted metal. Apologies. You big. The cock can't come into this. Nobody can reign in that franchise. I'm going to go. want to go yes on that one.

Wait, can you repeat, repeat the thing again? Video game movie or TV show gets its announcement or debut trailer. Yeah. I'm going to say no. The Wonder Woman video game makes an appearance. God, I hope so.

I don't like... I'm gonna say yes. I'm 50-50 on this. Honestly, I can see it being at Xbox. That feels right to me. I'll say maybe. Even with W.B. like doing a lot of PlayStation. Yeah.

Spreading the love. The Rock appears. For another commercial. No. No. Save it for Game Awards. Will you see Batista? That's a good call.

Rockstar makes an appearance. No. No. What? Rockstar? Yeah. A rock star. They make GTA.

It's been so long since I've heard the name. All I'm thinking is like, energy drink or fucking a rock star? Like an ACDC shows up? No, negative. Bioshock makes an appearance. Yes. no no it'd be cool though

it'd be real cool you can look real good too I'm gonna say that what I like where I feel like that feels like a Game Awards thing I don't think yeah I don't think summer game fest has the not that it doesn't have the stuff

but I feel like Keeley would push for a game awards announcement for that we get a place this peacock this twisted metal teaser doesn't count why not they'll get a real trailer not Anthony Mackey jamming to some tunes in the car

on the end of it yeah yeah for two seconds lost Vegas I saw it PlayStation game for PC announced. I would have said yes, and then they just announced Ratchet out of the fucking blue. Dude, PlayStation's PlayStation, they're going to PlayStation all over this PlayStation town,

so I'm saying no. Negative. Hollenite Silk Song makes an appearance. No. At this point, that's got to be an Xbox show for those. Be like, yo, fuck you, here it is. Well, they just delayed it recently.

Yeah. I don't think we see it at anything. I think just based on the Twitter post, they're just like, hey, we're probably going to go silent for another year, a year and a half. That's so sad. It's great for the game.

Can't take it off my fantasy draft. The persona series gets a new game or remake announced. I think it happens, but I think it happens in an Xbox. I agree. I think it's Xbox. Yeah, I don't think it's here, so.

God, I want three remakes so bad. A new Devil May Cry is revealed. I think if we see that, I think it's on Xbox. I fucking hope, though. Yeah, I'm going to say no. A new monster hunter. I'm saying yes. Yes.

I hope so. No. A new Castlevania. I'm saying yes. I'm saying no. I'm going to say yes. I know it's unlikely, but I really want it. Yeah, I want to say no on the Castlevania.

I just don't, I can't really even, I don't think that they would do like a 2D remake. I feel like that would, like, if you're going to remake a game of that caliber, it has to be a reimagining of it. As bad as it sounds to say, I think if you re-release, or if you make a new Castlevania game in 2D, that it feels like a less. lesser of a, like, we're expecting the full evolution.

It sounds like I'm shit talking 2D games. Maybe I am. You'll have to find out in the comments. I'll be in their comments. A new Mega Man is revealed. No. No. Not the time. Not the place. A new Star Wars game is revealed or the announced one gets a title slash gameplay.

No. No, not here. Do you think we see anything about response first-person shooter? No. There's Star Wars one? Yeah. No. I think next year there's going to be an EA play and it's going to be a banger.

Who hosts it? Hopefully you. Yeah, that's right. Get out of here, Xavier Wood. I don't know how all the chess pieces like get placed for this one, but like, you know, I think it's a slam dunk that Ubisoft has their Star Wars game announced. And like, would it make sense for us to get multiple Star Wars games announced in the span of a week? Like, what say does Lucas arts have in the way that all that stuff gets placed?

I would think that no, like, hey, let's have all focused me on Ubisoft's game. This one's good. And I'm surprised that of us brought it up as a prediction. some way. It takes two developer, Hazelights. Next game is shot. Oh, yeah. That makes a lot of sense. It makes a lot of sense. Again, going back to EA. Yeah. I think that's a

game awards thing. Yeah, I was going to say, I think Game Awards also. Yeah. Yeah. I agree with you guys. Let's move on. That's all we got. We're going to stop there. Did the world and it takes two, did they show off an image of like

of the new game? Kind of like the, I could have sworn me. They showed off the new actors, the new actors in the mocap suits. Oh, okay. I could have sworn we saw a glimpse of it. I was like, oh, that kind of looks like it takes too. People were theorizing a mother-daughter story based on the

actors? Cody! Let us know in the comments below how hyped you would be for whatever they're talking about it takes to mother-daughter story. Or what are the predictions you have for Summer Game Fest that's happening this Thursday? You can react alongside us as we

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