The Besties - 2022's Big Video Game Predictions [The Resties]

Episode Date: January 11, 2022

This week's episode is inspired by our friends on the Triple Click podcast.  Frushtick and Plante make twelve bold predictions for the world of video games in 2022. Will the Mario movie be a hit? Will Tom Cruise be the next star of Fortnite? Will Metroid Prime 4 keep the Metroid hype alive? Learn the future! Plus, our movie recs of the week: The Apartment and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Get the full list of games (and other stuff) discussed at www.besties.fan. Want more episodes? Join us at patreon.com/thebesties for three bonus episodes each month!

Happy New Year, everybody. This is the Rusties. I am your host, Christopher Thomas Plant, and I have another host. I'm Russ Froshtick, hello. And welcome. The Rusties is a video game for the best of the rest? Wait a minute, we're a video game now? Oh no, we're a video game podcast. Yep. We're for the best of the rest.

Yeah, I, uh, yeah. That sounds pretty good, right? The best of the rest. Featuring the best of the rest. Sure, well that's pejorative. featuring the best of the rest. Sure. Well, that's pejorative.

This week, we're talking about our predictions for the world of video games in the year 2022, which is this year. And I want to be up front, right up top. People hear that we're going to make some predictions about the next year in video games. Maybe these people listen to other video game podcasts like TripleClick, and they think like, I think that they might be stealing this well let me tell you we are we're definitely stealing it you know what they don't own predictions yeah that you don't own a format

right and and also this is like a loving homage this is the you know they are loving well i was gonna say like the quentin tarantino you know we're adding a little bit more spice a little more flavor to uh a proven but you know let's be honest a little bit older uh you know it's like it's like watching black and white actually triple click because we genuinely do like them a lot so i know we don't want to be misinterpreted they're great they great so we are going to steal their idea a little bit yeah yeah uh so here's how it will work we fresh and i will each make six guesses about what will happen in video games in 2022 the guesses can't be based on

announcements like public announcements and they can't be based and this is important uh you know just have to each of us will have to trust each other yeah they can't be based on privileged information which is to say uh we don't know that these things will happen they're not based off like backroom conversations or like sources or anything like that is right um at the end of the year so december 2022 we will come back together. We will see who won. And I don't know if Fresh knows this yet. The policy that I've set is the loser will have to purchase the winner a video game statuette worth no less than $100.

And the winner will be forced to display said statuette in their home. No questions asked. Yeah, so I did read that in the rundown. And when I read that, all I could think was, it seems like the winner is getting the raw deal in this scenario because no way in fucking hell am I displaying a $100 video game statuette in my home. See, what I like about it is nobody wins that is true nobody wins and

also it's like a hundred dollars is steep it's oh i want this to be high risk i mean yeah but like i i you know i get a thrill out of playing you know quarter poker hold them yeah you don't need to throw a benjamin down there i guess when i was thinking about this i was trying to actually do us both a favor because if you're going to have a video game statuette in your house i would want it to be like one of those like really nice ones that you find in like shibuya you know oh no i still do not want that in my house the only thing that i have in my house video game related is like a number of pokemon stuffed animals that we bought in japan that's like it all these the mini bus that people have no judgments no it is just not really my thing i don't want to be surrounded by marcus

phoenix and his grimace i want to you know have some nice art on the walls again no judgments okay i i think we will i think we'll home we can we can examine the uh as we get a bit closer maybe we'll examine but i do agree that there should be stakes yes i agree and not stakes the food because i think that was actually a triple click uh policy in the past true uh okay so that's that uh i think that i think we have all the levels set and we will get into uh our predictions right after this okay i'm gonna go first okay and and i just want you to know that you can hold me accountable like if you if i give you a pitch and you're like, you know what? I think that's too easy. Or maybe you're being nice.

You think it's too difficult. Okay. I will call you on it. Okay, good. My first one is VR, virtual reality, will go mainstream in 2022. And by mainstream, I mean two or more of these three things will happen. The first one is Apple will launch uh its vr or ar headset oculus will launch a new headset and it will sell out and or be a hot holiday item.

Okay. I'm going to ignore the mainstream part of this. The VR will go mainstream, because guess what, Chris Plant? It's not. I don't know how you define mainstream. I define mainstream as in a lot of homes. It is.

Oculus Quest 2 was a massive, massive no i know but this christmas i know i know i i guess mainstream part of it is like like when i think mainstream gaming stuff i think the wii and i do not think oculus quest is going to be a week i mean mainstream in the way that like you know the rest of video games i mean it's going to transcend its Stadia phase and enter its like... Sure, I'm going to ignore that for the time being and we'll just examine the bullet points.

PSVR, which was just announced this week, I mean, they'd been talking about it for a while, but like the official name and the controllers and stuff like that in a game. I might have missed this did they announce that it was coming out this year or no they haven't even shown the hardware yet they showed the controllers i don't did they yeah okay i haven't seen the image of it

i mean it's i saw they kind of look like oculus controllers yeah and i saw the press release in the horizon zero dawn spinoff right but no mention of a release date. Not that I saw. Okay. Yeah, I mean, I agree. That will probably happen. The only one of these... That's why I said two of three.

I know. I think it's a more interesting scenario if you have to do all three, but maybe that is a bridge too far. Because Oculus, you know, I'm sorry, Meta, whatever the fuck, has announced that they are definitely doing that like pro level VR headset. You know, of these, I think that might be the least likely because of how well Quest is doing. They can ride away with Quest. This is why I think two, there's a few layers to this. One, will VR

go mainstream, which it will. Two, will two or more of these happen? Could they happen? Yes. It's already kind of an edge case, I think, for all for two of them to happen. Sure. We also have to factor in chip limitations. It's just hard to make hardware right.

Right, I was going to say, that's why the sellout aspect is a little bit bullshit because a lot of things are selling out that aren't necessarily... I guess it's like, will two of these three ship in the same year? Okay, I can hold you to that. That is decent stakes and um even

though all these things are like i would say close i will allow at least yeah if two of these things you you pass um i mean should i say whether i think that's going to happen uh you can um i think the apple thing is going to get bumped. Yeah, no, I'm going to say no. I think both Apple and Oculus are going to get bumped. I think PSVR will come out this year. That is my guess. I think one will definitely come out.

I think two is like a pretty big gamble. I wouldn't bet money on it. Yeah, it's a squeaker. That's what makes it a good bet i like it okay you man your first one i've got such a good one but this is a gimme is it it's a gimme there have not been okay i'm just gonna set it up it's you know yours was very complicated a lot of setup mine is one single line four words tom cruise and Fortnite. Gimme. It is such a gimme. You know, I thought about

like there are other stars, but they haven't done that many like live action like they've done. What's his name? Keanu Reeves is in the game. Fine. They have a bunch of Fortnite people into the game. A bunch of like streamers and stuff, Ninja,

etc. But like, and The Rock is in this season dune and dune sure i'm just saying tom cruise he's built for this he loves to like jump out of planes that's his whole game i mean i agree with you but he's also an older guy and he might not know i don't know how he feels about video games i'm i i going to give you this one because I think it's a good one. I think it's a fun one. I think it's an easy one. Sure.

So I might come asking for like a gimme at a later. Well, I can add a twist for you. Maybe I have to tell you which movie the Tom Cruise skin will come from. Oh, so will it be Top Gun or will it be Mission Impossible? Exactly right. Because either would work. But I think we kind of know it will be Mission Impossible.

Do we? Oh, because of the delays. Because of the delays to Top Gun. Yeah, that's fair. I was thinking Mission Impossible is the most likely let's go with Mission Impossible okay just for yeah I think yes okay

yes Tom Cruise we will clarify so Tom Cruise in Fortnite for Mission Impossible okay okay so my next one is a new Bioshock game will be announced. Now I take issue with this one.

Why is it? Why is that? Because I'm pretty sure that 2K has in financial reports said that a this game is being worked on. I mean, it's known that the game is being worked on. The game has been being worked on. Sure. For. For a long time. Yes different states, possibly countries. So I don't think that means much of anything. Okay, that's fair. You're basically saying it's going to have a title.

I think, yeah, I think we will see. You know what? Actually, I'll change. We'll be announced and we will see. You know what? Actually, I'll change. We'll be announced, and we will know the setting. Okay. Well, I mean, yeah. I mean, that's part. That's like a requirement, I think.

I hope. But they could, you know. Just show a big B? I can see them just showing a title, and then they'll give a title, and they'll give like a hint of something. You know, it'll be like a satellite orbiting it. And it's like, is it in space? Is it on another planet? Man, space would suck. Because we don't know. Well, yeah.

And you'd need like a time period. I've heard three different settings for this game. Can you say what you've heard or is that too much? No, it's not even worth it because they're like... Some of them I know aren't happening anymore. Yeah, sure. You know, it's just even worth it because they're like some of them i know aren't happening anymore yeah sure you know it's it's just this poor game i well look at least we have ken levine's game to fall back on anyway uh maybe okay so i'm gonna i'm gonna i think that's fine a new bioshock will be announced and we will know the setting okay i might have picked a too easy one for the next one but tell

me oh my gosh too easy okay yeah mine was a rebooted metroid prime 4 which again we haven't seen in many years will be shown in some sort of trailer that's more than just the title and the trailer will show a release date of 2023 i think the the release date alone is a risky get-back, given how they've been very cagey about showing release dates for any games. I'll let this slide. If it's in some sort of trailer featuring gameplay... I thought about including the gameplay note.

I will allow it. I will allow it. That's fine. Well, let me clarify gameplay because this is important would you consider the first breath of the wild 2 trailer as gameplay yeah okay because it was in engine so you just want an in-engine trailer it just can't be a cinematic i feel you fine approved okay featuring let's change it to in-engine because gameplay could be misinterpreted and we won't remember back then. In-engine.

So a rebooted Metroid Prime 4 will be shown in some sort of trailer featuring in-engine gameplay graphics. Am I going to keep, yeah, I'll keep the release date. Fine. Yeah. Fine. I like it harder. Yeah. Fine.

I like it harder. Um, I don't, how I feel. I just want to take a second and decide how I feel about that game. At this point, Metroid is riding high out of basically total shock. I mean, I was super psyched when that game got announced to you three last year.

Yeah. But, um, Metro dread specifically, but I don't think anyone expected to be quite as good as it ended up being and metroid prime you know has it's been a while since there's been a truly great metroid prime game specifically metroid prime 2 has there been a great first person shooter on switch i mean i would sort of argue that the metroid prime games aren't necessarily first person shooters they're like first person adventure games which

is kind of a different thing just because of the how the like lock on and puzzle solving stuff works it's a fair question but i i i like at the top of my head i don't i can't really think of like outside of like dusk and you know indie stuff i can't really think of too many first-person shooters that like oh the doom they did a good job on the doom port yeah yeah yeah yes that makes um but i don't know i i'm very curious. Yeah, essentially, my understanding was that game, like, was fully restarted because it was in such rough shape. So what they have brought to it, I will be very interested. So long as they realize, they learn the lesson from Metroid Dread, which is just go light on the story, y'all. You don't need to move worlds.

We don't need 12 characters. we don't need 12 characters you're fine with three characters they're like prequels to there i guess i guess the timeline's kind of a mess in metroid they're it's actually pretty clear these days so metroid prime the metroid prime games take place before uh they take place before metroid, I want to say, before she goes and blows up all the Metroids on their home planet. So all the games essentially take place after Metroid 1 or Metroid 0. I'm not saying that Metroid Prime 4 will do that. I don't think it'll take place after Dread,

but I have a feeling that Metroid Prime 4 might be slotted in somewhere else. I just don't know, like, I don't know about, like, about all of the Metroid Prime stuff. I mean, you can ignore the story. They are amazing, just like action adventure games. I get that. I mean, just bringing it back, there is the trilogy, which they talk,

like, it sounded like we were going to get the ports of that that but that hasn't happened and then there were rumors of a remake of some of the stuff in the trilogy or some sort of remaster and then there was this game getting rebooted and it just feels i don't know it just feels like a lot you know people before dread came out, Metroid was always the kind of like, I don't know, the thing, like the Nintendo game that was getting picked on because you never got new Metroid.

Sure. But I also wonder if maybe just behind the scenes, it was like, no, Nintendo was always trying to give us more Metroid. They just had to keep canceling it. Yeah. I mean, they have canceled, like Dread was canceled a decade ago and then yeah

reborn so it has i don't know it's it is i think it is not necessarily in their wheelhouse to make like to know exactly what to do with metroid games but i don't know i'm optimistic i think they make good primary first you know the main titles tend to be pretty strong so on on the nintendo beat i have i have another prediction okay that is nintendo related i am curious what you think about this my prediction is that in 2022 we won't see a new mario platforming game 2D or 3D. And when I say see, I mean not just will a game not get released. They won't show a new Mario game of any sorts.

And this would be kind of unprecedented. Sure. For like the last few years. Last year we had Super Mario 3D World. The year before that we had Super Mario 3D All- The year before that, we had Super Mario 3D All-Stars, which... Oh, Super Mario Bros. 35, if we want to focus on new ones. Before that, we had Super Mario Maker 2. Oh, wait, wait, wait, sorry. We're only focusing on new ones?

Yeah. Okay, so, for example, if they were to say, hey, Super Mario Galaxy 2, we're porting to Switch, that does not count. That does not count. Yeah. Again, every year, for like the last five or six years, actually, I might even go back even further, there has been a new Super Mario game. We're talking about Mario Maker, we're talking about Mario 35. about we're talking about mario maker we're talking about mario 35 yes in anything that is a new platforming adventure for our little buddy mario sure known plumber italian american

yeah friend any of that does not like that that would mean that i lost yeah i i don't think yeah i guess i guess it's fair because you have you'd have to go back many years to find the last time and if we're counting and if we're counting uh trailers being revealed this year i will allow it i i don't't even know if that has happened in the last decade where we didn't visually see the next Mario game coming out. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I'm not expecting Odyssey 2 anytime soon, but

it has been for years since Odyssey. Now would be the time to kind of hint at it. Yeah, that's true. I just have a feeling. Well, so let me ask you yeah by talking about hints if there's like a trailer and it has the name titles if it if it's a sequel to a known mario platformer i will say that that also causes me to lose okay and what if it's just a picture of his hat and like a winking eye on the hat no i'm gonna say the the one the one way that i can get out of

this and i'm going to write it down would be if they do that thing that they did when they like needed to pretend that the wii u was still supported so they put up a powerpoint slide with like 20 game titles and they're like hey we promise these will happen eventually that doesn't count but if it's like any it has to be a standalone trailer sure sure yeah i don't expect them they won't do that for the switch that was a that was a weird wii u is a failure moment so i i think that's fine i i think we're clear um so that is we will not see a new mario platforming game 2d or 3d this oh oh oh oh no there's actually okay oh wait wait wait wait wait can i make one exception uh it's related to is it related to mine it's related to

your next thing let's hear it except any like mario movie tie-in. Unless that tie-in is literally made by Nintendo proper. What is a Mario movie tie-in? It's like a Mario movie tie-in would be like, oh, it's a mobile game made by DNA. And, you know... I mean, they're not going to... They haven't made... I'm just saying, when it comes to mobile nintendo can get pretty

yeah no i know i yeah okay fine so excluding let's just exclude mobile how about that okay that's i will exclude mobile no yeah otherwise you know if like capcom ends up making, for some reason, an expansion, whatever. Yes. Because we're not counting expansion packs, right? So like Mario Maker. Scoots Mobile and expansions, yeah. Okay, fine. I'll allow it.

Okay. This is good. Okay, now yours, because I know it's relevant. Mine. The Mario movie will get under 63% on Rotten Tomatoes using the critics scoring, not the fan nonsense, which is what the... 63% is what the original Sonic the Hedgehog got in critic reviews.

Now, you might think, oh, everyone loved the Sonic the Hedgehog movie, but it actually had a lot against it, specifically grumpy movie critics who, you know, frequently kind of roll their eyes at video game stuff. So I'm sure that that will also impact Mario, but I think Mario is more recognizable than Sonic. So I think it'll get up. I think I think it will be tight. I was not confident that I would nail this.

What do you think i i'm i'm i'm cross-checking this with uh illumination entertainment oh that's a good idea i should have done that so here's here's why this is a bad bet for me okay and we can we can adjust the percentage once i hear what you're saying illumination who i'm pretty sure is the company that's making this movie, right? Yeah. They have had one movie over a 63, and it was the original Despicable Me, right? Yes. And they have had a total of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 movies. 13. Sure.

12, 13 movies. 13. Sure. I think their average career score for the studio is 53. Okay. So is that where we're going to draw the line? Is it over or under 53? I'm going to, because I think it will actually do better than that.

I'm going to increase that to 60. Wow. That's generous. Because I do think there is a mario bump i i agree from just a recognizability standpoint do we does it have a screenwriter or no i guess it doesn't really matter because i'm sure it's 16 people writing that script yeah yeah and also like i don't understand the the reviews here the Grinch, Illumination made that. It has a 51. That movie is good. Was that the live, not the live action Grinch? That's the Benedict Cumberbatch Grinch. It's a delight. It's a real seasonal delight. So, we're going to put it at 60. Do I, so i gotta say it's gonna be under 60 yeah i think that makes sense yeah i mean i think honestly i still think it's a gimme for you i think i think

so too let's lower it to 55 are you sure yeah yeah i think that's fair let's lower it to 55 i think it's gonna be under 55 okay i here's what i will say outside of chris pratt who i talked about this on the besties could pull out a heath ledger-esque surprising everyone and with the best performance of his life ignoring the fact that he's a little gross but it's possible that he could do that unlikely but outside of him outside of him the casting is pretty great i actually am very in favor of the casting throughout the entire rest of the movie i i think uh key is going to be great as toad i think jack black is bowser is great i think what's her name from the chess show is going to be great as Peach. I'm confident.

Anya Taylor-Joy as Peach. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the casting is good. I think it entirely lives and dies on the script. And Illumination, in the past, even though I do like the first Despicable Me, those Minion movies are not what I would say the sharpest scripts. Yeah, yeah. But kids do like them.

Kids like them, and they look nice yeah i want the pathos filled mario movie by pixar that is i think what we're missing but whatever i just looked at the the user scores on metacritic not much better oh really they're pretty rough um okay uh i think that is uh i think that's a good start i think i'm gonna go you know grab a glass of water have a real think and uh we'll come right back and give our our back three uh predictions taking us to the beautiful number six okay we are back i have my fourth prediction and i i i tried to make this a little bit more difficult because I think one of these is definitely going to happen. Okay.

Microsoft will reveal its standalone streaming hardware for xCloud. Yep. And it will release a Game Pass app in partnership with a major TV brand. Okay. app in partnership with a major tv brand okay so like built into your sony tv you'll launch the game pass app and play games on your sony tv yes i should actually probably rephrase that as an x cloud app but it's sure that's fine yeah i get it and for the streaming hardware well how do we define like does it have it does it need its own screen for example oh no the streaming hardware will be like a dongle like a roku oh got it or like a you know apple hockey

yeah sure sure yes um okay i will allow this i do not think these are going to happen. Even though I know it is in their plan, my personal experience with xCloud is that while it is pretty cool, it's also too early. And I think if they're going to put it in TVs and they're going to sell like hardware, I think it needs to be better than it is right now. And some of that is honestly just like

access to the bandwidth that allows it to be better which a lot of people still don't have um this is the nicest thing you've ever said about microsoft is that you trust them to wait until it's actually right because i mean you know that's not the google approach no you're right but i would but i would point to halo yeah which they went ahead and delayed their big giant, we're launching a new console, they delayed that game by a year because they wanted to make sure it didn't shit the bed. And so

it might just be a different organization now. And I think it paid off for them in terms of a lot of goodwill for Halo now. So maybe they're going to carry that through the rest of their stuff. Now, you have a similar now so maybe they're gonna carry that through the rest of their um the rest of their stuff now you have a similar one but i think i'm gonna have to make a tweak to it okay and share it mine is sony will launch its game pass competitor service to replace playstation now okay so we know

that this is happening we do know that it is happening we know this is happening so it needs some sort of wait have they officially announced it or is it just rumored that this is happening. We do know that it is happening. We know this is happening. So it needs some sort of tweet. Wait, have they officially announced it or is it just rumor that it's happening? I mean, I believe that they've talked about how they have plans for this or it's been reported somewhere. I think it has been reported. Okay. I don't think there's an official announcement, though. So it is worth considering that, like, they're not going to announce it and then launch it a month later. Yeah, I.

So I think the tweak that I would want here is like, will they release? You know, a what's a big game? God of War. Oh, got it. Day and day on it. Day and day. Day and day. Ragnarok's coming out this year, in theory?

Yes. I'd be happy to add that, because I think if they don't do that, they are fucking crazy. You need, if you're going to make a parody equivalent to Game Pass, you need to put quality software on there. And honestly, like from a first party standpoint, Sony is head and shoulders. Well, you know, Bethesda helped assist on this. But generally speaking, like Sony is in much better shape to provide exclusive first party stuff to this service. So, yeah. So I'm not going to say Ragnarok and one other triple a first party title can be what about horizon it would be out by then well see no it has to be day and date

how many uh we don't we just don't know what their first party like big lineup it has to be like what if it would be like um something in the scale of like a death loop for example oh yeah definitely not first party but big sure sure sure so one triple a first party title and one non you know and one exclusive title so if it if it's two first party triple a titles great yes that that still succeeds one exclusive title okay i'll i'll agree to that this is good i like this yeah okay let me reread that just for the for the record so sony will launch its game pass competitor sony net competitor service to replace playstation now and uh as well as ragnarok and one other triple A first party

slash exclusive title will launch on it day and date. If Ragnarok gets delayed and another first party title, another exclusive whatever gets slotted in there, I think we should count it. I think that's fine. So I'm going to change Ragnarok to like, whatever.

One first. You don't have to worry about it. We'll adjust the document needs to be correct first while you do this i'm gonna share i'm gonna share my next one okay um disney will announce two video games focusing on individual marvel heroes who don't already have their like standalone video games. Okay. Well, let me ask you a question that you bring up a good point. So if a Miss Marvel game comes out, would you count that?

So Miss Marvel is the one thing that I won't count because Miss Marvel because the Avengers is effectively Mrs. Miss Marvel. Yeah. Miss Marvel game. Yes. And there is a a Ms. Marvel game. Yes. And there is a Ms. Marvel show coming out. That's why I'm aware of it. But basically this takes Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel, The Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy off the table. And this is an announce.

This is not a release this year no i don't no way are they yeah no they stopped to announce these games so they're gonna announce two marvel hero games that don't already have games um yeah yeah i'm trying to think of like reasonable i'm thinking of like series that are coming out, movies that are coming out. They're not going to time. Yeah, I'll allow it.

I think, I think it should be good. There's a lot of fodder there for making games, but it's also risky to make an entire game based on a individual hero that maybe isn't the most well-known. So. Okay. individual hero that maybe isn't the most well-known so okay disney will announce two video games focusing on individual marvel heroes that don't already have games uh and obviously we're not counting like ultimate alliance where there's fucking every marvel hero ever so yes yeah

yeah i'm a reasonable human being uh maybe this one okay so mine is an indie game that no one has ever really heard of and i'll caveat that in a second an indie game that no one has ever really heard of will be in the game award nominees for game of the year uh caveat being obviously everyone has to some extent heard of stuff but i'll give you an example at the beginning of the year or even a month before it came out inscription was on no one's radar that would be the equivalent that's or even like a death store for example what was that it takes two that would not count uh well no yeah um would it takes two in that case it takes two it had already been announced right yeah but i mean let's say it takes two had not been announced i i think like it can't be published by activision so it can't be a yarny game is what you're saying exactly it can't be published by a

major like one of the like three or four major publishers but okay so it'd have to be like a devolver or like a yes or self-published yeah or self-published i'm cool with that um okay i was skeptical of this at first but i i i like i think it yeah i think it yeah that's that's a good way to narrow it well we should we should yeah all right that's fine major publishers well now i mean at this point i kind of consider devolver to be a major publisher but they make exclusively smaller titles yeah um no i mean i think like it's fair for to leave in devolver and anapurna i want you to have like more somewhat a chance chance yeah yeah um devolver can we just say for a second we are not paid for by devolver but holy

shit that was an incredible year for devolver what what all did they have uh i mean they published inscription they published loop hero they published death's door like a number of very serious game of the year contenders were published by Devolver last year. Their hit-to-miss ratio is extremely, extremely impressive. Okay, so I made a mistake. Uh-oh. Too late. So what I have here for my final pick.

Okay. Sonic Frontiers will get above an 80 on Metacritic. Okay. I ran the illumination test on Metacritic. Yeah, this was not a good choice. How did Sonic do in the past? They've done bad. A Sonic game,

the last Sonic game to get above a 60, not excluding like Sonic Mania, was the Wii U Sonic Lost World got 63. In 2013, Sonic Generations got 76, 77, and 2011. So... Yeah. When I saw this, I was like, oh, he's losing that bet for sure so i'm fine

from a fairness standpoint lowering it let's say 77 seven okay so sonic colors got a 78 and sonic generations got a 76 77 yeah let's say 77 needs to get above 77 77 or higher or higher i do not think it will do that so above a 76 yes okay i that feels like the riskiest bet that i'm making okay i think mine is a pretty risky bet too quite honestly but okay okay mine is at least one game that launches with nfts this year will offer a mea culpa after the launch about how they were maybe not the best idea for launching with nfts i feel like this happens every day what you're saying though is like every day a new nft project gets announced yes and then the following day, they're like, I'm so sorry. We're taking it out of the game.

Well, but for this would require a game to launch with NFTs in it. To actually make it to launch. Right now, all we're seeing is a lot of announcements and then people apologizing for announcing it. So here's the here's the other reason i i think this is like too easy okay ubisoft already launched nfts in um what is it that tom clancy game yeah rainbow six i think yes or not rainbow six the other one wildlands yeah something like that and from what i can tell it has gone very poorly like nobody's buying these things it's just a few people trying to like corner the market on it which honestly doesn't sound so different than

real nfts um so like they will do the mea culpa not out of like pressure or because they think it was a bad idea but because that's a way for them to like look good where it's like oh yeah you were right we learned our lesson it doesn't look good to their stockholders though um it looks well it's like a good excuse to their stockholders was like oh this is like audience just doesn't have faith in it you know it's not any of our capability sure sure sure there's just this change in the mood in the games community um so i feel like there needs to be something like i like i think here would be that like there would be like one major theft of a you know five hundred thousand dollar nf maybe not a theft

but like the thing shits the bed and a bunch of people lose a bunch of like in-game shit oh so when i say theft i mean again nfts and know, like the way the blockchain works is if you just get the key to it, you own it. Right. So like you, if you, I hate talking on this speak. I'm trying to get like the way you put it in like the most layperson terms. But like you could just take the NFT if you had that information, right? And you have the ability to get it. Oh my gosh, I hate this.

I hate even just like thinking about this. We can replace it with something else if you want, if it's bothering you. Do you have one in your back pocket? Not off the top of my head, but I could probably come up with one on the spot. Let's see. on the spot let's see um kirby will eat food in the next game um i'm trying to think is there like a rumored um we already did a rumor nintendo game we already did a rumor Nintendo game yeah so we've done Sony we've done

Microsoft we've done Nintendo is there any company maybe something with a Steam Deck oh okay here we go this might be pretty good so the Steam Deck right now they've promised is launching in February

I do not okay it's a good dramatic pause right yeah i'm thinking i'm trying to like make an analog to whether the steam deck is going to be a steam controller-esque disaster or not well i was gonna say what if, what if you have something like Razer will make a Steam Deck competitor and release it before the end of the year? Yeah. Basically another known...

You know what you can do? You can broaden it if you want to Razer or Alienware. We'll release. Yeah. Are they going to release it this year? Probably not. I think they might announce something this year that is like a Switch equivalent.

I would say I'll let you keep announcing if they announce it before September. Yes, I will allow that. Okay. So we're going to change this to Alienware or Razer will announce. This is great radio that we got right there. Me typing. Okay, so that is all six. Should I go from the top and just give this one more time?

Yeah, let's do a light speed read-through of all the guesses. So, our first guess is that mine is that two VR headsets will ship from either Apple, Oculus, or PlayStation by the end of the year. Frush's first pick was that Tom Cruise will appear in Fortnite for Mission Impossible. My second pick is that a new Bioshock will be announced and we will know the setting. Frush's second pick is a rebooted Metroid Prime 4 will be shown in some sort of trailer

that's more than just a title. They have to actually show in-game play, like in-engine game player graphics. And that trailer will announce a release date of 2023. My third pick, we won't see a new Mario platforming game. It can be 2D or 3D, but that excludes mobile games and it excludes like any expansions fresh's third pick the mario movie will get under 55 on rotten tomatoes uh that is a a fair amount lower than what sonic the hedgehoghog had with its movie, but it is higher than the

average score of Illumination Entertainment, the studio that I believe is making this Mario movie. We should probably confirm that. Pick number four, Microsoft will reveal its standalone streaming hardware and release a Game Pass slash xCloud app in partnership with a major TV brand. So that type of app would be like something that just comes pre-installed or downloadable on like a Samsung TV. Frush, fourth pick, Sony will launch its Game Pass competitor service to replace playstation now and one exclusive first party title and one other triple a first party or exclusive title will launch on it day and date and a tweet to this if god of war comes out this year it has to be that exclusive first title i

agree that's perfect uh my fifth pick dis Disney will announce two video games focusing on individual Marvel heroes who haven't already been the star of any video games. So that excludes Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel, the Avengers, and the Guardians of the Galaxy. Root, for example. And these, again, Marvel characters have appeared in all sorts of video games. I mean, very modern video games yes um fresh your fifth pick was an indie game that no one has ever really heard of will be in the game awards nominees for game of the year and it can't be published by one of the major triple-a publishers so that means it can't be published by Tronica, Activision, or Ubisoft. Yes. And my final pick, Sonic Frontiers,

a open... What are they calling it? Open Zone. Open Zone game. This game is going to suck so bad. A 76 on Metacritic. I'm so doomed. And your sixth pick is on Metacritic. I'm so doomed. Yeah, that's trouble.

Your sixth pick is Alienware or Razer will announce a Steam Deck equivalent and they will do this before September of 2022. That's good. I feel like those are good guesses. Yeah, this is fun. I'm looking forward to seeing how this plays out.

I like that. We didn't get chew in the weeds with the industry stuff. No, I think this is approachable. Okay. That's it. I mean, this is like the time. Do you want to do a movie corner really quick? Yeah, we should do our recommendation of the week, aka fresh and plant have a movie corner.

What do you have to share with me this time? I am bringing the Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3. Now, it is important that you do not watch the new version of this movie, which came out in like 2002 or something. It's not terrible. With John Travolta and

Denzel as the lead in that movie. Denzel plays the Walter Matthau part, which I particularly love. The original movie came out in like 1974, somewhere around there, and lead in that movie denzel plays the walter mathau part which i particularly love um the original movie came out like 1974 somewhere around there and is a fabulous like very grounded portrayal of new york city at the time if you're into um just like seeing what new york was like in the 70s without it being like super super over the top in the way that like taxi driver and like that style of the era are um this movie's great it's like a really good

heist movie really good characterizations um walter matho is the lead he plays like a grumpy cop surrounded by other grumpy cops like jerry stiller um it's um it's a delight i i had not seen it before and found it to be just so much fun and um didn't feel oh it felt like a modern movie it didn't feel old um a light watch compared to most of what plant brings so um go out have some fun watch you're on this like classic heist movie kick right yeah yeah yeah it's part of i'm in a movie club where we watch things that no one has ever seen before and just randomly we ended up on this heist theme after several movies so this was this was the newest one after this i'm gonna make a letterboxd list that is movies that hinge on head colds.

And it's going to be The Taking of Pelham 123. Yes. And Independence Day. Oh, yeah. Sure. See? They have something in common. The Aliens of Cold.

Absolutely. Sandwich fun movies. Speaking of fun movies, my recommendation is It's the New Year, which is always a great time to watch Billy Wilder's The Apartment. What an absolutely perfect movie. This movie shouldn't be as perfect as it is. It has every opportunity to go sour. It doesn't. There's a grumpy old man in this movie, correct?

There is. Oh, we brought the grumpy old men. You brought Mathau. I brought Lemon. I love it. We just need Sophia Loren and we're set. Yeah. The apartment to me is just the quintessential,

like, you know, you're coming off of Christmas, entering the kind of like gloomy month of the New Year's and you need something that kind of matches that like sweet and sour of it all. just so good have you seen me apart i have not seen it i know it's long been on my list but yeah it's one of those that one of those movies i am more game to see this than i am you know pretty much everything else i've ever recommended some of the other stuff it sounds a little intolerable, but that's okay.

I'll, I'll watch that and welcome to dog town after this. Oh my gosh. Dogville. What is that? Welcome to dog. That was the sequel was dog town. Okay.

Uh, should we wrap? Uh, yeah, I think we should wrap. Uh, that's it. Hey,

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But, yeah, either or. Or, yeah, both. Why not? Sure, go for it. And that is it. Next time on The Resties, we're going to be talking about the worst video games of our childhood. Oh, boy. This is going to tie in with something we're doing next week on the besties.

On besties, we're talking about some of our positive video game memories of our childhood. But on the resties, we're going to be finally talking about my experience with the Sega Activator. Oh, no. Oh, yeah. It's going to be good. I love talking about, like, bad old games because I don't like getting negative on this show. I feel like talking about bad games from my childhood,

I don't know, it brings me, like, some really warm memories. It keeps them alive. You know what it does? It does. It takes me back. So, yeah, that is it. Until next time, I am Christopher Thomas Plant. You are...

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