The whole schtick is pretty much just a pale imitation of the "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!". I'm not really a fan either.
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The whole schtick is pretty much just a pale imitation of the "Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!". I'm not really a fan either.
Yep. Not sure if it will ever top Blood saying "I can go both ways" though.
It was fun the first time but I think it got in the way of what we really wanted to see for the studio stuff
He's reviewing on PS4, so it may not be for a week or so. I think he is getting his copy tomorrow.
Ah yes the staggered game release….. sucks big time. On the other had he should be able to Play the game with the 7gb day '1' patch to get a better experience.
Going by the size of the patch notes it will probably be for the best. Should make for a better and more informative review. I wonder if anyone else will be choosing a female character to play as since she is voiced by occasional ally Sara Elmaleh? That will be my choice.
On PC and XB1S, performance is amazingly worse with the day '1' patch.
Yeah, I did. Good performance, awful script for the most part. There's some side character conversations that are quite well done, but they have no relation to the story or even missions to go through them.
That isn't actually a particularly astute observation (nor is it accurate). I can see why you would make that comparison, as they are drawing from the same well, but satirical takes on awkward instructional (and promotional) videos have been around for a long, long time. Tim and Eric's main contribution would be the level of absurdity they added to it (as well as the brilliance of using untrained actors to add another layer of strangeness to the whole formula). Ian isn't really imitating Tim and Eric here at all.
I get people not liking it, I think Ian himself refers to it as an "antiquated bit" at the beginning of the video. Still, it is a little silly to say that it is a "pale imitation" of Tim and Eric's show.
Might just be Huber in the studio, or Huber and Brad with Jones and Blood playing in the party. No confirmation, but that's how it was suggested.
Nothing confirmed. But From group stream chatter it seemed like it could be Ian, Blood and Jones. Maybe Brad.
The suggestion was that Blood and Jones would join Huber in the studio for Anthem, hence the "LANthem" comment from chat. But yeah, it hasn't been confirmed officially, since I think they're unsure of how that will work. But the schedule does say "Huber +" if that's anything to go by.
Yeah, I just got to that in the group stream ha. During the RE2 stream, it sounded like Brad was debating staying at home or going to the studio and joining in. if they can get the setup working again, I assume Brandon will go to the studio, but it's also very late!
Wait, Jones doesn't have his copy yet? And he might be streaming his first time playing tonight?
I can't remember if it was Cup of Jones (probably) or if it was a group stream, but I believe they weren't releasing PS4 codes for review until Feb 22nd. I am not sure if he will be on the stream tonight, but yeah, that would be something!
I'm very curious to see how tonight shakes out. I'm not in the "this game is an unsalvageable mess" camp, but I definitely recognize that it has some pretty glaring faults, so I'm always interested to see where people land on the game. I go through ups and downs with it every time I play, loving the way it feels to fly around and rain elemental damage down with my Storm and then hating it because I'm trying to do a World Event meant for four people all by myself because the game has no way to tell my Freeplay randos that there's one going on where I'm at.
But if Huber & Co. have a full squad the whole time they're going through the crit path, they may have a blast. I imagine playing with friends helps to remove a lot of that friction.
I want to watch it so badly...but I suppose I should wait. I think they're going to have a good time with it honestly. Anthem is the perfect co-op swimmin' in sevens game.
Eh I'd have to agree that the fake awkward dialogue doesn't strike my funny bone. But whatevs, he can do his thing
It absolutely was. Blood just chilling during the podcast half time was also great.
Instant classic :'D
Best thing is Blood would probably say there's nothing funny about that part
(love you Bloodworth)
The following are the regularly scheduled shows from EZA:
Unscripted and/or long format:
-Tabletop Escapades (weekly)
-EZA Podcast (weekly)
-Frame Trap (twice-monthly)
-Friend Code (twice-monthly)
-Reaction Shots (monthly)
-Trailer Jones (monthly)
-Fiasconauts (monthly)
Scripted and/or short format:
-Easy Update (weekly)
-Huber Syndrome (weekly)
-Top 10 (monthly)
Thoughts? Any you think that need cut? Any that need retooled or rebooted? Any glaring omissions?
I think Huber Syndrome is just not working all that well. It should be retooled into a Huber-and-a-guest casual talk show. We've seen it with him talking to all the allies, and that was easily the best the show has been.
Tabletop Escapades, in my opinion, desperately needs to wrap up whatever storyline they're on and reboot it. It's by far the least newcomer-friendly show they do. If it's going to be a weekly show, they need to change it up every month or two, not let it go on for years.
Right now Trailer Jones feels unimportant because of its infrequency. It's like, oh, let's watch the guys review a trailer from a week ago, or two weeks ago, or three weeks ago, that I've already seen a dozen times and have now lost interest in. I don't have a problem with the show's concept, but I don't think monthly is really a good format for it. Also, I don't think Trailer Jones is a good name. I get that that's his Twitter handle, but what does Trailer Jones mean? Let's All Go To The Trailers was a title that made sense. You understood what that show was without even watching it.
I really wish Frame Trap was weekly. I think they could justify the twice monthly when there were four panelists on the podcast (including Ben), but now that there's three, we just aren't getting enough long-form impressions from enough of the allies.
Reaction Shots, I don't know. I mean, I guess it's basic enough (usually with just a couple of panelists) and infrequent enough that it doesn't really matter, but it's the least viewed EZA podcast by a large margin. Averages around 6k views per episode. I rarely ever watch it, so I don't have much input.
I think the biggest omission is a casual talk show. The Easy Update episodes between two allies and the Huber Syndrome episodes between two allies tend to be higher viewed than some of the more traditional episodes, and they're definitely the best episodes, IMO.
Also, really need more short form content that actually comes out regularly.
Unscripted and/or long format:
-Tabletop Escapades (weekly)
-EZA Podcast (weekly)
-Frame Trap (twice-monthly)
-Friend Code (twice-monthly)
-Reaction Shots (monthly)
-Trailer Jones (monthly)
-Fiasconauts (monthly)
Scripted and/or short format:
-Easy Update (weekly)
-Huber Syndrome (weekly)
-Top 10 (monthly)
Thoughts? Any you think that need cut? Any that need retooled or rebooted? Any glaring omissions?
I think Huber Syndrome is just not working all that well. It should be retooled into a Huber-and-a-guest casual talk show. We've seen it with him talking to all the allies, and that was easily the best the show has been.
Tabletop Escapades, in my opinion, desperately needs to wrap up whatever storyline they're on and reboot it. It's by far the least newcomer-friendly show they do. If it's going to be a weekly show, they need to change it up every month or two, not let it go on for years.
Right now Trailer Jones feels unimportant because of its infrequency. It's like, oh, let's watch the guys review a trailer from a week ago, or two weeks ago, or three weeks ago, that I've already seen a dozen times and have now lost interest in. I don't have a problem with the show's concept, but I don't think monthly is really a good format for it. Also, I don't think Trailer Jones is a good name. I get that that's his Twitter handle, but what does Trailer Jones mean? Let's All Go To The Trailers was a title that made sense. You understood what that show was without even watching it.
I really wish Frame Trap was weekly. I think they could justify the twice monthly when there were four panelists on the podcast (including Ben), but now that there's three, we just aren't getting enough long-form impressions from enough of the allies.
Reaction Shots, I don't know. I mean, I guess it's basic enough (usually with just a couple of panelists) and infrequent enough that it doesn't really matter, but it's the least viewed EZA podcast by a large margin. Averages around 6k views per episode. I rarely ever watch it, so I don't have much input.
I think the biggest omission is a casual talk show. The Easy Update episodes between two allies and the Huber Syndrome episodes between two allies tend to be higher viewed than some of the more traditional episodes, and they're definitely the best episodes, IMO.
Also, really need more short form content that actually comes out regularly.
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I certainly agree about Huber Syndrome. That show is, to me personally, a bit pointless and a waste of Huber's talent/personality. It feels a bit like a dated product at this point. The interviews he did were so terrific and at the least it would be cool to see another set of them in the studio this year.
Re: TTE I agree it needs a reboot, but every couple months is a bit drastic. IMO not everything they produce ought to appeal immediately to new viewers, it's ok to have a long running series that people can catch up on whenever they like. 2 years worth is a bit much, but the charm of TTE when it's been good is getting to know all the characters and the dynamics. You can barely do that in that few sessions.
More frame trap would be great, don't really care much for short form content.
Friend Code feels like it would work better if it was just whenever there was actually Nintendo news.
And yeah, Trailer Jones would also work better if it's timely.
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I would kill every show if that means I get a weekly dose of Frame Trap.
I'm not joking at all.
I'm not joking at all.
Ok, I'll go one by one
Unscripted and/or long format:
-Tabletop Escapades: Needs a reboot. Maybe another setting or use another RPG system? Sorry people that like it... but I missed the boat on episode 10 or something and it's really long now :(
-EZA Podcast:
-Frame Trap: It's good.
-Friend Code: Still a bit undecided what it is about exactly. I kinda liked Damiani's idea to do a full episode about Link's Awakening cause it kinda defined the podcast as a deep dive but then the patreons made them go with the more basic route of comment every news stuff. Too similar to the podcast (and I don't want the podcast to lose Nintendo news)
-Reaction Shots: It's cool but feels a bit lost inside of EZA. They should promote it more somehow. It's been a long time since they've done an audio commenting movies and stuff like that.
-Trailer Jones: It's finding it's groove. Last episode focused real hard on comments about the creative process of the trailer and not about the game itself. They made these mistakes a LOT at the beginning.
-Fiasconauts: It's good and maybe it's just me but I think it's a show that grew a fan following that isn't necessarily for all of EZA. Maybe it even bring people into the community. Reaction Shots should've have a similar status inside EZA but I'm not sure if there's anything to learn from Fiasconauts...
Scripted and/or short format:
-Easy Update: Do songs again, Ian. Doesn't need to be one each week, maybe use a full month for a song and make it goooooooooooooood
-Huber Syndrome: I'll give time for Huber to fully utilize the studio, he's not recording a bunch of episodes together anymore and he got comments back. Hopefully the green screen comes back. But it's still a bit filler and I fear Huber thinks it more of an obligation
-Top 10: I didn't want it before but now I really like it. It's gooood.
This should be a community-wide official survey and I still don't know why they've never done it.
Looking at the main channel they have a lot of content talking about games but none of them actually playing games lol.
I know they have group streams and stuff on the eza plays channel but i think something a bit spruced up for the main channel would be cool, like a cross between what's the deal with and don't skip or something like that.
I know they have group streams and stuff on the eza plays channel but i think something a bit spruced up for the main channel would be cool, like a cross between what's the deal with and don't skip or something like that.
I'm fine with nothing changing.
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No thank you. I want Huber Syndrome to be exactly as it is. The interviews were fine but the show is meant to be Huber himself getting hype and talking about a specific subject for a little bit.
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