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Easy Allies |EZOT2| Love & Respect
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Tetsujin_MK
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Eh, I guess imgur turns gifs above a certain size into gifv automatically =/
Funny thing, I absolutely agree with Kyle on TrailerJones on all fronts. Good thing I can ignore the endless score-bickering afterwards.
Easy Livin' sounds like a dream, suuuuuuper curious how it will turn out!
Leaks "ruined" part of the conferences, but overall a very entertaining E3, especially the last three days - the off-the-wall EZA podcast, Nuddles and broth, Metroid Prime-inside story, Yakuza Storytime, general impressions... can't really say that I leave disappointed! =)
And then we got the annual carpet report, I have Syndrome queued up right now and Saturday the next round of impressions will arrive... coolcoolcool!
Easy Livin' sounds like a dream, suuuuuuper curious how it will turn out!
Leaks "ruined" part of the conferences, but overall a very entertaining E3, especially the last three days - the off-the-wall EZA podcast, Nuddles and broth, Metroid Prime-inside story, Yakuza Storytime, general impressions... can't really say that I leave disappointed! =)
And then we got the annual carpet report, I have Syndrome queued up right now and Saturday the next round of impressions will arrive... coolcoolcool!
dickroach
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yeah I remember them talking about some "weird booth" on stream. was it that house? wtf was that house?
Bloodworth
Member
That was Take 2's booth. They were only doing business meetings there. They said they didn't have anything to show the press or public this year.
kingdoug87
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plasmawave
Banned
No wonder Huber almost lost his voice. The guy embodies hypeness lol.
Hmm, the EZA podcast didn't pop up on my pocketcast feed today like it normally does on Fridays. I assumed they were going to be putting up the live version of the podcast they did during the twitch stream earlier in the week... did their ability to edit and post it get delayed or something due to E3?
They were planning to. Probably hasn't been enough time.
Love the E3 Huber episodes, pure hype and good vibes. And seeing Easy Update first made that B-Roll feel even more special!
The Patreon post says due to E3 scheduling/craziness, they only had it ready on YouTube "at this time," wasn't any time table for when (if?) the audio version would be ready.
The Patreon post says due to E3 scheduling/craziness, they only had it ready on YouTube "at this time," wasn't any time table for when (if?) the audio version would be ready.
FUNKNOWN iXi
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I commented on this part too lol, it was so funny. Huber doing LIVE interviews at conventions is incredible.
Huber season is one of the best times of the year!
brotkasten
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How dare anyone question Kyle on his boat racing knowledge!
Eh, I guess imgur turns gifs above a certain size into gifv automatically =/
Not even a double take, a triple take. This is golden.
(Arguably a quadruple take)
TheDarkKnight774
Member
Ahh man. Such a great Huber Syndrome. Over the course of the episode you can hear his voice start to go.
Glad the tradition of having the Huber / Lucy segment continued on as well. I'm also happy most of the new timers were still having a good time.
Yakuza booth = best booth
Glad the tradition of having the Huber / Lucy segment continued on as well. I'm also happy most of the new timers were still having a good time.
Yakuza booth = best booth
They happened, need editing and may be a while. There's more impressions happening today even.
Wow, seriously? I'm excited for that.
Awesome! I have no problem waiting for it, I know the Allies have had a mad busy week.
I still have so much of their E3 coverage to catch up on X_X
TheDarkKnight774
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Another enjoyable episode. And good luck cutting up this E3 week in a couple of weeks
Then cutting up the beach house! All their plans are based on fucking with the best of videos.
TheDarkKnight774
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Yea I was thinking about that one too. Given the amount of streaming and I'll be at my own beach house vacation at the time I'll really need that best of video
Primethius
Banned
I'm trying to catch up on the week's content. If I don't want to miss anything, are the YT uploads fully inclusive or do I need to go to the Twitch Vods?
TheDarkKnight774
Member
I think the only things missing from the YouTube updates is the stream warmups (which I'd guess will just stay on twitch), friend code, trailer jones, frame trap and easy update that are getting their uploads done later.
Easiest consumption if you want to watch everything would be the twitch Vods (if they don't have things muted) as you have to jump around less
Primethius
Banned
Got it, thanks!
The YouTube uploads might also be missing some stuff in between the podcasts and the impressions. Neither the EZA Podcast or Day 1 Impressions include the botched podcast outro ("I am loving these microtransactions") which was pretty funny. Hopefully Blood highlights full Day 1 and 2 streams, so nothing small like that gets lost to time when Twitch eventually deletes those past broadcasts. So far Day 3 is the only one that's been fully highlighted on Twitch.
TheDarkKnight774
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Catching up on last nights BvW. Haha Kyle can't comprehend the Silver Surfer NES music he's hearing
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.
A good coverage of E3 in some ways, a lacking one in others.
- Drop the EZA Podcast and Friend Code live recordings next year. They took up hours of time and meant people couldn't get to their impressions in any sort of timeliness whatsoever. Frame Trap Noodles & Broth is the polar opposite in that Ben has crafted it to get impressions of games you wouldn't normally, and so is always a highlight. The other two are timesinks covering stuff you could just watch the press conference coverage OR, produce a Best Of like the clipped out stuff.
- Huber needs to tone down the fanboyism a bit, which I never thought I'd say. The discussion of Shadow of War back to back with Assassins Creed Origins meant I will never trust anything he has to say on either properties going forward. He was also getting real weird about Spider-Man compared to Batman Arkham. I love the guy usually, but this E3 he seemed a bit too dialled into repeating himself. He'd also better keep that Weekly Hunts promise to Ben.
- Technical Difficulties. It feels like we're almost there, but it's still a bit of a shitshow. That short period of time when Ian was on the computer, it was a reminder of how smoothly he produced the GT shows and the fact he got the Easy Update out on the day is insane. His opinions drive me crazy, but I wish EZA could afford him or Don full-time.
- Is there truly no way they can get into capping more footage and stuff from the floor? I find it hard to believe GameXplain have exclusive deals or whatever, but maybe they do. Is this a lack of laptops and capture units? Failing that, downloading the conferences and clipping out segments and stuff would be a good job for someone to do for an hour so we don't get Trailer Jones reviewing 'not the E3 trailers'. Definitely hope more doors open over the years so we get more stuff like the Ben and Igarashi interview.
- Kyle cannot rationally defend that 6.8.
Year One's E3 felt fresh due to the seat of pants nature, but this year it felt like you could really sense the limitations of not having an office/studio. Glad Jones has a better idea of what he must and mustn't attend next time around.
- Drop the EZA Podcast and Friend Code live recordings next year. They took up hours of time and meant people couldn't get to their impressions in any sort of timeliness whatsoever. Frame Trap Noodles & Broth is the polar opposite in that Ben has crafted it to get impressions of games you wouldn't normally, and so is always a highlight. The other two are timesinks covering stuff you could just watch the press conference coverage OR, produce a Best Of like the clipped out stuff.
- Huber needs to tone down the fanboyism a bit, which I never thought I'd say. The discussion of Shadow of War back to back with Assassins Creed Origins meant I will never trust anything he has to say on either properties going forward. He was also getting real weird about Spider-Man compared to Batman Arkham. I love the guy usually, but this E3 he seemed a bit too dialled into repeating himself. He'd also better keep that Weekly Hunts promise to Ben.
- Technical Difficulties. It feels like we're almost there, but it's still a bit of a shitshow. That short period of time when Ian was on the computer, it was a reminder of how smoothly he produced the GT shows and the fact he got the Easy Update out on the day is insane. His opinions drive me crazy, but I wish EZA could afford him or Don full-time.
- Is there truly no way they can get into capping more footage and stuff from the floor? I find it hard to believe GameXplain have exclusive deals or whatever, but maybe they do. Is this a lack of laptops and capture units? Failing that, downloading the conferences and clipping out segments and stuff would be a good job for someone to do for an hour so we don't get Trailer Jones reviewing 'not the E3 trailers'. Definitely hope more doors open over the years so we get more stuff like the Ben and Igarashi interview.
- Kyle cannot rationally defend that 6.8.
Year One's E3 felt fresh due to the seat of pants nature, but this year it felt like you could really sense the limitations of not having an office/studio. Glad Jones has a better idea of what he must and mustn't attend next time around.
Holundrian
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Can't wait for E3 cleanup impressions.
dickroach
Member
I mean, that's just not what EZA does....
GameXplain's a channel that show's game footage and then breaks it down. they didn't make exclusive deals, they had a camera and an MO.
there's gotta be 1000s of videos of game footage from the show floor all around youtube on various channels.
If only there was a way to combine beach house and E3 coverage into one!
I think their trailer scores felt inflated in general and I would agree with most of Kyle's criticisms -- the golden armor dude followed by uncharted climbing was a real low point and the scale at the end could have been done better to deliver the desired punch. Rest of it was "ok" that will be forgotten by next year.
"Batman combat" is also a valid criticism to bring up. Jones talking about it during Frame Trap also had the opposite of desired effect on me. Him saying how the devs said they'd want to bring their "best hand" to E3 and how they seemed to think a QTE fest would be that.....or the slow-mo stuff during gameplay....all those would be a huge turn-off for me too. All of it makes me think the devs are a couple years behind the curve on where game design is heading.
Not that I would disagree with Huber getting out of hand at times, but playing up their own quirks for entertainment is fine in my book.
somecrazymember
Banned
Sorry i must have missed something.. what are you talking about some beach house?
In august the Allies will go to a beach house and do 2 days of non-stop streaming (if I remember the details right)
They announced that at the end of their E3 coverage.
somecrazymember
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Ah ok, thanks
Bloodworth
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Yeah, interviews and direct feed are just not priorities for us anymore. I could easily book more of them. We had 50 appointments with every publisher we wanted and probably just as many invitations for games that either no one wanted or had time for.
E3 interviews can be particularly bad as devs are exhausted and get into a rut of saying the same thing all day long. The audience tends not to watch them either, so we've cut back on interviews unless we think they're particularly worthwhile.
For direct feed, it's often a bit redundant now as publishers pretty much all have full demos shown off before we even get to the show floor at times. We did get a few things like the Ni no Kuni II footage that was shown and some Destiny 2 PC footage we still need to get out there. A simple miscommunication prevented me from getting my Forza 7 session captured.
The other factor is that both direct feed and interviews take time to set up, which eats into valuable appointment time. So many E3's in years past I've stood by frustrated as a cameraman or tech tries to troubleshoot some problem as time whittles away. So in general, I've sided with getting to more appointments and more hands on / eyes on gameplay impressions.
E3 interviews can be particularly bad as devs are exhausted and get into a rut of saying the same thing all day long. The audience tends not to watch them either, so we've cut back on interviews unless we think they're particularly worthwhile.
For direct feed, it's often a bit redundant now as publishers pretty much all have full demos shown off before we even get to the show floor at times. We did get a few things like the Ni no Kuni II footage that was shown and some Destiny 2 PC footage we still need to get out there. A simple miscommunication prevented me from getting my Forza 7 session captured.
The other factor is that both direct feed and interviews take time to set up, which eats into valuable appointment time. So many E3's in years past I've stood by frustrated as a cameraman or tech tries to troubleshoot some problem as time whittles away. So in general, I've sided with getting to more appointments and more hands on / eyes on gameplay impressions.
Thanks, I'll probably end up doing things a bit differently format-wise for the e3 vids.
Not sure what this is about, his opinions on Shadow of War seemed mostly negative and he wasn't overly positive on AC either, not sure how either is an example of his "fanboyism." Unless you're just mad he talked about games in series he enjoys, regardless of whether he was positive or negative on them, and I think that would be a very unreasonable complaint.
WAR recon zero
Banned
Huber is a master of hype but his reviews are stellar and is very critical. Not getting the complain.
It's Pie and Beans, it's what he/she does.
ByteSizeRick
Neo Member
Thanks so much for the insight, Bloodworth. Agree completely on the redundancy of the demos. Maybe in the future hands on impressions could be done in sync with footage from some of those publisher demos, if only for a slightly more visual, polished look. Might be more involving (might also be too much work for not much difference).
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