ITT We Predict Gaming for 2019 - Put On Your Nostradamus Turbins and Bitch Some More

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My predictions for 2019:

- Saints Row will be rebooted, will try to cater to all audiences and appease none.

- Borderlands 3 will be released Winter 2019, will play like hot garbage like everything Gearbox has touched in the last five years. Make sure to buy the $40 expansion pass!

- Telltale's Walking Dead is finally complete, only thing gaming journos will be talking about is Clementine's sexuality.

- Cyberpunk 2077 delayed til May 2020.

- Sony will fuck up somehow in a big way. Either another credit card scam or the PS5 reveal goes of as well as the XB1 did in 2013.

- Crackdown 3 will up with a metascore of the low 70s.

- Last of Us 2 will cause Gamegate 2.0: Electric Booga-fuck-not-this-again.

- Dead Space returns... as a mobile game.

- Rage 2 will be a fantastic game that underperforms sales wise.

- Anthem tanks. Bioware shuttered. No Dragon Age 4 for you.

- Microsoft buys Bethesda, makes Elder Scrolls 6 exclusive.

- Nintendo finally buys out Sega. Old School Hedgehog fans cry themselves to sleep.

- Nintendo relaunches Nintendo Power as a digital product, gets 1 million subscribers within the first week.

- Hideo Kojima and Geoff Keighley finally get married and have horrific nightmare babies together.

- People stop playing Fortnite after one of the main devs accidentally misgenders a toaster.
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I'm honestly hoping for the best, but if the last few years taught me anything, it's to keep my expectations low when it comes to the video game industry.

 

[OhGoy]

- bannerlord still won't even get a proper release date by the end of 2019

 

[Pozzingmyfilthyneghole]

Gay marriage will become legal in Minecraft.

 

[gobbogobb]

Game will have loot boxes

Other game will have day one dlc

Call of duty will make a bazillion bucks

Overwatch porn will be created

Some indie game will get six months of news coverage

People will still play World of Warcraft.

Some esports drama will happen and nerds will act like it's the Black Sox all over again.

 

[Crocophile]

Doubt Microsoft will buy Bethesda because despite everything, they're still printing money off dumbasses including myself. Microsoft barely closed the deal with Obsidian, they wouldn't go after a studio that isn't bleeding out in a gutter. Pretty much agree with the rest, praying for a Bioware closure so I don't have to live through another fucking year of gay elf mage simulator being spammed everywhere.

My prediction? Outer Worlds will probably not live up to the hype, but criticizing it in any capacity will be declaring jihad against the combined autism of games media snobs and retarded fanboys who can not stop guzzling New Vegas cum.

 

[Black Waltz]

default skin from fortnite will be dlc for smash bros

 

[Pozzingmyfilthyneghole]

Video games are going to get more realistic.

 

[QB 290]

What i want to happen:

• Borderlands 3 comes out and is awesome
• Devil may cry 5 comes out and is everything the hype said it would be
• EA collectively kill themselves
• Fire emblem 3 houses comes out and is the best one yet
• Nintendo stop attacking their fanbase and still make good games
• The walking dead will stay dead
• The last of us 2 is less annoying and broken then the first and isn't just crying about lesbians
• SMT5 is revealed
• Stoic reveal a new game and hopefully don't go bankrupt
• Dwarf Fortress gets a new update that makes the game even more !!FUN!!

What will probably happen:

• Gearbox is either disbanded or BL3 is not revealed
• Devil may cry 5 is garbage and all hope is lost
• EA continue to make billions off the suffering of others
• Fire emblem 3 houses continues to cater to horny teenagers and is shit
• Nintendo keeps being re.tarded with PR
• The walking dead game is finished and spends more hours crying about lesbians
• The last of us 2 is finished and spends more hours crying about lesbians
• SMT5 is not revealed and won't ever be
• Stoic go bankrupt because their last game didn't have enough brown people in it
• Dwarf fortress won't be updated again until 2021

 

[shartshooter]

- The annoying politics in games and game journalism will increase in volume and vitriol starting the end of the year in anticipation of 2020 elections, since that shit starts more than a year in advance. It will grow exponentially louder as we get closer.

- Coinciding with this, the push to censor internet communication will redouble, and criticism of such policies will be excluded from major platforms on the pretense of hate speech.

- We'll get a result in the Crytek vs Star Citizen lawsuit. Not sure what a loss means to Chris Robert's ability to pretend there's a real game getting made.

- Cyberpunk 2077 is game of the year by default

 

[Near]

FF XIV Shadowbringers will come out, and somehow be even fucking worse than Stormblood, somehow.

 

[Tanner Glass]

My main predictions for 2019

- Nearly all video game PR will be now be much more scaled down and contained; no company wants to have this year's Blizzard moment. Most announcements/reveals will not be done live (like Nintendo currently does) and in places where they have to be done live, like E3, will take the Microsoft approach of carefully selecting an audience of fanboys as opposed to general population people.

- Blizzard will do something ill-advised with one or more of their games in an attempt to regain some relevancy. Another Diablo 3 expansion or a rushed Diablo 4 announcement; extending the overwatch "eleague" to include other Blizzard titles like the WoW Arena, SC2, or Destiny 2 pvp; or another "Cataclysm" WoW event/expansion to try and re-correct the lore again.

- Microsoft will hastily announce a new XBOX console (named XBOX2 or something equally as awful) and will struggle to explain what the new console offers to the consumers compared to the previous offerings (it will do something stupid like support 8k resolutions and maybe even an ill-advised jump into VR). It will be expensive and generate little hype. This console will also have some form of backwards compatibility touted as a major feature.

- Nintendo will make the same games they always have, but for the Switch this time. Animal Crossing is already coming, but expect a Fire Emblem announcement, a Mario/Sonic at the olympics 2020 announcement, and "full" pokemon game, and so on.

- Bethesda will make a number of announcements/revels about Elder Scrolls 6 and Starfield that they wouldn't have made previously to try and soothe the burn they gave themselves with Fallout 76, possibly with one title they feel good about playable at E3 2019.

And the side predictions

- Borderlands 3 will be announced and released in relatively short order and will either be really good or really bad, with no in-between. It will have 3 different season passes.

- Anthem does well enough for Bioware to stabilize enough to announce Dragon Age 4; which will be terrible and be the death knell for them.

- Death Stranding will release and be cool, but not a fun video game.

- Last of Us 2 will be mediocre and not innovate much from the previous game or any other game in the genre. It will still receive glowing reviews from woke journalists like Patrick Klepek.

- Kingdom Hearts 3 will be "ok" but will still lean into all of the KH nonsense from the previous games and the story will remain incomprehensible.

- Square will have more to show of the FF7 remake this year and it will look good.

 

[Desire Lines]

bad videogames will come out, good videogames will follow

 

[Quijibo69]

Death Stranding will be the biggest disappointment of 2019.

 

[BroccoliBrain]

Here's an easy one: Mount & Blade Bannerlord will still be in development

 

[the autist of dojima]

Atlus will milk persona 5 by relesing even more shitty spin offs while also dancing on smt grave
Hopefully kaneko comes back from the flower fields and finally jumps ship

 

[sasazuka]

Maybe an official Playstation 2 emulator for Playstation 4 or would that be a pipedream?

 

[Commander Keen]

Sega Saturn emulation improves, prices of consoles skyrocket even more because youtubers go nuts.

Sega hints at new console through the Sonic twitter. Code name is Uranus. Revealed to be nothing but fart jokes.

Bannerlord gets a new preview video. Fans postpone suicide.

Crusader Kings 2 has another DLC, adds fantasy aspects.

Epic abandons game store when it gets leaked that it’s a resource hog and collects a ton of information that serves no purpose except to sell to advertisers and check for pirated software.

 

[RealtreeByGod]

It'll be shit

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[NumberingYourState]

-Q1-​

Your usual rumors that attempt to forecast the AAA scene for 2019 January-March, -:autism: peon analysts like Michael Pachter will come up with some retarded A/B-Universe connection between hardware/software sales from last year into this year. Some niche events from a burnt out development or publishing studio nobody gives two fucks about, maybe one or two surprise announcements one of which I expect to not hear about again until E3 (lol).

-Q2-​

Something from Q1 is hyped still but opinions become more mixed due to rumors of colorfully varied probability. Epic Games reports a slow turnout for their service, and therefor less people care about it down the pipeline because the studio is burnt out from chewing more than they can swallow. Another shenanigan by EA, Dice, or those two and a third contender: whoever may be bold enough to unexpectedly tell the customers they can go fuck themselves. Another vague teaser people will piss down their left pant leg over because that's about the most interesting thing about video game teasers anymore. Token controversy for the spring trimester because Absolute State of Gaming Journalism.

-Q3-​

A half-debunking of some rumor earlier that year (See Q1), a collective "Oh." as a result and nobody talks about anything else but some inconsequential event conveniently timed before E3. Pre-E3 trickle involves Indie Development Studios and rumors of new AAA-Title details or upcoming announcements, sequels to games you forgot existed may emerge. Those kill any hype for Indie games or potentially new IP's. E3 2019 brings nothing to the table because it's E3, by the way if you watch E3 still you're just confirming what everyone else already knew (refer to Q1 & Q2)

-Q4-​

The August-September timeline is an absolute shitshow as it's always been, controversies, nontroversies, autistic platform wars that ignore the reality that all gaming consoles in 2019 are just PC's locked down harder than a Mac. A cluster of events that spurred their own controversies stemming from rumors dating back to the first quarter bloom. Microsoft tries to make better with their audience, Nintendo will probably continue to ignore their Russian studio's stagnation, and SONY falls back to their 2005-2010 selves due to being afraid of fictional boobies. Top off the fall-winter window with Gamestop pushing themselves to further extinction, Steam possibly making a worse case for themselves up to this point but nobody cares because it's Steam.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Borderlands 3 comes out in the Q4, with Battleroyale mode, this is why it got delayed. BR carries the series too, getting comparable playing hours to traditional multiplayer.

PS5 and Xbox 2, the fourth Xbox, are not announced, because the companies don't want the announcements to hurt Christmas sales. Both are thoroughly leaked though, with the announcements semi-openly scheduled for Q1 of the year after.

New Switch version is announced. Its probably a slightly bigger version with better feeling joy-cons. My personal hope, though, is that this is wrong and the new version is actually smaller, with the joy cons themselves still feeling better (shorter, yes, but wider which to me is the real problem with them.)

Microsoft buys or creates between 2 to 5 new studios but unofficially loses part of an old one- with medium sized Rare layoffs due to moving away from SoT. Speaking Rare, Banjo or Conker gets a VR game from a 3rd party or small studio acquisition, no real Rare involvement other than sending over some character sheets.

Death Stranding is not delayed, comes out on PS4 in late summer. Halo Infinite, or whatever its called, not delayed either. Metroid 4 also comes along. Those are your huge exclusives for the year. Secondary games also hit their releases without issue, Crackdown 3, Animal Crossing, Yoshi, LoU2, Ghosts of Tsushima, etc. all come out. Crackdown turns out to be a bit of a mess- buggy and showing cuts from its long development time.

Labo continues to exist. Continues to not get price cuts. More effort put into making the games not suck, though.

Discless Xbox One released, its a bit of dud, just not that much of a market left for it.

/V/ hates Last of Us 2. Kotaku loves it during month of release, then forgets about it.

Sony isn't as gone from E3 as you might think- they have a Nintendo Direct equivalent during the show. 30 to 40 minutes instead of a full hour with no live audience to laugh at the fluteman, shows off Ghosts (if it isn't out yet), DS and perhaps a closing look at a hot new game that looks like it might be (and definitely is) next gen.

EA loses their Belgium lootbox case. It does still worm its way through the EU court system, but the writing is on the wall. Companies choose to write these markets off, publicly, rather than give up on this economic model, but behind the scenes start changing stuff up to make sure their games pass legal muster going forward.

More on that, certain European nations and American states release new legislation related to lootboxes. There's 80+ jurisdictions between the two, plus Canada, Australia, etc. The issue can't stay in the news forever without all of the boxes lining up in a few legal areas.

Rage 2 is, indeed, great. Turns out it is an obviously re-skinned Mad Max 2, with the old JC 2 team behind it. Just throw in a little over the top Rage humor, which Avalanche ends up excelling at, and you have a cult classic.

Anthem does "good enough", ME4 gets delayed though as resources need to be pulled in order to prop up the sagging, massive investment that EA put so much money into.

Bethesda rights the ship on Fallout 76, game maintains a dedicated player-base outside of the public eye but the its reputation is shot for a lot of the general public- they will not get away with this again and their upcoming products get actual scorn from some parts of the press, due to their old engine.

Red Dead Online's revenue generating portions launch, to a general meh. There just isn't much worth buying. Or did this already happen?

E3 is a land of blue balls, multiple companies end their shows with a "one last thing" look at a game that is obviously for PS5/BX2, but can't be stated as such. Oh well, they are all cross-platform with current gen anyway.

Nintendo decks their halls with Metroid Metroid METROID!!! In the same way they have done with Zelda, Mario and Smash the last three times. Its very neat and the game itself is fine, but doesn't set the world on fire or anything.

Here's an out there one... that mainline Pokemon game gets delayed a year. Turns out that HD games are still harder to develop for than non-HD game companies think.

Much to the surprise of everyone, that GoW Pop! game turns out to be good. Not great, but good. Not a sales sensation though it does good enough to get a Fable Pop! announced.

Cyberpunk comes out on time and wins players hearts but loses most GotYs to Death Stranding. Anthem politely mentioned but not in real contention at most places. DS, though a media darling, gets a mixed -almost MGS2-esque- reaction. I believe that the old 4chan leaks about the plot are true, and I do not think it will get anywhere near universal audience embrace.

EA does not release a new Battlefront, Disney has put too much pressure on them to release a proper game at this point, which means the team has to be retooled and the game reworked, meaning a delay. It looks good in its presser, but does not garner good press anyway, having lost so much interest from the previous two under-performers.

I mentioned earlier that EA, among others, internally holds back on lootbox monetization due to legal issues, the main place this is apparent is in their sports games, which pay less attention to "story mode" they have spent the past two years pushing. I also don't think that mode was a real audience pleaser anyway.

A lot of the semi-public Super Nintendo Land stuff gets officially announced, such as the lay out for the California version and the status of the new Florida park. People can drink "Shroom Cola" or "Yoshi Slushies" or some other thing. Oh boy.

Epic Games store does not dethrone Steam.

Multiple presidential candidates, including Trump, say dumb things about games/Gamergate.

Very bad year, financially, for game companies. Bad economic times in general, a surplus of used current gen games to compete with (finally,) a few large under-performers, government reaction against lootboxes hurting monetization, and a general consumer consensus to wait for next gen see some real stock losses. No major bankruptcies though- there are no weak men left in this field. Possible exception? Square.

And one final one... Fortnite is still the most popular game for tweens.