Episode 159: 24 Gaming Predictions About 2024
After last week’s belting return with the GOTY episode, it’s time for something with far less meat on the bones as we roll out some bullshit gaming predictions for 2024.
This week’s music is from the Persona 3 soundtrack by Shoji Meguro and the Nier: Automata soundtrack by Keiichi Okabe, Keigo Hoashi and Kuniyuki Takahashi.
2024 Predictions
Samuel
- A Nier: Automata sequel is revealed and it’s the best Platinum game since Vanquish
- Nintendo Switch 2 is revealed next June with a 3D Mario
- 60fps The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Matthew’s beloved and languid Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and Last Window: The Secret of Cape West will have a remaster announced similar in vein to the Another Code: Recollection remaster
- People will bang on all year about how this is quieter year for games than 2023 and we’ll all be sick of talking about it
- Death Stranding 2 is the big Sony exclusive along with a full sequel to Astro’s Playroom. Ghost of Tsushima 2 is also announced this year
- 360 Backwards Compatibility briefly returns with the Transformers games, Wolfenstein (2009) and cult favourite Singularity return on Series S and X
- Those long delayed ports of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD and The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD finally come to switch as the platform nears the end of its life
- The creators of FTL: Faster Than Light and Into the Breach, Subset Games, unveil a new game and it becomes an immediate Game of the Year contender
- Metroid gets its own Nintendo Direct this year with a full unveiling of Metroid Prime 4 as well as the news that Metroid Dread 2 is in the works from our guys at Mercury Steam
- Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws slips to 2025 but that’s OK as we get the Splinter Cell remake this year -Sega’s new versions of Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio release this year and are rather good which kicks off a big “The Dreamcast era is back for Sega” narrative
- Matthew keeps delaying the Game Boy Advance draft episode until December when it finally happens and he think’s he f***ed it in Round 1.
Matthew
- Switch 2 will launch with the same form factor as the Switch
- Kid Icarus: Uprising Switch port as part of Switch 2 launch
- Mario Kart Extra Deluxe at launch with all the DLC
- Nintendo will celebrate 20 years of DS by adding DS games to the Switch Virtual Console
- The 3D Mario team are working on a 3D Donkey Kong game
- We get a full Astro Bot game
- Resident Evil and Resident Evil Zero remake revealed
- Every Xbox Call of Duty is released on Game Pass bringing a reevaluation of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare and lots of work for Jeremy Peel
- Xbox will revive Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater with a 3 and 4 remake
- A game from Tetsuya Takahashi (Mr Xenoblade) is revived
- Square Enix will give a second remake to Dragon Quest IV, V and VI and they will get the 2.5D remake treatment
- More Castlevania to come. The developers of Dead Cells may make a full game.
- Nintendo continue their 99 series of battle games with Rhythm Heaven 99
Fantasy Critic Draft
Draft Order
| Host | Pick |
|---|---|
| Matthew | Hollow Knight: Silksong |
| Samuel | Metaphor: ReFantazio |
| Matthew | Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree |
| Samuel | Dragon’s Dogma 2 |
| Matthew | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door |
| Samuel | Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth |
| Matthew | Persona 3 Reload |
| Samuel | Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II |
| Matthew | Final Fantasy VII Rebirth |
| Samuel | Unicorn Overlord |
Picks
| Matthew | Samuel |
|---|---|
| Hollow Knight: Silksong | Metaphor: ReFantazio |
| Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree | Dragon’s Dogma 2 |
| Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door | Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth |
| Persona 3 Reload | Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II |
| Final Fantasy VII Rebirth | Unicorn Overlord |