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Easy Allies |EZOT2| Love & Respect
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Quite clearly Ben, as he brought it up as a recommendation at the end of the episode.
plasmawave
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Don Draper's Hat
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If they do a Nichijou episode I can actually watch one of their shows!
Nichijou is one of my all-time favourite comedies and TV shows, but it's not mainstream enough to win a vote against the likes of One Piece or Hellsing Ultimate, unfortunately.
We've known about the remaster since 2015 or something, but it's nice to see that we'll get our hands on it soon.
LiquidSolid
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Nah, Pokken's release was the actual funeral and only Don missed that. The Allies on yesterday's stream were just the ones who were in denial at the time.
The Wii U is the Luigi of consoles. Forgettable.
I'll check out parts of the stream archive once I get home this afternoon but I did watch the new Don's Design Lab and loved it.
I put a few hours into Horizon yesterday and god damn, that game is fun. I haven't even left the opening area yet but I've already got the rope caster and have upgraded a bunch of equipment.
TTE 47:
For once it's actually Therese who screws up royally. That's pretty rare.
The worst part is that even if they somehow beat and/or escape from the orcs and the Nightingale, they'll probably have to flee from the city as well due to what happened with Therese, Pomper and the boat, and because of the commotion they caused at the cat races. Then again, since the city have made a deal with the Nightingales, just the act of killing or pissing off this Nightingale might have been enough for the city to turn against them even had they not caused any trouble previously.
The worst part is that even if they somehow beat and/or escape from the orcs and the Nightingale, they'll probably have to flee from the city as well due to what happened with Therese, Pomper and the boat, and because of the commotion they caused at the cat races. Then again, since the city have made a deal with the Nightingales, just the act of killing or pissing off this Nightingale might have been enough for the city to turn against them even had they not caused any trouble previously.
tamaster92
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For anyone keeping up with community project 2
My item came in the mail today hype
My item came in the mail today
hypeSo guys, I'd like to let folks here know that I've started up a "Best of" series for Easy Allies. I've already contacted Brandon to get permission, just in case they have any similar plans (as I don't want to get in the way). But since they're busy, I haven't received a reply yet, and I had this whole plan for March, the first video just went up right now. So here it is. (for now at least)
Best of Easy Allies 2017-01
My plan is to release a video every other day till March 21st. With coverage starting from the beginning of this year. And when the video for March 21st comes out, the coverage will be caught up to the most recent week.
After that point, I aim to have a video out every Monday, that covers the prior week.
These are of course, my own subjective favorite moments/highlights, but I'm still aiming for the videos to have moments from a wide range of their videos, so people don't miss out, and hopefully are more inclined to check out other EZA content they may be ignoring.
Best of Easy Allies 2017-01
My plan is to release a video every other day till March 21st. With coverage starting from the beginning of this year. And when the video for March 21st comes out, the coverage will be caught up to the most recent week.
After that point, I aim to have a video out every Monday, that covers the prior week.
These are of course, my own subjective favorite moments/highlights, but I'm still aiming for the videos to have moments from a wide range of their videos, so people don't miss out, and hopefully are more inclined to check out other EZA content they may be ignoring.
Pie and Beans
Look for me on the local news, I'll be the guy arrested for trying to burn down a Nintendo exec's house.
Yes lad, yes! Could probably start with a little visual Titlecard BEST OF EASY ALLIES JANUARY intro (if you want some audio pizazz, Clip Jones out saying "FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY") but theres already some gold in here even I missed (Bosman yutzing about his Guitar Neighbour)
Thanks for the suggestions. Definitely some things that came to my mind as well. I've been pretty much working on these videos non-stop over the last week or so. I'll see what I can do, but honestly right now, I'm just struggling to keep up with my idea of a launch month for this series, LOL. So much content to sift through. This first week was relatively light on content due to it being the new year, and even in this week it was still 36 hours worth of content to go through.
There was also a bit of reasoning on my end that not having a straight up visible numbering system in the video. If I ever go back to the 2016 content and want to make "legacy" best of videos, once caught up, I can number them sequentially as volumes if I want rather than year + month, without stuff contained within the video itself clashing.
The title, thumbnail etc is still there for a decent idea, it's going to go 2017-01, 2017-02, all the way up to 2017-52.
But yeah, I think I'll be seriously reconsidering what I'm doing with the format of these videos once I get to it being up to date and once a week (which will be much easier to do than what I am doing right now).
you are the fucking man!
AgentCooper25
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Some backdoor shady dealing going down on the latest podcast...
Ultimadrago
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I loved that final cut for Tabletop Escapades. lol
Nice video! Saw your YT username & realized I had watched a handful of your compilations this past weekend lol.
Neat. The guy that does the Giant Bomb official ones started by doing them unofficially.
Amazing! That's what i really wanted for a while!
I'll definitely try and show these to friends that are not into EZA, hope they'll like it.
Any chance you'll do a Best of 2016? So many great moments from last year.
Street Racer had the first car-soccer game dammit. Everyone forgets that one
because it was shit
Ben reacts so fast to totally unexpected situations that I wonder if
the nightingales being revealed there was always going to be the case or not.
Podcast talk: I'm on Jones side with the Twitch selling. I don't see anything wrong with having the link of the game you're playing there and get a little kickback as long as it's never mentioned. If you're shilling the link, that's a lot different to just having it there while the video plays.
I think the clips need to be shorter and more exact (if there's a setup and a punchline clip everything before and after). I also think covering a bigger duration would increase the quality.
If the goal is promotional not sure how things that require understanding of "lore" would work.
Yeah, he really does make good point, but I think the content should speak for itself. I mean, Michael "swimming in 7's" Huber isn't going to be pimping for a game he's streaming. Hell, can you imagine that RE6 stream with a link to buy it?
Zelda review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALdZyIGxux0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALdZyIGxux0
4.5
Damiani on the low end right now :lol. BUT BIAS!
Damiani on the low end right now :lol. BUT BIAS!
Was totally expecting a 5, but after those framerate problems shown in the video, i can see why a 4.5.
It looks pretty terrible in that sense.
It looks pretty terrible in that sense.
Game looks like great fun though.
TheDarkKnight774
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Yup. It's really well done. And shows once again how silly the concerns were having a big fan review a game in the series.
lol at the down votes. Cmon Zelda fans
Deputy Dangle
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Jones throwing in tower climbing sequences at the end of both the Horizon and Zelda reviews is very cute.
Pretty tame, but then again, i'm not obsessed by "spoilers" as some people.
plasmawave
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So where's that guy who said Damiani shouldn't be reviewing a Zelda game?
brotkasten
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That's clearly because the guy called Damiani out on his fanboy-ism and not because Damiani is a fucking professional or something like that.
Damn, the EZA review made me more hype for Zelda than the advertising of the game, wtf, Damiani is on point.
Zero spoilers in the text, some quick cuts of enemies and areas you may have not seen before in the video.
Yeah, the video evidence makes a strong case for the framerate problems. I didn't think it was so bad from just reading impressions until now.
Honestly, I would have given the game a similar score due to the frame rate issues presented as well as some other design choices. It didn't appear that the durability of weapons and armor was a hindrance to Damiani, but I could easily find myself a bit put-off by the apparently high frequency of them breaking.
All in all, it was a fine review. It's bizarre to know that there were people here and elsewhere who doubted that Damiani would be professional and unbiased when it comes to The Legend of Zelda.
Had no intention of getting a Wiiu or Switch so I have been keeping an eye on some BotW streams these past few days. What I've seen has honestly blown me away, to me it definitely feels like a game that is in a class of it's own and I fully expected it to get perfect scores across the board.
Was the half star subtraction mainly because of the technical issues or were there other factors that contributed towards the lower score? Just curious if there were other things Damiani didn't like about the game.
Was the half star subtraction mainly because of the technical issues or were there other factors that contributed towards the lower score? Just curious if there were other things Damiani didn't like about the game.
WAR recon zero
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That fucking framerate is hideous. Kudos for EZA to explain and show it.
In the review itself, it seems the technical issues were the largest reasoning for the subtraction but Damiami did mention that the more traditional dungeons in the game weren't particularly innovative or exciting aside from the bosses themselves.
Whether or not he disliked anything else remains to be seen or heard as far as I know. I imagine he'll be more open to discussion now regarding the game with the embargo being fully lifted.
Bloodworth
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he also mentions that Link not speaking is harder to justify with more voiced characters
Frame rate is one of the least important things in games. I'm not watching the review since I want to go in blind, but if that's the primary criticism then it translates to a 5/5 for me personally.
Noted; I must have missed that bit when checking out the review. I distinctly remember something along those lines but I guess it didn't register as a negative to me at the time.
Thanks for the information!
SprachBrooks
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I hate the idea of weapons durability in games because I don't find the associated anxiety fun. I didn't like it in The Witcher and I won't like it in this game.
Yeah, I usually find systems involving durability far more tedious and annoying than challenging and enjoyable. I understand why some folks like the concept; it just isn't for me. I'm willing to give it a fair shake in Breath of the Wild, but my immediate reaction isn't positive to be sure.
I think I would be more welcoming to the implementation if the items didn't outright disappear and could be repaired instead; however, I also see how that could be problematic especially when weapons and armor seem to be plentiful.
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