Kinda Funny Gamescast: Video Game Podcast - Ubisoft Forward 2024 Predictions - Kinda Funny Gamescast

Episode Date: June 6, 2024

From Assassin's Creed Shadows to Star Wars Outlaws, we break down everything we think will and won't be at the latest Ubisoft Forward. Run of Show - - Start - Housekeeping - Ubisoft Forward Predictions - Our BIG Predictions - Our Hype Levels - General Predictions - Ads - Assassin’s Creed Shadows - Star Wars Outlaws - Prince of Persia, Beyond Good & Evil 2 - Movies and TV - New Announcements? - SuperChats Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What's up and welcome back to the Kind of Funny Games cast live for Thursday, June 6th, 2024. Of course, I am your host, Tim Gettys. And today I am joined by the absolutely amazing blessing at Ayo Ye Jr. Good day, Tim. The wonderful Greg Miller. Andy, all is forgiven. Come home.

And the extraordinary snow bike. Hey, thanks, Tim, for having me on. Greg, thanks for wearing that X-Cast merch. You look great in it. Never forget, everybody. And blessing, I was just going to say blessing wore his yesterday and you looked fantastic. Thank you. Thank you.

You got to love it. How are you doing, Mike. I'm doing very well. Talking about the big you today. I'm very excited about the big you. It's going to be a fun time. It's going to be a fun time. What celebrity cameo will be there today? You know, it'll be a fun time. Bring back Aisha Tyler. Yeah. Bring back Girlwood. Bring back Johnny B and the dog, man. Shout to John. I'm going to say I owe it to Barry. I think she'll show up. Yeah. You think she has that UBissauce? I think so. It'll either be just dance or she's been casted in the next Ghost Recon. Wow. Yeah.

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It's just like Oh it's almost there I was hoping you do the Loney Tune Tune thing Yeah So the last couple days We've been doing predictions We've already done The Summer Game Fest

What are they calling? It's like I think it's called Summer Game Fest Because it was at one point It was Summer Game Fest Kickoff It was kickoff And I think it was live

And then now it's just like Summer Game Fest Yeah it's summer game fest It's final form Yeah Which I appreciate But it's also It's a little confusing

but like it's only confusing to us to us. No one else really gives a shit. When you say Summer Game Fest, they think of the show. They call it the Summer Game Fest feature event. Live from the YouTube theater. Get a look at what's next in video games. We did our predictions for that event. We did our predictions yesterday for the Xbox event

that is happening on Sunday. And today we are doing our Ubisoft predictions because Ubisoft is having its Ubisoft forward. Next Monday, June 10th, offering up exclusive looks at Star Wars Outlaw. Assassin's Creed Origins, Ex-Difiance, and more. At noon Pacific time, I'm reading from the Ubisoft.com slash forward website right now, just to try to see what we can glean as we get into the predictions here.

And it turns out not much because everything I just told you, the games, outlaws, Assassin's Creed Shadows, X-Difiant, and more. We got that locked. We don't have a time for this one. We don't know how long it's going to be. But there is a couple interesting things. 10 a.m. is when it starts. Do we say that already?

noon. Noon Pacific is when it starts. I will be live reacting right then. Of course we will. But looking at the page, there is some interesting things here. There's a 30 minute pre-show focusing on upcoming updates for live games and keep watching after the show concludes for a deeper look at some of the upcoming games.

So a Nintendo Treehouse type situation. Always a good call. Good for them doing that. But the 30-minute pre-show for updates on live games. Interesting. I don't like that. A lot of live games. They got a lot of live games. Yeah. How old is for honor?

How many years? So it's pre-pandemic. Oh, yeah. Okay. I want to say it was in, we did that in the, do we have that in the spare bedroom? Spare bedroom? By my count, you'd be pretty close. So then it's, I'm going to say it's seven, eight years.

Eight years old. Eight years old. Oh, eight years old? It came out in 2016. It did not come out in 2016. I'm telling you. I felt that. 2016.

Yeah, yeah, it's close. but wow, that's nuts. Huh. Still going. Yeah, 30 minute pre-show. Ubisoft has done pre-shows before. Sure. So you seem to not like this.

What don't you like about it? Ladies and gentlemen, my name's Greg Miller. And I happen to be the world's biggest division fan. And so when the division account is tweeting out on May 30th, tune into Ubisoft forward and learn what's coming in year six, year six for the division two, I get pretty excited. But then you're telling me the live shit's going to be in the,

probably. I don't want to the pre-show. Get it in the real show. Put it in the real show. Let's keep making the division a big deal. I like this. People want to be able to the fucking losers in there. What did you say? Wait, what a bad say? I would like a nap during the main show. They don't want to bore the people in the real show. Wow, that's crazy. That's never been Ubi-Sov's problem before.

That's it. Somebody sits here every year watches Ui-Bes-Ov. They're never afraid of also correction. Correction. Four-Henor came out in 2017. Wow. Let's go. Well, Mike can't count. Don't make fun of them. I can't count. So they're saying, tune in or

at 11.30 a.m. for the 30 minute pre-show. And then they have this Twitch Bounty system, special event thing where you can get a bunch of Twitch drops for the longer that you watch. And you get a drop for watching 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 30, 45, and 60. So that implies the show, at least 30 minutes, everybody. Because if you combine the pre-show and this, so that's all we're working with everybody.

How long do you think this ends up being, Greg? Pre-show with the pre-show? No, just the main show. One hour and 19 minutes. I feel like it's closer to the hour mark. Yeah. I'm expecting a fairly tight show for this one. Good.

I mean, how long is the dance number for just dance? It's a great question. At least five minutes. Because, I mean, I don't know. You got to work up a sweat. Jason Derulo has to come out.

Is it going to be a stage show like last time? It's not. I mean, okay. Let's talk about this. Because that's what I've been driving towards here, Bless. Last year, live from L.A., Ubisoft announced the forward is going to be the return of the old school E3 type press conferences.

They're going to actually do it live in front of an audience and all of that stuff. And that show was how long? Two hours and ten minutes. But is it really? With a pre-show and like, you know, the countdown. I will say our reaction to it was an hour and a half. Okay. And I got to assume that included pre-show.

Probably. Yeah. So, cool. So they did that. The difference here, though, no mention of a live stage at all. That doesn't mean that they're not going to record it live somewhere. But I think that this is going back to the correct format. of how Ubisoft should do this stuff,

which is pre-recorded fully digital thing that's going to keep everything tight. Give use of his shine. That's what I'm expecting. Because last year's, from a production standpoint, was an absolute travesty. We couldn't hear things. There's bad cuts.

There's bad everything. We were showing the trailer, and all of a sudden we'd go to the room where we couldn't see the name. And they looked like they were in the Lakinta ballroom. Yes. It was bad. So I'm happy they're shifting from that.

And that's why, Mike, I'm not sure we get a full. just dance number. Because this is a different type of format, you know? Okay. That's when you bring out one of your star community members, and you have them do the Just Dance number with the team. And you have some fun.

You know who it is, blessed. Little Sia. Thank you. It's at the tip of my tongue. Yep. That's exactly what you do right there. Bear, can I see Little Sia dance? You've seen it before.

Look at Greg right now. He has any of us. All right, let's start this off Like we've been starting the rest of the predictions episodes off Do any of you have any Ubisoft predictions That you want to make? This is kind of a long one

In terms of like, it won't be something we know At the end of this conference But just to get in front of it This will not be the Assassin's Creed That brings blessing in. Oh, I like this prediction. I like this prediction a lot. You keep doing the, oh, maybe this is it.

Maybe this is it because it looks fucking insane And I can't wait for it. I'm very excited because I'm the Assassin's Creed. guy, well, me and Barrett are the Assassin's Creed guy. Barrett's the Assassin's Creed. Open World that's been 90 hours picking up shit. You're the modern Assassin's Creed. I'm the Modern Assassin's Creed guy.

Modern man, prehistoric man. I'm all Assassin's Creed. He's prehistoric, man. All encompass it. I think this will be the one. I think this will bring me in. I think I really like the Assassin's Creed. I hope so.

How are we going to... How do we define this? This is like based on the number score I give it? No, I think based on like... Do I finish it? Not even finish it. Enjoy it. Do you like is this going to be a game? I think if you play it for five hours and then go, eh, like that doesn't count. That's what I'm saying. Because that's how usually it is for me with like modern any of Assassin's Creed since post Assassin's Street 2. I'm going to say this game, Assassin's Creed shadows will be somewhere from the five to 10 range in my top 10 at the end of the year. Whoa!

I think it might make my number 10. Okay. Wow. Okay. Okay. I love that. Bless. Greg, Mike, or Bless Mike. Any predictions you guys have? I have some thoughts, bless. I'll go off. I think we get a new trials game. It's been a while since we've gotten trials. I have some very get hype moments, but I don't think, I don't want to do my get hype in the real realistic predictions. So I'm going to go with, I think we get a new trials games announced or revealed here. Okay. I think we see a Rainbow Six thing. I don't know if that is a siege update.

Yeah. That's going to happen. Maybe an extraction. Hey, remember this? Remember this? Here's DLC for it. You're going to get Siege mobile. You probably will.

My hope is for a new Ramo 6 thing. Ghost Recon, advanced warfighter, maybe a wild lands a point or break points type vibe. Oh, that'd be actually a big. No, the siege is like that right now. Siege is that. That's the issue. Mike, do you think there's never going to be like a siege too?

Well, they're going on nearly 10 years And it is like at the tippity top right now Like this is what the young kids play This is what people are into right now I don't know if we'll get a siege two in the next three years But yeah eventually you'll go on to a siege two I bet is right bless But yeah I mean

I would love to see a ghost recon advanced warfighter But the issue is it's like You already kind of have that team arena shooter In X Defiance so that kind of marks that one out I loved extraction but people didn't vibe with that PVEE versus the alien zombie thing so that's out.

I would love to see... Would you like do another shot at it? Like because extraction didn't hit? Is there another way you can do PVEE, Rainbow 6? Yeah, I would do a break point or a break point or a wild lands. I'd probably go a little more wacky with Wildlands, but I'd do that.

Which was the one we liked? And then the next one we didn't like it all. Wild lands you liked. Yes. That's the open world one with the squad. That's what you liked. I would like to see that bless if we're going to stick in that universe.

What about you? What do you want to see? out of this team. I mean, Rainbow Sixth. Oh, like, what I would just want like more core Rainbow Six stuff. Okay. Right. Like, I feel like, I know Siege is still popping. And so I think you're right that we're not, like, we're not a place yet where they're ready to reset and put out a new thing. But it's also like, siege came out almost a decade ago. And so I'm like, man, I've played enough siege. I played so much Seas, but I'm ready to see what's next. I wish extraction here for me. I guess that would be the thing is I'll love to see another crack at it that works better than

extraction. I don't think like the what they went for with like the like the like it's like under I can't even tell you what extract was even going on in that game. It was aliens. I'm like aliens. It was a sport thing. Maybe you go more realistic then. Maybe you do it where you are just extracting people

from terrorist scenario like hostage scenarios. I'll bring in the live chat because somebody right there somebody A. Blake says I'd love a single player rainbow six campaign. What if they did something like an Overwatch where they wanted to do that single player campaign or maybe

a shared campaign, would you want that Rainbow Six siege campaign stories or something like that? What was that mode in Rainbow Six Seedges that people liked? That was a more co-op type thing. Really? It was like terrorist hunt or something like that? It was a mode that people that people loved. I remember that. Back in the day.

I'm surprised that they didn't fully flesh that out into a big campaign and I think that's what extraction was trying to get at. But I think, yeah, another attempt at that that is me and a few friends going in and yeah, tactically trying to take out enemies and rescue a hostage or whatever that might be. Timmy?

Yes. Your predictions? I mean, I don't, I think this is such a weird year for Ubisoft. Like, I don't really have any predictions that aren't the most obvious things. Like, they've kind of said what's going to be there. My prediction would be we're going to get Prince of Persia lost crown, the DLC look at. They announced already the roadmap for it where there's like, I think, four different drops of stuff. One of them already happened.

Most of it's just kind of like interesting, like game modes, like boss rush type stuff of just like, you know, the normal post-launch game support type stuff. But then they did say there's going to be a meaty, big, actual continue the adventure DLC later this year. I imagine this is where we see it. And I'm incredibly excited about that. That's not announced. So I'm predicting it's there, but not the wildest prediction.

How hyped are we, though, for this Ubisoft? Because I want to start this off. I feel like on the kind of funny scale, my hype levels for this. It's interesting to use the word hype because I feel like hype to me. I need surprises. I need some things that I'm probably at the mouth for, but I can't wait for this. And that's not what this is,

but I do think that this is easily the, it's easily the easiest it's ever been to be very excited for a Ubisoft conference because what we know we're going to be there is the gold. It's the stuff. So I would probably just give this like a nine simply because of, we already know they got the content. Like we know we're going to get the Assassin's Creed and a Star Wars game. Like both,

both of those things I want to see deep dives on. I want to see more of I think Ubisoft are really perfectly lined up right now to have some major wins, hopefully, potentially, and maybe some surprises. But yeah, if I get those two games, get Prince of Persia, I'm like, yeah, that's... RPG Crow, five or six, D5 style five, hype levels five out of ten, RPG Crow says five. You're all crazy. Like, I'm a nine for Xbox, you know what I'm saying? Because we got some Bethesda stuff, that's great. I would say for this one, I'm an eight, probably maybe eight five, where it's like,

Again, fuck yeah. The Assassin's Creed, we've all been saying we want for so long. The trailer looked great. Are we going to deliver that on that in gameplay?

Is it going to feel like that? Look like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go. Assassin's, I'm sorry, Star Wars Outlaws, let's go. And then you got people like this.

You got Colton yodder over here. Colton. In here in the Super Chats. The Division 3 is remember for 2025. Do we see a trailer for it? Don't do that, Colton. Don't do that to me. Wow, that's crazy, Colton.

Don't do that to me, Colton. I have not heard that rumor. I don't want to believe that rumor. They're teasing, you know, year six, whatever content, is that what I said, year six for this? And again, Division II, I'm happy to turn on here and there. We've done it when they did the patches. Yes, we did the thing. When they did the hunt, we went back.

So year six, just make Year 6 cool for Division 2. I'll be happy to turn it back on, give you some more money or whatever. But you're talking about if, don't do that. Would that be, like, with them just canceling Division Heartland? Yeah. If Heartland would say wasn't canceled, would that have even made sense to do Heartland and

a Division? I think so, because remember, Heartland well, first off, Mass is the people who do division, the core division. They are working on Star Wars. Yeah. I do not believe Division 3 is actually rumored for 2025.

I have not heard that rumor. That's not saying it's not true. And I don't know, maybe something in the last week I've missed or something of that effect. Well, let's put that aside. Let's put the Star Wars, Massives working on Julian,

the guy who's, you know, Mr. Division has been working on Star Wars. Put all on this side for a second. I don't think Heartland would get in the way of a division three, since it is a different studio. It was a different business model. And it was supposed to come out a long time ago.

Division Heartland, if you remember, we were supposed to have had an open beta, like, I want to say during COVID, definitely when we were working from home. And so I think you would have expected then on paper an open beta and then six to 12 months later you have the game out for everybody to play free to play. It's also the question where the fuck is this mobile game that has been a million betas for that I would have told you definitely has been out, but it's not been out. So there's a million division, not a million. There's a few division projects going. I don't think they get in the way of Division III because they're all different, different platforms, different business models. etc. I do think what gets in the way division three is the fact that Mass has been working on something

else. Totally. Okay. I'm not as high as you guys. I could feel myself being a six okay to more realistically a seven good, right? We know the two big heavy hitters. We're getting deep dives on Star Wars and of course on Assassin's Creed. And that gets me excited, right? Like that

is a good conference because you kind of know the stage. You're going to get some small updates for the live service games that either you're into or you're not. The crew motor festival will be there. Of course, Rainbow six seeds. So like a lot of this. It's the crew, Orifice and games as a service? Is that just going on? It's still, year

two, new season. Come on, I even put it in the notes. You can't be soft, man. Yeah, you can say any Ubisoft team and say year two. You'll be like, okay, sure. This year, they revealed, year one, season four revealed this week, don't versus low riders. Oh, man. Can we get a little video of dog

versus low rider, bear? At home get don't, but don't get don't. Yeah. It's one of those of like, no, I'm not, going crazy for this, but I like that. I know that I'm going to get a new Assassin's Creed. That's a big deal. You get Star Wars, that's awesome and fun.

We've seen Star Wars, so how much more can they really show me? Two great games we already know about, let alone the return of the division two. Let's go. What do I have here? What is this? What did I yank out? Like, just going back to it for a second. It's just, it's kind of hard to talk about Ubisoft forward and like specifically the summer one and like hype levels.

Because it's like, I just, I don't think it's possible for me to actually get hyped about Ubisoft much these days and like just with where they're and like the like I am hyped to see what they have for the projects because they're doing the big ones. It's like these are the big things. It's like going into a PlayStation thing and us being like man I hope Nottie Dog's next project's there. I hope that

I'm blanking on so many Sanamanica's next projects there like we're hoping for those things. These projects are those things for Ubisoft so it's like we're getting the things. See that's what's interesting I think this year about these predictions and I like doing our hype levels and using our scale and trying to use the adjective it, you know what I mean?

Where it's like, I think I'm more excited for a conference going in knowing that I'm, there's like a couple banner, banger banner, banger, ban, banger, banner items that I'm excited to see. And the fact that I get those, I'm going to be happy regardless, right? And I'm interested in those games. I'm interested in deep dives. I want to see what is actually going on in this Assassin's Creed and how much the style there and how much the cinematography is or blah, blah.

So like, I feel like I'm going to a restaurant I love. And I already know what the main course is, but I'm excited to hear about a. special or what's the appetizer? They got toasted ravioli now maybe, you know what I mean? Man? Stupid shit like that. I prefer this then. I understand where you're coming from a the hype of the excitement and the unknown

and of course even here and all these the unknown is a huge part of it. But I also feel the unknown is what leads us to the unrealistic expectations than inevitably being, oh well I didn't get X, Y, Z that I wanted. And I'm like, I know I want this shit. Yeah. I mean like let's just sorry, you haven't said yet. Yeah. I mean, I don't

have a number for it. Right. It's kind of hard. I think is like I don't I don't think a number would be appropriate for like how I feel about Ubisoft showcase or Ubisoft forward which is like every year I'm like all right cool like a Ubisoft forward is happening I'm excited to see my friends host it right but it's like I'm not the Assassin's Creed person I'm not a far cry person I never will be we'll see let's see or it could be well that and that is the thing is I would say for this Ubisoft forward I'm more excited than I typically am because of Star Wars and because of Assassin's Creed shadows both of those I am looking forward to. So already I'm like, I'm engaged.

I don't know that. Congratulations. Thank you. Yeah. Wow. He's on fire. He's on fire, everybody. Who would have thought you're coming in like that? I had a cookie and a croissant and want it. I'm feeling good. But the question is, what are they going to show with it? Because in our previous predictions, we've talked about, can we see Assassin's Creed Shadows or Star Wars Outlaws at Summer Game Fest or at Xbox? By the time we get to Ubisoft, is it just going to be gameplay deep dives? I could be down for that, right? But then, yeah, to what Greg's talking about? I think it then turns into, all right, what are the unknowns? Are there, when you, when you headline this thing as look forward to

Assassin's Creed Shadows, Star Wars Outlaws, and X-Defiant, is that a, is that a, is that a-and-more? There's an and more. There's an and more. And more is going to include maybe unannounced games, right? But like, already it's like, all right, one of those known quantities that they're leading this thing off with is ex-de-fine. And so, like, if that's what we're doing, it's like, all right, cool, like, we kind of

know what this is. You know, I think it's neat that you can go. and maybe being like, could a splintersel be there? Right? Like, could a surprise like that be there? Could a Rayman be there? You know, you just start throwing out names, you know? Yeah, but like knowing Ubisoft forwards, at the most, you're going to get maybe one of those things, but that is definitely not even guaranteed, right?

Like I'm going into this being like, all right, let's see the Justane's trailer that we're going to mute on our stream. Let's see, I don't know, Rocksmith and whatever update they got there. And mute that on our stream. Yeah, and mute that on our stream. Maybe you get a far cry and like, Dave, Iowa and Barry. Are you kidding me? A far cry is. Eight seven?

Come on now. When was Far Cry 6? Three years ago. That was 2001. I'm out of 2001. 2001 was Far Cry 6. 2000. Yeah, you know the numbers.

So the other thing, too, to keep in mind with Ubisoft forward is they do these things all the time. Like, it's like there will be another one probably later in the year. So it's like, it's not like the old days of like, oh, the Ubisoft E3 press conferences, everything Ubisoft's going to announce that year. So I just feel like that's important to kind of like frame what we're likely to get her and what we're not likely to. get here based on what we already know.

Yeah. The one more thing I'll say is that we talk about dominoes all the time and it's like a tired thing, right? But what UBS this year, I've been talking about how I feel like this year starts to feel like the dominoes are falling a bit. We've had them corporately talk about we want to focus in on our strong IP. And this year being an Assassin's Creed year and a Star Wars outlaw year, it seems like this is the ideal year that Uwisov's been trying to build towards in the last few years is

just a bunch of just non-games have been coming out between things like roller champions or like the list of games that we that come out and we forget so there's that and then also i in reports in the in past years we've talked about turmoil at ubi soft we talked about the editorial team at uvysoft which is the team that is in charge of greenlining games and setting their strategy and like there's been big overhauls with that because of all the shit that's been going down at ebysoft my hope for ebisoft has been that that what Whatever is going on with that editorial team is figured out in a good way, and we'll have people at the top that are making good decisions for that.

I would hope that as we get into this year and you look around and it doesn't feel like you're getting the roller champions of the world, it doesn't feel like you're getting the Rainbow Six Extractions of the world. You look around and we're coming off of Prince of Persia, the Lost Crown. You're looking forward to Assassin Creek Shadows and Star Wars outlaws. You have rogue Prince of Persia. It seems like neat things are happening currently for Ubisoft, at least neater things than have happened in the last five years for Ubisoft.

I am hoping that this forward is indicative of we're turning a corner and Ubisoft is getting back to like an exciting place. And for me personally, I'm where Greg is at. I'm at like an eight, maybe an eight five, just because I feel like if they're selling point for the forward beforehand is the two big hitters of Star Wars and Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed getting it to reveal like, what was that two, three weeks ago? Like, if Assassin's Creed was the big thing,

why not to save that big announcement and breakdown all for this show. Like if those are the two headliners that we're advertising with, I feel like they got to have some card up their sleeve to get people hyped at the end. What that is? Beyond Good and Evil, too. Revealing that, maybe Splinter Cell, you know, make Roger cry while watching it and stuff. I don't know.

I'm feeling they've got something else. Do you guys have a get-hyped thing? that you know it's not likely, but could happen. I think Splinter Cell actually would be mine for that. It is, I think there is a chance, there's a chance, I would say maybe 30% chance that we could see a Splinter Cell, right? Like they revealed it initially a few years ago, and it was the, hey, we're working on this, we're hiring for this.

I was just talking to Roger about it right before this, and Roger was talking about how, like, even with that, they showed concept stuff, like the wheels were already rolling for that. And so it would be nice to get an update. it would be nice to get shown that. Maybe. I think best case scenario would be, oh, it's coming in 2025.

I think that is too big of hope, but I think that would be a nice get hype right there. Speaking of Roger, he did write in his get hype prediction here. We will see a cinematic trailer. The trailer will not be very clear as to what the game is. And at the end,

you'll see the three lights of Sam Fisher's goggles. When we get the logo in the date 2025 for the Spinner Cell remake, someone from the team will come out and talk about the vision for the game, and we'll see very brief glimpse is of in-engine footage of how beautiful the game is and how incredible the shadows are.

Roger will literally sob. Let's get high prediction there. Greg, do you got one? Yeah, I mean, I think we've covered it to some degree, right? Division three. I'm, I do not expect. I do not think, but if it happened, I would pop really big, just even though they're doing a Division III, right? Because, again, they have been doing Division

2 for quite some time, and they have supported that game longer than anyone thought they were going to, including them, because of the support it got from the community. So even right now, if Division 2, update isn't just, hey, there's a new person to take down. Blah, blah, blah, blah. If it was actually a substantial one, I could be super stoked for that too.

And I know, you know, the resurgence mobile game, if that shadow dropped, if that was there, it wouldn't be like I'd lose my fucking mind, but I'd be stoked to have a new division game to play. Mikey, anything. Yeah, these guys have covered some good ones here. We talked about Ghost Recon, what I'd like to see. Of course, I'll go with the easy one, which is Far Cry 7.

I'd like a tease of it. I think we're near maybe entrance of a teaser moment for this game in the next series, so that's good for me. Who plays the villain? Well, I'm going to continue to promote what I want, which is Far Cry Jurassic Park. Everybody knows it. I just want Far Cry set in the Jurassic Park world.

I want to be trapped on the island as a Far Cry or Jurassic Park Security Guard, and I got to go stop the batty in this world with full of dinosaurs and stuff. The modern primal. I'll say, what have I told you about Far Cry, Primal sucked. Primal sucked. So just so you know, I'm making very clear again, primal is not what I'm pitching here. What if I told you that there's a Jurassic Park game,

literally being made that pitch. There is. There is. But it's not, but it's not Ubisoft and it's not the open world Ubisoft game that I want. That's just checklist here and there. I got a couple get hype things that are personal to me. I would love to see Prince of Persia Sants time remake look good.

That would be my get hype moment. But they just announced Montreal's coming out. They even announced so many different things about this. So yeah, I don't expect to see it this weekend, but that would be a get hype for me. And yeah, again, the keywords being and it looking good. I hope they announced that Ubisoft San Francisco is now also working on.

All hands on death. Everybody in their title is on this game. But a get-hyped moment that I feel like is more likely than the scene in Prince of Persia a sense of time remake looking good this weekend. That's still not very likely would be another Nintendo collaboration. Like I'd love to see them work on some game. They did Mario and Rabbids. Mario Rabbits.

The Olympics. We're back. Come on now. I'll do that. Come on. You watch your mouth. that had Star Fox show up in that one game that I'll never forget,

Starlink, I guess I remember it. I would love to see another thing like that. I think that's always really exciting to me, and I'd love to see a full game using Nintendo IPs made by Ubisoft. And I think it could happen, but I also don't know what it would be.

Can I ask a question? Go for it. What does Ubisoft's 2025 look like? An excellent question. Like, we don't fucking know? Yeah. Like, what could even look like. Explain herself.

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I say we go through all the different things that we think might be there this weekend and try to break down where we think they fall so we can start building out 2024 and 2020. 25 here. Let's start with what we know is going to be here. Assassin's Creed Shadows. Greg, what do you think we see? Deep dive gameplay. I think you get another, you have another trailer, not cinematic, right, of a mix of cinematic and gameplay. And then I think you do the deep dive like in Assassin's Creed shadows, you're this guy and that lady and you're running and doing this. And it's a story that'll taste me and blah, blah, and we're looking at the map.

We're looking at missions. We go into a mission, I'm sure, of like, now we join it. You know, this is far into the game. And this is what's happening. we see some badass combat we see some cool things we see how the characters combat styles are completely different we see what like their you know moves are their attachments are what's going on with it I mean we get into the Duffy

I love it love that it's interesting here I bring it in a super chat from opponents prime there's always a pacing problem with Ubisoft they always have like seven games to show they play a trailer then they get dips come out then they do a live demo you gotta pick one of the things I do think that's very interesting and I doubt they change

it here I hope I don't think they change it Assassin's Creed for sure. Definitely not. This is their big one. This is, you know, delivering on what people have wanted for so long. It's, you know, in arguably their biggest franchise. It's the fact that this is the one that's got mass appeal outside of just the gamers. Let's get in to show

the jaded gamers who, Assassin's Creed, why it's cool, show people who never connected with it or have tried before, like bless, why this is the one and then make me super happy with here's all the 100, hours of going through on rooftops collecting, whatever. Bless this being,

being the, you kind of on the hot seat here, of there being a bet riding on your opinion of this game. Greg's saying, like, sell it to the people like you. What, has the game already sold you? Or does it need to do something this weekend? The game has already sold me. I do think that they can unsell me a little bit.

Like, based on what we're talking about as far as like what Ubi-Sop showcases are, I do think that they could do the thing where they're showing the gameplay and they're having the devs talk and like, let's say they, they pace it out where they start off with another cinematic trailer. And then they like, you know, bring out devs to talk about, you know, know how they've been working on it. This is the biggest Assassin's Creed yet. This is what we're doing. All right, now here's a stage demo. I think by minute 10 of Assassin's Creed shadows and us is watching a walk through and us being like, all right, he's hiding in the bushes. I can see myself

starting to nod off a little bit and go, man, I wish they paste this better. What are you looking for, though? You know, it's interesting, bless I think of you and I think of the Soulsborn games that you've been playing, Eldon Ring, of course. We played a Wollong Fallen Dynasty. Like, what are you looking for that would get you like a little bit up in your seat out of this Assassin's Creed. I think interesting premise, which I think they already have with the two main characters

and kind of both of what they represent, one being a Shinobi and one being a samurai. Already you got me in with the premise. I think from there it is good combat and good stealth. And it's funny, the thing that I have struggled with

in the past with Assassin's Creed is that I'm just like not as into the gameplay as I would have liked. I think putting it into more of a samurai setting, it fixes it a bit for me, not necessarily in field, but I think just,

in terms of the imagination of it, right? Like, I rise the Ronan being a early modern era Japan setting automatically makes me go, fuck, well, I like sword fighting in that era. I'm going to play it, right? Like, Wollong Fallen Dynasty being its setting, Ghost of Sushima being its setting. Like, honestly, those settings do a lot for me being able to, I guess, project myself into, oh, cool, I'm a samurai swinging my sword.

I'm not just anybody swinging my sword. I'm a fucking samurai. If they can, like, convey that feeling of, yeah, being this, sneaky Shinobi taking people out it being cool it being bloody same with all the Samurai stuff I think you might have something here I think that that alone might be enough to get me in and sorry really quick with the I think IGN had like bullet points of like all the details of the the devs shared with them before getting the gameplay reveal and what they've talked about with the stealth and combat stuff might be stuff that you're looking for bless and I'm

personally really excited for all those little details it'll just be like when they show it does it actually look interesting and can they pull that off and sell it to you. I will also say just like a good and manageable open world. I get scared right here, Greg, talk about how big Assassin's Creed Odyssey is and like how much, how G impacted is with content. I don't necessarily need that. What I want is it an open world that is fun and interesting and like has mystery and secrets to it. I know that's the antithesis of what Ubisoft is, but like I think I think this is an opportunity to go, all right, we are making the Assassin's Creed that we know a lot of new people are going to come into. How do we make this a step forward?

How do we make our, how do we step up in our open world gameplay? I think it's a chance to do that. For Barrett and Greg, for me, it's always been about the traversal and that motion of parkour meeting that flow and that stealth. What do you think will be the, you know, the gimmick? What will be that new tool of traversal where we go, oh, wow, he did this? What do you think that is this time around? Do you think there's even one that drops a high?

right. I think it's going to be the two different play styles where I do think he will play different than she does. Do you think she'll have a squirrel suit and she'll start paringliding out of nowhere? That was awesome. You know what I mean? That was so much fun in Ronan. What is that draw that I'm looking for? Is it a grapple hook again? What are we thinking? Yeah, I could see them maybe trying to do

another grapple hook situation like they didn't syndicate in terms of just like traversal. Yeah, I'm struggling to think of anything. I mean, the suit makes sense. The wings make sense. Like that's, you know, something fun to that idea. It'll be interesting how they make him Yaske, is that the name? Yeah.

Who looks to be the heavy character. How do you make him move in a way that feels different in his fun, but it's still Assassin's tree? Ian says, I've never played an open world, or I've never played a Ubisoft, an open world Ubisoft game, but I pre-ordered Star Wars Outlaws.

So it's going to be my first, I'm a little concerned. It is interesting. I wonder if you, like, if it's your first time playing a, like, is the Ubisoft game being a problem? Because we've done it a million times? Like, go in the first time it's like, then it's a great experience. I think so. I think that first time we all played Assassin's Creed and had that big

wow moment of like, look how big this map is and all the things you get to do and now in a Star Wars world, I think you'll have a really good time. But yeah, Assassin's Creed, staying on that for a little bit. Like any thoughts on this, Greg? Like it's, I know you're just sold. Like it's just like, I'm just excited to see more. Yeah, 100%. That's all I want.

I just want to see what they've made. What improvements have happened since Wall Hollow? How great does it look? Have we taken the cinematography we see in this trailer and actually implemented that of the game. Is that going to make it feel different? How foreign does it feel to me? Do you, it's like, again, you, everyone here has different particular thoughts on their

favorite Assassin's Creed's or what they like, what they don't, with the ones that you like, is there anything that they could show that you're like, oh, man, like, I, I, I thought this one was going to be in line with what I want, but it seems to not be. I mean, my biggest hurdle concern coming in is the two characters, where I just, I prefer to commit to one and be that character. So I'm interested to see them talk about that and how optional that is, how mandatory that is, obviously for the story, it's going to be mandatory. But like, is it going to be fun for me to be both characters?

Is there going to be a draw to play both characters? Am I going to look at one of them? I just don't even want to do that. And then that'll be a buzzkill for it. Yeah, it was same. I'm interested in that balance. They tried it before with Syndicate. People always complain about Syndicate.

I feel like both of those characters didn't actually feel too different. Like, I think they kind of played it safe. with those play styles, I would want them to get a bit more weird and experimental, while still also miraculously trying to find a balance between the two and make them both feel really good and much more different than the two protagonists and syndicate. I don't know, it'll be an interesting, I think that's kind of the same thing for me of make or break for this game.

Sticking with Assassin's Creed here, we had real deal Jay O'Neill, writing and say, do you think we see anything from AC Hexy? thank you for what you guys do Happy birthday G Thank you for the super chat Real deal Jay O'Neal Do we see Hexie

Do we see infinite Do we see any Assassin's Creed stuff Besides Assassin's Creed shadows I mean I think we see Infinity And that's the platform Yeah that's the platform I think Assassin's Creed shadows

Is the thing that's supposed to lead That platform off If I remember correctly Yeah I think we see how Like how this is the start of it What they're thinking with that I don't know I don't think we see Hexie

Because you want the focus To be on Assassin's Creed Shadows But you know I think we'll get another Ubisoft forward this year and I think that might be the chance to go back to the question of what do we see from Ubisoft 2025? If Hexie is a

2025 thing, I think you start talking about that later this year. Maybe after- Which one is Hexie? That's the like which trials. Gotcha. So no, you don't see Hexie here. I don't think you see Infinity here. Like I understand that that has been a rumor for a long time and this, that, the other. We wondered if it was dead.

Somebody said in the press after that conversation that no, no, it is still alive. I just think that you focus on that, this, you focus on, hey, we're selling you on Assassin's Creed shadows, right? And then if you are going to put in Infinity, I think you later on talk about Infinity, and that's either a blog post or

a larger UBFord that's just about Assassin's Creed. Yeah, I agree, especially with like pre-or... I just looked up, like, pre-orders are already up for shadows, and I feel like if they're trying to sell you on the platform of Infinity, I feel like they would have maybe held that to kind of like, I don't know, sell

that and make people understand a bit further of having shadows in Infinity. which I don't, I feel like it's not going to be. As a CEO, I couldn't do my job without CEO, Jr. And so many people right now are popping off, including 25 Drews saying, what is Infinity again? This is the Assassin's Creed platform. We don't really know much about it, right, Barrett?

Yeah, it's like the way they talked about it, which I forget was if it was even in a conference or maybe it was in an earnings call or something. But the way, to me, at least from my understanding, it felt like almost like a weird, like launcher. in a weird way. And it's like a game hub. If you played the, this is going to be a weird deep cut,

if you played the intro to Assassin's Creed Unity, right? There's, you play like a different character for like the first 20 minutes and then like the modern day stuff you get pulled out and you're not even really a character. You get pulled out to Estergo's

kind of like, kind of their version of Netflix in the universe and there's all these different like, um, stories that you can choose and all that stuff. But then you get led into the unity stories specifically. And from my understanding, that's essentially what that's going to be is like, we're just going to have all of the Assassin's Creed stories live in here. Maybe there are live service elements to it that they can have overarching,

not just to specific games. I don't know. That sounds like what it is, right, where it's going to be these different things. You put them in there, and there's some reason to, whether it be a challenge, to go back and play an old game, to do a thing, to earn whatever the infinity credit is. I would imagine that unlocks bonuses and whatever. I do have the wiki open. this is from

Assassin's Creed.Fandem.com. Assassin's Creed Infinity is an upcoming game hub for the Assassin's Creed series expected to coincide with the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows in 2024. It'll be a live service platform

which hosts the modern day storyline serve as an entry point to the wider franchise for newcomers and eventually span numerous historical settings and incorporate multiplayer. The thing goes on to talk about

how it was leaked by Bloomberg. But during the 2022 Assassin's Creed Ubisoft Ford showcase Mark Alexis Cote clarified that Infinity would not be a game but a hub for all future games in the series as a starting point for players and would facilitate multiplayer in the future.

It'll operate in universe as in animus for players to operate as they navigate to different time periods. Yeah. I would be hyped for that just for multiplayer because Mike, did you play that Assassin Street? I did. I did. I did. Bears good.

Blend in. Trying to act like AI. What was that multiplayer game that did that recently? To see Vink tried that as well. Yeah. It would work. That's on my Ubisoft multiplayer pitch. I have a big pitch for Ubisoft one day if they ever wanted to call me.

I'm like, here's what we should do. Dude, let's make it a Giscost episode. Powerful presentation, right? But yeah, I mean, that to me sounds like Halo Master Chief Collection or now. I know the chat's been talking about Call of Duty kind of has this call of duty launcher where you jump in and it goes, hey, you want to play the campaign. Oh, you want multiplayer. You want Warzone.

And you choose from there and you download different things. As long as it's not, hey, here's a second Ubisoft launcher on my computer than I'm in, right? I think the big thing for Ubisoft that you should learn and do is you should be on Steam. You should offer your game products on Steam. So I go there, I click it, and then I can be launched into any little game hub world you want. But you got to go where the people are. Rowan, right's insane. I'm hoping side quests feel like part of the main story.

Yeah, to bring it back specifically to Shadows, that's a great callout. And that was one of the things that I loved so much about Odyssey, right, where I loved Cassandra and I loved her tale. But when I go back and I talk about some of my favorite things in that game, I think I'm talking about side stories, right? Because I don't even really know. It was that thing of I just did everything and so much that what was important for that chapter and the narrative there, I don't think mattered when I was doing the Oedipus storyline. But there's so many, like, fun little bits in there.

I hope that's like that too. And then final thing here on Assassin's Creed, Will Buck says, does the Assassin's Creed being the first true next gen game peak anyone's interest? Even Mirage, which was released a few months ago, was multi-platform. It's a good point. I mean, it peaks my interest that it should look really pretty. I'm not expecting. I mean,

I'm going to look really pretty because games look really pretty obviously. And Assassin's Creed games in particular look pretty. Even when they are, cross-gen, when they are doing,

Valhalla was gorgeous, right, even though it straddled the line between the two. But yeah, you know, you started getting into this. It's still a multi-platform game.

So I don't think they're pushing the power of the PS5 or the Xbox to the exact, or even PC, to the exact, you know, specifications it could do because they're trying to make it work everywhere.

Yeah, I'm not expecting a jump from like a black flag to unity type of situation. Star Wars Outlaws I feel it's a similar conversation right Of just like we know a lot right It's like we don't think there's much that we need to see to

I mean it's coming out August 30th So it's right around the corner I don't know how deep of a dive we're gonna get you know Yeah I want Barrett to leave this whatever they show excited That's what I want I want to be excited about outlaws Yeah I want to be excited too I think my main takeaway and like why I have like doubt

towards outlaws is that like there's just something about the gameplay in and of itself that they showed in that like what is this like a 10 minute walkthrough that just feels like stiff and awkward it reminds me of the ubi soft touch That's a good one. But specifically with like gunplay, it reminded me of like when Guardians of the Galaxy first showed gameplay and it's like there's something weird and awkward about this. I feel like you still do get a breakdown because while this was like a 10 minute thing, we were going back and forth between like cut scenes and then like a very specific small segment

of the game. I'm interested of like what is the kind of like cycle? What is the gameplay cycle you're getting into the open world cycle, all that stuff? So I think there's still a good amount that you can show and still find new things and make it interesting. But I'm hopeful that I walk away from this a bit more excited. Yeah. I'm excited to see what they have. I feel like I'm about as excited as I can be for this game.

Like, this is the closest you're going to get to me being interested in this type of Ubisoft game. And I am, you know? Can I make a bet? Yeah. I think in the way that Greg is saying I'm actually not going to be into this Assassin's Green Shadows game. I'm going to say that about Tim. Oh, and I actually think that that's a very fair bet. Like, this is the type of game that Real Talk, I kind of, like, I'm excited for it,

but in the way that, like, I kind of just want somebody to, like, if reviews come out and people like, yo, it's great, I'll be like, okay, cool. Then I'm, then I'm more excited for it. But, like, I don't know that I even need to play this. We haven't put our finger directly on it. So you're not excited because it's an open world game? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

What did you think of Jedi? You play all the Jedi games, don't you? Yeah, but the Jedi games are, they're not really open world. like the Jedi Survivor, like the Cobo stuff is the stuff I like least of the game. But I mean, there's gonna be a golden path to this. That does excite me, but it's like how much of the other

stuff and how much does that make me feel like I'm missing out on great things? I don't know. I want a good Star Wars story and I feel like my level of what a good Star Wars story is is different than I think a lot of other people. There's certain things that I like and I'm okay with a lot. I like the lore stuff.

I like where we're at. But also, we've seen a lot of Star Wars stories that I'm like that was fun enough, but I don't want to play a book of Boba Fett level story game. I don't even want to play the Obi-Wan Kenobi level story game. It's like, I want good Star Wars games

that will kind of like get me out of my comfort zone gaming-wise, and I think Jedi is kind of a good example of that. But I'm looking forward to this. I mean, I really like Star Wars games, especially as of late, right? So this seems like a cool thing,

a new character or a cool, I don't even, I haven't, I mean, I did the demo or whatever this is, the presentation I remember watching it, but I've forgotten all, whatever the story is and who she is, so I'm excited to jump in and find out more and go. I'm excited to play a Star Wars game that isn't focused on Jedi, which feels like it's been such a long time.

Now we say that. Do you think that at some point she has to pick up a lightsaber and do whatever? Absolutely not. I was going to make that prediction. Not that she picks up the lightsaber, but I think we see a lightsaber. Oh, yeah, I think that's fine. If I have to fight an inquisitor or something, like as like a, just like use an epistle. I will go further and say that I think it's a fine.

some point she has to pick up a lightsaber and fight hack and slash it away yeah uh yeah i'm having it's likely too any other star wars thoughts i'm jazzed up for it i'm looking forward to it i can't wait very excited yeah um then prince of persia lost crown i don't think there's too much to say but i am incredibly excited the fact that we're even getting this

what they said just we're getting an actual dcc we're getting like a story follow-up or it might be like a prequel or something like that but like we're getting an actual expansion expansion of like more of the gameplay and stuff, and I am utterly shocked at that based on the success of this game and just like how Ubisoft

normally does these things. I am really surprised, but very excited to see that and I can't wait for whatever it is. Will Beyond Good and Evil 2 make an appearance. No. Nope. Man, you don't think they're going to talk

about the space monkey program and record that? Hey, Joseph Gordon-Levitts. They'll look at for tracks if you want to go to hit record. I have a feeling. I feel like it's time. 2018.

they gotta do something or they just don't because it doesn't exist which I think is way more that game is a file on Joseph Gordon-Lev's computer any movie or TV stuff I feel like this is one of those things where we often just talk about all conferences as if they're the same thing

but Ubisoft they have their hands in so many different buckets they have so many games so many live service updates all that stuff and they always talk about some movie or TV project they have Mythic Quest I feel like we are due to hear about season four of that. Maybe the spinoff show. Spinoff show is probably

more likely. Ashley Birch one. They had Captain Laser Hawk. Yeah. They always do that type of stuff, right? So I think we'll see some type of... What's going on with that division movie? Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessica Chastain. That's right. February 25th, 2021.

At least that's when it was updated. And then there's the watchdog movies. I don't think we'll see anything from that, though. Chat's also saying, Assassin's Creed Netflix? Hmm. Is it Netflix? an Assassin's Creed show? Is that an announcement or?

That sounds familiar, but of course it always sounds familiar when you say shit like that. Live action, Assassin Scree series coming to Netflix. I don't have a date on when this one went up. A brand new live action Assassin's Creed series coming to Netflix. The deal includes multiple different series and the first of which is to be a genre-bending live-action epic. While the others will be in animated and animate adaptations. Oh.

do we get a new Ubisoft game announcement of course well it'll be who knows because it'll be new I mean this comes back to like what are they doing in 2025 yeah

I think trials is actually a really good guess do you think they even need to talk about 2025 though in this show because I don't at all no I mean maybe they save that for like

whatever the next Ubisoft forward thing it just feels weird that it's like I can't think of anything aside from the regular like just stands type shit

that could be happening in the next year exe maybe but that also feels like it could be 2026. Yeah. I could see it be, if they had a far cry,

I could see them doing like the initial announcement of it. Hmm. Let's go through then. Just the list of games. Mike got a whole bunch of stuff that like, well, so this is what you have of what will be there.

Yeah, these are things that I'm, I'm confident will be there, right? Of course we started off for the Assassin's Creed shadows, Star Wars Outlaws and X Defiant. X Defiant currently hot right now

just came out. You would expect we would probably see some sort of new content, maybe new heroes inside of those factions. I'm sure we'll see something along that line. Then I tracked over to Prince of Persia, Lost Crown, DLC. I think that's an easy one right there. You go down Skull and Bones, right?

Now you get into their live service. Live service properties that can either be in the pre-show or in this show, but they have a lot of products that are out there living and need content, right? That's Skull and Bones, Riders Republic, the Crew Motorsports, just dance 2025. you would expect a reveal here, right? Then you go down Brawl Hala, still alive and kicking. For Honor, still going on.

Rainbow Six Seedge. Then you got after that, Rainbow Six Seed on mobile is a big hot one that people are looking forward to. You can register now on that one. After that, they have a new game called Battle Corps Arena. No, they don't. I know. Literally just dropped. Yep.

No. It just dropped. Battlecore arena blessing. And this is a, what looks to be Marbles meets Battle Royale. I think it's more A shooter, but you're a marble. You can look that up. It's called Battle Corps Arena.

I guarantee that will be there for sure because you know they got a lot. Here's the hype trailer from IGN. Oh, shit. Take a look. You're a marble. And you're going to shoot it on the marbles. Honestly, I'm fucking into it.

Yes. Battlecore arena is a free-to-play competitive platform shooter where gravity mastery is the key to victory. It's marbles. I don't want to pick this side. I don't want to play one match of this. Bless this is our new

Car combat It's definitely not But I'll play one match with it It might be though Yeah Up next would be Assassin's Creed Mirage is coming out On iPhone 15 Pro

iPads Blah blah blah So you have that I think that's today It's coming out Yeah Just things they've been promoting On their Twitter page

Things you can find on the website That's my rundown You know Those are things that I would think about There was something on the tip of my tongue That will come right back Oh what I would be interested in Of course we talk about Ubisoft Plus

which is their subscription service. You know, I feel always like Ubisoft has these weird showcases where they also kind of get into like businessy talk out of nowhere. So I wouldn't be surprised if we talked about Ubisoft, their plus subscription service, or even the team up with Xbox, because aren't

they doing cloud check? Correct me, but I think they're doing the Xbox cloud stuff. So who knows what kind of things we'll get into when it switches to business talk. You're right. And that's why I think it's interesting you bring up the iPhone stuff. I would not be surprised if they do spend some time talking about other games that are

coming to iPhone. Because yeah, Ubisoft just likes doing everything. Yeah. Get ready for that. It's right. And so those are the things that I think will be there for sure.

That's my rundown of their live service games. Yeah. Tim, I guess my other one, we've talked about Beyond Good and Evil, Far Cry, trials, I wish would be there.

But like, let's get real, Tim. What's up with Rayman? 2013, like be real, Tim. What's happening with Rayman is the team made Prince of Persia

lost crown. And they're working on Prince of Persia a DLC now. We're not getting a Rayman. So you're saying Rayman DLC in Prince of Persia. Dan, that'd be crazy. I mean, that would be crazy. That would be pretty sick.

But Rayman Origins, legends, like those type of Rayman games, I would love another one. I do not think that we're anywhere close to that. I mean, maybe at some point they'll go back to that, but I don't think that this is being in the works currently. A Rayman Rabbin some type of game there

potentially. Like, we have not seen the last of Raymond. I guarantee that. But I don't think now is the time. just based on the teams that would likely be working on it. And then here's my maybes that are like, oh, did you think of this? Avatar, do you think we get DLC for Avatar or is that just dead and gone? Because that was pretty recent.

Knowing Ubisoft, like, I don't know if it'll get DLC that, like, anyone cares about, but I think that it's going to get some new shit. They're going to talk about it. T.J. Maskins. Somebody in the chat said, put the avatar people inside of X-defined and make a new fashion

class would be hysterical You got games like Vali and hearts right We always see these like very interesting Weird indies And you're like Who's playing that You know

Vali and Harts was fucking awesome Ubi Arts was awesome Ubi Arts was awesome Child of Light was awesome All right Just letting you know Unraveled Fantastic

That was saying to Ubisoft Who's playing And then did you know That Watch dogs Tokyo They got a book about watchdogs? Crazy.

Wait, it's just a book? Yeah, it's a book. It's a book. Watch dogs. I'm sure you're not getting a game. People were bringing up a Rayman 3D.

Like I would not be surprised at some point if they do a Rayman 4. Like going back to the core Rayman franchise. And I think Ubisoft has the stuff for a 3D platformer. Like I feel like that could be, I mean, inherently

3D platformers and Ubisoft games. There's a Venniogram situation there about like explor space and collect a bunch of shit that makes a lot of sense. Didn't they published Rocket Robot on Wheels? Did I make that up? They also made,

this was my 3D Ubisoft touchdown back in the day, was Tonic Trouble. Bring back Tonic Trouble. Yeah, no, but I mean, this was all, if I remember currently, this was the Rayman teams. And I think so was Rocket, right? No, Rocket was a sucker punch.

Just the bizarre world we live in there. This has to be the Rayman too, because it literally looks like a Rayman, like, re-skinned. Totally. So, yeah, I don't know what team over there would work on it, but I feel like Ubisoft has a great 3D platform platform or in them.

Well, I mean, grow up and grow home. I mean, those are kind of that. Yeah, you're right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It'd be cool to see actually another one of those. I don't know how much those sold or like if they see money in that, but... I'd be hype for Array Man 4. I don't think we see it this week, though.

And then my final one, hey, Ubisoft, I see that you published Heroes of Might and Magic, and this will be only for like the three fans alongside of me. What's up with that? Y'all still got that? Y'all own that? Let me know what's up with Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and Beyond? We'll get more of those. Mike, what's the

driving game where they're going real fast and it's like little cars and I love it. Track mania. Track mania. I'll go to that. Yeah, track mania. People, when you go to the Ubisoft thing

and like see what people want, people bring up driver from years ago. Get the fuck out here. We don't need more driver. I fuck with track mania. Wait, Ubisoft made driver? They did. Whoa.

This is the game that Mike was talking about, by the way. Here's of Mike and magic. like, yeah, goat. Bring up some track mania footage. Just for me. And then, yeah, you got some Mabies here, Mike. You got the Avatar DLC. And then Mario Plus Rabbit Sparks the Hope DLC.

Yeah, what do you think? October 2022. So it's still in the ballpark of being recent. Do we see something going on? What a franchise they got with that going on. So you would think they'd still continue showing love. I don't remember. I mean, this one kind of felt like it just came and went

unlike the first one. I think that had a lot to do with just the excitement around the launch of the switch in that first year or two of releases compared to now that we've had no less than a hundred games with Mario in the title on the switch. But quality game, Ubisoft doesn't drop support for a lot of things like this when at least hits a certain level of sales. So I feel like we're kind of missing the boat on an expansion for this game, but like it also would not surprise me if we get something.

Some sort of character pack or some sort of special skins or something you would think you would bring this back into the fold is right um looking at the superchats here we don't have too much left um but we got uh a lot of hype for splinter cell here gave the third saying ubi give me splinter cell and my life is yours uh ollie dj saying do you think we see the splinter cell remake i think that it's absolutely in the realm of possibility that that splinter cell gets showed up in some some way that is not it's not gonna be like here's a devil of the game but like uh hey yeah we're still doing this thing It's crazy that we talk about this game

and all they need to do is just show the goggles. That's the craziest thing is you talk to Splinterself fans like Roger. It's like if you just show the goggles, the thing is already hyped through the roof. I think they already did that though. I know, but like you could do that every year. It's just like, it continues to be like if they just showed the goggles, man. Just like little hints, it's like it's good enough.

It's like, okay, well, that's all you want then. And then we got Rob saying get hype equals Star Fox mainline game. Starlink was good. Oh, Rob. I don't think I've ever been more conformed. about a statement in my life. I want a new Star Fox game. That isn't probably my top three

most wanted games, period, overall. I don't know that I want Ubisoft making a full StarFox game. Starlink was good. I need Star Fox to be freaking great. So I don't know about that, but I'll take anything at this point. You're desperate.

I'm desperate for those furry little guys. Okay, don't make it work. Remember the fur tech on doing Q, Ben? When you get wet, it got real wet. All right, we're back. So would I? We're back to this. We made it out and then you

Go right back Into that water It was beautiful water on the game keep The water tech was fantastic That's all I got Oh Ghost Recon Digital dude saying What's up with Ghost Recon?

Yeah Something could happen Something could not happen There's so much ghost recong I feel like ghost recon Point was Ubisoft's breaking point Yeah Where they're like fuck

We gotta get our shit together Yeah We think how it is This is right Yeah But it was why Because like people like Wildlands

Right People like the fun Wacky style of Wildlands I think that's where they losses when they went a little more tactical and they tried to make it like meets destiny and then you had the raid going on and breakpoint and it was just a little too much there like you never answered my question about the villain of far cry seven is there going to be killian murphy like

people were talking about oh i don't know i see because my mind always goes to Jurassic park i don't know what i want but me i yo i o i know bar cry villain like that i feel like killion murphy is like too hot to be doing a euvasop game troy baker oh hot is it like he's too popular. Yes. But they had Gus Fring. Jean-Cardella Esposito is not on the same level, I would say, as

Kiliam Murphy. Kiliam Murphy was just in a like Oscar-nominated blockbuster last year, you know? How about Austin Butler? I mean, I'll say the same thing. He's hot right now. You know what I mean? I'm saying... But he would make a great far cry film.

He's hot right now. Modern family, Sophia Vergara. Damn. And that's wild. Take it to the bank. That's good. That's good. Take it to the fucking bank.

That'll be my part. With it being an Olympic year, could we see a game like steep slash riders, et cetera? But it's focused on games rather than extreme sports. Well, I mean, you have Riders Republic still around. Could they have a tie-in and stuff like that? I don't think you get your own separate Olympics games. But Riders Republic would probably do best

to at least get the Olympic outfits in the game. But remember, it's not the Winter Olympics, but you also have some summer activities. I don't know. It's a blurred line there. probably some sort of half pipe, I bet, is what you'll get. And the final one.

Grizzie says, I know Ubisoft published the old ones, but what about a new brothers in arms? I don't know. That doesn't seem like Ubisoft's bad. Yubi doesn't need that right now. They're trying to be profitable. They're trying to be profitable.

Well, everyone, thank you so much for hanging out for our predictions episodes. This is our last one of this time of summer game fest. We're about to get actually into reacting to the shows itself. Of course, tomorrow, we are going to react to the Summer Game Fest feature. presentation or whatever the hell it's called.

And then on Sunday, we're going to react to the Xbox Showcase. But there's a couple things I need to let you know about that because we're going to be down in L.A. for Summer Game Fest Play Days, playing a whole bunch of games on Saturday. We're going to be coming in real hot Sunday morning. So we are not going to watch the Xbox showcase live as it's happening. We are instead going to not look at our phones, not look at what happens at the Xbox event. And we are going to live react around 1 p.m. here on Twitch and YouTube.com slash

kind of funny games. And we will not have the chat up or anything. So if you guys want to either hold off and watch live with us, that'd be fantastic. Or if you want to just watch, see all your exciting moments. I want to see our reactions to all the Xbox stuff. That'll be a fun time as well. And then, of course, we will come back with another predictions episode for the Nintendo Direct, but we do not yet know the date for that.

It will be sometime in June. So we'll do the predictions for that. Of course, we will live react to that as well. Barrett Courtney. Another housekeeping note for tomorrow specifically with SGF. We are going to be live later on in the morning, not at 10 a.m. Kind of funny, Games Daily. We'll start at 11.30 a.m.

And then we'll be live for the rest of the day for all of the fun reacts. We also have a showdown tomorrow as well in between Games Daily and our pre-show for SGF. Yeah. So prepare to hang out with us all day tomorrow. It's going to be great. And hey, if you're watching live right now, keep hanging out with this. The boy's about to go play some Eldon Ring. If you're watching on Twitch, you can just keep hanging out.

If you're on YouTube, you're going to have to make the jump over to a different YouTube video. But it's still going to be a great time either way. Until next time, I love you all. Goodbye.