Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Official Summer Game Fest E3 2022 Predictions and Bets - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: June 1, 2022

Go to http://meundies.com/kindafunny to get 15% off your first order. Go to http://chime.com/kfgames to get started with Chime. Go to http://creditkarma.com to find the card for you. The boys give their thoughts on the Sonic Frontiers and Pokémon Scarlet and Violet gameplay trailers, and give their predictions for what will be revealed at PlayStation State of Play, Summer Game Fest, and the Xbox Bethesda showcase this non-E3 season. Time Stamps: 00:00:00 - Start 00:02:45 - Housekeeping 00:06:00 - Sonic Frontiers Trailer Impressions 00:27:45 - Pokémon Scarlet and Violet Trailer Impressions 00:39:28 - Summer Games Fest 2022 Predictions! Epic Creator Code: KindaFunny Follow The Kinda Funny Gamescast Team On Twitter: Greg Miller: https://twitter.com/GameOverGreggy Tim Gettys: https://twitter.com/TimGettys Andy Cortez: https://twitter.com/TheAndyCortez Blessing Adeoye: https://twitter.com/BlessingJr Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up and welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast. Of course, I'm Tim Geddes and I'm joined by the new face of video games. Blessing Adioia, Jr. Gotta go fast, Tim. You've got to go fast. Oh, we've got to get fast through these intro so we can start talking about Sonic Frontiers, baby. So continuing just that, of course, we have the Texas Street Latino heat clicking heads and ripping them to shreds. It's the globe trotting headshot from Twitch.

From twitch. TV, Andy Cortez. What's the overunder of chili dogs in this open world? I'm going to say zero. I feel like the chili dogs. It doesn't look like that kind of Sonic. It doesn't look like that. It doesn't get as much love in the video games as they fucking deserve.

No wonder Sonic's in the state it's in right now. What a disaster. And rounded out the group today, we have the big daddy himself. Game over Gregie. Hello. What's you up to? Demon Hunter Michelle Branch is fucking shit up and the goddamn Diablo immortal out here. Why Michelle?

I didn't think that I was a steam deck for a second. I was like, now that's way too small to be a steam deck. If I was trying to play on my steam deck, I want to be able to play because only mobile players can play today, blessing. So go take a fucking photo of your steam deck downloading it, all right? Is the reason is Michelle Branch and not Taylor Swift because you couldn't choose a blonde character? Yeah, I didn't, well, I like to be inspired by a character creator. I don't know if you've been noticing. I know you guys, you know, aren't my autobiographers over here, you know what I mean?

I guess that would be me. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about where I was going. I'm going. I've been running a lot. I've been doing a lot of Diana characters. I've been doing a lot of Wonder Woman inspired characters.

I did one for Wonderlands, Tiny Tita Wonderlands. I was doing that. I got rehooked on King. It was of Amelor reckoning. I put like 15 hours into that, the remaster. I made a Diana-looking character there, too. So it's really when I get to the creator and I look at the, especially when you look at them with them with the gear and stuff and loot on them.

Yeah, where could you go? But I did the initial, all right, cool, can I make a Taylor Swift? And I went through and it was like, I actually, I was originally doing the whole Diana thing. And I was like, do a little Cassandra from Assassin's Creed Odyssey. And then it was, wait, what if I tried to Taylor Swift? And I went back and I couldn't get the blonde hair right. It's, I don't like a character creator for a game like this that gets into like the minutia of like the tip of the nose, the bridge of the nose. Do you want to do the depth of the item?

And I'm like, I don't need that much detail. So I went with, I looked at the faces that were preset, messed with some hairstyles. And I was like, this one is speaking to me as a Michelle branch. So I'm going to do that because she's everywhere to me. Ah, that was good. Brought it all back. Of course, this is, oh, God, this autobiography is going to be great. This is the kind of funny games cast for each and every week.

We get together to talk about video games and all the things that we love about them. And this is quite possibly my favorite episode of the year. What is traditionally our E3, that's his predictions. Now, I guess it's just summer game fest predictions. What we're going to do for this is the normal spiel of going around the table. Each one of us, we have five predictions. We're going to take turns saying them. And if somebody takes one, we have to come up with another one.

And it's going to be predictions for the entire month of June, all the different events, specifically focusing on Summer Game Fest itself, the Sony state of play that as a recording is going to happen tomorrow and the Microsoft and Bethesda event that we know that we're getting on June 10th, as well as anything else that we think might pop up, but we'll have to predict that if we think that's going to happen. But before we even get into that, I wanted to talk a little bit about the two latest gameplay trailers that came out today, one for Sonic Frontiers,

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money goes towards us at no extra cost to you so that's fantastic epic creator code kind of funny today we're brought to you by chime credit carmen me andes but let's talk about that later we got to go fast bless ig n first debuted seven minutes of gameplay of sonic frontiers our first real look at the game what are your initial takeaways Tim when I tell you that when I saw that this trailer was first revealed also actually before I even get into this I got to point out two things Greg took the largest buy of of an apple have ever seen any human being taken. And it looks like you almost shook on it.

I'm gonna one up him right now. I'm gonna one up. And you can't do with that tiny little mouth. Get out of here. Your mouth might be too small for them. Yeah, come on. Texas mouths are known for being small. That's why they call you the carp state.

You're right. Is you right? It's a lot. Oh, get out of here. Oh, they're really small. It was one of those. I took the, I took a ridiculously big bite to see if I could make anybody crack up and I noticed I got

blessed and then that made me crack up. You got me real good. We're good. We're friends here. The first thing. thing I wanted to point out. The second thing I wanted to ask, actually, is directed toward Andy Cortez. Andy, I don't know if you saw this, but Will Arnette has been casted as Sweettooth in the new Twisted Metal series. The show can't fail. The show can't fail. Does this do it?

I know you've been the hater of Twisted Metal this whole time. Has that changed your thoughts or your opinions on it? I'm switching all of the Gabe Logan Slander to Twisted Metal. Who cares? Why is this a show? Did they run a survey somewhere? A question. there somewhere where they're asking what TV shows should we make out of our awesome franchises who the fuck cares about twisting metal it's who cares this might make people care though you see they definitely don't want to play twist and metal video games anymore andy but they definitely want to watch will aren't episweet tooth and murder people and anthony macky and nev campbell run around i legitimately like this all of this happening with twistet metal

feels like the most oh this is in a multiverse where that game is like massively popular like You know what I mean? Like this is the fortnight of this universe. Like I just don't get it. I don't understand why this is becoming a thing. And with every new star getting leaked, it just brings me more and more worry of like, this is happening.

They're doing this. They're, I can't see like Scarlett Johansson or like another. That's a good name. It's going to be like Mario Brothers. Who's he going to voice? We'll have to wait and find. Is he Calypso?

Is he Mr. Grim? I don't know, Andy. Are these Plimson? Male characters, they sure they have all. Who looks is doing the whole fucking thing, Andy? It's all, he's doing the twist of metal shit for yourself. That's going to be Thomas Hayden's shirts 100%. That's Calypso.

Tim is from the other multiverse where this is a popping off franchise. They've gotten through six iterations of it and like everybody just loves. Everybody, like, there's reveal events of people in their seats and you see like TM7 and everybody's like, Like everybody freaks the fuck out. Andy, let me tell you. The first D3 I ever went to was 2010 or 2009. And I was at the Sony press conference. And they fucking ended that thing with the reveal that Twisted Metals coming back.

And they drove the sweet tooth ice cream truck out on stage. And I, along with hundreds of others, lost our fucking minds. All right? That moment happened. And then that game came out. And then I didn't like it. In that universe, Tim, there's that like, God of War

2016 reveal where like you find out that person in the shadows is Kratos but except it's like sweet tooth in this world like I just don't care

that was the PS3 era where we were we were popping for whatever exclusive we could get on stage we were just happy to have a long and that was that I think that twist of metal game

was part of the one it was like we had an exclusive every month and none of them sold because people were just like I can't care about this this and fucking Starhawk

and I'm good thanks I don't need this shit yeah like if they made if they were making a Starhawk TV show, I'd be less surprised. Hey, Warhawk was great though. To get back to my sonic thoughts though, right? Like, this is one where the trailer dropped while I was taking a shower this morning. And I step out of

the shower. I look at my phone and I immediately saw the trailer on Twitter. I press play on it. And like, within the first 20 seconds, I was like, noises were coming out my mouth where I was like, I need to go into my room and like not bother Michael Hyam. Because I'm I'm sure Michael Heim shares the wall with the bathrooms. I was going to say, he just hears the, oh, oh, oh, uh, uh, with the bathroom. And now's my word, honestly, like, no jokes aside. Unironically, my worry is that, like, Michael's going to hear me making noises on the bathroom

and think, oh, either he's doing some shit that I don't want to be hearing or he needs help and he's going to have to, like, come and knock on the door and make sure. Okay. And so I went to my room. I do a thing that I usually never do, which is I pulled up the trailer on my TV. You just I'll just watch on my phone or I'll watch it on my monitor, on my computer. I like told my voice assistant to turn on YouTube for this so I can sit down and watch this trailer. And my journey with the trailer, I think, can be in a way defined by the actual flow of the trailer,

which is to say that the very first shot of Sonic the Hedgehog looking across the vista and you see this Breath of the Wild like, and I know people hate when Breath of Wild is used to like compare things, but they literally in the reports use that comparison, right? And like they're very leaning hard with the piano, with the open, green, environments with all that stuff into that type of game. So I'm going to make the comparison, right? When you see him looking across the vista and all this stuff, I got chills. I legitimately was like, oh my God, they're doing it.

Like, they're really going for it. And as the trailer went on, it was that thing of, man, this looks really cool. Man, they're doing so many things that I want to do. But man, am I noticing all the places where I can see the shortcomings, right? Like some of the world design, like people are talking about the rails. And I do think the rails look goofy because they're just floating in air and they look kind of weird, right? like those kind of being thrown in there almost like it's Mario 64 in a way where it's like we've never made a 3D platform before let's let's figure out how to just like fucking throw

platforms in the air like it looks kind of like that and that stuff I don't totally love but I'm also not like it's the worst right it's just a weird quirk that I'm like okay I know about that uh for sure but it looks fun it does and that is the thing right I watch this entire demo and I was like I don't I'm gonna play this like I think it looks rough obviously around the edges and all sorts of stuff and I don't you know whatever but like I love I like Sonic I was a Sega kid and this looks like fun I'll have to run fast go jump around challenge myself to get up the side of that wall get the weird heart and that's kind of where I land on it is like you know there's the there's there's like some tidbits like that right the real stuff all that stuff there's like there's a lot

of pop in in this trailer and that could just be like very much pre-release like hey this is early early footage of the game but it was very noticeable as they're going through there was also some very interesting like world design stuff in terms of like how guided a lot of it seems like when you are on the rails, not even the rails in the sky, but the rails that are on the ground. It seems like a lot of that is like guiding you towards specific things, which could be good, could be bad depending on how free it feels, right? How much ownership you feel like you have as a player to explore the way you want. There's that some of the puzzles seem basic in the way that they have what seem like Korok seed-ish kind of puzzles where you just see a thing in

the environment, interact with it, right? Like one of the ones they show and the footage is that it's Sonic turning a statue to face the same way as the other statues that are there. and that then opens up the path to get the collectible heart. That seems very big. That's Michael Rock Speed right there. Yeah, yeah. And like, honestly, I was a bit bummed that there wasn't that. It seemed like when you collect the heart,

it was just very basic, like, all right, you got it. Like, keep going. And I wonder if that's like a UI thing. Maybe once you see it with the UI, it'll pop more. It'll feel like more of a achievement once you do it. But the puzzles they showed here looked fairly basic in a way that could be a, this is just his own one. This is just level one, right?

They'll get more advanced as. you go, but also could be a, hey, we're just throwing everything in here. We're trying so hard to be Breath of the Wild, and I could see it feeling like a generic one of those, and I think that's my biggest fear is that this game could be them throwing all the stuff into the pot, but it not feeling like it's full of life and full of vibrancy and full of interesting mechanics and puzzles, because it's them trying to do something brand new. That's my biggest fear. That said, I look at this footage, and I go, this is promising to me. I do think it's a step in the right direction. I do like all the changes to Sonic formula they have here because this is the first

open world Sonic game. And this is all, this is what I've asked for. This is the combination of like that Breath of the Wild meets solar ash meets the path list. Like let me just explore the world and saw puzzles type gameplay that I really want. Like Sonic also does seem like he's moving at a very specific weird speed. That's another one of like my nitpicks with it is that like he's not walking but he's not like fast running. He's doing like a nice jog. the whole time, which makes it so that some of the puzzles, like there is one of the tile puzzles where he has to like walk across

all the tiles in the right order. Like as he's doing that, the animation for that feels kind of weird because he's going slow and it's like it's Sonic the Hedgehog. But then when he's like running across the environment, he's not going fast enough. And like again, I come back to well, maybe that's an upgrade. Maybe as you go, you get faster. But like a lot of these are

questions that I think will be answered as we get more trailers and get more gameplay stuff. And also very important to point out that this gameplay video is very specifically the exploration video this is not focused on combat this isn't focused on characters you know i'm the sonic didn't say a word during this thing i assume we'll get cutscenes where sonic is talking and maybe he won't gameplay but that just isn't what this is showing um with that i'm excited for it tim as the other big sonic fan here like how did this strike you right there with you very excited for it i do think this does look like a seven but i think

that it could be a very fun seven and i'll take that from an open world son like you were saying when this thing starts off it wasn't the shot of him uh looking over the mountain it was the shot the first shot of actual gameplay of him just kind of like running around the feet i was like well this looks way better than i ever thought a sonic game would uh there's still poppin issues i'm not saying it looks like the prettiest game ever but it is way prettier than i expected it to especially this shot right here where it's kind of running through the forest like i think that uh my two biggest concerns about what i'm seeing here is one are we going to get varied locales or is everything going to have this like breath of the wild kind of like open area

vibe to it uh which was one of my biggest criticisms of halo infinite where it was so fun to go around that world but it started getting really repetitive pretty quickly going around all the forward operating bases because everything kind of felt the same um hopefully this like is just the opening area we get some some different types types of terrain and things like that uh but one thing you didn't mention uh that i saw you mentioned on Twitter and I agree with is that the Mario Odyssey vibes to this. Like I it's not so much the Koroxie things. It's more like the there are moons everywhere and there are things to do everywhere. And none of the puzzles look like they were the most complicated things in the world.

But like they seemed like fun things to just kind of do on the way to doing a bigger goal. And I like what I'm seeing here in terms of the there's rings. There seems to be these blue collectible items. And then when you do one of the more puzzle-based challenges, there's like a red heart-looking thing. And I like the idea of getting a Sonic kind of challenge-based collect-a-thon platformer more in the vein of one of the rare games. So that kind of sounds great to me.

But the biggest concern I have is, does it feel good? And it doesn't look like it does. I think that this is the first time we're seeing Sonic actually in a 3D space like this, this open and this kind of able to. to move around and do things either just walking around an open area, running around an open area, but then also the Sonic stuff we expect of like the boosts and like boosting to different enemies or circles in the air or whatever it is,

as well as the on rail stuff, both literally and like you're talking about figuratively of just on rails gameplay of the kind of running up the side of a mountain and things like that. But combining it with new elements that we've not seen before at a Sonic, like things like the climbing and more kind of platform climb-based challenges. There's a lot of promise here. I think it might be a little too ambitious, having not had a solid 3D Sonic game ever in terms of like this type of platforming to be like, you know what? We're going to go big and open worlds. That's going to be a lot to take on,

especially with the Breath of the Wild comparisons where I think it's going to end up being more Mario Odyssey than Breath of Wild. And I think that's a good thing for Sonic as a character and what type of gameplay can kind of focus on and allow. But this is way better looking than I expected Sonic Frontiers to be. So I'm excited for that. I think it's silly and funny to hear like the piano music like that is so writ from Breath of the Wild as opposed to like what we're used to from Sonic, which is either like, you know, 90s new jazz or like 90s butt rock, 2000s butt rock.

So getting this and it's like, oh, it's a different vibe. But like as the seven minutes go on, like I, like the rise in escalation and how epic it all is. And I imagine, unlike Breath of the Wild, I think there's going to be a lot more variation in the music. And I think that during the action scenes that hopefully, like you're saying, the trailer focuses more on exploration. Like, the next trailer, maybe we'll get bosses in combat. And like, I expect some super tight music to go along with that. Even characters, because you don't see any of the other traditional sonic characters, right? There's no tails. There's no knuckles. You don't see Eggman. And I

wouldn't be surprised if, like, you see maybe a couple of those. Like, I could, I mean, Eggman is like, the villain in every single Sonic game. So I would be surprised if there's no Eggman, even though they do talk about Sonic isn't a different, it seems like dimension or universe or something like that in this game. So maybe not. But even with that, right, like for this game to be so open and again, breath of the wild like,

I could see, I feel like with that you could give Sonic a glider and the glider could literally be tails. I feel like that kind of writes itself. I couldn't imagine being in the game designer room and being like, well, we got to do that, right? Like that is the natural thing. And I'm very excited to see what they do with that. Because there's going to be,

there's going to be cutscenes, right? There's going to be other characters that Sonic is talking to. And I'm very excited to see what they do with that. And to your point, like, there's not been a Sonic game that has wanted you to, like, really breathe with the 3D Sonic games specifically. It's really wanted you to breathe with the mechanics in the way that it seems like this one is going to, right?

Like it seems like for the exploration stuff for the puzzle solving, it is going to be you and your boost. And I imagine a spin dash. and it's going to be them, like, creating puzzles around all these mechanics in a way that, you know, for modern 3D Sonic games, I think the things that has made them fun when they have been fun has been the things that it made, like, Unreal Shooters fun in the way that, you know, when I think of Sonic unleashed for the traditional Sonic levels, it is cool. R1 to switch lanes, you know, hitting the target, like the lock on target enemies, the perfect way so you can keep going, right? It's about momentum. Or I think probably the best instance, in my opinion, of a 3D Sonic game that has been more traditional, like, almost Crash Bandicoot-like gameplay, has been Sonic Heroes.

Like, I really liked how Sonic Heroes play. But that's also a very different Sonic game in terms of what it does mechanically, right? Linear, yeah. Like, it's linear. And then also, like, you have knuckles. And so you can get into the, like, the brawler kind of gameplay. You have the tail stuff. Like, it has a lot of interesting things that does mechanically that is different from something that's trying to be.

here Sonic. And this is going to be the most Sonic-ass, like Sonic game in terms of, hey, you are just Sonic and you are going around doing things at your own pace. I think that's going to be a big challenge to make it feel good. And like you said, right, like that is the thing that I don't think is guaranteed so far. They've showed some things that look cool. There's wall running in this gameplay trailer. And like that looks fun. That looks, that looks cool. But when he's running up the blue stuff on the side. When he's doing that, and then there's like a, he's like in like a ditch trail kind of thing where there are like some rails in there too and he like had like a, oh, let me hop on the wall and almost like Spider-Man style like sideways wall run off the thing. It seems like you can only

do that on specific surfaces though. It seems like that's not a thing that you can do anywhere. But like maybe that's maybe if you give enough of those options, it will feel cool. It will feel like you are free running from like doing the wall run, hop into a rail, right? Hop into a boost in the air. Like if you give enough of those options, then I think the movement could feel really good. But also it's that fear of, all right, how magnetized are the rails? Like if I, if I'm how often am I going to miss rails if I'm trying to like just do like a smooth you know gameplay thing like I'm very scared of that kind of thing. Andy Cortez, you had a question.

And I appreciate that plus because I think that's one thing that I enjoyed a lot about Solar Ash was the idea that you could miss rails, that you had to kind of be that's one thing that's always annoyed me about the 3D Sonic games is like jump up and just tap A and you'll just boom boom boom and kind of magnetize and pinball towards the bad guys. I've never liked that as a gameplay mechanic. but to make the player, I guess, feel more active in what they're doing. And obviously the Breath of the Wild comparisons are always going to be had whenever you're looking at something like this,

especially when you're gandering out at a vista. I mean, I love a good gandering out of a vista. But I will, if it's not too late, Sega, hear me out. All right? Thank you, Greg. If it's not too late, we're obviously seeing where you're kind of taking this game. But let's shift through. direction a little bit as well, all right?

Into a little game the Blessings playing called Death Stranding. Because this game looks like Death Stranding to me. Why like open environments, lots of lush green stuff and a bunch of high tech shit. You know what I mean? Give the player the ability to place ramps where they want to kind of make the open world as traversable as they prefer instead of the hang glider. A little like a floating skateboarders. know, snowboarder, you know.

Andy, I'll tell you right now, it's too late for that, but maybe Sonic Frontiers do. Like, you know, let's, I think we can shift the course, Greg. We can go another year without a year. The ship's already out. We can go another year, Sega, you know what I mean? But yeah, I think this game looks exactly, like, Blessing nailed it when we first got that first reveal of it.

He was like, if this can be in any way like Solar Ash or like the Pathless, this is where the franchise, I think, needs to go. It's still kind of goofy, the fact that it's Sonic. He's a kind of silly character. And I, in a way, watching this, it looks like that open world fan game, Sonic game that came out like seven years ago or was just an open world demo sort of thing. And a lot of ways, this looks like Sonic and Unreal Five sort of thing. And I am interested to see what they do with cutscenes and with cinematics because I feel like Sonic has always kind of been known for having these characters. So how are they going to ground him in this universe in a way that doesn't feel silly as all hell?

That's an excellent question. I don't think they've ever, every single Sonic game, I think to some extent, just feels off in terms of that exact thing. Like Sonic Forces, there's a scene early on where they talk about how Sonic's being tortured. And it's like, what is the universe you guys set up? Yeah, like essentially. Yeah. Like they're like, oh, Sonic's alive and he's being tortured. And it's like, what the fuck?

Like, I've ever heard hearing that. being like, yo, what is going on in this game? We need the nuclear code, Sonic. No, it has that vibe, dude. Forces is wild. Forces is wild, and, like, that's not, like, it's not strange for Sonic, right? Like, it's strange in the sense that it's strange, but that's typically what the 3D Sonic is. Like, you point to point toward any of the 3D Sonic games, and you're going to have shit where it's like, what is the tone of this?

It's bad 90s action. Like, yeah, it's like a 90s action mixed with, like, just really weird, a really weird mixture of trying to be in this real world setting, but having these characters that just don't fit in that kind of setting. And I think with this, you have an opportunity to be a little bit more defined in what it is, because it seems like this isn't the same Sonic we've always had. That was one of the things I was noticed during the original reveal for this game, is that this doesn't seem like it's classic Sonic or modern Sonic in the way that we talk about,

like, in Sonic generations, you have the two versions of Sonic, right? Like, one of them's like, got to go fast, and the other one doesn't say anything because he was from the Tootty World. This doesn't seem like it's either of that. It feels like for them it is a, hey, let's start from the ground up and try to reinvent what Sonic is and with that maybe redefine the tone. And I think it could work. And I think that might mean that we don't see tails and knuckles and maybe we don't see Eggman. Maybe we do see just pure villains and characters and robots that are made specifically for this world in the way that Kirby and the Forgotten Land had that exact same thing and didn't feel super jarring.

I think that might be the direction for this one. And I think it could work in what you're talking about. Moving on to another game that really has to itself. I want to jump in. Sorry, I've been let you guys go. Looking at this one, I'm excited for this. Like, I haven't played a Sonic game in quite some time. Like, you know what I mean?

I feel like that was, you know, me obviously with the Genesis. I just didn't like them. You know what I mean? Like Genesis, Sonics were my jam. And then like, you know, I did a, you know, I was committed to Sega for quite some time. And so like, you know, I had spinball. and then I went I had a Saturn and I was playing I just fucking moved away from Sonic right

and even so mania like I played a bit but even at that point I was just like I'm not really feeling out of you know this is this is nostalgia for sure yet yeah yeah looking at this this like you're nailing it looks like a seven you know jide open area how's it it gonna make sense that Sonic's there yet about all that stuff but it does look like I could see me enjoying running around and grinding out those rails and getting the coins and then yeah doing these puzzles and hopefully they evolve and get tougher and you know more enemies and things like that

again, I know we're looking exploration, but even at the one segment Barrett pulled up where it was just running, just free running, not even doing the coins or doing the puzzles or whatever. Like, that looks enjoyable. It reminds me of all the times you see the, Hey, Greg, look at this Unreal demo, somebody made of a Superman game,

where you're just flying and like, that flying looks fun. That running looks fun. And I hope they're able to populate that world with stuff to do. And the little things they're doing right there, I'm like, I can see myself, this is enough to make me want to try it and invest time with it. And hopefully it evolves and gets tougher.

Yeah, I don't think it looks phenomenal by any stress imagination visually, and I don't know if it's going to be the most engaging thing, but I'm excited to play that, which is rare for me to say about a sonic game. Hell yeah. Are you excited to play Pokemon, Scarlet, and Violet, Greg Miller? Yes, I am as well. That was another one. You know, obviously the trailer dropped.

I think we're about to watch it and do all that stuff, but, you know, Arceus was sounding good. And when I started that, I enjoyed what I played, but it was in the middle of review season, so I had to move on to the next thing. And before I got back to it, they were like, oh, hey, we're also going to do another Pokemon game this year, but it's going to be the modern futuristic Pokemon. And I was like, oh, well, I enjoy that world so much more than the,

I'm rub a two sticks together back here in Arceus and look at me, I'm some kind of mage, right? No, I want to be in this one. So I was already eyeing this one interested in it. And then the trailer today, Tim, I thought seemed really cool. And then the announcement of Open World, take on the gyms in any order you want. Do all that stuff. Sounds interesting, too. Yeah, I mean, I'm kind of right there with you, this trailer.

It looks like, yeah, it's definitely more Pokemon. And we're getting a lot recently. And it's different styles, but I don't think that they're different enough to have me look at this and be like, I can't wait to get my hands on it. But at the same time, it's like, although I'm not extremely excited about this,

I kind of think that so far they're getting everything right from what I would expect and want from a new next generation Pokemon game that has learned from RCS and things like that. I really dig a lot of the character designs we're seeing, even just like how cool some of them look like. this one girl earlier had like the the green streak in her hair like if that's the rival maybe there's a shot that like for the first time in a long time we're going to get a rival that's not just like who's your friend that like is kind of a doofist like I'm hoping we get some cool

rivals again because that's been a big criticism of mine uh but yeah like the different locations look great um graphically it's like i i mean i know that it's been 30 years whatever but i can't believe we're getting a Pokemon game that looks like this like this this is like in so many ways the dream come true it's just i feel like it's been a lot of iterative decisions to get us here so sure hard to be super excited but um definitely stoked about this and the legendaries we see at the trailer like am i all right you know what i'm i'm i'm digging this idea of kind of the the techie versus the more old school rustic vibes uh we have going on with them so definitely a violet boy i i definitely loved how the legendary legendaries looked i was shocked you know like the toward

the end of the trailer and bear's showing you right now if you're a video watcher uh When you had that transition, I was surprised how much I was like, oh, legendaries, they're about to show the legendaries. And as you see the shots already, I was like, dude, these look really cool. And I cannot wait to catch one of these guys. Like, I'm probably going to go for it. I assume the one on the right is going to be in Violet. And I think with that, I'm also going to be a Violet boy right there with Tim. But yeah, I think I'm pretty much along the same lines as you guys in terms of my reaction to the trailer.

Like, I've been kind of broken by Pokemon lately in the way that, you know, you know, you know, as a kid, you know, absolutely adored Pokemon Red, adore Pokemon Gold, loved Pokemon Emerald, and then just fell off because I didn't get the DS or the 3DS. So I came back in during the Switch era, right, with Pokemon, let's go Pikachu, and then followed by Sword. And Sword was one that halfway through, I think I had realized that I had grown out of Pokemon in a way that had really bummed me out. I was just like, man, this feels like the same thing.

I feel like I'm going through the motions. Like I do like the theming of it, of it being like this, you know, UK. soccer sports vibe of it, but in terms of gameplay, I felt like it was so by the motions, it's so iterative. And then I had the thing where I played Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, felt that even more, hopped into RCS and was like, finally something different. And for whatever reason, I just couldn't get back, I couldn't get into it. And now looking at Pokemon, that Pokemon, um, scarlet and violet, I'm like, fuck, I can kind of go for that, actually. The cycle continues. It's like this weird, broken, like, ah, I guess Pokemon just at its heart.

This is like basic fun for me. And I, and I think at this point, I'm just, I'm down for it. I'm not expecting anything crazy. I'm not expecting anything innovative. I don't know why I said like a UK accent. Innovative. But that said, the four-player co-op was-op. Innovative.

The four-player co-op is enough to make me go, damn, I can't wait to play this with friends. Like, that was the thing that surprised me in the trailer. And the fact that it is open world, four-player co-op. I didn't, of course, like, I'm sure that's going to come from limitations. I'm sure that's not just going to be us, you know, fucking about, like, all, like, all the way. over the map and doing whatever, whatever we want.

I still am excited for it. I hope it is, too, because that would be super awesome. And, like, the stuff that they showed in terms of the interactivity, right, bust thing out, like, being able to just, like, trade your Pokemon, like, throw them back and forth, or, like, I assume you can bust out in battles however you want. Like, I don't these aren't crazy ideas, but it's still enough to make me go, oh, that seems fun, though. Like, they can make it feel like more of an alive experience when I'm playing multiplayer.

Like, that was enough to sell me in. I think it looks really neat. I love the art style, obviously. The male protagonist looks pretty sick. Let's hope we get a lot of really cool. Or the male like boss or whatever that guy was. Let's hope we get a lot of really neat customization. Yeah, that guy.

Just super hot. Professor, bro. The first time ever on Pokemon. Two different professors, you know, based on the game, which what game you get? That's pretty cool. I think I'm also, I don't know at this point who's getting Scarlet, if I'm being real. Because Violet has like this hot-ass dude and then also the cool legendary. Not to say that the lady professor isn't hot, but like...

I mean, she got some Gia action going on. So I don't know. Maybe I'm team Scott. No. I will say, though, that this might be the first Pokemon that, uh, because a lot of people had issues with my controversial statements last year. Uh, and I'm here to address those statements where I said that, um, if you are a default fire picker, you are the worst of humanity.

basically um where if you are a default fire picker and by default i mean that like doesn't matter how the fucking dude looks if you're just picking fire no matter what that you're the person driving in neighborhoods at 240 in the morning with your loud ass muffler like you're the guy parking double parking really badly and shit but this one i like this little fucking red dino i think he looks cute as shit and i think this is the one where i'm like all right i'm ready to go red again i haven't gone fire in a long time. I usually kind of default towards grass for whatever reason, because I think the last couple years,

the grass Pokemon have been popping off, love a big Grookie fan. This looks cute as shit. I'm super stoked to see a different sort of realized world where they are learning from their past like mistakes in quotes. But I do agree with Tim where it has felt really iterative. Like we're getting the smallest improvements to every generation. It's like, let's just have that real big gigantic

uh, sort of improvement, which is why, um, which is why RCS kind of worked for me in that way, because it was this sort of brand new brough breath into the, I'm going to say breath into the wild, breath into the franchise. Yeah. Yeah, I'm on the exact opposite side of you, which is great, where I am an anti-leaf type person. And for the first time ever, I'm going to purposefully choose the, the leaf starter. So, wow. Can you bring up the starters real quick? I forgot who they were. I mean, the only one we really need to. to like talk about is quacksley because that's the

actual... Quacksley. That's the actual Trump one. I'm going to say Donald Trump, right? True starter right there. That little boy splashing in the water there. Yeah, the other two... We got Sprigitito, Fuecoco. Fouacoco was the one.

Fouacoco was my pick, yeah. The red dinahs, what I'm saying, yeah. Yeah. Look, and here's the thing. I'm not saying that you're a terrible human being if you pick red every now and then, but if you're the type that, like, I'm getting red, no matter what. You know, I don't want, I don't want to see you ever in my life again.

They got Toby Fox on the ones and twos for at least one of the main themes of the game, which, I'm excited. Yeah. That's wild. Yeah, for like the, I think like the, the open, the grass stuff. He tweeted about it today. Oh. Yeah, like, it was just sick.

He did the battle theme, or one of the battle themes for like the battle tower for sword. And I went back and listened to it today. And that shit is so fire and it is so Toby Fox. And so I'm very excited to see what he does. She tweeted today, I had the honor of composing the field music for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. After creating a concept sketch, Game Freak arranged it into many versions that you'll hear throughout the game. You can hear a bit of it in this trailer. A few more Toby Fox tracks will appear in the game too.

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We went way longer talking about Sonic and Pokemon that I expected. But hey, that's what this is. We love video games. There's a lot to talk about, especially in June. You know what I mean? The seasons in the air, the original video game season. It's not review season. It's not backlog season.

It is hype season. It is P-3, not E3, summer game fest. Let's fucking go. Like I said, we're going to be going around one by one giving a prediction. Each one of us will have a total of five, and they are predictions for all of the June's showcases. I want to start with... Oh, I thought the Discord cut off.

Yeah, I know. I'm trying to think of the order of where I want to go. Who wants to go first? I'll start off. Andy Cortez. I beat you. Start off. Faster than me with words, not with your feet.

Go ahead. I'm so scared. You take one of mine. I know, be too. Yeah, because there's that, it doesn't seem to be a whole lot. That's why I wanted to go first. I think this will be,

actually I'll save that for the later. Hopefully all don't get to it. Cotor remake. I think we're getting Cotor remake sort of shown the trailer. We're getting like a really cool look at it. It's going to be a third person action game. It's not going to be turn-based because they decided we want to make this game fun.

too, right everybody? You know, they decided like, hey, wielding a lightsaber is the coolest thing of all time. Who wants, nobody wants to take turns with that shit anymore. We want dashes. We want parries. We want a game in the style of Jedi Fallen Order, kind of. But it's going to be Kotel remake shown like full in-engine type of stuff and with no date,

obviously. But where is it going to be shown? You mean like in the reveal, like a beginning end sort of thing? Remember, we're kind of SGF as all of June. So it could be PlayStation Showcase or State of Play. It could be Jeff Keely's thing on Thursday. What are you saying it's going to be? I was assuming it was going to be tomorrow.

I think that's the third party sort of thing that is highlighting like more third party type of games. Yeah. Very interesting. When they first showed the trailer, was there any type of date? Was there any type of? We just showed it and no, there's nothing there. All it says is a legend remade for PS5, and that was it. And then it just showed Aspere, the PlayStation logo, and Lucasfilm at the end.

I forgot it was Aspire. Aspire. I was working on it. How do you guys feel about Eddie's prediction here? Because I'm not convinced. I think this one might be a little further out than being ready to show. I would love it. I want to believe, but yeah, I don't believe.

I'm with you, Tim. I think it's just further out. I don't think they come out and have anything new yet to show for it. I don't believe in the sense that I, this was originally shown off at the PlayStation showcase. late last year. And so I would think that if it's going to show up again, it would be at a Sony event. And I don't think the state of play is going to have something of this magnitude. I think the biggest thing that we're going to see tomorrow at the state of play.

Maybe this is part. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah, save it. Be careful. Don't be spiring out any freaking predictions here. Don't be spurring over there, blessing. All right. I'm going to say, I don't think we're going to see this in the state of play. Okay. Okay. Bless, you can go next. Where do I want to start? Where do want to start? Now, when we say, when we're at least this prediction episode, Is this the entire summer?

Like, is this up until August? I'm looking at June. I'm looking at the parameters here that I'm putting on this are if it happens in June, specifically at PlayStation State of Play, summer game fest, the event, or the Microsoft Bethesda showcase. But we don't know if the Nintendo Direct is going to happen. So you could predict there will be a Nintendo Direct and it'll include XYZ. Because I was thinking, like, oh, some of my predictions span as far as opening night live for gamescom.

I guess I can roll back on that in that case. Roll it back. Roll it back. Walmart, roll back. Roll back those prices. Mm-hmm. Oh, man. Oh, then where do I want to start?

I'm going to say this. There will not. Oh. Hmm. No, because that's more summer. That's more summer. I'll say this. I'll say this.

Machine games, their Indiana Jones game, is going to be revealed at the Xbox event. and it'll look surprisingly like uncharted and it'll be an Xbox exclusive. I love that. It's similar to Cotor for me where I feel like it still might be a little early based on what we know about that game. But machine games pretty good. They've shown their development cycles seem to be a little quicker than the longest out there.

So I don't think it would be the most unlikely thing, but I'm not, I don't think it's a sure thing. But I'm really excited about it. I do think that whenever we do see it, it will be like you're describing. I think it's going to be an uncharted clone to some extent. The thing I'd add to that too, right, is like looking at machine games. I feel like they're about ready to show something off, you know, even if Indiana Jones isn't coming in the next year or so, like even if it's coming in, let's say, 2023, 24, they, Wolfstein 2, the new Colossus came out in 2017, because that was like five years ago.

And then they had Youngblood, which I believe was co-developed with. arcane and that came out 2019. Correctly if I'm wrong? 2019, yeah. And so like, we've had some years and like, you know, how much of that has been spread between them, maybe working on Wolfstein 3 as well. That's where things get iffy, where I'm like, I don't know

I don't know how far Indiana Jones is. But I'm going to stick by it. I think Indiana Jones is probably going to come out before Wolfstein 3. I think that's the priority for them. Any thoughts, guys? I don't think it'll be like uncharted. I feel like that's going to be a bit too

I feel like it's going to be a bit too similar and I think it's going to be have a lot of horror type vibes. I think it's going to be a little bit creepier and scarier than what an uncharted would bring you. Unless you're talking about the end of uncharted because that always just scares the shit out of me.

Greg Miller, what's your next prediction? Your first prediction. I'm going to stay with the spooky. The rumors are true. June 9th, 2022 at Jeff Keely showcase, team Blueber will reveal their Silent Hill

remake, Silent Hill 2 remake, whatever the Silent Hill they're working on. Okay. You figure, Blueber team already on Jeff's list of confirmed publishers and slash developers that are showing stuff. Bluber has that rumor going around. They're working on that Silent Hill thing for Konami. There's also a rumor of some other game they've been doing and obviously they're

making other games. But I think this will be where you get similar to, I think we're just talking about the Indiana Jones what we were just talking about with Kotor I think those CG teaser trailers are put out there and are awesome but then I still think it's too soon for those games to come I think this will be that

kind of trailer where it'll be the trailer it'll be like some creepy stuff and it'll be Silent Hill, Bluber, Konami and that'll just be it but we'll have our official confirmation to start spinning our wheels about it and when it comes out Greg what do you this is not adding to your prediction

just let's up the hat if you're right sure what do you think the overall climate is on it better than expected okay I think team Blueberry you know has not earned a lot of goodwill

industry wide you know as this rumors continue to circulate people like they fucking suck how are they getting these games yeah I think this will be

better than expected because of a budget and you know the fact they've probably given time with it and you hope Konami's allowing them to do something cool with it

I'm also going to assume that it is better as than expected and I also expect a tip of the hat I'll give it back to you I'll give it right back to you little exchange

Changing of the hats. That's what we call it. I feel like it's a fair prediction there. I think that this is a likely thing just because they're going to have to announce these silent-hill projects at some point, whatever they are. And I feel like we're going to keep predicting them and eventually it's going to happen. But I do think that I didn't realize Blubert announced they're going to be there. That I think really is a tell-tale sign that like something's going down. And if not that, then what?

So I think you might be right. Thank you. I like being right. My prediction. I can't believe you. guys didn't say this so i'm just going to take it hollow night silk song there it is oh shit summer game fest but my prediction just to add a little bit of spice to my life risk at all as the kids would say spice up your life it's not going to be a bionc shadow drop we're just going to get a release date

but i do think that it is going to be a summer game fest reveal that we get a trailer for this with a release date and it will not be the day of summer game fest do you think it's this year Tim I do I don't think they put a release date if it's not this year I like it So you said you don't think it's going to be Summer Games Fest Live

No I think I do it will be It will be but it just won't come out He doesn't think it releases Oh I see you don't think it's going to shut I okay I agree with that one too Because I think you do that and you just risk Fucking it up You risk if you do that

You don't get the push for it Because everybody's waiting for this game Obviously you want headlines on IGN a game spot of, hey, it's coming on this day and date. And then also, you don't want the traditional morning of, guess what? One of the territories accidentally pushed live, a banner ad ahead of time, or, you know, a pre-order page when they, or whatever, they updated this thing on the back of Xbox. Like, there's so many ways you can screw that up and like, you just don't want to screw that up. God, this looks good.

Wow. Andy, ever heard of this game? What, would you say, Greg? You ever heard of this game? Yeah, I've heard of it once or twice. I don't think we'll see it at at Summer Games Fest. I think we will see it in a direct in the fall, which is just not,

that's not my prediction, but I'm just throwing that out there. Wow. Then what is your next prediction? I predict that we will see, similar to my Cotor remake thing, that we will see first gameplay of Avowed. I believe Avowed will be showed off.

it is obsidian's kind of like hey this is our first thing we're making underneath xbox um you all saw a cg version of that earlier and uh this is our sort of taste of what you can be getting from this world um i'm expecting some narration in a world deep beyond the fog or whatever the fuck and uh yeah we're going to see some little gameplay snippets nothing enough to where it's not going to be like a big deep dive or anything like that, but it's just going to be a, you know, you're working, you're running through a land. What game is this?

This is mysterious. Guess what? It's about. Guess what, motherfucker. Mm-hmm. And I'm, and I'm a wowed. Oh, you're going to be loud? Yeah, I think it's going to be good.

If you're wowed, tip of the hat to you. I mean, thank you. I definitely think Andy will be wild. I think Andy will be wild for sure. Yeah. Do you think we see it, though? I can go either way with it. You hope so, right?

It looks cool. It's time to hear more. When's the last time we touched base on it? last year I believe this trailer this announcement trailer was 20 20 and I think this is oh shit I think this is the only trailer that we have of it quarantine man here's my thing I would have seen that was 2021 Xbox my thing is Lipsidian they're like an insomniac where they're just they're just working on everything aren't they right like they had then last year they announced outer worlds too right they're

working on grounded grounded is still I think technically early early access I don't think that ever came out in full release least. I assume they're still working on that. And then the rumor is that they're possibly working on another New Vegas as well. And so with that, I feel like not all of those are going to come out. And I don't know if a vow is the one that buys the dust. Do you think it's the better chance of breaking than some of those other projects? I think Outer Worlds too is for sure going to come out. I assume the New Vegas things, maybe still in talks or like, you know, that hasn't been announced yet. So I understand why that would be the one that that buys the dust. But a vowed, I feel like

a new IP coming out of them that is essentially going to be a Elder Scrolls like game that was announced before I believe it was announced before Microsoft acquired Bethesda like do you really need one of those when Elder Scrolls 6 is announced

like I could see it biting the nest I could see I could see it's never seen that game again I don't I don't think we see Elders Scrolls for another nine years and a half to four years so I do think that it happens I think that you can have more than one first party epic fantasy game

yeah I don't see SkyRone coming for or not SkyRam but I don't see L-Sgirl 6 coming for a long time They also have Fable so they're not scared of having these A few high fantasy games Where the fuck's Fable Long ways out I'm pretty Is that your prediction right now Greg? God where the fuck's fable

At the end of the Xbox showcase I will say God where the fuck is Fable Bless. God won't answer. So I have a large multi-part prediction. Whoever is breaking down the points, I'll let you do it, whatever way you want to do it. But here's my prediction. And this does stay in the summer a little bit,

but I'm going to try and pull it and make the bulk of it about things going down this June. I think there will be two big PlayStation summer events. I think, and that includes tomorrow's state of play. And so that's not even a prediction because we already know about that. But tomorrow's state of play is the first one, and I think the second one will be a VR showcase. I don't think we're going to get the traditional.

Here's games coming to the PS5. I think that's going to hold off until all. So that's the first part of it, right? The two biggest reveals at tomorrow's state of play are going to be the horizon called Mountain gameplay, which we already know about. That's not prediction. But then also I think we're going to get the stray release date

for July 19th, 2022. And I think those will be the two big things. I think everything else is going to be like, you know, here's third party, here's like other things. But like those will be the two highlights, right? For the PSVR two events this summer, I think the biggest announcements there, the two biggest announcements there, are going to be one more first party title, first party VR title in the way that Horizon Call of the Mountain is one. And then also, that Half-Life Alex is also being, is also revealed for the platform and is coming day one. So there's my big PlayStation. A lot there.

Yeah, my big PlayStation roundup for you. It's close, but no cigar. My next prediction is this. Tomorrow, it's state of play. One of the several games in development for PlayStation VR2, it's going to run like this. When they get to the PlayStation VR2 section, they'll open with Half-Life Alex,

showing you that that's coming to PlayStation VR2. They'll show you what's next from Team Osobi, and then they'll end with Horizon Call of the Mountain, actually some gameplay showing you what that actually looks like. The other two will be more like teases. Here, I'll just for PlayStation out there. And here's what's next from Team Osobi. There it is.

I hope so. Crushed it. Then if you want to, my bonus point tip of the hat as I think when they go to the blog to talk about these games, they're also going to mention that the Ghostbusters game

that got announced for Quest 2 is going to be a PlayStation VR thing, but they don't want to just show the same trailer that is already out there. I'm going to jump off of what both the all predictions are doing with a little bit more. I do think that tomorrow's going to be focused on PSVR 2. I'm up there with Greg with,

I think we're going to get a couple games there. But my prediction is a little bit different. I think that throughout June, we will see three games from Capcom. And I think that we will get at least two of them at PlayStation State of Play tomorrow. Those three games, Resident Evil Village, DLC. And it will be shown off tomorrow with VR support for PSVR too. And Greg will pop up on the bottom right being like, too bad. This isn't as good as fucking that one game.

A fucking medium. Medium. And I'll tell you what, it just makes people so angry when the truth said. You know what I mean? And now I can't. The medium was a 6.5 or a 7. And I go, yes, that's what I'm saying. Resident Evil was less than that.

You clowns. In the AAA soup. Oh, it's a vampire and a werewolf. This game's boring. And that guy's fat. I'm done. Do you think the DLC centers around Big Lady? I think the DLC centers around you put it on and go to a Capcom boardroom and they apologize

to you. I can't wait for this. George called B-O-R-E-D. Next up will be Street Fighter 6 gameplay. Oh, man. I hope, man. And the final one will be Resident Evil 4 remake. Yeah.

So I do, but my thing is I know some of those seem a little simple. So I want, I only want my points if I'm getting, if I go through all of them, you know. Okay, you get bonus points from me. So whoever's keeping track, like a 0.1 bonus point. These three things that you just revealed, how many of them are going to have the intro of this video snippet we're seeing being, hey, you don't, hey, audience member, you don't know what this is yet. You're not sure what world this is. Oh, oh, the red bandana, that's reu. You're like, you know, one of those sort of trailer things?

Like, the way they always sort of hit that sort of thing. What's going to be doing that? I think RE4 would be the only one to do that. And that would be in line with kind of how they've shown the remake trailers in the past where they have had that kind of big reveal. Like the Res. Like a few remake, like a piece of dirt,

running around. Yeah. You know, yeah, we can see that. I imagine that will be the case. I do not think that we're going to, and now this is,

I'm ending my prediction now. I'm just like adding a bunch of shit. I don't think we're going to get all three tomorrow at the state of play. Like I can imagine maybe two of them. But then maybe one of them at game bet is Capcom? part of GameFest. Yeah. They are. Yeah.

So you just hear, Matalor. And you're like, oh, we're going to see more Deo Field Chronicles. Actually, I think that's Square Annex. I'll take it back. What fuck is that? It was that the last state of play,

I think. They were like, oh, we have two games from Square. Or maybe it was cat. Let me check real quick. And now, here's what's next from Square. What's next from Andy? I think Jeff Keely has made a really

good friendship with from software and I think we will see an Eldon ring DLC announcement at the summer game fest won't be anything wild but we all know that Eldon ring was had kind of gone gold for a while they were just working on bugs and things like that near the end so I think that they have been they've been in the kitchen cooking up a little DLC for us and yeah I think Jeff Keeley will get that announcement. And I think this will be the sort of confirmation that Jeff Keeley is going to get the from software stuff from here on out.

I think that's a slab duck prediction. But I also think it's one of those things of if it's not there, people are going to be like, oh, damn, this game fest wasn't that good. So I feel like they need to have it there. Like, I think that a lot's writing on Kili, building that just like you're saying, because I do think that Eldon Wren clearly was the star of the show last year and kind of building that momentum to prove what game. Fest is, I think is very important.

The home from software announcements. Andy, I think your prediction is level-headed. And I think you are probably more along the lines on the right trail than I am, because my prediction also involves from Software and Jeff Keeley. I think from software reveals a new game, and that is Armored Core at Jeff Keeley's event. Yeah. More sign freaks out. Yeah.

Wow. So what type of reveal are we talking? Are we thinking Metroid Prime 4 logo? Are we thinking CG kind of here's a super short thing of a guy getting in the cockpit? And then like, I don't know what armored core sort of thing is. But like, you know what this game is? Yeah, like I haven't played an armored cord forever. But I just love the mecks back in the day.

So I just tried to play anything mech wise. But like, do we get the armored core thing of, like, like, time I go core. Like, whatever their catchphrase. I think it's very cryptic and mysterious, because I think they'll want to drag this one out.

Because, again, they just put out other than, so armored core isn't coming out, like, tomorrow. And so I think in the way that we got that original Sekiro reveal and all of us were like, what is this?

Is this, well, I think it was like ominousia. On, eusha. Yeah, I think that was like the popular, like,

oh, this is going to be that. I think it'll be a, like, a from software logo, and just like machinery, right? Like I think it will be like, oh, what is this? And then that's it. And then we learn late in the year, maybe game awards.

Like they finally put the armored core name to it. But like we all know it's armored core, right? Like the rumors have been out there. I mean, it's from software. So they've done armored core before. But I do think it's, I do think it's very cryptic. I think they barely show anything. I think it is either legitimately machines moving and no name

or it is just a logo that says armored core. Armored Corbius. Thank you, everybody. No, no. There we go. Everyone's been a great episode. Thank you. Thank you.

Greg Miller. Where do you want to go, Greg? Where do you want to go? Take us on a journey. I think it's just this scary time of year. Yeah. I think June 9th, 2020, the rumors are true. Jeff Keely will debut gameplay for Colisto Protocol.

I think that will go there and I think we'll get a little in state for the fall. I think they will try to hit this year. They've said there this year. I think they'll try to hit this year. year. I think you'll get a nice little trailer. It'll be narrated by the one, the only Josh Dumel, the star of this game. And I think, yeah, you'll get some gameplay. You'll see some action. You'll get a release date at the end. And I think it'll be before Dead Space in January. Wow.

You think it's coming out that soon? Again, that's what they've said. And they have been ramping up talking about it and doing all their normal beats for it. I mean, this could be a great chance to delay it. But again, they have been ramping up to making it look like they're going to do it. And I think this could their big coming out party and they get to do it. I think again, you do have to in some ways worry about dead space. I think they do want to beat dead space to market because of course, you know, this is Glenn Showfield. This is striking distance. These are the people who made, some of the people who made dead space, some of the people who made dead space too. A lot of ex-visceral

people, right? And they're making a game that is meant to be a modern one. And while they were working on it, EA's like, you know what? We'll remake it. Like, ah, fuck. All right. I think you want to get out in front of that. I think, again, it's been cooking a long time and they've been, you know, good about hiding it for the most part. And not hiding it in terms of like we don't know anything about it. But like, hey, we've played our cards close to our vest and we want to make a big impact. And I think you can make the big impact here. You know, this is some educated stuff too of the way Jeff's interacted and talked about Clister Protocol.

I don't have it in front of me right now. But I know I made some eye emojis at him. I think when he was visiting striking distance. And then he made an eye emoji back at me. So I think right there is all the confirmation you need that this is fucking happening. But I mean, it might not be. Maybe it's not, you know, the June 9. ninth event maybe it is uh games com maybe something happens there maybe whatever maybe it's game

awards you know how jeff's always traveling doing stuff maybe it's just checking going up to say hey to glen who knows yeah i'm gonna say i'm gonna put it out there i'm gonna do it i think the evidence is there i think you're right about everything the one thing i'm a little if you on is it releasing before dead space but also i think you're making a solid case for why it might so interesting stuff my next prediction is also one that I think's real 50-50. Like I feel like for a lot of our predictions this year, it's like probably I was saying this before the show. This might be my least, uh, exciting prediction year.

I think we've ever had that kind of funny in terms of predicting this season, just because it even just feels like the amount of shows are limited or they're not what we expect them to be like the PlayStation's state of play. We're not expecting it to be a PlayStation E3 show. It's going to be a third party state of play. And also I feel like there's less rumors. I feel like by this time there are so many things that are in the ether. Oh, Star Fox Grand Prix is happening.

Oh, there's going to be a new Donkey Kong game from the Mario Odyssey. It was like there are so many things that we usually hear in trailers that would have already came out by now that just aren't there. Yeah. And like no word from Nintendo. It's unlikely no word from Ubisoft. Like there's just a lot of things missing. So all eyes are on these events. And I think because of that, like there's a chance for a lot of letdown and just kind of like, okay, that was fine.

But thinking about if those are the events. And games that have been talked about, rumored in some way, shape, or form leaked somehow. And Keeley, I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it, blast, and stealing it right from you. Boom. Death Stranding 2.

God damn. At Summer Game Fest, it'll be announced. Will Kojima be there on stage? I'll get a tip of the hat. I'm going to say yes. Okay. I think you're spot on. I think now that Norman Reyes has spilled the beans,

I do think now is the time to, like, come out. and just own it and own the message and go, here is Destriending, too, especially as Kojima, who's not afraid to announce things early on. Destianding, too, must have been in development for a while now, right? Like, Dest Raining One came out in 2019. The director's cut came out last year, right? And so they've been working on that as well.

But, you know, when that game was originally announced, that was, what, it was, MGS5 came out in the fall. A few months later, Kojima sits down to shake hands with Andrew House. and then that E3, six months later they revealed Destraining for the first time. What a timeline. Yeah. The timeline for that is insane.

And so Descrating too, I think, it's just a matter of time before it is actually revealed, especially now that we know it exists. And we know how quickly they can work, right? Yeah. I'm Andy Haos. I had to throw that up there. Because last year we got the director's cut at Game Fest.

Right? Huh. Yeah, we did. Yeah. So, interesting. Interesting. Andy Cortez. What's your fourth prediction? I know you said that there's little to no word from Nintendo. And this is probably the dumbest prediction I will make.

But I think at the end of June, we will get a Nintendo showcase, blah, blah, blah. And a different team that's not the Odyssey team is working on Odyssey 2. we will get a Mario Odyssey 2 reveal in the same way that Galaxy 2 kind of just was more of galaxy we're going to get a Mario Odyssey 2 reveal and I'm sticking by it based on no rumors whatsoever

just based on gut feeling leaping off of that I think that elements of it might be right but I don't think that they'll ever make a Mario Odyssey that's not made by the Odyssey team. Like, I think that that team is so specifically their high profile platform team that I just can't even imagine what other team would even be able to take it on.

So I just know at Nintendo, there's a lot of other studios that we're constantly asking, what are they doing? What are they doing? What are they doing? Whether it's studios that have announced stuff in the past that have just gone completely dead silent on or just to do you as we aren't aware of what the hell is happening behind the scenes. What are they doing back there?

The meatloaf mom. So, yeah, I do think we do get a Mario Odyssey to, bam, it's out now. Yeah, I think that your prediction of June direct is not likely, but not impossible. But I do think that I would take it, and I'm using this as a prediction, but I would think that if it did happen, I imagine we will get whatever the Odyssey team is working on next. I don't know that it's Odyssey too, but I think it's a safer thing to say, We're going to find out about that game this year. At some point,

I guess I'm also at the point, Tim, where it's like, when are we going to get the Breath of the Wild to D or not DLC, but just release date, finalization of everything, if not sometime this summer? That's where my sort of head is. And I think wherever they do show that will be where Mario Odyssey is shown. Tip of that.

I think game awards is a likely placement. for Breath of Wild 2. Yeah, that or that or they have like a fall direct. Like, yeah, I don't, I don't think we'd hear any more updates on Breath of Wild 2 for the, for the summer. We'll hear that, I think, later in the year. And Andy, I know it's like a slim chance now of like Nintendo, like, kind of popping up out of nowhere.

But I think I was listening to the one and only Grub snacks hosted by the one and only Jeff Grub. And they were talking about, like, I think it was last year, it was like the first Tuesday of June, or the first Thursday of June, kind of like the week before the direct is when they announced that their direct was happening, like the following week or something like that. So,

or maybe it was like... Or it was like two weeks before or something like that, and they were kind of like the week after all of the Summer Games Fest stuff, so there's still a little bit of time, a slight chance there, especially with how close they kind of announced directs now, so... You got 24 hours, Nintendo.

Get back to me. Turn it over. less. Man, you took the win down on my sales, Tim, by How to do it. Because that was going to be my, I almost feel like that's a given. I feel like it has to happen. But another one that I'll put on a similar level that has to happen at some place,

and I think I'm going to give it to Jeff Keely, because I don't know where else it would happen. God of War, Ragnarok, I think that needs a release date reveal. I think they're going to aim for the fall, And I think with that, what better place to do it than Jeff Gilles' summer games fest live event? I think that's where we're going to get God of War Ragnarok. I think we get a gameplay trailer and I think we get a release date for this fall.

I mean, I think the fact that PlayStation is at like confirmed to be part of GameFest in some way, shape, or form, I think. Do we not think that the only involvement there is tomorrow? That's the thing is I feel like, yeah, I assume that as well. But like I think that at least this gives the option. there is the chance and I think bless his logic is sound that like it really depends on how much of a grasp keely has on the industry is it what he wants to have is he there yet or is he still working towards it you know um but also you think he has it you think he has it this year i think play station's playing ball i think they're doing state of play there and i think they'll take god of war

and put it on the not grander stage but it kind of speaks to what we've talked about before of what is a state of play and what our expectations for a state of play. And announcing that you have some exciting reveals from third party partners and some PlayStation VR stuff, you don't want to go put God of war in there because now, guess what, every time a state of play comes around and it is exciting announcements and VR stuff, people are going to expect the world. And so why not take this biggest one and put it on a stage where everybody will be watching

and you get to own the E3 that is this E3 this year? Great. And I think they're putting the state of play in the in the, in the, um, Or putting the Summer Games Fest logo in the state of play from PlayStation, not just Jeff Keely, I think signifies that they're willing to play ball. And yeah, to that point, right? Like, I think state of play is not where you show a God of War. PlayStation showcases.

And I just don't think PlayStation showcases is going to happen. And so in that case, like, where do you show it? You could just drop it on a blog, but the Summer Games Fest live thing is right there. You do you do summer game fest, and then you can still do the God of War Ragnarok state of play, like you did with Horizon, which is looking at systems and how you're upgrading. and how things have changed and what, you know, all the jazz like they did with Horizon

where they went through and really got into the minutia of what was going on in Aloy's life. And last year, right? Like, this is right, that Destrating Directors Cut did reveal at that Summer Games Fest kickoff last year.

And I know that's, that's, uh, Kojima, which kind of makes it into a different thing with his relationship, but that's still a PlayStation published game on console and then also on a very small, on a much smaller scale, right?

Like the Deviation Studio partnership with PlayStation was announced at Summer Games Fest kickoff as well. And so, like, they've done stuff with them before. And obviously, like, there's been other things like Game Awards where you've seen PlayStation stuff happen as well. Like, I think they like Jeff Keely enough to have something like this there. And especially with like last year, like having that Eldon Ring moment, like seeing the other like kind of big company seeing that and being like, oh, well, if he's going to be able to have Eldon Ring and that's like the biggest game this year. Like we might as well play ball with him now.

I think Elden Ring gives Jeff Keely so much use to hit up other companies to like get the biggest of the big games in there. Craig Miller, prediction number four. I had one I really liked. But as I got closer to it, I think I know too much. And I will never predict. I will never use a prediction where actually no fucking shit. So. DM it, DM it to me.

You won't think it's interesting. Maybe you will actually. I'll DM it to you in a second. How many? We have two left for each one of us. Good spicy, Greg. Well, no, it's just like, I'm going to run. I'm going to keep running with my fucking theme.

Cool. Tomorrow. PlayStation's state of play. The rumors are true. I think tomorrow, one of the predictions I'm talking about is that that is where Dead Space remake gets its first official trailer. Dead Space remake, of course, had a bunch of streams and a bunch of gameplay put up where they're showing difference and stuff.

It hasn't had the package marketing. Here's how it actually is. And so I think that that would be a good space to do it. And I think you can't do them both on the same show, Clisto Protocol, and Dead Space, right? And so I think EA already has a relationship with a, uh, uh, uh, PlayStation, obviously. Well, I mean, everybody has split relationships, but it wouldn't be weird for EA to debut something there. I think Dead Space is the kind of game that a lot of us are going to, I'm going to mark out for. A lot of video game fans are going to mark out for it, but I don't

necessarily think it's so big that you need to worry about a bigger impact of it, especially the way they've been marketing it so far with these dev streams, especially with the way they announced the January release date of just being like one of the streams for the devs. I think you need to start the ball rolling on telling the wider world that's there. And I think state plays a good angle for that because it isn't exciting an aspect for the third party, but it isn't earth shattering. You know, it's just going to be, hey, you guys love this game and here it is remade and they're working on this.

Yeah, it's interesting. It's interesting to look at the going back to what I was saying about this summer just kind of feels weird. Like there's no EA play as well. And that last year was where we saw a Dead Space remake first revealed. So with that in mind, they kind of have to find a new home that isn't their own, right? with the A play not existing. So is it going to be state of play's third party thing?

Like I think that's a little weird with like how imagining PlayStation and EA. Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't remember them really partnering on much. But this could be the start of something with that. And I think you're right. We don't see close to protocol and Dead Space at the same event. That might be a little weird. Yeah.

Too much. It's too much. Right. And even that even if your girlfriend at the party, you don't want to. Yeah. That's weird. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, you can't have him be there.

They can't be there. Greg, you'll get a tip of the hat from me on this one. Which one will be, to go along with their theme, which game will look the spookiest of all the spooky stuff you've mentioned? Ooh, I mean, it's spooky. Well, I think Silent Hill, if they, if Bloomberg team's silent Hill comes through, I think that's going to be a much more cinematic trailer. You know what I mean? I have a tease. And I think that would inherently be more spooky than the gameplay you'd see from Clisto or Dead Space just because gameplay in general gives you that sense of

little bit of ownership being able to fight things. Gameplay-wise, what do I think? Which game do I think will be scarier looking from the gameplay reveals? I would think probably Callista. I think Callista is going to, because I think Dead Space, we kind of know what's up. Necromorphs, okay. Like, Isaac and do it a thing. I can't wait for it, but like, okay, I don't think it's going to be nuts.

That's cool. My next prediction isn't going to be mind-blowing or anything, but I'm very confident about it. And it's that Final Fantasy 16 will be shown tomorrow. at the PlayStation State of Play. That's a solid bet right there, Tim. And I mean, I'm just going to add on to it. I'm going to be excited about it.

I'm going to look at it and be like, this game looks like it's for me. And that is, sounds like I know brain. Oh, of course, Tim likes Final Fantasy. I tend to not like the more fantasy-based ones. And so far, this has kind of been given those vibes. But it being the team from Final Fantasy 14, story-wise, I've only ever heard amazing things about that.

So I'm excited to see more about this. hopefully we get some more details on it and like any type of idea of release for it but I think I'm not confident enough to say we're going to get a release date from the trailer but I do think it'll be at the state of play tomorrow

my gut tells me you're not confident we're getting a date you're not confident we're getting a date I'm not based I feel like based on so many things I've heard that Final Fantasy 16 is kind of the closest of a lot of these games to being ready,

I think there will be a date, Tim, and I cannot wait for this fucking game. My prediction is that I cannot wait for this game. As you all know, I just never really played a whole lot of Final Fantasy throughout my years because they were always turn-based, and I just

never liked it. Except for 10, I played 10, Tim, and I know you like 10. But I haven't really been able to play a Final Fantasy game where it is fantasy-themed. Like, I'm so used to the buckles and the steampunk sort of shit. And yeah, I think this game has the potential to be massive.

I'm right there with you, actually. Like, between Final Fantasy, Stranger or Paradise, and also Final Fantasy 7 remake, I'm like, I got really into those games. Even so much so that I went and I played a lot of the original Final Fantasy 7. And, like, you know, I'd played it back in the day, but I played way more of it than I'd ever played before in this last playthrough. Like, I got 20 hours in compared to, like, three or four. you know, I, I, I, I could see the, this new gameplay speaking to me.

The thing is, I don't know, I don't know if I'm with you in terms of it showing up tomorrow. I think I'm more, I could see it showing up at like a summer game stress live or like if PlayStation did do like a random, like event or something along those lines, it's showing up there. Like, I feel like this almost, I feel like this does break the expectancy of the level of announcement that you expect at a state of play. Like, I feel like if it was going to be there, maybe they would say something. i don't know traditionally final fantasy updates have been state of plays it's an exciting third party not made was state of plays like five vans 7 remake like they their like tee up for it was uh state of play so that's why i'm leaning so hard on capcom and final fantasy when it comes to the playstation stuff it's like so far looking back at the

the fairly short history of state of plays the most exciting announcements have been from capcom or square uh in their partnerships with playstation so i imagine that will be like the pinnacle of what we can get from this thing. I mean, the crazy shit would be from Phezzi 7 remake too, which we gotta hear about eventually. I don't know if this summer's the place for that, though. Andy Quetas, final prediction.

There were a lot of, there's about three different ways I want to go here, but I'm going to take the road less traveled, Robert Frost. Actually, this is staying completely on character with me. This year we saw Kingdom Hearts 4 get revealed. All right. We also saw a Steam listing for Returnal.

This Invidia leak. Oh, wow. There's something to it. This Invidia leak is more and more true with every passing minute, everybody. And what's missing on the Steam or what's missing on the Nvidia leak? Bloodborn. Bloodborn is one of the only Sony exclusives that we have not seen. That's totally not true.

Not one of the only. There's plenty of them. But you know what I mean? It's one of the only Sony exclusives that has not been shown to be put it to that's going towards PC. There's no PC port. Where is this goddamn PC port for Bloodbourne? It's not getting a PC port. It's getting a PS5 exclusive by BluPoint.

And that is announced at Summer Game Fest. Jeff Keely is going to just bring the heat, baby. Why is it all the InVIDIA leak? Because there's no PC version, everybody. It's only going to be on PS5. I hope. I love you. I love you so much, Andy.

Full remake, full graphics. It's going to look as beautiful as demon souls. There will be a performance RT mode as well. That's another big sort of prediction from me. So, yeah, tip of the hat for me there, just for predicting it. Yeah, this is going to be, it's going to be a massive summer game fest. Jeff Keely is bringing the heat and Bloodbourne PS5 remake. Get ready.

Wow. That would be incredible. But that definitely to me, I'd be. surprised if that was a Game Fest announcement. I can see more of a PlayStation showcase vibe. I, um, the only reason why I really,

really think that it won't be at a PlayStation showcase is that it's possible that maybe I am, I'm definitely not overhyping this. Everybody's excited for this fucking game. But like, I feel like Sony would be okay giving that off to somebody else while they focus on their non-remade game.

Obviously, I think Sony's still going to show off Last of Us Part 1 remake, but I do think that they I think Sony likes to hold and showcase what Insomniac is working on and what sucker punch is working on. Like, I think that's where they are going to do all that stuff in Blue Point, known as sort of the remake house, known as the port house.

They are going to get their showcase. They're going to have their game shown off. I also do you think that this project, compared to other projects would be a bit on the lower end of like what they would consider brand new because Bloodbourne is more of a recent game like it was only last gen

right so that's uh that came out in like 2015 uh and so like the stuff they would do to it I think would be way less than what they did for demons souls and for shadow colossus it would be more along the long along the lines what Blue Point used to be in terms of like the remastered chattel Colossus and the collection stuff

and I think with that this would maybe count as almost like a Blue Point half project of like, yo, remaster the shit out of this game. Like, give it the ray tracing, give it the FBS, give it all that shit, make this game look really pretty and we're going to hype up the release. But it may not get the same treatment as like a full-on blue point, like a Demon Soulswood or if Blue Point went and remastered the Dark Cloud for me specifically. Like, I do think that I could see this appearing elsewhere for that reason.

And again, I always just, I've been saying since that first, sort of leak happened is like, I think if this were just going to be a remaster, then it would be going to PC as well. If they were just, if this was just going to be a remaster of uprest textures, maybe better lighting engine and stuff like that, we would see, we would have seen this on the steam or on the invidia leak along with all of the other shit that's leaked that seems super improbable back in the day. I would like everybody's reaction to kingdom hearts for being on this.

Like, this is no fucking. No, there's no way. And like, I, again, if this were just a simple remaster, it would have been in the list because it would have been going to be in PC as well. But I do think it's going to the deep in souls treatment of getting the full remake, full everything is being rebuilt from the ground up, except for like the core engine and the core code.

Got it be interesting. Plus, what's your final prediction? It's tough because there's a few things I've gone through my head. And I feel like some of them are basic, you know, like I was going to be like, oh, St. Cyril gets another trailer. Obviously, it's going to get another trailer, right? Like, that's not exciting, you know? I can even talk, I could talk about Hells Iris too.

You know, I think that's probably going to show up. But I'll leave that to Greg. I'm sure Greg might want to predict that one. So I'll keep, I'll let him have that. Instead, let's talk about Zelda, but not the one that we're all looking forward to. Let's not talk about Zelda breath of a while to. Instead, I want to talk about Zelda Twilight Princess

and Zelda Windwaker HD. I think a collection will be announced and I think it will be released for the Nintendo Switch this fall. Wow. So you only get points if you click how it where it gets announced is it a direct is it a tweet or is it summer game fest which nintendo is not officially part of honestly that's the hardest part of it is where because i do think it could happen in multiple different places i don't oh i the their nintendo the nintendo

not being a part of the summer game fest thing throws me off because i feel like i mean they've done some with jeff keely before like that's a partnership we're used to seeing um it surprises me a little bit, which makes me think that maybe we will see Nintendo Direct. I'm going to say it. I think we see Nintendo Direct, and I think it happens more. Maybe it's just later in the month this time. Maybe it's not happening next week. Maybe that's the thing. So I'm going to say yes, Nintendo Direct, they announce this. I think it's a random trailer drop. But I'm with you, Bless. I think we finally hear about, you know, these last two games that have yet to be ported to the Switch from the week.

Zeno Blade X. Still remains. Okay, whatever. You know, two of the last three games, we still have yet to hear from, and it's something fans have been finding for us. It's an ES remix. Don't forget NES remix. Oh my God. Two of them. Two of them. Yeah, NES and S. NES remix. Two of the three most important over from the Wii over to the Switch. Fans have been asking for these two

HD versions of these games for a long time. I think Nintendo knows that. We've been predicting for years that they might be holding off on it to kind of fill time for Breath of the Wild too in case that gets pushed, which has become true, right? I don't know, my gut feeling says it's a random trailer drop throughout the month.

I can say being that, because they're not, like, they've done that before as well with this kind of thing. I forget how Skyward Sword was announced. I feel like that was a direct, because I remember watching it with you guys, so I want to say that was a direct. Yeah. Yeah, I think that they made such a big deal about the Zelda anniversary or whatever, and I think that they would give this sort of, there would be a bit more celebration behind this

in some version of video. Like, I don't see this just being a random drop or a tweet or something. What is, uh, what's the year for Zelda anniversary this year? Is it 31st? I forget. Last year was, last year was, last year was 35th, right? 35th. Yeah.

And all we got was Skyward. But we assumed, yeah, we assumed that like, it's a different count, like, maybe the count of your started in May or something like that. And maybe it's like a belated sort of thing, you know, like, bless. The school anniversary. Yeah, your parents want to celebrate that anniversary, but like, you know, there was a funeral at that time, so they were celebrating a couple months later, you know. Sure. Andy, you're sounding like a persona fan who have been trying to justify this like 30th anniversary celebration, year long celebration that they've been doing, which is them just announcing, uh, tie-ins to like toilet trees and putting their characters on toilet products and shit like that's my birthday month, you know.

Yeah, exactly. It's just trying to figure out like how to how would you know, the year to Luigi. That's the thing is like, Nintendo, if there's anything that Nintendo loves. It's contextualizing things in unnecessary ways. Like, did you release Skyward Sword for the anniversary, or was it just prepared? Right? Like, I think this is coming out because it's going to be ready. And I'm sure they've been sitting on this for a while. And I think, yeah, with them delaying Breath of the Wild, I think this fills in the Zelda gap before the year.

Come this winter, it will be the 20th anniversary of the Legend of Zelda, the Wind Waker. The Wind Waker. Now experience it on Switch with the HD version from Wii U. And hey, here's also Twilight Princess. Is it really the 20th anniversary of Winfair? December 13th this year. I bet you money, that's what they say. It's either going to be that or it's going to be, hey, earlier in the year we delayed

Brefflewild to 2023. To fill in the gap here, and I feel like that's them admitting defeat too much. So I'm going to go with Barrett and say, I think they're going to say the 20th anniversary of Windmaker, and we're all going to roll our eyes. They're going to go, it's the 20th anniversary of Windwaker. And it's the 16th anniversary of Twilight Princess. Ben and money, but that money has to go towards pizza for the bet.

Okay, pizza bed. Pizza bet. I'm down. Greg Miller. Final prediction. Hmm. I gave you the hell diver's two one for free. I don't want the hell diver's two one.

I appreciate it. I thank you. I hope that's happening. You know how hard. I'll pop for that. I'll go crazy. I actually think I want to double down on something you said before that. Yes.

The rumors are true. On June 9th, 2022 at Jeff Keely's summer game fest, you will get a Saints Row trailer. Oh. And it will end with 2020. It will end with 2020. Their fall from February to August to 2023. Blessings. I would die.

Audible reaction there. That hurt. I don't like it. I don't like you put in that energy. All right, man. I'm not trying. I mean, like that game, you know, has not wowed since any of its debuts or things. And I think they keep, they will keep working on this. And they will keep trying to get to where they need to be to find the fun and make sure they don't kill this franchise. I am going to jump off of that with my final prediction here.

And look at my last one, I was like, I'm not sure what I want to go with, because I don't think any are like spicy enough or fun enough or whatever. Some are easy and some are just like, eh, unlikely. But I'm going to roll the dice on this because I want to keep it spicy.

I don't think from Game Fest, stay to play, or the Bethesda. Microsoft conference. So those three, just those three events, there will be any delay revealed. Wow. Wow. Not a single delay revealed across those three events. Okay. Okay. Okay. It's a bold call in 2022, but you know what? Double or nothing, everyone. I mean, Xbox got the first party ones out the way with Field and Redfall. There could be maybe it could be third party stuff. Like, here's, ooh, there's the, that game, Arc Raiders, that, announced at game awards that I think got a 22 day and there's no way in hell that games coming out in 2020 I bet you that's the one that fucks up your prediction I bet we

see that at some point and they're like actually it's 2023 you'll get a tip of the hat then if that's the case yeah that's now before we get to the post show are there any yeah before we get to the post show blessing I slacked you what I knew and I said I don't think you'd care that much about it you care that much about it uh not really a little bit yes he told you not really just made Sure. Honorable mention that I believe that over the past couple years, I've worked hard enough to at least get me a sixth prediction that will count. This is no tip of the hat bullshit. This is like an actual prediction. You just want a bonus prediction.

Bonus prediction. Yeah, bonus prediction. Hispanic Heritage Month happened, right? It happens. I believe that at Keeley's thing as well, summer game fest, we will get a reveal of Bioshock 4. Oh, that'd be hype. Yeah, I think it's about time, right? That's been... Rune here for a long time. 2019, I think.

Airship games? Cloud Chamber. I was going to say Cloud Imperium, but they're working on Star Citizen, which is looking to come out, 2029. Yeah, I'll believe that when I said. How that's good.

If literally a third of the things that we predicted will be at Giss of our Game Fest it's going to be awesome. It's going to be the greatest show of all time. I love that for Jeff. Hey, I'm hopeful. Not so much, I guess, but I just games I wanted to bring up. Greg, I feel like we talked about this recently, but where do you think we see Last of Us remake?

If that's real. I mean, well, you know, whatever. I think you'd see it at a Game Fest. I think you'd see it at the, yeah, the Jeff, Jeff's thing on the knife. Because, I mean, Last of Us first announced the Game Awards. Yeah, exactly. He's already got a relationship. with them right maybe even hold on to

depending on when it's coming out you can hold on all gamescom and do it at opening night live but yeah yeah I maybe do it there and that's where you do the big reveal and push that it's coming this year if it's coming this year Wonder Woman do we see it oh god oh no no I wish but no it's too early yeah you forgot about that didn't you Andy

yeah here's here's one out there's Nether Realm their next game oh fuck that has to be soon right they have to announce that soon I don't think we'd see it in June yeah that could be a opening night live like announced for next year yeah the next I imagine I think at this point

I've resigned that it's probably being mortal combat and I'm very okay with that yeah as far as like Wonder Woman DC stuff goes I think they might want to hold off on doing any more any other stuff that isn't Gotham Knights right now get one of these Batman games out yeah that are Batman games

that have, you know, been worked on at this point for nine years. Yeah. We got to go back to the dome. I forgot about that. There is the, there is the dome. When does the dome take over our lives, Tim, usually? Is that October?

It has been taken over. And we never left. At that point, you know, that's too late to show Gotham nights again because it's supposed to come out in October. I don't think it gets pushed from that. I think they need this game to come out this year. If it does it, I don't know if we ever see. see Gotham Nights at this point.

So, yeah, I think they need this game to come out this year. I think before they show off any more suicide squad, show off any more Wonder Woman, and actually, like, what that game is, I think they got to double down on Gotham Nights for the next few months. A couple

questions I have here. The thing I'm most excited to find out is TMNT Shredder's revenge release date. I mean, I imagine that has potential to be a shadow drop at some point, But I do think we're getting that game in June. So we'll find out soon. And then the other prediction I was going to use,

but I don't feel great about where, why is Mario Card 8 Wave 2 DLC. And I feel like that would be the perfect Game Fest type announcement where it's like, hey, here's some things to be excited for. It's not anything brand new. We all know it's coming, but here's the tracks. Here's the date. Here's all that stuff. But Nintendo not having their logo on the Game Fest thing makes me think that won't be the case.

but at the very least I think that at some point in June we're going to get that announcement in some way, shape, or form even if it is just a tweet. One of the predictions I was going to make, it was going to be regarding Saints Row and I was actually going to be

pretty much the exact opposite of Greg's prediction. I think we get a new Saints Row trailer at Game Fest Live and it turns out it came out in February. It's been out. It was going to be the one to change everybody's mind. I think we see that trailer and we all go, ah shit, this game actually looks pretty cool. I'm actually excited by it.

coming this August. Plus, you and I were already on that with the previews that had come out recently. Yeah, like the latest round of previews. Like, I saw the behind the closed doors, and I was like, man, I think they're just bad at showing this game. I think this game looks awesome. They just, they're doing a bad job of, like,

putting out trailers for it. And with that, everybody, this has been our Sonic Frontiers, Pokemon, Scarlet, Violet preview, and our summer game. One a headline. What a headline. Thank you so much for. hanging out with us. We're about to do the exclusive Patreon post show with

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