The Game Awards 2024 Predictions

[00:00:09] Ladies and gentlemen, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from The Pre-Order Bonus Podcast

[00:00:12] I'm one of your hosts Cameron Warren and I'm joined as always by Santa Claus himself, Jake Price

[00:00:20] Jake, it's December 5th, 2024, we've entered the holidays, we're officially in the holiday season

[00:00:28] And that means the podcast changes a little bit

[00:00:31] The podcast changes a little bit

[00:00:33] I was about to try to do my best Santa Claus ho ho ho

[00:00:36] But I just, listen, I have Christmas spirit

[00:00:40] Can I just say my Christmas spirit does not manifest in acting like Santa Claus?

[00:00:49] Yeah, no, I'm not

[00:00:50] I'm not

[00:00:54] We'll put in a, if we had one of those sound boards, we'd do the Santa Claus sound effect right here

[00:00:59] That's gonna be like a Patreon goal you can all help us drive towards

[00:01:04] You listen, you can do, uh, sign up for one of our tiers

[00:01:08] And it goes straight to the sound board for Jake to hit buttons that make cool sounds

[00:01:12] It does remind me of something, um, this is a bit of a teaser

[00:01:17] But January, I actually might do a lot of streaming

[00:01:23] Um

[00:01:23] Ooh

[00:01:24] Something that's kind of come up with my schedule

[00:01:27] And I might do a lot of streaming

[00:01:29] But we'll talk about that later

[00:01:31] Um

[00:01:32] Then you can hear me

[00:01:34] Well, Jake, I'm in the

[00:01:36] Oh!

[00:01:37] Oh!

[00:01:38] Okay

[00:01:39] Uh

[00:01:41] I'm in the biggest gaming rut of probably my life right now, man

[00:01:45] I'm just on the struggle bus

[00:01:46] Sometimes this happens to me

[00:01:47] Shout out

[00:01:48] Shout out to anybody

[00:01:50] If this happens to you

[00:01:51] I want to hear from you

[00:01:52] I want you to let me know

[00:01:53] We've talked about in the past

[00:01:54] Like

[00:01:54] How to manage your backlog

[00:01:56] And like different things

[00:01:57] And I have a million games on my backlog, Jake

[00:02:00] I have like dozens of games that I could be playing

[00:02:02] So I've gone through and legitimately like

[00:02:05] I was like, look

[00:02:06] You suck

[00:02:07] And you just need to put

[00:02:08] You need to put an hour minimum into every game on your backlog

[00:02:13] Until something like snaps you out of your

[00:02:17] Dopamine

[00:02:19] Like

[00:02:19] I don't know

[00:02:20] I don't know if it's like dopamine overload or whatever

[00:02:22] Like what

[00:02:23] I don't know if it's just like fatigue

[00:02:26] And so I've gone through

[00:02:27] I was

[00:02:28] I dipped back into metaphor a little bit

[00:02:31] I was playing

[00:02:34] Dragon Age Veil Guard

[00:02:36] I played that for about 11-12 hours

[00:02:40] Tactical Breach Wizards

[00:02:41] I'm almost done with

[00:02:42] But I'm kind of just barely at the end

[00:02:45] So I've dipped into all these games

[00:02:47] Nothing's really hidden

[00:02:49] Last night though

[00:02:50] I may have had a breakthrough

[00:02:51] I might have had a breakthrough

[00:02:53] I picked up during the Steam Autumn Sale

[00:02:56] Conscript

[00:02:57] Which if you don't know what that is

[00:03:01] That is a

[00:03:04] Old school style

[00:03:06] Sort of like throwback horror game

[00:03:09] Top down

[00:03:11] Resident Evil style

[00:03:15] Gameplay

[00:03:15] But set in World War I

[00:03:18] Right

[00:03:18] So where the horror is basically like the horror of war

[00:03:22] And it actually

[00:03:24] It really grabbed me like off the beat

[00:03:26] And so that

[00:03:27] That actually grabbed me

[00:03:28] And I had a reaction to it

[00:03:29] And so

[00:03:30] Good

[00:03:31] I think it might have broken the spell Jake

[00:03:32] I don't know

[00:03:33] Quick shout out to

[00:03:35] Slugcat Stew

[00:03:36] From our Discord

[00:03:37] Who

[00:03:38] Yeah

[00:03:38] Is one of the few people

[00:03:40] Maybe the only person that I could recall

[00:03:41] Like off the top of my head

[00:03:42] Who has been praising Conscript quite a lot

[00:03:47] Yes

[00:03:48] He mentioned it

[00:03:49] And he was actually the one

[00:03:50] Who kind of pushed me to like

[00:03:52] Go check it out

[00:03:53] And so yeah

[00:03:54] For sure

[00:03:54] That's

[00:03:54] Big shout out to him

[00:03:55] Yeah

[00:03:56] I have

[00:03:56] I have that on a wish list somewhere

[00:04:00] I'm

[00:04:01] Mentally

[00:04:02] So

[00:04:02] Just to kind of clarify

[00:04:04] This is something that we discussed

[00:04:05] In like

[00:04:05] How we manage burnout

[00:04:07] As we do a podcast

[00:04:08] Where

[00:04:09] You know

[00:04:09] Episodes are weekly

[00:04:11] And they're

[00:04:11] Focus on a single game

[00:04:13] During December

[00:04:14] And like

[00:04:14] Early January

[00:04:15] Is kind of

[00:04:16] Cameron and I's break

[00:04:17] Like we still have some episodes

[00:04:19] Coming out

[00:04:19] Like we're talking about

[00:04:20] Our game awards predictions

[00:04:21] But

[00:04:22] For the rest of the year

[00:04:23] We don't have

[00:04:24] Like a typical episode

[00:04:25] Where we're going to focus

[00:04:25] On a specific game

[00:04:26] And in the beginning of January

[00:04:28] It's the same way

[00:04:29] This is what I refer to

[00:04:31] As backlog season

[00:04:32] So for me

[00:04:33] I

[00:04:33] I like

[00:04:34] It's really

[00:04:35] It really is hard for me

[00:04:36] To start

[00:04:37] Like especially

[00:04:38] Buy a new game

[00:04:40] And start new games

[00:04:41] And so I'm just

[00:04:42] Deep in my backlog

[00:04:44] I am bouncing around

[00:04:45] Between

[00:04:47] A few games

[00:04:48] That I'm really enjoying

[00:04:49] So I

[00:04:49] Finally started

[00:04:51] Metal Gear Solid

[00:04:52] Peace Walker

[00:04:53] Which

[00:04:54] Freddy Go Boom

[00:04:55] Another

[00:04:55] Long time listener

[00:04:57] And friend of the show

[00:04:58] He

[00:05:00] Has been telling me

[00:05:01] To play forever

[00:05:01] Because it's Cold War

[00:05:02] And it's Central America

[00:05:03] Which is what my

[00:05:04] Dissertation was on

[00:05:06] And it's

[00:05:06] I love it

[00:05:07] I'm having a really good time

[00:05:08] With it

[00:05:09] And then Cameron

[00:05:10] I'm playing

[00:05:11] Forspoken man

[00:05:15] What?

[00:05:16] When did this happen?

[00:05:17] So I started it recently

[00:05:19] Because I finished another game

[00:05:20] Folks

[00:05:21] Let me tell you

[00:05:22] A thing or two

[00:05:23] About Forspoken

[00:05:25] All

[00:05:25] I feel like

[00:05:26] All

[00:05:27] And like

[00:05:28] All of the garbage stuff

[00:05:29] That you

[00:05:30] Saw floating around

[00:05:31] On social media

[00:05:31] From Forspoken

[00:05:32] Was in

[00:05:33] Within like the first

[00:05:39] 30 hours in it

[00:05:39] And the game is like

[00:05:41] Way better

[00:05:42] Than what social media

[00:05:44] Did to that game

[00:05:45] Oh

[00:05:46] It's got

[00:05:47] I've actually

[00:05:48] I've heard that sound of it

[00:05:49] So yeah

[00:05:49] It's got really fun combat

[00:05:51] I love the combat

[00:05:52] I love

[00:05:53] Parkouring

[00:05:53] I think the world

[00:05:55] Looks good

[00:05:57] I'm not in love

[00:05:58] With Frey

[00:05:59] The main character

[00:06:00] But I don't think

[00:06:00] She's like

[00:06:01] Poorly written

[00:06:03] And I think

[00:06:03] There's room

[00:06:04] For the story

[00:06:05] Like the narrative

[00:06:05] To grow

[00:06:06] But like

[00:06:07] I don't know man

[00:06:09] You want a good game

[00:06:09] Where you just

[00:06:10] Could

[00:06:10] Like

[00:06:11] I was

[00:06:11] The most recent

[00:06:12] Play session

[00:06:12] I had with it

[00:06:13] I was in like

[00:06:14] In this arena

[00:06:15] Doing this like

[00:06:16] Mini side quest thing

[00:06:17] And there was like

[00:06:18] 50 enemies

[00:06:18] And I just went around

[00:06:19] Just obliterating them all

[00:06:21] And it was a good time

[00:06:22] So

[00:06:23] I'm

[00:06:24] I'm pretty convinced

[00:06:25] That Forspoken

[00:06:25] Did not get a fair shake

[00:06:28] So

[00:06:29] Interesting

[00:06:30] Interesting

[00:06:30] Yeah

[00:06:31] That could be one of those games

[00:06:32] That uh

[00:06:34] Did we not recently

[00:06:35] Do an episode of

[00:06:36] Games that were

[00:06:37] Treated

[00:06:39] Unfairly

[00:06:39] Yeah

[00:06:40] I feel like we did

[00:06:41] We did a special topics

[00:06:42] Kind of talking about

[00:06:42] Some games that were

[00:06:43] Maybe Forspoken

[00:06:45] Maybe we need to do

[00:06:46] An updated version

[00:06:46] Soon

[00:06:47] And add more to the list

[00:06:49] Because I'm sure

[00:06:49] There's a lot more

[00:06:50] Yeah so

[00:06:50] Another quick shout out

[00:06:52] Matt Fresh

[00:06:52] Who I talk to a lot

[00:06:53] On Blue Sky

[00:06:54] He's a writer for

[00:06:55] The Hard Times

[00:06:56] Excuse me

[00:06:57] The Hard Drive

[00:06:57] Um

[00:06:59] He

[00:06:59] He's

[00:07:00] He's somebody

[00:07:00] Who's a champion

[00:07:01] Of Forspoken

[00:07:02] And I was like

[00:07:03] Alright

[00:07:03] I'm gonna pull this

[00:07:04] Out of the backlog

[00:07:04] And see what the deal is

[00:07:05] And

[00:07:06] It's

[00:07:06] Guys

[00:07:07] It's like

[00:07:07] Not that bad

[00:07:07] The combat's way fun

[00:07:08] But

[00:07:09] Anyway

[00:07:10] That's what I'm

[00:07:11] Playing right now

[00:07:11] Um

[00:07:12] Those two games

[00:07:13] Mostly

[00:07:13] I'm wrapping up

[00:07:14] What I'm gonna do

[00:07:15] With Octopath Traveler 2

[00:07:17] And then

[00:07:18] Dude I don't know

[00:07:19] Maybe

[00:07:20] Actually I know

[00:07:21] You know what I'm gonna play

[00:07:21] Next Cameron

[00:07:23] Um

[00:07:23] I'm finally gonna play

[00:07:24] The

[00:07:25] The Iki Island

[00:07:26] Expansion

[00:07:28] I'm actually just doing

[00:07:29] A replay of

[00:07:30] Ghost of Tsushima

[00:07:31] And that will kind of

[00:07:31] Be the rest of my

[00:07:32] Holidays

[00:07:33] Finally getting around

[00:07:34] To that

[00:07:35] Dude that's

[00:07:35] Dude I'm jealous bro

[00:07:38] That

[00:07:38] That Iki Island

[00:07:39] Expansion is so good

[00:07:41] That

[00:07:42] It's basically like

[00:07:43] It's own game

[00:07:44] Essentially

[00:07:45] Yeah

[00:07:45] I mean

[00:07:46] I feel a little ashamed

[00:07:47] Cause Cameron and I

[00:07:48] Are probably the two biggest

[00:07:49] Ghost of Tsushima fans

[00:07:51] That I know

[00:07:51] And I haven't even played

[00:07:53] The Iki Island

[00:07:53] Expansion yet

[00:07:54] I'm not gonna apologize

[00:07:56] For that

[00:07:56] Like it's

[00:07:57] You know

[00:07:57] It's

[00:07:58] That's just one of those

[00:08:00] Games

[00:08:00] That

[00:08:01] I know people don't

[00:08:02] Consider Ghost of Tsushima

[00:08:04] To be like

[00:08:05] The greatest

[00:08:06] Masterpiece

[00:08:07] Of all time

[00:08:08] But

[00:08:08] Man for me

[00:08:10] It's

[00:08:11] It's up there

[00:08:12] Yeah

[00:08:12] Honestly

[00:08:13] Ghost of Yotai man

[00:08:15] Ghost of Yotai man

[00:08:16] Number one most anticipated

[00:08:19] Not even close

[00:08:19] GTA 6

[00:08:20] Who cares

[00:08:21] GTA who

[00:08:22] Man

[00:08:22] GTA who

[00:08:24] GTA who

[00:08:25] It's just funny

[00:08:26] Because

[00:08:26] So in early January

[00:08:28] Cameron and I

[00:08:29] Are gonna be talking

[00:08:29] About our most anticipated

[00:08:30] Games

[00:08:31] Of 2025

[00:08:33] And

[00:08:34] You already know

[00:08:35] For Cameron and I

[00:08:36] As of right now

[00:08:37] It's Ghost of Yotai

[00:08:38] That's our number one

[00:08:40] Most anticipated game

[00:08:43] Yeah

[00:08:43] No

[00:08:44] Question

[00:08:44] Whatsoever

[00:08:46] You can send that

[00:08:47] You can take that

[00:08:48] To the bank

[00:08:50] Yeah

[00:08:51] So I

[00:08:52] Octopath Traveler 2

[00:08:55] Forspoken

[00:08:55] That's a fun mix

[00:08:56] Jake

[00:08:56] I

[00:08:57] I have some time

[00:08:58] In Octopath 2

[00:08:59] I keep

[00:08:59] Telling myself

[00:09:00] I'm gonna go back to it

[00:09:01] That's one that's in my

[00:09:02] Backlog

[00:09:03] I

[00:09:04] Man

[00:09:05] It's

[00:09:05] It is hard

[00:09:06] I gotta admit

[00:09:06] It is hard to go back

[00:09:07] To JRPG

[00:09:08] Random

[00:09:09] Combat encounters

[00:09:10] I have to admit

[00:09:11] That that can be

[00:09:13] Feel very much

[00:09:14] Like a chore

[00:09:15] I don't like that

[00:09:16] I wanna like

[00:09:17] Choose

[00:09:17] For some reason

[00:09:18] I want like

[00:09:19] The free agency

[00:09:20] To choose

[00:09:20] When I enter combat

[00:09:21] No I get

[00:09:22] I get that

[00:09:23] Like as a

[00:09:23] As a player choice

[00:09:24] Kind of thing

[00:09:26] Let's see

[00:09:27] With Octopath Traveler 2

[00:09:28] I've mentioned this

[00:09:29] A bunch in our discord

[00:09:30] So I'm sorry

[00:09:30] If it's a repeat

[00:09:31] For some of you all

[00:09:32] But like

[00:09:32] The way that I've

[00:09:33] Decided to play it

[00:09:34] Is I picked one main

[00:09:35] Character

[00:09:36] Which is Kasti

[00:09:37] If you've played the game

[00:09:38] And I'm gonna

[00:09:39] Complete her

[00:09:40] Story

[00:09:40] For sure

[00:09:41] I think I'm gonna

[00:09:42] End up completing

[00:09:44] Hikari

[00:09:44] And Oswald's

[00:09:46] Stories as well

[00:09:48] But then

[00:09:48] Oh wow

[00:09:49] That's actually

[00:09:50] Just because

[00:09:51] Like

[00:09:51] As

[00:09:53] The easiest way

[00:09:54] To kind of grind

[00:09:54] And get levels

[00:09:55] Is by completing

[00:09:56] Other people's stories

[00:09:57] Which makes sense

[00:09:58] Right

[00:09:59] But

[00:09:59] I just

[00:10:02] I don't feel

[00:10:03] Like

[00:10:04] Super

[00:10:05] Interested

[00:10:06] In doing

[00:10:07] Everything

[00:10:07] And I just

[00:10:09] Kind of

[00:10:09] Think

[00:10:09] Game's

[00:10:09] Complete

[00:10:10] For me

[00:10:10] When I

[00:10:10] When I

[00:10:11] Finish Kasti's

[00:10:12] Story

[00:10:12] So

[00:10:13] I don't know

[00:10:14] I think I'm winding

[00:10:15] Down here

[00:10:16] I'm in

[00:10:16] I've actually

[00:10:17] Unlocked Kasti's

[00:10:18] Final chapter

[00:10:47] I'm just doing

[00:10:49] Enthusiasm

[00:10:49] Is starting

[00:10:49] To wind

[00:10:50] Down

[00:10:50] But what I

[00:10:51] Do like

[00:10:52] About that

[00:10:52] Quite a lot

[00:10:53] Is

[00:10:54] The game

[00:10:55] Design does

[00:10:55] Allow for me

[00:10:56] To create

[00:10:57] My own

[00:10:57] Exit ramp

[00:10:58] Like I

[00:10:58] Will feel

[00:10:59] Very

[00:10:59] Satisfied

[00:11:00] Having played

[00:11:01] What I

[00:11:01] Have played

[00:11:02] In that

[00:11:02] Game

[00:11:02] Even though

[00:11:03] It will

[00:11:04] Be like

[00:11:04] Less than

[00:11:04] 50%

[00:11:05] Of all

[00:11:05] The content

[00:11:05] There

[00:11:08] Interesting

[00:11:08] Yeah

[00:11:10] Well Jake

[00:11:11] I'll tell you

[00:11:12] I'll give

[00:11:12] One thought

[00:11:13] Before we

[00:11:13] Get into

[00:11:13] Our main

[00:11:14] Episode

[00:11:14] And that

[00:11:14] Is

[00:11:16] Dragon

[00:11:16] Age

[00:11:17] Veil

[00:11:17] Guard

[00:11:18] Now folks

[00:11:19] I think

[00:11:19] We're gonna

[00:11:19] Have

[00:11:20] We're gonna

[00:11:20] Have an

[00:11:20] Episode

[00:11:20] On this

[00:11:21] At some

[00:11:21] Point

[00:11:21] It is

[00:11:22] Not

[00:11:22] Currently

[00:11:22] Planned

[00:11:23] I think

[00:11:24] Jake

[00:11:24] You haven't

[00:11:24] Even

[00:11:24] Started

[00:11:25] It

[00:11:25] Yeah

[00:11:25] Right

[00:11:25] I

[00:11:25] Did

[00:11:26] Backlog

[00:11:26] Season

[00:11:26] Hit

[00:11:27] And

[00:11:27] It's not

[00:11:28] A top

[00:11:28] Priority

[00:11:30] Top

[00:11:30] Priority

[00:11:30] Yeah

[00:11:31] And that's

[00:11:31] Honestly

[00:11:32] I think

[00:11:32] That's fine

[00:11:33] I'll say

[00:11:34] I've

[00:11:34] I've put

[00:11:35] In 12

[00:11:35] Hours

[00:11:36] Into

[00:11:36] Dragon Age

[00:11:37] Vail Guard

[00:11:39] I'm a big

[00:11:39] Fan of

[00:11:40] Dragon Age

[00:11:41] Origins

[00:11:41] Obviously

[00:11:42] Everybody

[00:11:43] I'm the

[00:11:43] Biggest

[00:11:44] Fan

[00:11:44] Of

[00:11:44] Baldur's

[00:11:45] Gate

[00:11:45] 3

[00:11:46] Yes

[00:11:48] So it's

[00:11:49] Pretty

[00:11:49] Jarring

[00:11:49] To go

[00:11:50] To

[00:11:50] Dragon Age

[00:11:50] Vail Guard

[00:11:51] When you

[00:11:52] Come from

[00:11:52] Baldur's

[00:11:52] Gate

[00:11:53] 3

[00:11:53] But it's

[00:11:53] A different

[00:11:53] Type of

[00:11:54] Game

[00:11:54] So that's

[00:11:54] Fine

[00:11:55] I'm not

[00:11:55] Like

[00:11:56] We don't

[00:11:57] Need to

[00:11:57] Compare

[00:11:57] Everything

[00:11:58] To it

[00:11:58] Even

[00:11:58] Though I

[00:11:59] Probably

[00:11:59] Will

[00:11:59] Subconsciously

[00:12:05] So I've

[00:12:06] Been

[00:12:06] Playing

[00:12:06] Quite

[00:12:06] A bit

[00:12:06] Of

[00:12:06] That

[00:12:07] I

[00:12:07] Actually

[00:12:07] I

[00:12:07] Played

[00:12:08] Started

[00:12:08] As a

[00:12:08] Warrior

[00:12:09] And then

[00:12:09] I

[00:12:09] Changed

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[00:19:42] right so like as an awards ceremony it's got plenty plenty of issues right now as a hype

[00:19:49] machine and as in like an e3 style event folks this is like the premier gaming event now right

[00:19:56] e3's dead yeah jeff keely has taken over you know summer games pretty much he has inserted himself

[00:20:03] in these big like hype moments for good or for bad and whatever your opinion on that is that's kind

[00:20:09] of the reality of things and so cameron and i have kind of taken that approach of like well

[00:20:13] let's just enjoy the hype let's enjoy the hype of the game awards right and obviously there are other

[00:20:19] really great game awards out there um six one indie is putting out the their first their inaugural indie

[00:20:27] game awards on december 19th and if you were interested more on the indie side of things

[00:20:33] that award show is exactly what you want an award show to be so definitely check that one out

[00:20:39] um but you've also got like dice and you've got bafta and those award shows i think work really

[00:20:45] well as award shows um and so i mean there are good award shows out there and i don't think that we need

[00:20:52] to put like we don't need to dogpile so much on the game awards i get like the game awards has the

[00:20:57] biggest reach and the biggest budget and so it's kind of annoying that they're not doing things the

[00:21:01] way that we would like them to um but there are other ways to support games and the awards that they

[00:21:06] get and so kind of what i recommend is two things maybe or three things i'll say one focus on the

[00:21:13] the game awards pre-show events they have a latin american game showcase they do day the devs they

[00:21:19] have wholesome games like the game awards does promote these smaller case venues and showcases and

[00:21:26] so support those watch those react to those um the other thing is like like cameron saying dude just

[00:21:32] treat the game awards as a giant trailer and then it becomes infinitely more fun than treating it like

[00:21:37] an award ceremony and thirdly like if you're looking for an award ceremony i mean put your

[00:21:42] money where your mouth is show up and watch the indie game awards you know show up and watch bafta or

[00:21:47] whatever it is like support those yeah you know like which and that's the thing the the people who

[00:21:54] complain the most about the game awards are the people who don't watch the baftas which is probably

[00:21:58] the the baftas is really like the more official if you want to if you're really concerned about

[00:22:06] something getting an award like that's the show that you pay attention to yeah there are there are

[00:22:10] other things to do so we don't have to put all our attention to you know the game awards but the game

[00:22:16] awards are crazy fun i mean it's not a bad thing to to eat cotton candy every once in a while that's

[00:22:22] kind of how i approach it right like maybe a moderation that's how you get that's how you get the

[00:22:26] eyeballs that's the only reason stuff like this exists uh you get it's got a you know it's gonna

[00:22:32] have probably a 20 million dollar candy crush commercial starring like michael b jordan for

[00:22:38] some reason you know so i remember last year they literally had like chris hemsworth literally like

[00:22:45] three other actors just for this can't this one candy crush commercial you know what's funny is i don't

[00:22:51] even think it was candy crush was it not candy crush what what it was something super bizarrely

[00:22:56] it was some other major mobile game and this is how effective the trailer was obviously

[00:23:02] cameron and i get it's one of those mobile games that nobody really talks about but

[00:23:06] was it it was totally it was clash of clans clash of clans makes way too much money guys waste like

[00:23:13] they're making astronomical sums of cash kind of insane um well anyway with that let's dive into

[00:23:20] our predictions for this year's game awards 2024 again next thursday 5 30 this thing kicks

[00:23:26] off i say we start right let's just start with a bang jake what's your prediction who's taking

[00:23:32] home game of the year who's taking home game of the year it's astrobot folks um oh astrobot is

[00:23:41] taking home game is it though yeah dude i'll tell you let me tell you why okay

[00:23:47] it is the least problematic game up here

[00:23:51] and and what i mean by problematic is like i don't think these games for the most part anyway are

[00:23:57] like super controversial in content but um they are like let's face it black myth wukong

[00:24:05] suddenly became like ammunition for a culture war um there's been extensive reporting on how that

[00:24:11] studio is not super great towards women um but also i i think the game awards is too safe

[00:24:19] and i just don't think they would gravitate towards that um yeah when was the last time in indie to

[00:24:25] comb game of the year maybe maybe if you want to count like it takes two what wait a minute is it

[00:24:32] sorry is it bellatro or sorry it's bellatro it's bellatro okay um bellatro i don't think is gonna make

[00:24:39] it uh i mean it takes two is the closest thing but i don't even know if that really counts it's not i

[00:24:46] know i wouldn't count it as indie and it was insane that it won that year people lost their

[00:24:52] oh that is a good game oh no yeah yeah it's good um i don't think i do not believe that metaphor

[00:24:59] re-fantazio takes it because i think despite it being like kind of akin to elden ring and that

[00:25:05] elden ring i feel like was the breakout game for from soft and metaphor re-fantazio i feel like is

[00:25:10] the breakout game for atlas kind of beyond its niche demographic um i just don't think it uh

[00:25:17] holds up i don't think it carries let me rephrase that i don't think it holds as much weight amongst

[00:25:24] the the jury as the other big heavy hitters in there um and final fantasy 7 rebirth the only reason

[00:25:31] why i don't think it takes it is because it is uh it it came out like in february it's just way too

[00:25:38] old of a game now it's not fresh that experience that you had with that game is not fresh in voters

[00:25:43] minds so it's astrobot man astrobot takes the cake i mean you're probably right i i'll actually

[00:25:51] i actually voted for uh metaphor i just thought well while astrobot did have you know pretty much

[00:26:01] you know i don't think anybody said nil about it i think metaphor was right up there in terms of

[00:26:07] like a metacritic score and like the reaction to it from the publications that's true which remember

[00:26:13] it's it's the publications that pick that like submit their votes right and so i think when you

[00:26:20] look at that holistically i think i mean it's a tough one it really is for me it really is a toss-up

[00:26:26] i think it could absolutely be astrobot i think what astrobot maybe lacks is it's a little bit

[00:26:33] lacks in the kind of narratives not the right word but sort of the um narrate like the kind of story or

[00:26:42] characterization piece of it and we talked about that on our episode which i think

[00:26:48] and also like metaphor has this really interesting sort of real world message real real world message

[00:26:54] like buried in it i don't know it still to me is like a toss-up i think i mean i think that's a good

[00:26:59] point right like game of the year is supposed to be a game that excels in like all aspects of video

[00:27:05] game design and like i think that's true i think metaphor does really deliver right pretty dang well

[00:27:14] but yeah okay well astrobot i mean astrobot from a astrobot from a pure like

[00:27:26] um technical spectacle yeah of just sheer execution when it comes to making a game and like what it

[00:27:34] means to develop a game and make a game you know really almost perfectly i mean that's that does shine

[00:27:42] as like a one of the best that's ever done it you know for sure now does it have the regular bells

[00:27:51] and whistles that you typically see in like a game of the year candidate like a last of us or whatever

[00:27:55] you're like a boulders gate 3 like no it doesn't and so it's gonna win on like different merits

[00:28:00] yeah it's best bells and whistles are probably the dual sense controller right yeah yeah now okay we

[00:28:10] have to explain real quick why didn't either of us pick elden ring shadow of the earth tree i just think

[00:28:19] it's too i think that's too divisive amongst again it's like it's these publications that get to put

[00:28:24] their vote in right and i i think that putting a dlc in there is just like too too divisive because i

[00:28:32] think there's too many opinions about what should be considered for game of the year yeah and the other

[00:28:37] the argument that i saw that got put forward on shadow of the earth tree was the fact that

[00:28:42] you can't even play shadow of the earth tree without putting in roughly 60 hours or so like

[00:28:48] into the main elgin ring like like it's not shadow of the earth tree is not like a game that you can

[00:28:55] just go play right right now like you have to go play elgin ring for dozens and dozens of hours

[00:29:02] and completely bury yourself in that game before you can even touch shadow of the earth tree which is

[00:29:07] kind of interesting so i don't know yeah so i didn't pick it for somewhat similar reasons like

[00:29:12] obviously it scored really well and the people who loved it really did love it right and it's

[00:29:16] incredible like cameron and i both played it we have an episode on it i loved it um i thought it was

[00:29:21] an incredible dlc now i think for game of the year like i i agree with you i think too many people

[00:29:31] in the jury from these big publications are gonna be like uh do i really want to pick a dlc for game of

[00:29:36] the year and i think enough people will answer that question with no that it won't get enough votes

[00:29:42] to be game of the year um so i think it's going to just be hindered in that regard i think there's a

[00:29:48] much stronger chance that really any of the other ones um just get more votes than i'm thinking from

[00:29:54] a voting perspective right if now if i had to pick what i think was my favorite release out of everything

[00:30:00] that's been nominated for game of the year yeah sure i'd pick elden ring shadow or shadow of the earth tree

[00:30:04] like hands down no contest right but um even though the game awards like put out this social

[00:30:11] media post saying oh by the way remakes and in dlc they count for all these categories right kind of

[00:30:17] try to soften the blow of what their nominations would be yeah i just think when it comes down

[00:30:22] to the moment where you've got one of these people these jury members are making the vote

[00:30:26] i just don't think that they're going to pick enough of them will pick a dlc i agree

[00:30:31] jake what else i think i only had one other kind of winner prediction and that is i mean this isn't

[00:30:37] really a prediction this is just a guarantee is that um final fantasy 7 rebirth is going to win

[00:30:43] music the oh sound best score in music if that doesn't win music what are we even doing i mean that

[00:30:51] that game has the most incredible soundtrack of perhaps any video game that's ever been i mean it

[00:31:00] is it is just it's an it's a it's a it's next level i mean it is just next level sound soundtrack and

[00:31:11] music is just off the charts incredible um so uh so that was my only other winner that i have any clue

[00:31:19] you know who's up against final fantasy 7 rebirth in that category we've got astrobot metaphor

[00:31:26] re-fantazio silent hill 2 and stellar blade um i didn't play stellar blade did you play any of that

[00:31:34] i played a little bit of it yeah did the music stand out i'm actually thinking about going back

[00:31:38] to it yeah i mean the only one that maybe stands a chance there is metaphor which also has really

[00:31:44] amazing music but i still doesn't i still don't think it holds a candle to rebirth i i agree i think

[00:31:50] when i look at these now to be frank i didn't play stellar blade and i've i only watched streams of

[00:31:56] silent hill 2 i didn't play it that's definitely not a game i will play um because i'm not a big

[00:32:01] horror enthusiast right not because i have anything wrong with the game um or any problems with it but

[00:32:06] metaphor re-fantazio like dude it's got really great music and i think what it comes down to really

[00:32:12] between these two is the nostalgia factor of final fantasy 7 like this is like super iconic music

[00:32:22] and it's been rearranged with a full orchestra and it's gorgeous and it's absolutely wonderful to

[00:32:29] listen to and it has that nostalgia factor i just am hard-pressed to believe that like people have

[00:32:36] that same passionate nostalgia for silent hill 2 music as they do for final fantasy 7 i mean i i

[00:32:43] haven't listened to it but i just seriously don't i mean i i mean when people when people and i want

[00:32:49] to bring stellar blade into this too when people talk about stellar blade and silent hill 2 i don't

[00:32:54] think i've seen a peep about the music of either of those no no that's not what i'm seeing there right

[00:33:00] metaphor i have and i've played enough of metaphor to know it has has great music but it's just

[00:33:07] yeah it doesn't hold a camera how do you compete with like eric's theme you know like yeah i mean all

[00:33:14] the themes yeah and not only that but like all the theme variations like the dozens and dozens of

[00:33:19] theme variations like set to different settings in the game and different situations it's incredible

[00:33:24] it's like yeah who's the composer for that oh my gosh don't ask i'm blanking they need to do

[00:33:35] more stuff they're like the john williams of video games john williams of video games yeah dude i mean

[00:33:42] it's super impressive speaking of john williams what's the what's the sound what's the music like

[00:33:48] in the new antiana jones game i guess we'll find out oh yeah i guess we will find out huh we'll find

[00:33:53] out very soon all right so those are like controversial not controversial but just winner

[00:33:58] predictions like what other predictions do you have we've said it the the game awards is a giant

[00:34:04] trailer and so i think this is where predictions get much sillier and way more fun yeah so i've

[00:34:10] i've got a list here some of these are super outlandish and wild some of these are relatively

[00:34:16] plausible i'll give my plausible one first which this is a dumb one but this happens every year and

[00:34:23] so i just have to call it ahead of time expect there to be at least 15 to 20

[00:34:31] horror and farming games with an anime spin that have interchangeable names that you're going to

[00:34:38] completely forget wait okay just to clarify are they horror farming sim games are they horror

[00:34:46] or or farming sim games or right because i think just if you just think back to last year there was

[00:34:55] probably 15 different horror games and maybe another like 12 to 15 farming games all of them that had

[00:35:07] some sort of like they're all like either made in asia and have some sort of like anime spin to them

[00:35:13] and all the names are like completely interchangeable that was a big problem with the summer games fest too

[00:35:20] where there were these all these sci-fi action shooter games right and there was like no break

[00:35:27] between the trailers and you're like wait is this a different game they're just like blending into each

[00:35:32] other yeah you don't even know like what's what's into the fourth trailer and you're like wait this is

[00:35:36] still one game right yeah oh my goodness so that's my that's my first prediction which if that changes

[00:35:44] i'll be shocked you got to pay for the show somehow i mean that's fine you got you got filler you got

[00:35:48] to have filler okay um this is a dumb prediction i'll just my my next one but i think we get kojima on

[00:35:58] stage for 10 minutes again we've got what's he going to talk about though because he's got

[00:36:04] he already kind of did that for his new crazy weird project that he's doing with with jordan peele

[00:36:12] yeah um so what's he talking about now i mean i wouldn't be surprised and this kind of goes into

[00:36:18] another one of my predictions if um there's a death stranding to like release date like he gets on stage

[00:36:26] with uh norman reedus and they're carrying around lou or l fanning i don't know and maybe not carrying

[00:36:34] around now that was one of my predictions by the way jake is we'll get we'll get the death stranding to

[00:36:40] release date okay yeah okay so we were both on the same page there but i just wouldn't be surprised if

[00:36:45] kojima is up there for 10 minutes and honestly my original prediction here is that he he goes on there

[00:36:50] for 10 minutes to talk about some other abstract like new project that we don't know about like we just

[00:36:55] get an entire repeat just maybe a new cast of of people going on stage with him um maybe we get

[00:37:02] troy i mean he's guitar man from death stranding too he's too close with jeff keely to not do

[00:37:09] something again and with death stranding being like so i mean suppose you it seems to be like

[00:37:16] next year or something yeah yeah um you'd want to do something big here yeah all right uh

[00:37:26] yeah i like it got uh my next one is so this is this could seem outlandish to some of you

[00:37:36] this could seem very outlandish to some of you but i genuinely believe that there's like there's at

[00:37:42] least a coin flip that this happens and the reason i believe this is because the fact that this

[00:37:48] game hasn't come out yet is just really unfathomable to my brain and i do i think i genuinely think

[00:37:57] there's a 50 50 coin flip that we get a silksong shadow drop here dude that was another one of mine

[00:38:05] camera did i same wavelength uh we're on the same wavelength like dude i seriously if there was if

[00:38:11] there was ever a game in the history of games that could be shadow dropped that is perfectly positioned

[00:38:19] to be shadow dropped that has had the longest string and kind of you know delays and changeouts

[00:38:27] of marketing is an indie game but it's probably if you had to measure the height meter for a game

[00:38:33] it's probably second only maybe to grand theft auto 6 it's silksong right so like i this is like this

[00:38:40] if you're ever going to do a shadow drop this is the game you do a shadow this is it yeah if you

[00:38:45] don't do it here you just don't do shadow drops when when do you think let's let's say silksong does

[00:38:52] shadow drop when in this show would a silksong shadow drop make the most sense is it your one

[00:38:59] more thing is it the end of the show i do think that's an end of the it's big enough that that's an

[00:39:05] end of the show situation i do think that that's like a that's like a that's like he he even like

[00:39:15] has to tee it up and kind of talk about it for a second to like prepare people and then he's like

[00:39:19] drops the bomb and that's like the mic drop everybody skips the after parties they just

[00:39:23] immediately go home and download they go home and i mean if it's not a like it's available now

[00:39:31] it could easily be like christmas day christmas day december 25th yeah absolutely yeah okay so

[00:39:42] did you see this that would be dude that would be so that'd be so oh my gosh

[00:39:48] it would that be the hypest thing that ever happened at a like a game award show like a i mean it would

[00:39:54] be amazing that it would be insane and they can't this team like team cherry can't be worried about

[00:40:01] like marketing like go to market strategies like they don't care about that right like

[00:40:09] they're just gonna put the game out when they're they don't need to like do they need to have a

[00:40:13] marketing strategy no they don't i mean they had a marketing strategy when they released the trailer

[00:40:21] with their nintendo partnership and then when they did it again with the xbox partnership you know

[00:40:25] what i'm forming a new opinion right now a new prediction excuse me uh team cherry it's the game

[00:40:33] awards they announced their partnership with playstation to just get the trifecta

[00:40:41] the trifecta the game no longer exclusive playstation exclusive oh wait what no longer coming to switch

[00:40:48] it's no longer coming to xbox let alone game pass it is launching on ps plus day one right now

[00:40:56] i mean think about it jake that when they they were in that presentation where xbox said every game you

[00:41:04] see here will be out in the next 12 months we are 12 months past the 12 month window

[00:41:12] so at this point like yeah i know they felt awful about that they did feel awful about that because

[00:41:20] they told xbox it would be out and they went on social media and they kind of like apologized

[00:41:26] for and we're an additional year later so yeah because they needed to and that's why that's why i

[00:41:33] picked it in a in fantasy credit because i was like there's no way that they don't release this game

[00:41:38] this year like it just it's it would be insane it's december 5th and we're running out of days and

[00:41:43] they and it's december 5th yeah okay so my next prediction so i don't know if you knew this but

[00:41:49] snoop dog is performing at the game awards oh boy okay and he will be a featured character in

[00:41:57] grand theft auto 6 and we're gonna get that info at the game dude do we are on the same wavelength

[00:42:03] because i also keep going keep going no that's it that's it that there will be like information

[00:42:11] about grand theft auto 6 and we're gonna see the the npc version of snoop dog in okay yeah i was

[00:42:20] thinking i didn't know snoop dog was gonna be there but i think that lends even more credence to

[00:42:25] getting another grant getting a grand theft auto story trailer with snoop dog in it and then we get

[00:42:30] the release date nice the release hold on the release date is a perfect time i think we get

[00:42:36] released that yeah like you'd be if you're gonna hit your window and the ceo strauss whatever

[00:42:43] said that they're they're gonna hit the window now they could still get delayed but who care they

[00:42:50] don't care they can do whatever they want so true i think they build up holiday hype and they announce

[00:42:58] the release date and they open pre-orders like a year ahead of time oh so you think like the release

[00:43:03] dates like coming november or coming holiday 2025 holiday 206 and open pre-orders oh yeah dude that

[00:43:15] sounds pretty pretty plausible and i think because grand theft auto 6 is so huge and it's literally

[00:43:24] bigger than any game that has ever come out without hyperbole that i think i'm my guess is like

[00:43:35] the major platform owners are probably begging rockstar to figure to get their crap figured out

[00:43:43] because they need to know when grand theft auto 6 is coming out like for the sake of their

[00:43:50] their games like surviving in that window that's when the xbox series y because you can't be xbox and

[00:43:57] release you can't release you can't be xbox and like release fable like a week after gts6 comes out

[00:44:03] no dude yeah i mean yeah i mean it'd be it'd be awful like even like ghost of yotai right that imagine that

[00:44:12] comes out a week after grand theft auto 6 it's it's you're done i think a lot a lot of games are not

[00:44:18] going to announce release dates even games that are confident in those release dates until grand

[00:44:24] theft auto 6 confirms like when they're coming out because they're going to want to stay the heck out

[00:44:28] of the way so so are you talking about release dates probably starting around august because i'm with you

[00:44:37] i don't think the game comes out first half of the year no no no this is a holiday 2025 at best

[00:44:43] yeah like late 2025 like november okay i like it um okay here's one this is kind of going back to

[00:44:51] the awards categories uh when i was looking at nominations a lot of things surprised me but

[00:44:57] what's probably surprised me maybe most was how many nominations hellblade 2 got because it got

[00:45:03] pretty polarizing uh reviews yeah for sure i think hellblade 2 walks away with two awards

[00:45:12] yeah um i think it's going to get best audio design and then i don't know i think it just gets one

[00:45:17] other one i couldn't tell you which one it could maybe maybe even best performance it walks away with

[00:45:24] um but i think it'll get two awards and one of them's best audio design

[00:45:32] and people are going to consider it like a big upset i love that that game deserves a

[00:45:40] i mean that's a visual spectacle yeah uh my next one is um so this is a game that

[00:45:49] we got a teaser trailer for i believe at a game awards like maybe three years ago or at like a summer game

[00:45:56] something it's been a long time since we've heard from this game and i know for a fact that it's still

[00:46:02] in development and we haven't heard from the studio in a long long long long long time

[00:46:08] there was rumors that there was like it was having trouble but who knows if you know every studio is

[00:46:14] having trouble making their game so um and that's uh wonder woman oh my goodness

[00:46:22] monolith is still making wonder woman it's the studio that made the uh the lord of the rings

[00:46:29] um like shadows of mordor games they're the only game still out there that's like planning to use

[00:46:35] the nemesis system right and that's it's still coming so like okay i think i've made this prediction

[00:46:41] for like every award show prediction or show prediction we've made over the last like three

[00:46:46] years but i still like at any time they gotta show us they gotta this game has to come out they put too

[00:46:52] much time they put too much effort and investment into this thing so it's got to come out at some

[00:46:58] point i think this would be a great place to kind of bring people like build hype back up especially

[00:47:03] with 2025 being the reboot or the launch of the like the dcu with uh superman the new superman movie

[00:47:14] and green lantern and so like 2025 is like the year of like dc's comeback and so i think this is a perfect

[00:47:21] time to come back i like it i like that okay i've only got one and and their plan and their plan is

[00:47:30] james guns talked about that they want like the games to be part of their sort of new universe that

[00:47:37] they're creating kind of interesting he he talked about it he said that the new dcu is going to be more

[00:47:44] similar to star wars than to marvel oh i didn't hear that and like how they do their films and anthology

[00:47:50] and like canon and stuff so anyway huh interesting yeah all right i've got one last one this is my most wild one

[00:47:57] okay let's hear it we get a cinematic trailer for the kotor remake

[00:48:05] no another wait no kotor remake it's not dead dude it was brought back from the brink of death

[00:48:12] oh that's right you're right embracer right you're right it is not i forgot about that i've i just

[00:48:22] have it in my head that it's dead but it's right saber interactive somehow is still doing something

[00:48:30] with the kotor remake and so no and so the we're gonna get a cinematic trailer the game's not coming

[00:48:38] anytime soon it'll probably be like coming 2029 but um yeah right but i think i think it breathes new

[00:48:46] life at the game awards interesting i mean kotor is still probably my favorite game of all time

[00:48:56] um although boulders gate 3 is is encroaching up there that's still probably my favorite game of

[00:49:02] all time so if if they could actually make this game happen it would still be like my most hyped

[00:49:07] thing ever if they could actually do it right um but yeah we'll see it'd be a great time to build

[00:49:15] back up the hype for it and build excitement they're willing to dish out 250k or whatever it is

[00:49:21] for a minute of air time to get people back on board right i don't know if saber interactive has

[00:49:28] the money for that they got to be working on they pay monopoly money but they pay i mean jake if if

[00:49:37] even half of these come true this will be a great i got a few i got a few more to get everyone excited

[00:49:44] these are outlandish but to heck with it half-life 3

[00:49:52] i'm not joking half-life 3 it's a vr game no and it's coming from valve no i'm sitting dude half-life

[00:49:59] alex like best vr game ever created hands down half-life 3 it's coming it's a vr game is it

[00:50:07] gonna be one of those trailers for the first 30 seconds you're like this this is dope oh my gosh

[00:50:12] is this happening and then the last 30 seconds you're like this is vr what well but i think because

[00:50:19] of half-life alex i think you have to expect that that's the direction that they are leaning

[00:50:27] and so i i don't know but i could totally see it happening i'll just give my my last couple here

[00:50:35] liza p dlc true oh yeah definitely that i saw something recently about that coming q1

[00:50:42] 2025 the uh spoiler spoiler spoiler skip ahead 30 seconds if you if you haven't finished liza p the

[00:50:48] wizard of oz oh yeah dude uh super weird i never i never finished that game i never finished do that

[00:50:55] okay so there's um you could get the bad ending or you can get a good ending and you do the final boss

[00:51:01] the the final final boss that was an amazing boss fight maybe i should go back it's it's tough

[00:51:10] obviously really tough but man that final boss fight is so good that's a good that's a good game

[00:51:17] that's the best souls like not from fromsoft hands oh definitely

[00:51:25] um and then my last two were that i think will happen these are maybe actually more for sure

[00:51:32] i think we get the light no fire we get another light no fire thing but this time

[00:51:38] entering early access like in a month or something i i like this because remember how we said like oh

[00:51:44] it's got to be going in early access last year when they had that huge gameplay show it's like

[00:51:48] okay are we you know no pun intended i was too burned from not hearing anything about that game in

[00:51:56] 2024 that i kind of refused to hear anything until it's very definite like a release date i don't think

[00:52:06] they can say anything until they're ready for early access i think you're right um so

[00:52:15] it'd be weird if we didn't hear anything from them now you know i don't know i'm thinking i was

[00:52:20] thinking about this because i was about to make some sort of like uh prediction related to mental

[00:52:24] gear solid delta how often does the same game show something um like i'm back-to-back game awards

[00:52:38] um i feel i oh yeah that's that's a good point so like anecdotally like i haven't looked into this

[00:52:45] at all i feel like it doesn't happen that often that like consecutive the game awards a game will show

[00:52:52] the same thing the same thing but um i'm sure there's cases where i'm wrong

[00:53:01] yeah um yeah i could totally see i mean this one could easily just as not and they just like announce

[00:53:07] it on twitter sometime yeah i have to imagine they they got to be close they got to be close

[00:53:14] but i mean who knows maybe i mean the rate that they keep uh the rate that they keep delivering no

[00:53:22] man's sky content is staggering it's staggering and maybe they just decided like we're just still

[00:53:30] not done yet and i maybe they're just not gonna move over to light no fire until they're like okay

[00:53:36] uh no man's sky is finally done right yeah i definitely agree i feel like they don't have any

[00:53:43] rush right like because no man's sky is this wonderful success story and people still loving it

[00:53:49] and it's still making them money somehow you know so just why no need to put add any additional

[00:53:56] pressure i and that's what you got to really respect about hello games is they learn their lesson and they

[00:54:03] have not gotten proud like in their success they've remained humble i feel like yeah and they're and

[00:54:13] we've talked about this before but they're one of those studios that follows the we haven't come up

[00:54:19] with a good name for it yet but the new like the the not live service live service model where you just

[00:54:25] like massively support a game forever and then you pick up all these long tail sales yeah because people

[00:54:33] just keep buying the game like years and years and years in because they know that it's just has this

[00:54:38] massive you know um this lit new of content yeah uh and my final one this isn't probably going to be

[00:54:48] super exciting for most people but um i think we'll get something on uh 2x ko's release date for 2025

[00:54:56] oh uh 2x ko if you don't know is uh we just had arcane season 2 drop and 2x ko is the uh arcane league

[00:55:06] of legends fighting game okay which features which features characters from the arcane show so

[00:55:14] i mean very cool and it actually looks really cool and it has an interesting idea where the game is

[00:55:20] actually designed around uh like co-op fights oh okay and like tagging in and out like with moves

[00:55:29] with like a second player like you could still play it single player but it's actually designed to play

[00:55:34] like um like two on two interesting so it's got some novel cool ideas and after watching the arcane

[00:55:41] show i mean if you haven't seen the arcane show like that is a super they created an amazing world

[00:55:49] like it is really cool like really i think the most ironic thing about that show and i haven't finished

[00:55:54] season two um but the most ironic thing about i just finished it this morning you did nice um

[00:55:59] yeah that game does not compel me one bit to play league of legends at all no because i know because

[00:56:08] if you know what league of legends is you know that it's not it's not arcane arcane is cool man like

[00:56:16] that's that's just like a 250 million dollar project that riot was just like hey we're making this and

[00:56:22] we're gonna hire like the best animators out there and we're just gonna write like an amazing world and

[00:56:30] whatever that arcane mmo is that they're working on they've got the bedrock for for a pretty dope

[00:56:37] like universe that could really be big so i hope i hope they're successful yeah i agree

[00:56:44] anyway that's all my predictions jake hope that was saucy enough for the folks out there listening

[00:56:49] i think we got a pretty good mix right mix of stuff that probably will happen and stuff that there's

[00:56:53] no way that will happen but would would be really fun you think half-life 3 vr come on

[00:57:00] dude i i am i am imagining that though half-life 3 cool gameplay people losing their minds throwing

[00:57:08] their popcorn and excitement and then only on vr shows up and then people just swearing at the screen

[00:57:17] and we don't we don't hear things from nintendo anymore right at these shows like they don't

[00:57:24] they don't do my favorite things to look for and i encourage people listening if you don't like the

[00:57:29] game awards but you might begrudgingly watch them anyway i invite you to play this game which is called

[00:57:35] spot doug um bowser and i love this game because the camera shows him he's wearing a nice suit

[00:57:45] and he just looks like he would rather be on in like any other place on this planet than sitting in

[00:57:53] one of the front rows of the game awards because he's just sitting there and the you can see it on

[00:57:58] his face he's just thinking to himself all you do is give us nominations and you never give us awards

[00:58:06] except for best family game and i just feel like he's just like like he dreads it like i have to show up

[00:58:15] to this thing and be nice and clap when i could be at home sleeping spending time with my kids like i

[00:58:22] don't know maybe i'm wrong and maybe i'm reading way too much into it this is why i'm inviting listeners

[00:58:27] let me know you spot doug bowser how many times the camera shows him and what what is going through that

[00:58:34] man's mind as he's just sitting there other than misery convince me i'm wrong please i'd love to be

[00:58:40] wrong that's a fun game find duck bowser nintendo should do something man it would be so much cooler

[00:58:51] if they announced like switch to at the game awards but they won't they're gonna do some crappy

[00:58:55] nintendo direct it's lame no offense but nintendo directs are kind of lame have they i feel like

[00:59:02] historically they have done something i just feel like nintendo just feels burned by the game awards

[00:59:11] really maybe i'm wrong why's that like did it breath of the wild or tears of the kingdom not

[00:59:17] really win anything which no it was breath of the wild won stuff it was tears of the kingdom i don't

[00:59:22] think won very much well i mean maybe publishers are bitter you know i don't know i'm definitely like

[00:59:29] reading into this way too hard but but spot doug bowser and tell me what you think is going through

[00:59:35] that man's mind what's happening with doug bowser what celebrities we'll end on this what celebrities

[00:59:42] are we gonna see dude i don't even know i mean glenn powell that's the one i know glenn powell is

[00:59:46] gonna be there he's gonna glenn powell go up there he's gonna talk he's gonna wax poetic for seven minutes

[00:59:51] about ape escape or something like how he played that he's gonna yeah he's gonna be like when i was

[00:59:56] he's like when i was a kid i played i loved me some what obscure jrpg is glenn powell uh i love

[01:00:05] final fantasy 6 my favorite jrpg i love gamers

[01:00:11] okay all right all right all right oh no that's matthew mcconaughey i mean matthew mcconaughey was

[01:00:15] there last year he probably got paid i don't know half a million dollars to talk about some game that

[01:00:20] he got paid half a million dollars to voice act in right glenn powell is glenn powell and then um

[01:00:27] no hold on hold on the guy from gladiator 2 which guy the irish dude what's that i don't know i haven't

[01:00:34] seen the movie yet i saw it it's pretty good okay i'm good i want to modify your thing about glenn powell

[01:00:40] his favorite final fantasy is going to be like final fantasy 3 or something like super random

[01:00:46] as a kid i played final fantasy 3 for like seven months straight or something

[01:00:51] and we and pedro pascal was there because the last of us right so we won't see him again we won't see

[01:00:56] him it's paul mescal paul mescal paul mescal who's the celebrity who's doing voice for a video game

[01:01:05] that's upcoming who's like a big celebrity you know who they need to get there though uh i always say his

[01:01:11] last name wrong but was it alan tudyk uh oh yeah why is he not there i feel like he makes sense i

[01:01:18] feel like the dude games zendaya

[01:01:26] zendaya shows up and she actually is there to promote nintendo's zendaya and tom holland

[01:01:33] both of them together zendaya shows up and she is there to promote the new mario tennis game

[01:01:40] yes it's a challenger sponsorship

[01:01:46] it's challengers but me's dude like have you seen challengers jake i've seen a thousand trailers and

[01:01:52] probably 10 000 memes about challengers but i have not actually seen the movie it's uh

[01:01:58] it's an interesting watch you know i watched i watched some trailer that was like three and a half

[01:02:03] minutes it was one of those trailers where i felt like i had watched the entire movie

[01:02:08] but yeah she's getting up there and she's promoting the new mario tennis game for switch 2

[01:02:14] new prediction on the on the fly off the cuff okay do it no um i don't know what i'm asking

[01:02:24] chat gbg right now which celebrities are gonna be there dude you know um i like this i like this

[01:02:30] these random uh predictions here uh jude law shows up man jude law gets on stage and i don't know he's uh

[01:02:41] indica 2 he voices a priest i feel like that's something he would do

[01:02:50] okay i want to give you guys because i put this into chat gbt before the show

[01:02:53] so i'd like to throw this so i asked chat gbt because chat gbt is connected to the internet now

[01:03:00] wasn't it always well no it's it's it's like database was always like a few months behind but

[01:03:09] now it can look up stuff oh no okay so i asked it based on your knowledge of the video game industry

[01:03:16] what are your predictions about what's going to be announced oh oh oh yeah okay yeah what's

[01:03:24] and so okay so here's it's like it categorized it for me here's it's likely announcements

[01:03:30] grand theft auto 6 cinematic trailer elden ring 2

[01:03:36] that's it's likely and this is how crappy ai is guys

[01:03:42] legend of zelda oracle of agents ages seasons remake oh that's a good one that's a good one

[01:03:48] that's a pretty good one actually right dude bloodborne remastered

[01:03:54] 4k 60 fps no way does it say 4k 60 fps yes final fantasy 16 dlc

[01:04:05] oh fun mass effect 4 gameplay oh now yeah dude yeah dude we're there

[01:04:12] oh my gosh this you suck okay so this is where i got the half-life i'll be honest with you i stole

[01:04:17] this from chat gbt outlandish but plausible predictions half-life 3 vr oh amazing uh marvel

[01:04:24] versus dc fighting game nether realm studios reveals a crossover fighting game featuring characters

[01:04:28] from both universes that would actually be pretty sick yeah the witcher origins

[01:04:34] no cyberpunk phantom liberty 2 yeah dude that doesn't make sense starfield multiplayer expansion

[01:04:42] yeah that's not gonna happen mario sonic rpg developed by atlas

[01:04:51] okay listen chat tpt is ruining everything that we love and hold dear but atlas if you're listening

[01:04:59] how hard i mean that's an idea right there i'm curious atlas you're listening tell me how hard

[01:05:05] would it be to secure the rights to a mario and sonic rpg i mean if you i mean i'm gonna give credit

[01:05:12] to chat gbt on that one you know i'm saying that's uh i'd play it dude i'd play that portal 3 yeah of

[01:05:20] course silent hill rebirth oh konami drops cinematic trailer for a new mainline silent

[01:05:28] hill game developed by kojima productions

[01:05:32] okay now here's it's if those weren't crazy and nonsensical enough here's it's completely wild

[01:05:38] predictions hideo kojima's next game okay okay we already got that wait sony announces they're buying

[01:05:45] from software well they're trying to buy their parent company right um elden ring crossover event

[01:05:53] with fortnite i mean including tarnished skins in fortnite and a pvp arena that doesn't even sound

[01:06:01] outlandish that's maybe not even outlandish halo infinite 2.0

[01:06:09] the sims 5 with ai integration featuring ai that evolves the personalities and storylines of your

[01:06:15] sims in real time dude why do i feel like all these are actually possible this is way better than

[01:06:20] the last batch okay the final one is uh well hill infinite 2 doesn't make sense oh yeah that's true

[01:06:27] the other ones are bad here's this last one last of us part three last uh why do i feel like that

[01:06:34] could happen well we know they're working on something and we know that they've said that uh

[01:06:41] what's his face i mean they're not gonna announce it here that game's coming out in like 2030 but

[01:06:49] uh we know that they've they said that like what is the guy's name did i've forgotten has everybody

[01:06:56] collectively forgotten this guy no one's the creative director i'm picturing him with a beard he's

[01:07:02] like the celebrity game director though he's the dude dude why can i have to look this up cannot

[01:07:09] neil drachman that guy he neil drachman and their recent like documentaries that they did on the

[01:07:16] making of the last of us 2 was like originally it was designed to be two stories but then because he

[01:07:22] had like a theme for both of them okay and he couldn't figure out but he recently he said on this

[01:07:28] he's like i figured out what the theme is for like the last of us 3 and so i want to make it and so

[01:07:35] that was i mean i probably got greenlit to be honest i mean yeah that franchise is this huge anyway i thought

[01:07:43] that would be fun sorry that was okay the best things that come out of that are definitely the mario and

[01:07:49] sonic rpg by atlas oh man yeah chat gpt you know not bad now chat gpt is gonna make that game

[01:07:57] and then we'll see what it's like is that gonna be the game yeah it's gonna be that's gonna be the

[01:08:02] future of games you you open your browser and you go to chat gpt game developer and you type make an epic

[01:08:11] rpg similar to the persona series starring mario and sonic and it'll just create it for you like

[01:08:20] instantly right that's the future that elon musk wants for all of us hey we did not talk about that

[01:08:26] bit of news make games great again you saw that he wants to open this ai game studio um so how do i say

[01:08:37] this like how insecure do you think elon musk is elon musk is one of those people that believes

[01:08:48] now credit where credit's due credit where credit's due i'm not gonna like sit here and be like this guy

[01:08:55] doesn't know what he's talking about he clearly has had some great successes and done some

[01:09:00] cool innovations now did he do those individually no but he gathered the people and he got the money and

[01:09:06] he whatever okay but man i hope i hope he actually does make a game studio so that he can experience

[01:09:16] the inevitable pain and destruction that the gaming industry reeks on anyone who tries to open

[01:09:24] anything well he had his trial run with twitter right i mean he's an expert in burning cash

[01:09:30] so why game studio feels like the next logical step right i mean anybody who thinks that ai is going

[01:09:38] to be even anybody who believes that ai is going to be able to replace like a team of dead now is it

[01:09:46] going to be able to help dedicated developers absolutely but anyone who believes that they're

[01:09:50] going to be able to oh we're going to use ai to make the next great video game just has zero concept

[01:09:57] of what it takes to develop a video game zero just like absolutely zero nothing i mean it's crazy

[01:10:04] dude like this is how crazy the industry is the former like lead developer uh creative lead on mass effect

[01:10:12] this on the mass effect series yes he started a a studio

[01:10:18] in 2019 or 2020 got a whole bunch of funding and they were creating like an epic sci-fi

[01:10:26] rpg that studio closed that's insane like yeah they couldn't do it and so like you think you got

[01:10:32] someone that talented who's right in his wheelhouse and he can't do it how can anyone do it yeah it's a

[01:10:41] miracle that games get made anyway oh boy well i think that's a pretty good batch well that went off

[01:10:48] the rails there a bit but it was fun we need fun um yeah okay uh the game awards man that's a what a week

[01:10:56] from today we'll see what happens man we'll see how how right we're on if any of our credit crazy

[01:11:01] predictions happen it's a good game awards absolutely yeah it's always fun no matter what i

[01:11:08] i think jake you and i are both kind of similar we get like a couple decent announcement the

[01:11:13] announcements like we're happy yeah so um but yeah well ladies and gentlemen be sure to tune

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