Episode #99: The Ribisi Spectrum

AVoCADo GamesCast

Featuring:
Merve
Captain Blasto
The Kappa

Editor:
The Kappa

Timestamps:
0:15 – Introduction
2:00 – Awesome Games Done Quick 2024
7:35 – Regiments
14:25 – Puzzmo and Social Puzzle Solving
24:30 – Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora
39:10 – Reviewing Our 2023 Predictions
55:20 – Our 2024 Predictions
1:46:35 – The Delay Prediction Game: Last Year’s Results, Part 1
1:52:40 – The Delay Prediction Game: This Year’s Predictions, Part 1
2:00:20 – The Delay Prediction Game: Last Year’s Results, Part 2
2:01:20 – The Delay Prediction Game: This Year’s Predictions, Part 2
2:40:35 – Our Most Anticipated Games of 2024
2:51:20 – Rumoured Games of 2024
2:58:05 – Conclusion

Download Link: https://archive.org/details/avocadogamescast_ep99

Podcast header image from Harry Turtledove Wiki on Fandom. Image partially edited with LunaPic. Linkdump after the jump.

Introduction (0:15)

• Official Ubisoft page for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.

Awesome Games Done Quick 2024 (2:00)

• The Gyromite run by Peanut Butter the Dog and JSR_.
• The Super Mario 64 drum kit run by CZR.

Regiments (7:35)

• Steam store page for Regiments.
• Wikipedia article on Sid Meier’s Covert Action.

Puzzmo and Social Puzzle Solving (14:25)

• Official website for Puzzmo.
• Official website for The Puzzle Society.
• Wikipedia article on Zach Gage.
• Wikipedia article on Zachtronics.
• Correction: We also confused Zach Gage with Zachtronics’s Zach Barth on our previous episode. We regret the error. (Source: AVoCADo GamesCast)

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (24:30)

• Epic Games Store page for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
• Wikipedia article on the Batman: Arkham series.

Reviewing Our 2023 Predictions (39:10)

• Our 2023 predictions episode. (Source: AvoCADo GamesCast)
• Wikipedia article on Red Storm Entertainment.
• Report on the existence of Hundred Star Games. (Source: Polygon)
• Correction: The studio The Kappa referred to as “Storm Giant” is called Frost Giant Studios, and their upcoming game is called Stormgate. (Source: Frost Giant Studios)

Our 2024 Predictions (55:20)

• Captain Blasto’s first realistic prediction: Double Fine will announce something this year that will make him regret selling his Xbox and want to build a gaming PC.
• Wikipedia article on Brütal Legend.
• Wikipedia article on Brian Posehn.
• Correction: Of the two games remade for Another Code: Recollection (not “Realization”), the first, Trace Memory, was released for the Nintendo DS, and the second, Another Code: R – A Journey into Lost Memories, was released for the Nintendo Wii. (Sources: Wikipedia)
• Wikipedia article on Meteos.
• The Kappa’s first realistic prediction: Larian announces their follow-up to Baldur’s Gate 3, and it’s a new game in the Divinity series.
• Wikipedia article on Baldur’s Gate 3.
• Merve’s first realistic prediction: The new Nintendo console will be a straightforward, backwards-compatible successor to the Switch with very few additional gimmicks.
• Wikipedia article on the Wii U.
• An overview of Hall Effect controllers. (Source: Windows Central)
• Correction: We couldn’t find any confirmation that Netflix’s absence from the Nintendo Switch had anything to do with the absence of a web browser.
• Clarification: The Twitch app for Switch no longer exists, as of January 31^st, 2024. It was still operational at the time of recording, but it hadn’t been available for download since November 6^th, 2023. (Source: The Verge)
• Captain Blasto’s second realistic prediction: More AAA games will come to the Mac.
• Mac App Store page for Death Stranding.
• The Kappa’s second realistic prediction: None of the announced Marvel video games will come out this year.
• Mary DeMarle currently works for BioWare. (Source: Wikipedia)
• Merve’s second realistic prediction: There will be more video game layoffs this year than last year.
• Correction: Sony did not delete P.T. off any PS4 users’ hard drives; users simply could not redownload P.T. if they deleted it, in contrast to most other games on PS4. (Source: Polygon)
• Captain Blasto’s long shot prediction: The Nintendo Switch’s successor will be announced this year but won’t come out until spring 2025.
• The Kappa’s long shot prediction: Game Pass on Switch.
• Merve’s long shot prediction: Media.Vision will release both the new Digimon Story game and Valkyria Chronicles 5 this year, and one of them will be the big launch RPG for the new Nintendo console.

The Delay Prediction Game: Last Year’s Results, Part 1 (1:46:35)

• Correction: We also did the predictions game back in 2021. (Source: AVoCADo GamesCast)
• Our 2023 predictions episode. (Source: AvoCADo GamesCast)
• Correction: There’s no special arrangement for Fortnite; the reason you don’t need a PS Plus subscription to access its online features on PlayStation is because it’s free-to-play. (Source: Playbite)

The Delay Prediction Game: This Year’s Predictions, Part 1 (1:52:40)

• The movie where Christopher Plummer replaced Kevin Spacey after sexual misconduct allegations against the latter was All the Money in the World. (Source: The Guardian)
• Reinhard Selten’s paper explaining why linear scoring rules are not incentive-compatible but quadratic scoring rules are, published in Experimental Economics. (Source: Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences)
• Trailer for Wes Craven’s Mind Ripper. (Source: Multicom Entertainment on YouTube)
• Trailer for SubUrbia. (Source: Warner Bros. on YouTube)

The Delay Prediction Game: Last Year’s Results, Part 2 (2:00:20)

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The Delay Prediction Game: This Year’s Predictions, Part 2 (2:01:20)

• Steam store page for Tyranny.
• The Brain Age game that Captain Blasto mentioned that wasn’t released in North America was Dr. Kawashima’s Brain Training for Nintendo Switch. (Source: Wikipedia)
• Xbox Developer_Direct 2024. (Source: Xbox on YouTube)
• The Chinese Room was acquired by Sumo Digital in 2018. (Source: Wikipedia)

Full predictions list:

Game	The Kappa’s Prediction (%)	Captain Blasto’s Prediction (%)	Merve’s Prediction (%)	Trailer Source (on YouTube)
Ara: History Untold	70	100	90	Xbox
Ark 2	80	100	50	Ark: Survival Ascended
Avowed	100	100	95	Xbox
Blue Protocol (western release)	0	0	90	BLUE PROTOCOL
Bounty Star: The Morose Tale of Graveyard Clem	99.7	100	60	Annapurna Interactive
The Casting of Frank Stone	100	100	80	Dead by Daylight
Decapolice	0	0	95	Nintendo of America
Dungeons of Hinterberg	50	0	85	Xbox
Earthblade	75	100	35	GameSpot
Earth Defense Force 6 (western release)	100	100	100	Clouded Leopard Entertainment Official
Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time	48	0	72	Nintendo of America
Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn	82	100	61	Xbox
Frostpunk 2	74	100	88	11 bit studios
GreedFall 2: The Dying World	40	0	45	Nacon
Hollow Knight: Silksong	10	0	90	Nintendo of America
Hotel Barcelona	31	0	45	White Owls Inc.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle	22	100	70	Bethesda Softworks
John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando	89	100	55	PlayStation
Little Nightmares III	100	100	90	BANDAI NAMCO Europe
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage	41	0	35	PlayStation
Mewgenics	0	0	55	Edmund McMillen
Penny’s Big Breakaway	81	100	100	Nintendo of America
The Plucky Squire	100	100	100	Nintendo of America
Skate Story	78	100	95	DevolverDigital
Star Wars Outlaws	100	100	50	Ubisoft
Steel Seed	50	0	65	FGS
Stellar Blade	75	0	80	PlayStation
Still Wakes the Deep	75	0	60	Xbox
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2	41	0	10	Xbox
Visions of Mana	80	100	90	Square Enix
The Wolf Among Us 2	20	100	35	Telltale Games
World of Goo 2	84	100	95	IGN
Zenless Zone Zero	81	0	75	GameSpot

Our Most Anticipated Games of 2024 (2:40:35)

• Transformation trailer for Princess Peach: Showtime! (Source: Nintendo of America on YouTube)
• Main trailer for Dragon’s Dogma 2. (Source: PlayStation on YouTube)
• God Killer gameplay trailer for Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn. (Source: Xbox on YouTube)
• Official extended gameplay trailer for Homeworld 3. (Source: IGN on YouTube)
• Clarification: Relic Entertainment did not work on Homeworld 3, but some key development personnel, formerly of Relic, who worked on the first two mainline Homeworld games are also working on Homeworld 3. (Source: Wikipedia)
• Story trailer for Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. (Source: SEGA on YouTube)
• All You Need to Know trailer for Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes. (Source: PlayStation on YouTube)
• Announcement trailer for The Plucky Squire. (Source: Nintendo of America on YouTube)
• Teaser trailer 2 for OPUS: Prism Peak. (Source: SIGONO on YouTube)
• 1^st promotion for Tokyo Stories. (Source: Tokyo Stories Game (in dev.) on YouTube)
• The Explorator trailer. (Source: ID@Xbox on YouTube)
• Day of the Devs trailer for Naiad. (Source: PlayStation on YouTube)
• Official reveal trailer for Hades 2. (Source: GameSpot on YouTube)
• Official gameplay trailer for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2. (Source: Xbox on YouTube)

Rumoured Games of 2024 (2:51:20)

• Reveal trailer for Marvel’s Wolverine. (IGN on YouTube)
• Wikipedia article on the avant-garde musical duo ClownC0re.
• Thedas Calls trailer for Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. (Source: Dragon Age on YouTube)
• Clarification: At the time of recording, it had not yet been announced that the upcoming Deus Ex game had been cancelled. (Source: IGN)
• Confirmation: Cloud Chamber is indeed the studio working on the next BioShock game. (Source: Cloud Chamber)
• Wikipedia article on the Crimson Skies franchise.
• Official website for Olympic Cards and Comics.

Conclusion (2:58:05)

• Wikipedia article on signed measure.