Easy Allies Podcast #70 - July 26th 2017

[@nandosupes5858]

In my opinion, this is the best video game podcast in the world, proud to support you Allies thru Patreon. Wish you guys the best always.

[@robaustin_]

Correction: Jubei is one of the first ever Blazblue characters, but has never been playable. He's one of the 6 heroes who fought against the Black Beast in the Great Dark War!

[@berserkerdude]

Was about to comment that. To people who know BB it's a big deal, and since this was at EVO that's the audience most likely to know that.

[@JBlizzyFan]

*it's ben*

[@17Haru17]

But it hasn't Ben.

[@MrCrazyduck22]

JBlizzyFan It's BEN a while.

[@agentorange8530]

It's Ben Moore exclusive

[@RoraBeth]

One Week

[@tyke7324]

JBlizzyFan 🅱en

[@quagthias]

This whole podcast was extremely jolly. Huber was on fire, everyone was laughing, truly felt like just a bunch of friends hanging out, finding the hilarity in what can often feel like a very predictable videogame industry. This is just one reason why Easy Allies is the VG channel of choice.

[@nophoria]

Thank you guys for always putting time stamps in the description!

[@YogurtSalad]

I believe it was last episode when you guys were mentioning a game that would break the barrier for cross-play between Xbox and PlayStation. This episode is the first episode to mention Fortnite, which was the main catalyst for Sony to cave in to cross-play.

[@NoonDragoon]

Damn, Bosman with the great call that a CTR remaster would come before a new Crash.

[@DualOrangePins]

Brad' Trademark sign off has been the best for a long time and it definitely had the best PUNCH when we all first heard it back at GT but it's been a while and wow...Huber, that Kamehameha! was JUST what we needed!!

[@ThoresZ]

Correction: Jubei has been an NPC in BlazBlue's story campaigns since the very first game, but he has never been playable... until the EVO announcement.

[@ThoresZ]

Correction: Marvel vs Capcom Infinite is not the first Vs game to have unique tag-in dialogue ; Hulk also said funny things when tagging in characters in Marvel vs Capcom 3

[@BigBarkleyValley]

Been a $1 patron since day one. Thanks for the recognition Blood!

[@klojinum]

So happy to be on the roll call at the end now X)

[@exol720]

Jubei has been almost 10 years in the making. "He's a cool cat. Put him in last, behind f'n Abigail."

[@ZekeAxel]

Correction Kyle doesn't want. Jubei has been in BlazBlue since the first one (Calamity Trigger), who appeared in story mode, but he was not playable until now.

[@IYWTBeware]

An almost entirely irrelevant nugget about 1:00:17 Yatta (やった) is Japanese for "I did it!" This phrase has become prevalent in the Super Mario Maker kaizo (hard-level) community after a Japanese streamer cleared one of the most famous hard levels of early Mario Maker, Pit of Panga: P-Break (kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3LHeGipm7-JZpI). Yatta is very commonly used to celebrate the completion of a difficult level. Some Mario Maker players also use the phrase yattanai to refer to missing a level on the final jump.

[@quagthias]

Yatta will always be the Green Leaf Patrol song to me. I also was told that Yatta means "All right!"

[@phantomofvanitas]

I learned what it meant from Hiro from the tv shows Heroes.

[@masonvictoria4873]

Came for the head bob

[@ThoresZ]

Correction: Wolf Among Us does not end where Fables begins. There's still a reasonable gap in time between the end of the game and the first issue of the comic. Kind of a short time gap but still definitely enough time to tell a new story.

[@17Haru17]

Correction: Ruby Rose from her quasi-titular series was already in "RWBY: Grimm Eclipse," an indie wave-based co-op hack and slash game funded by Rooster Teeth Games which first launched July 5, 2016 before coming to consoles January of this year.

[@VGJunky]

I think that the point was that she wasn't in an Arc System Works game yet as opposed to everybody else revealed in that crossover trailer

[@VannTheDawn]

I think the reason why Tekken 7 has been getting a lot of hype lately is because 1. The Game is good, easy enough for beginners to pick up 2. It has a complete roster of characters, (except for maybe 3 characters, Eliza, Geese and another TBA char). Compared to sfv's 16 and although It has a season pass which adds 2 more chars, you don't really need it cuz you already have 36 available. And most players rarely play with 3 or more.

[@ron1919]

Tekken 7 is also an extremely well realized game. Very few technical issues, exceptionally well balanced, and has direct involvement from the community (Geese was the #2 most requested Guest Character from Harada's popularity poll hosted on his twitter). The game is also just fun. Have you tried King's chain throws in practice? Especially against Kuma? It's hilarious.

[@sonicstage1]

I was a big fan of GT reviews and Final Bossman. Only recently discovered Easy Allies. Loving the podcast.

[@Sin_City_Assassin]

Technical Correction: You missed an announcement. The announcement of Icons: Combat Arena, a "platform fighter" by Wavedash, whose members were part of the original Project M mod development team for Smash Bros. Brawl. It was shown at EVO stream.

[@frickthefuckoff]

That would have likely been at the bottom, to be fair.

[@Ben-do1bf]

Technically Tekken Tag Tournament 2 released with the Wii U's launch, making it a current gen Tekken before 7 but barely.

[@Bruno_Silv96]

Correction: Jubei from blazblue has never been a playable character and everyone has been asking for him since day one that's why it's a big deal that he will have his debut soon

[@richarddawson6514]

Slight corrections: -Jones, a remake of a bigger gap came out this year in Fire Emblem Echoes which was a remake of a 1992 NES game. Besides that, Reviewed Game Wonderboy came out in 1986, -Kyle, Face correction for a fighting game was not new to MvC:I. There were huge complaints about Injustice 2's faces and Netherrealm reworked their entire mocap work to improve it.

[@harakoia]

Correction: Jones said that Crash would have the biggest gap between a remaster/remake and the original release in a while. Atleast few Lucas Arts remasters has it beat, Full Throttle 1995-2017 and Day of the Tentacle 1993-2016. There could be more but these two popped into my mind.

[@XxGimmeDANGERxX]

From New Jersey and i hear car for kids almost every day

[@RandomGuy285]

K-A-R-S KARS FOR KIDS

[@DurosKlav]

Pretty sure its nationwide.

[@quagthias]

Correction: there was a remake recently with a bigger gap from original release than Crash. You guys even reviewed it. It was on the master system I believe.

[@y2kyle89]

Wonder Boy: Dragon's Trap?

[@MOONDOGGIESWTF]

One day Don will be on a podcast. That will be a good day.

[@miendude]

Dude, all the Allies having to live together in a BEACH HOUSE?! If only the walls could talk... There's a Netflix show in there somewhere lol

[@drmyster3160]

Small correction, Under Night in Birth was developed by French Bread and Ecole Software, Arc System Works only published it.

[@bacoby13]

Gross oversimplification on what Mark Hamill said about Episode 8. He said he told Rian Johnson that he fundamentally disagreed with virtually everything he had done to Luke Skywalker in Ep8, but he later recanted that, saying that he was actually just surprised by it and eventually came around to it... L&R

[@VGJunky]

o so he only hated for a while as opposed to always

[@brawly]

meaning he was told by Disney to shut his mouth

[@bacoby13]

@BrawlEmAll Probably true, but my contention was that he didn't actually state unequivocally that he didn't like the script or the movie. Felt it wasn't fair to put words in his mouth.

[@NetConsole]

BrawlEmAll: True. He went from being sincere to Disney silencing him for wrongthink.

[@thewhitewolf4968]

Jacob Parker I think we won't really know unless you talk to him one on one. Hence that he later changed his opinion because maybe just maybe Disney didn't want him saying that.

[@Mokikimoki]

Jubei's addition is pretty significant. He was a story character since the first BlazBlue and the fan community asked for 9 years now for him to be added as a playable character.

[@Skarlet_Sun]

One HUGE factor of Tekken 7 that ppl under appreciate: the guest character, Akuma, actually has a significant presence in the story mode. A guest character integrated in the story of a fighting game is unprecedented and I hope netherrealm does the same for their guest characters going forward as well.

[@nickgcs]

EVOs announcements significance: 1 - Geese in Tekken 7 2 - TIED ARIKA's EX and Arc sys Blazblue Cross Tag Battle 4 - TIED Abigail, Jubei and Trunks reveals 7 - MVCI

[@tjbetts2]

Correction: the Kars4Kids radio jingle premiered in New York in 1999, expanded to Chicago in 2004, the west coast in 2005, and the rest of the country by 2007. There's also a TV version.

[@daviddorsey6460]

Correction: FE Echoes (a remake of FE 2) has a longer time of release date to remake release. FE Gaiden was released in 1992 in Japan. So that's 25 years vs Crash 1's 21 years. However, I know FE Echoes did have heavy changes to the original, so its status as a "remake" can be put into question.

[@thereflextester_]

I can't tell if Kyle not being able to stop saying "fishy" each week is a bit or not at this point

[@Ahlgreenz]

It's definitely a bit, it's his new Shrek. I don't know when it started, but he's been going on about "fishy" for a while now, and I just know that while reading this comment, he's rubbing his slimy hands together saying "Yeeees, yeeeeeeeeeeeees!".

[@GOONGGWP]

Zach it's a weak bit. I'd rather him bring Shrek back instead.

[@callum1234]

Zach haha when did Kyle say shrek? Cause I too love to goof on shrek

[@hoopyy782]

It's always a bit... You have to keep in mind that Kyle is a horrible person.

[@DeviMon1]

Shrek wasn't a bit. Princess Bride is simply a worse movie than Shrek, end of story.

[@greenbendy]

44:57 Correction! A month or two ago Fire Emblem Echoes came out, a remake of the 1992 NES game Fire Emblem Gaiden, and as the first Crash game came out in '96, FE has the longer 'gap' between original and remake.

[@k1ttehcat]

Correction: At roughly 1:43:09 Kyle states that Don's Dino Frontier drawing has the size of "4 pixels" on the image captured by the camera. However, even at 144p, which is the lowest supported resolution on KZbin, Don's drawing appears to be 7 pixels high and 9 pixels wide, making up for a grand total of 63 pixels (as proven by the provided imgur link) i.imgur.com/2kPZXst.jpg Of course it would be possible to get it to actually be 4 pixels (2x2) when watching the podcast on a very low resolution phone, hopefully resulting in a significant enough downscaling of the pixels actually displayed. However for this correction I limited myself to the source footage only, for everyones sanity. So I must conclude that it would've been perfectly possible for a huge chunk, if not all, of the audience to clearly make out the Dino Frontier picture drawn by Don.

[@bigbro890]

Tekken 7 is so successful because it is so good, simple as that. The word of mouth spreads quickly in the fighting game community

[@tomsawyer5069]

Kyle, a scaled down battlegrounds game mode would just play like a frustrating free for all. I don't think it would work for many games if it was simply "scaled-down" to fit them, Huber and Brandon definitely right on this one

[@NendoNow]

We get the Cars for Kids jingle in Northern California too. It's torture.

[@pirajacinto4]

It's amazing to listen to a fighting game talk with people who aren't into fighting games. It's such a reversal of conversations. I guess this is how the other side of the coin looks at things and really makes me wonder how other people think that aren't always playing these fighting games are like and their view of things.

[@Jayzgame]

Correction: AIM is Advanced Idea Mechanics. They're sort of like Hydra or the Hand but focused more on domination through technological innovation. The main villain in Iron Man 3, Aldrich Killian was the head of AIM. L&R

[@VGJunky]

nice that Kyle got it mostly though

[@iXiClub]

Correction at 19:59 -- Blood labels Crash a remaster, but it is a remake. The art being completely remade is significant enough to warrant the label of remake, not to mention everything else that was added. A remaster simply increases the resolution etc. without significantly overhauling parts of the game to the degree a remake does. -Julian/FUNKNOWN EDIT: I guess I should note that I felt compelled to point this out because this was a "big thing" on GAF lol and I remember the last time you guys spoke about it, there was some disagreements on it. Anyway, good episode as always! Thanks :]

[@normalguyhere]

Correction: NPD only counts digital sales when its specifically says so. Those PS4 titles did not include digital. Some of those Nintendo titles did.

[@y2kyle89]

Correction: Kars 4 Kids jingle plays in Massachusetts

[@KericInfinitum]

Correction: Arc System Works doesn't own Under Night In-Birth they are just the publisher for the console versions in Japan. Under Night In-Birth is owned/developed by French Bread.

[@crisis54]

Correction: We get the cars 4 kids jingle up here in Toronto Canada too. So it isn't just an LA thing.

[@SuntoryKick]

When you were talking about the drawings in Street Fighter V, that was the character story mode not the actual cinematic story mode. That was fully animated like Injustice and Mortal Kombat. As for Tekken, if you look at the numbers, that franchise has always sold incredibly well.

[@FreeDoM_nl]

Why is Jubei last? At least that character was really wanted by that player base. Nobody wanted or cares about fucking abigail....uggghhhhh... capcom why you do this to me.

[@sanguinepenguin9576]

It sometimes is their job to give us something we didn't know we wanted they did that with Abigail for a lot of people, he is really interesting and has a lot of character. Not everyone has to like every character

[@robaustin_]

Yeah Jubei has been requested since 2009, crazy

[@Rayuzx]

While it does infuriate me too they are clearly aren't that familiar with the story of Blazblue.

[@sqrrlface]

Look up the song "So Far Away" by Lazerhawk. Someone made a music video syncing up the cartoon Silverhawks with the song perfectly for some great nostalgia and chill 80s sounding music.

[@44realwar]

CORRECTION: Bosman says the dino that Don drew at 1:43:06 is just 4 pixels, this is false, the dino: if fullscreen 1080p and on 1080p monitor is ~40x40 pixels, resulting in ~1600 pixels total, if in small player, the size is ~15x15 pixels, resulting in ~225 pixels.

[@sdc3536]

Correction on the Mark Hamill not liking episode 8. What he said was when he first got the script he disagreed with Luke's character arc and how he was being portrayed in the movie, however he has since come around after filming and no longer feels that way.

[@skinnyluigi]

Did Kyle predict Infinite the Hedgehog on an earlier podcast? Does anyone remember what podcast that clip was in?

[@shawnconner5186]

Heads up to turn your volume down a bit during the sign off lol. Great episode, Allies!

[@CyclonSilver]

The fact that none of you had any idea who Jubei, Jedah or even fricking Geese Howard were saddens me a little. Jubei is one of the most important characters in Blazblue lore since the very beginning, while Jedah is the final boss of the most well known and reverred Darkstalkers game and has had a cameo appearance in Project X Zone along with Morrigan, Demitri and Lilith. As for Geese Howard... where do I even begin... He's been playable in more than 20 video games, is the final boss of most Fatal Fury entries as Kyle said, which makes him one of the most relevant SNK bosses of all times, and he's Terry Bogard's archnemesis and Rock Howard's father. His dub of broken english is also a meme, hence that Tekken trailer. It's honestly kinda crazy that not a one of you very knowledgeable video game players reacted to that name.

[@jamievaughn1485]

Can I just say that your content is so good. You guys don't curse like crazy, act stupid, you just act like yourselves and seem to enjoy it. Thanks!

[@SStyle5]

Re: The NPD Discussion I'd ask the panel to watch July's NPD to see how EVO affects the charts.

[@magnainsomnia]

A little dissapointed that they didnt talk about the KH3 toy story world reveal and release window announcement

[@MrMagz924]

Correction: Lego Ninjago is in the same universe as the other Lego movies. The Green Ninja was mentioned by name in The Lego Movie.

[@LeafhopperV]

Correction: Jubei has never been playable. He is in the story but we requested him for like 8 years to be playable. Also I disagree that, MvC:I being any better than it did last time. The game still looks bad imo and Capcom's output making fighting games is kinda lame. Sure wish Ben was around for the Evo talk lol.

[@Kruai01]

Whoa the Podcast Halftime buzzer scared the crap out of me

[@sanguinepenguin9576]

CORRECTION it is the reality stone that sends out the slow projectile, the power stone is responsible for a quick attack that causes a wall bounce

[@FebreGundam]

2h podcast? *YES!*

[@KingMayuke]

shoulda talked about how crash was only available for one day in june

[@johnnyray2955]

Correction: Metal Gear Solid the Twin Snakes remade the first game in the MGS2 engine making it a lot harder in spots very similarly, in my opinion, to what happened to crash 1

[@YoungsterSkaymore]

CORRECTION: I live in New Jersey and had heard the Cars for Kids jingle a million times, so I don't think it's a region specific thing. Also, I think it does a good job at being a jingle. It's simple, catchy, and makes me remember the company.

[@YoungsterSkaymore]

Education connection tho

[@gvulture1277]

I hope you guys cover a tiny bit of other Esports going on right now such as Korea televising the very first mini tournament of StarCraft Remaster and a very old Tournament called OSL that originally started in 1999 to 2012 is making a return for StarCraft as well as the upcoming Dota 2 international of a total prize pool of 22.7 million dollars because I think it's cool to talk about these events going on that are changing the way society is embracing video games as a real part of peoples lives now.

[@robaustin_]

Good energy Kyle

[@Erick.Galdino]

I know it gives more work, but it would be nice to show some clip of the game under discussion, especially in the Game Announcements segment.

[@kellymccabe9154]

A.I.M. is Advanced Idea Mechanics, and they have fought Iron Man, but they've fought a lot of Marvel heroes as well. M.O.D.O.K. is connected to that group as well.

[@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu]

1:38:49 i'm curious of what easy allies plans for expansion would be if they really took off to the point where their patreon got them an office + studio, and they got to a point where they would need to hire more staff, i wonder how things would change and what form easy allies would take at that point?

[@shtiken]

Blood, some publishers provide digital sales numbers and are included in NPD's, others don't. For instance, Nintendo numbers don't include anything digital. Usually the list indicates what is included for each item on it.

[@VectoredPromise]

Kyle I'd like to make a suggestion, that you could remind the audience whenever someone mentions a date for a video, or in Huber's case a livestream, that they can check that date in their local timezone on your website. Not saying this for myself but it could be a bit more helpful for some of the audience that may be first timers or casual(?) viewers.

[@LordKohaegan]

Huber is so right about the wolf among us, it's by far the best Tell Tale game, can't wait for the sequel.

[@jexthegamer]

Excellent show today!

[@acejustin3438]

I completely forgot about Huber's signoff. thank you for that

[@mariobilo8430]

NPD are based on revenue, so having a sale will not shoot you up the rankings as you're earning less revenue per copy. E3 sale was for PSN and brick and mortar retailers/

[@1boshow]

Can you do Podcast Halftime ending the news segment and going into L&R please.

[@1boshow]

That's a fishy reply

[@Tallguyalec]

I actually love it when we get a little more news after podcast half-time. It makes the transition to L&R feel more fun for some reason.

[@dirtybanana3]

CORRECTION skullomania was not the only memorable character from street fighter EX.. garuda was also memorable!..well at least i remember him..

[@RandomPerson-jc9ee]

Huber's Final Word was OVER 9000!!!!

[@nitaiginzburg8689]

1:00:00 it's a mishmash of different video game characters which don't belong to the same world, they're in very different styles. Smash works hard on making all the different video game characters fit the same world and not look weird, Infinite seems to kinda drop the ball on that.

[@mctstudios1]

Correction: Longest gap? Not sure, but Wonder Boy is certainly longer

[@TechMetalRules]

All my nephews are crazy for Crash and it warms my heart.

[@hugo59208]

1:03:00 CORRECTION A.I.M(Advanced Idea Mechanics) is an organization of scientists dedicated to the acquisition of power and the overthrow of all government by technological means. A.I.M. was organized during World War II as the scientific research division of the subversive military organization Hydra. In the late 1960’s A.I.M. seceded from Hydra because of political differences and began independent operations.

[@Largentina.]

Jones said, 'Fortnite has "EVOLVED."' haha, get it?

[@azimulhoque1497]

MvC:I just feels like they keep reusing assets. Can't get hyped for it too much sadly.

[@ron1919]

The part that really gets me going is that if they're just going to reuse old assets anyways, why can't they start with a more impressive roster? I mean, Spencer and King Arthur got in, but NONE of the X-Men qualified? The Marvel side of the Roster feels like the weakest link, especially paired with allegations that MvC:I is MCU centric, hence the absent X-Men. Real talk: All Capcom has to do (or potentially, what Disney has to do), is allow the X-Men from UMvC3 to be part of the starting roster. That would stop most of the animosity towards MvC:I. Whoever decided to exclude the X-Men in favor of the MCU couldn't make the distinction that fans of the movies are not the target audience for a Marvel vs Capcom game. The demographic most excited for MvC games are the FGC, and the cardinal sin of fighting games is to exclude existing characters (namely staple characters) from the roster for no reason. Or worse, for a terrible reason. "Functions". For MvC:I to shake off all this ill will towards it, it needs to reverse its stance on a variety of areas. Some of it is actually doable before its scheduled release. The gameplay is actually solid, and allows for amazing plays from those who know what they are doing. It's a great spectacle that is prime "EVO moment" material. The things that MvC:I needs to change are surprisingly simple, just from a PR angle: Shake up the roster, add some interesting characters. Capcom has a whole host of original characters that would work everyone into a frenzy. Captain Commando, Jin, and Asura are prime choice picks for a game like MvC:I. On Marvel's side? Bring back the X-men, and reintroduce a couple of characters. Rogue, Gambit, and Sabretooth are great picks, because they have been in prior MvC games, but never a 3D title. Another tactic would be Free DLC. What with all the reused assets, bringing back legacy characters from UMvC3 for free would go a long way in the public eye. Sure, we'd pick it apart, saying that MvC:I was just another rushed product, but it's better than the barebones roster we have now. I have to stop myself. I'm going too much into a rant...and Huber bringing up DmC isn't helping.

[@Neoxon619]

The decision to leave out the X-Men at launch was on Marvel Entertainment, or more specifically Ike Perlmutter. The X-Men ban lifted 2 months before MvCI was announced, which was far too late for the launch roster. Lego Marvel 2 is also facing a similar situation.

[@WhomGodGiveth]

I like that reveal with Will Farrell, felt it was will deserve!

[@TheOhrenberger]

correction: the cars for kids jingle absolutely plays in Boston. it's not just a California thing. That jingle is the worst!

[@GhostFrequency2]

That shrug at Geese Howard hurt my feelings.

[@PyaZ68]

Correction: Huber DID convince Kyle that a AAA-DLC-Developer can create something innovative. Thus Huber achieved his goal ^^

[@growngamer2121]

In respect to Huber's sign off and in the immortal words of Hank Hill, "That boy ain't right." He sure is endearing, though.

[@ChewableToast]

That live uninstall on Talking Syndrome will go down in history XD

[@fuseman99]

Lord of the Rings Online reference (1:37:49), top-notch

[@unversedhero6028]

I love how PC users love to complain about how exclusives are "bad for the industry", yet they support unfinished early access games that never end up fully releasing.

[@tootall1999]

Paragon did the same thing with early release download-then-pay, so it looks like it's a move by Epic.

[@DaRkLoRd-rc5yu]

i feel like minecraft started the whole hunger games/ battle royale thing in gaming, PUBG just adapted an idea that we all had since the first hunger games movie came out...

[@Meerkody]

The Kars for Kids ads are not just a L.A. thing. I hear the ads on the radio too, and I live in NJ.

[@JBlizzyFan]

I would easily give money to a polished, non-glitchy, non-early acces battle royale style game