Summer Gamefest hopes and predictions thread

[bikingjahuty]

Summer Gamefest is rapidly approaching in a couple of weeks and I thought it would be fun to see what everyone's hopes and predictions are for this year's event. I feel like most of the time, discussing and anticipating what will happen is more fun than what actually ends up happening, but whatever.

[bikingjahuty]

HOPES

- Shenmue IV announced/teased
- New SNK fighting game announced (my guess would be Samurai Shodown)
- The Last of Us: Part 3 teased (99% certain this won't happen because of Intergalactic)
- New 2D Sonic game announced (Sonic Mania 2 would be amazing)
- Third game in the Star Wars Jedi series announced
- Gran Turismo 8 teased
- Half Life 3 (I feel completely stupid for even hoping this will happen, but who knows, maybe this will actually be the year...no it won't)


PREDICTIONS

- Mortal Kombat 2 (MK1 sequel) announced
- new GTA6 trailer (probably final, "BIG" announcement to make up for the anticlimactic TGA 2025 final announcement)
- new Metal Gear Solid game teased
- RE9 story DLC revealed
- new Intergalactic from Naughty Dog trailer with 10 minutes of gameplay and story, with 2027 release revealed
- Sega reveals new Crazy Taxi game with a short trailer

[kamikazekeeg]

The only thing I feel like I can count as a prediction is that I think because State of Play is doing a thing with Alama Drafthouse to broadcast the show that they got some big announcements.  Not just showcases for Wolverine or Intergalactic, but maybe the rumored God of War spinoff with Faye among maybe others.  I feel like they've really had the crap kicked out of them lately with all their live service stuff failing, or being just okay, or just not showing up and with the confirmation of their first party singleplayer games, I think they want to put their best foot forward right now.  Random want, but give me a new Twisted Metal lol

For hopes, always Bloodborne, just give me something, remaster, remake, sequel...and often wanted, a new Banjo-Kazooie.  Like just make a new game and throw the HD remakes of the first two with it, GOTY right there for me.  I just want it alot as I'm playing through Yooka-Replaylee, which is nice so far, but man it just makes me want the bear and bird lol

[bikingjahuty]

The only thing I feel like I can count as a prediction is that I think because State of Play is doing a thing with Alama Drafthouse to broadcast the show that they got some big announcements.  Not just showcases for Wolverine or Intergalactic, but maybe the rumored God of War spinoff with Faye among maybe others.  I feel like they've really had the crap kicked out of them lately with all their live service stuff failing, or being just okay, or just not showing up and with the confirmation of their first party singleplayer games, I think they want to put their best foot forward right now.  Random want, but give me a new Twisted Metal lol

For hopes, always Bloodborne, just give me something, remaster, remake, sequel...and often wanted, a new Banjo-Kazooie.  Like just make a new game and throw the HD remakes of the first two with it, GOTY right there for me.  I just want it alot as I'm playing through Yooka-Replaylee, which is nice so far, but man it just makes me want the bear and bird lol

After I made this thread, I did some digging to see wha the dominant rumors were around this year's event and a new GoW seems to be at the top of the list. I'm still behind with getting caught up in the series and still need to play the last two most recent games, but this does excite me. Another top rumor is a Nintendo Direct, likely sometime after Summer Gamesfest that is supposedly revealing an Ocarina of Time remake. If this ends up being true, I pray this gets a Switch release too. I'm still not ready to buy a Switch 2, but if we get a new OoT, that may be the game to sell the console to me.

[ssj4yamgeta]

Unrealistic Wishes:

Dark Souls 4
Golden Sun sequel/remaster/remake/whatever
Resident Evil: Code Veronica X Remake unveiled and not botched in any way
Dragon Ball Sparking! Zero: Super Limit Breaking Neo gets a physical release, with the base game and all DLC up to the new titular expansion included on-disc
SNK announces they will develop new games for the Neo Geo AES+
Capcom announces Monster Hunter Stories 3 sold so well that they're going to release a sequel in 2 years instead of the usual 5.

Realistic Wishes:

Elden Ring 2
Star Wars: Jedi Telemarketer (or whatever the third Jedi game is called)
New DLC expansion for Monster Hunter Stories 3
New DLC for Monster Hunter Wilds
SNK announces next wave of games for the Neo Geo AES+
Dead or Alive 7

What we'll get:

Resident Evil: Code Veronica X Remake announced with some modern audience tweaks like those stupid cat ear accessories from RE4 Remake.
Skyrim: The Journey Edition announced for car entertainment screens. Steering wheel and gearshift-based control scheme. Expect a dramatic spike in car crashes.
An online-only live service game where you play as a man with a gun trying to take things from other men who also have guns. It will surely absorb the player bases from the other live service games with the same premise and cannot possibly fail.

[kamikazekeeg]

After I made this thread, I did some digging to see wha the dominant rumors were around this year's event and a new GoW seems to be at the top of the list. I'm still behind with getting caught up in the series and still need to play the last two most recent games, but this does excite me. Another top rumor is a Nintendo Direct, likely sometime after Summer Gamesfest that is supposedly revealing an Ocarina of Time remake. If this ends up being true, I pray this gets a Switch release too. I'm still not ready to buy a Switch 2, but if we get a new OoT, that may be the game to sell the console to me.

I was also hearing about the Ocarina of Time remake rumor as I was pretty excited for it, but I feel its less likely now with Star Fox 64 getting remade and releasing next month.  I personally don't see them doing two 64 remakes in the same year.  I'd love to be wrong, I'd even want them to just do a remaster of the 3DS versions of OoT and Majora, cleaned up, better visuals, bonus stuff added, and just release them in a nice bundle...Heck, I'm at the point I'd be happy for them to just announce Twilight Princess/Wind Waker HD ports because its so dumb those games are stuck on Wii U still lol