Easy Allies Podcast #231 - September 11, 2020 - Ad Free
Added 2020-09-11 17:57:49 +0000 UTCVideo Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOf53NcDvZE
Note: We lost Ben's audio this week so had to make some adjustments to add it from a group mix of the episode. Originally the file was missing parts of his audio, but both versions have been replaced.
Xbox had a week of price and launch date announcements they didn’t plan for, but somehow managed to still pull off with impressive results. In the midst of this historic week in the battle for next-gen supremacy, Ubisoft tries to steer the focus away from their internal mistakes and on to a few big end-of-year releases, and Nintendo drops some musou news worth celebrating.
00:00:59 - Corrections
00:03:24 - Silver Lining
00:04:33 - Ubisoft Forward
00:21:41 - Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity
00:33:08 - Xbox Series S Announcements
00:45:28 - Xbox Series X Announcements
00:56:58 - EA Play Coming to Game Pass
01:01:38 - Also This Week...
01:06:47 - L&R - Too Good at Tony Hawk
01:13:29 - L&R - Game: Guess That Gaming Engine
01:17:15 - L&R - What games need random dice rolls?
01:21:08 - L&R - What gaming memoirs do we want?
01:25:55 - Time for Bets
01:31:22 - Closing
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Comments
What I find funny about this whole rally against "cancel culture" is it ends up looking a lot like cancel culture. If everyone just stopped for 5 minutes and made an effort to empathize, I'm sure could appreciate the irony of the whole situation
Mango
2020-09-14 16:02:32 +0000 UTCThe discussion about whatever Ubisoft supposedly did was very off-putting. I listened to the awkwardness for a few minutes then turned the podcast off. I'm sick of all the cancel culture shit. I dont know, and I dont want to know. Why not? Because so much of this stuff has been guilty until proven innocent, or a whole load of hysteria about some minor misunderstanding.
Estaban
2020-09-14 12:00:21 +0000 UTCA book recommendation. Not an autobiography but one of the best video game biographies I've ever read: "Masters of Doom" by David Kushner. It traces the founding and early years of id software focusing on John Carmack and John Romero through to the latter's founding of Ion Storm, and the release of Daikatana and Deus Ex. A really fascinating piece of video game history written in a very readable manner.
Greg
2020-09-13 21:57:18 +0000 UTCFollowup - The book is actually being made into a documentary from CBS All Access, and the trailer dropped just a few hours after I made the last comment. You can watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/YSwMzLNmpCc I still very highly recommend the book!
Happy Gaming
2020-09-12 20:50:52 +0000 UTCPS5 and nightwire next week...ooh boy.
2020-09-12 18:50:45 +0000 UTCThat's fed by the same files you're looking at here. You'll need to redownload from the feed. -Bloodworth
Easy Allies
2020-09-12 18:47:56 +0000 UTCBen’s audio is also missing in the early editions audio podcast. 😅
Bram
2020-09-12 12:52:42 +0000 UTCThanks for getting Ben's audio back!
Cruo
2020-09-12 11:39:39 +0000 UTCQuick fix on the audio, thanks guys!
Kert419
2020-09-12 05:34:14 +0000 UTCSort of correction: On this episode books were discussed and I just wanted to recommend "Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation" by Blake J Harris. It's written in more of a dramatization fashion, from character perspectives rather than a historical memoir, but was based on real interviews, events, people and situations that happened during the 90s from the sides of both Sega and Nintendo. It primarily follows Tom Kalinske as he began as CEO of Sega of America and the struggles of the company battling with Nintendo being the juggernaut it grew into at the time, but pretty fairly looks at both sides and the struggles of marketing, multinational company cultural disagreements, courtroom battles and more. It's a pretty thick read, but I loved every bit of it and would recommend it to anyone hoping to learn more about the era and the people behind the decisions that were made then, as well as why certain events transpired.
Happy Gaming
2020-09-12 02:47:47 +0000 UTCOnce we update the file on Patreon, that's handled automatically. There's nothing else for us to do on our end. I just listened on my app and it's playing the updated file. -Bloodworth
Easy Allies
2020-09-11 22:40:11 +0000 UTCThank you. Have you replaced on podcast services? There isn't a new download showing.
TravelingSnowman
2020-09-11 22:35:41 +0000 UTCThank you. I thought Ben was being cute by pantomiming his Zelda take.
Robert I.
2020-09-11 22:26:33 +0000 UTCI thought that was some kinda joke that I missed the boat on 😂
ZatVunDoot
2020-09-11 21:52:50 +0000 UTCI cant believe Ben’s takes on Hyrule warriors were so controversial that it warranted censorship.
My Latin Lover
2020-09-11 21:41:37 +0000 UTCNo mention of Realms Deep? There were a bunch of game announcements at that event. I figured you would have at least acknowledged it happened.
Cruo
2020-09-11 20:23:09 +0000 UTCSucks about ben's audio. Hope there is a fix for it.
2020-09-11 19:55:01 +0000 UTCCorrection: Ian mentioned dlss upscaling for the XboxSS making it look better in 4k, but DLSS is an Nvidia feature and Xbox runs on AMD gpu, remains to be seen if they have some sort of AI based upscale.
2020-09-11 19:53:27 +0000 UTCI’ll just wait for the weekend upload then, don’t want to miss Bens Zelda take
Gladiuswingzero
2020-09-11 19:10:33 +0000 UTCPlanning to re-upload or better off just waiting for the Sunday upload?
SoulCaster
2020-09-11 18:52:55 +0000 UTCNote: We're aware that Ben's audio is missing through a large portion of the podcast and we'll fix it ASAP. If there's anything significant outside of the Hyrule Warriors segment, please let me know here with a time stamp. -Bloodworth
Easy Allies
2020-09-11 18:44:27 +0000 UTCIt's about 22 minutes in to 32 minutes in when it comes back
2020-09-11 18:43:14 +0000 UTCIs about at minute 22.
2020-09-11 18:36:44 +0000 UTCCan you give a time stamp? I'll pass it on to Brandon, but I'm scrubbing through and having a hard time finding the spot you're having issues with. -Bloodworth
Easy Allies
2020-09-11 18:34:31 +0000 UTCThe entire audio for Ben on his Hyrule Warriors take is mia.
Delissi
2020-09-11 18:31:01 +0000 UTC
