Easy Allies Podcast #73 - August 16th 2017

I just got the trophy Huber's talking about in Sonic Mania yesterday and had the exact same reaction <3

Nicholas Poer

Back alley shady cat deals

Nicholas Poer

Possible clarification, don't know if anyone said it yet but they announced 2 persona dancing games as well as Q2. persona 3: dancing moon night, and persona 5: dancing star night.

Correction about Sonic, Shadow the hedgehog is not a good game, it's A PHENOMENAL game.

JenkyFrankins

Possible clarification: The Xbox 360 Marble game is most likely Marble Blast 3D Ultra, which has sadly been delisted on the Xbox Marketplace, so hopefully one of the allies already has it downloaded, otherwise it might be lost forever.

Walking through Walmart, and I noticed in the games section, there was only 1 game title with an exclamation point in the entire section. MONSTER JAM: CRUSH IT! Crazy how times change lol L & R

Jordan Kirk

Just wanted to point out Sonic games will be looking to hit 60/30 FPS and so they wouldnt be looking to push the PS4 or Xbox at all, not that they will hit it.

Correction: Kyle claimed there has never been a year (since the first game's release) without a new Sonic game. This is *almost* true. Sega missed the year 2000. Otherwise, yeah. o____O

iconmaster

My sisters and I played the crap out of Pandemonium! For sure one of our favorite memories of playing together on the PS1.

"Where's the fun in that" Exactly the game is not fun unless you pony up. Should just stop playing it, not throw away your money. Lost of other fun games out there. L&R

Regarding not showing swastikas in Wolfenstein multiplayer. The reason for that might also be that it is illegal in some countries (for example Germany) to show swastikas for entertainment purpose. You can show them in the historical context, in art, for educational purposes and so on but not in parades, everyday life or as a gimmick in an entertainment product. So the multiplayer would’ve been banned in Germany and some eastern European countries if it would feature swastikas. For the same reason there are no swastikas in the Wolfenstein campaigns in the German version.

Jones is enjoying the final word situation soo much xD

Sebastian Erben

If they were really smart, they would release Sonic Maker and let you create your own levels. The stuff the community would come up with would be fantastic. Just keep copying Mario

GW Fawkes

Correction: Brad and Damiani are good at the platypus noise. Ben and Ian; not so much.

Greendog, not a great game, you are neither a dog, nor green. You might be a surfer although you do not surf in the game. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kY6AlDOK0Y" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kY6AlDOK0Y</a>

Sean Dupree

Huber, Huber, Huber, we're gonna want to have Huber's final word every episode now....

Randy Verschueren

I never scream in posts, or on the internet so sorry..... PLLEEEEASE PLAY GREENDOG !!!!! PLEEEEEEEEASE !

Randy Verschueren

Huber needs to sign off more often.

POKEY CLYDE

CORRECTION! Or at least this seems like it should be stated. I was lucky enough to have my community comment selected last month, and in it I mentioned how much I wanted a Persona dancing game sequel announced, and I got my wish granted. But I had yet to play Persona 4 before I played Dancing all night, I just like rhythm games. Because I liked the music so much I went back and started up Persona 4 for the first time. So there is at least one person who wanted to play Dancing all night on it's own merit! L&amp;R

Chip Damage Mike

Counterpoint to Huber's disdain for microtransactions; I get to play maybe three rounds a day of Hearthstone. If it wasn't for microtransactions I would have maybe 3% of the cards available and would never stand a chance anywhere. Where's the fun in that. At least now I get to have some cool cards. I'm willing to bet the number of players that spend enough money to complete a set are less than 1%. Most players will spend a "good amount" maybe, just to have a "good enough" collection. Also, I want to see the receipts on DLC items that are just as good as Legendary Raid drops. ;-) L&amp;R

The Hashtagonist

Also, a bit of history. The victory was largely due to the USSR's involvement. The U.S joined in late and was reluctant to do so, they really only entered the war because of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The U.S, undortunately denied refugee status to the Jewish people fleeing. Another little tidbit was that the U.S state department in 1937 described Hitler as a moderate standing in the way of left from getting to power.

2:33:24 in this video if you're curious <a href="https://m.twitch.tv/videos/163869399?desktop-redirect=true" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://m.twitch.tv/videos/163869399?desktop-redirect=true</a>

Castno

Kyle's rant on the P5 dancing trailer was funny. I loved P4D and I'm sure I'll love P3D and P5D. If you want to gauge how excited people are for these games I suggest you search out the live footage of the trailer reveals at the Persona Live concert held a few weeks ago and listen to the crowds reaction, especially once the P3 protag? Started talking. Their excitement gave me chills. Great episode as usual guys! L&amp;R!

Castno

Wolfenstein tagline: Get some practice in folks!

I am wondering-- Kyle won't play persona 5 because the hero is "too cool", but will skip the dancing game because it is "too dorky". Maybe we should get the dorky dancing directly into P5 and see if it averages out to "just right".

Patrick Dixon

I have responded more in depth below, but these posts are totally over the top exaggerations with no evidence. Gamemakers are taking a risk in making fan games, but we don't need to pretend that there is a battlefield of ruined lives due to fan games being made-- it is simply untrue. (And to answer a few common responses, NO, a settlement wouldn't prevent the public record of the filing of the original lawsuit, nor would an NDA. Further, even if someone signed a settlement and NDA at the mere threat of the lawsuit, that would NOT prevent a developer from acknowledging that they made the game or talking about how crappy there life became thereafter. The NDA would just cover the specifics of the actual settlement agreement itself.

Patrick Dixon

Yeah, except that his answers are constantly BS across all of his AMA and posts. YES, the copyright holders could sue the game makers. However, they do not. In multiple attempts, VGA has NEVER posted the link to ANY lawsuit in which a game dev was sued. However, it IS TRUE that you may receive a cease and desist letter which may include some extortion attempt at a settlement which some may sign. However, that is very different than these companies actually bothering to litigate these issues. A game company is not going to pay tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to sue you when you voluntarily remove a game that you have made no money on, you are mistaken. Any successful lawsuit would only get a judgment, which in almost all cases would be worth nothing as the fan game is likely made by a poor sap who has no money to pay the judgment (unless they are one of the lucky souls who could actually pay a large judgement). I am not saying to make fan games, but I am tired of the fear mongering that VGA puts out there that is totally out of line with the actual risk that people face.

Patrick Dixon

Another note because you asked for proof or examples: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/VideoGameAttorney/comments/6aesgv/nope_fan_games_can_still_ruin_your_life_free/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/user/VideoGameAttorney/comments/6aesgv/nope_fan_games_can_still_ruin_your_life_free/</a> reddit ama with real lawyer on this subject has real life experience with this actually happening. So please stop advising people make fan games.

I am glad you guys are covering there COD Nazi angle. In many ways, I don't have the issue with Wolfenstein as that is a clear satire, but COD tries to glorify the "real" war experience.... Honestly, these games always gross me out. To consider the absolutely HORRIFIC situation that was going on at the time, it seems to trivialize the evils of the Nazis and the sacrifices that the US made by turning it into twice based entertainment...

Patrick Dixon

At least the Splatoon Amiibo sets aren't any stronger than the stuff you buy in the game. Because you can only get them with their stock main abilities, they're actually less versatile sets of gear. Some of the stuff you can get from Zelda Amiibo ARE more powerful than things you can get in the game, either at the time you scan them or period in some cases. Also, in Splatoon 1 the Amiibo had a much more offensive secondary feature. They allowed you to play the campaign with different weapons, something that was removed from their functionality in Splatoon 2, because that became a standard game feature that was expanded from max four possible weapons to play the campaign with to nine. The new exclusive feature for Amiibo in Splatoon 2 is a photo mode where you can save gear sets to the Amiibo to dress the character of the figure up and take pictures of your Inkling with them dressed in the outfit you put them in at set places in the hub. The hub's visuals in the photo mode reflect the current state of your hub, including Splatfests.

MBUN

I never comment on stuff - but Kyle please DO NOT advise people to make fan games. I like you Kyle - but literally everything you said on this subject is wrong. Please see: <a href="http://askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/163909523223/i-know-your-stance-on-fangames-is-very-dont" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/163909523223/i-know-your-stance-on-fangames-is-very-dont</a> and : <a href="http://askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/163948946983/why-are-fan-games-illegal-and-no-one-should-make" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/163948946983/why-are-fan-games-illegal-and-no-one-should-make</a> Quote from second article: "You won’t hear about the ones whose lives are ruined, because they ease up on the judgement in a settlement. One of the inevitable elements of the settlement (and the defendant always takes the settlement, because it only mostly ruins their lives instead of completely ruining their lives) is a signed non-disclosure agreement, swearing the signer to secrecy about the matter."

Two corrections :P Persona Q is canon to both Persona 3 and Persona 4. Disaster: Day of Crisis is a Monolith Soft-developed and Nintendo-published game that was never released in the US. Disaster Report 4 was the game cancelled after the 2011 Japan tsunami. The first game in the franchise was released in Europe as SOS: The Final Escape, and the second one was known in the West as Raw Danger! (with an exclamation mark!). The game was actually getting some pretty good previews back then... and the developer, irem, almost had to close down their doors due to the cancellation. Interstingly, the IP has been sold to a different developer, and they're apparently going to release Disaster Report 4 as a PlayStation VR game sometime soon.

Pedro Lippe

My biggest issue with the discussion on Shadow of War...Also, if you didn't have time to grind and wanted to speed things up, didn't we use to use these things called cheat codes instead of paying money? You can still use things like Cheat Engine on PC to give yourself extra money, so people will simply use cheat engine in their single player game. (Unless they've made the game online only, which people will just wait for the cracked version of the game) Deus Ex Mankind Divided also had single player microtransactions (Although not lootboxes).

Correction Kyle: Sonic World actually came to Steam/PC. Do not ask me why or how well it did... but its there

Sonic Mania RPG.

Sonic Mania is a once in a life time deal, it won't work a second time, even if you keep going in the 2d route you will need a completely new game for the next one. In my opinion fighting Mario in platforming is a fool's errant, Sonic is not going to beat Mario in the jumping game, but there is one advantage Sonic has that will trump Mario every time in game design (if done correctly) : scope. Due to Sonic's speed his games should always be bigger in scope, grander in design, to go from underground to the skies in seconds, to traverse a huge city in a single level, these are the things Mario will and should never match. My dream Sonic game is a game that is so grand that it encompass the entire planet and the space above, where one mission takes you through an ancient ruin in the tropics to the bustling city resembling Vegas then up to the skies against flying death machines and end up in space dog fighting(on foot with no vehicle, bouncing from enemy to enemy) with Eggman's space conquering fleet and finally clashing against Metal Sonic during reentry with no (visible) loading and QTEs breaking up the action. Think the entirety of Armor Core 4 For Answer in one world map with Sonic, just thinking about Sonic moving 700 and more miles per hour fighting an enemy from so far away that you can't even see it while dodging its cannon fire which are blasting holes through a metropolis gets me so exite about what a great 3d Sonic game can do.

BHL

"Because she doesn't ride you when you're regular Link"-Kyle Bossman, EZA 2017

SnakeEyes

I normally listen to the audio at work but after hearing Huber's sign off I had to load up the video. I was not disappointed

My Latin Lover

Shadow of War has a ranked multiplayer...

Chris H

Yep, absolutely true

Mikehook1

Sorry kyle, Correction time. Those "Other" sonic characters were in 2D style on Knuckles Chaotix on Sega 32X.

ZyloWolfBane

Dammit Microsoft, you had to wait until today to announce the Crackdown 3 delay?

Karl Williams

Hype 😊