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Love & Respect and Workout Buddies for Sep 23 Podcast
🕑 Added 2022-09-20 19:29:17 +0000 UTCIt's time to collect your submissions for Love & Respect and Workout Buddies for this week's Easy Allies Podcast. On the desk this week will be Brad and Damiani.
Workout Buddies
Welcome friends, it's time to get Dawn Romantica into shape. It's up to you to submit a video game character for us to work out with each week.
I'm looking for four things in particular:
1 - The name of an existing video game character to train with. If it's obscure, please include some context.
2 - Which workout activity we'll be doing together.
3 - Our workout buddy's encouraging catch phrase.
4 - And which stat that activity will raise.
(Think strength, agility, mind, stealth, persuasion, etc. Feel free to go outside the box, but there may come a time that we'll end up combining similar stats. Also, please limit stat gains to +1 for a single stat. An associated -1 is cool too though.)
Last week, we completed an obstacle course with Old Snake, giving Dawn +1 Stealth.
Love & Respect
Type your question, topic, or game in the comments below. Be sure to include your preferred name if you don't like the one here on Patreon. If your entry is not selected, feel free to submit it again the following week.
These submissions will be collected by 1 PM PT this Thursday. To make it into this week's podcast, please post before then.
We appreciate your support and are grateful for each and every submission, if we're able to include them in the podcast or not.
L&R
Bloodworth
Comments
bam541
Hi Allies, greetings from Indonesia! It's been about 5 and half years since the Switch came out. For Nintendo's next console, whenever it may release, what do you guys think would be the right the direction for them to take? Would you want them to maintain the portable & dock-able nature of the Switch? Or maybe throw that out for a new, fresh yet meaningful gimmick? Or maybe try to figure out a compromise of both? I ask this because it seems that all people want from them for now is to make a beefier, more technically proficient Switch. A Switch 2, if you will. Out of the big three, Nintendo always had the most unique ideas in terms of building their consoles, so I'm trying to see if there's any reasonable direction to take that might be good enough for them to abandon the Switch's ways. Hope y'all keep having a good one, L&R
Happy Gaming
Hey there Allies, This week I’ve been thinking back to Rap Rabbit. What was Rap Rabbit you may then be asking yourselves? Let’s go back to 2017. The creators of Parappa the Rapper and Guitaroo Man came together on Kickstarter to develop a brand new project. The goal was to make a new rhythm-rap game set in Japanese history and drawing from the country’s cultural legends starring a rapping rabbit and his cool frog friend on an adventure. Unfortunately, the game fell far short of its goal, making only around $200,000 of its close to $1million target. Rap Rabbit will never be. The story has gotten me thinking about a concept though: right game, wrong time. This announcement and failure came shortly after the release of the largely unloved Mighty Number 9. In what may or may not have been reactionary, gaming trends were largely moving away from the developer Kickstarter successes stories of Shovel Knight and Bloodstained among others. But maybe, if history were different and Rap Rabbit were announced tomorrow, things would be different with the public’s changed perception of Kickstarter projects and a shift in desire for more relaxing, jolly games in recent years. I can think of this happening in other instances as well – I wasn’t able to handle Last of Us Part 2 until several years after the fact due to COVID and the state of the world paralleled in the story it presented. Could that game have had more success and less of a surrounding of vitriol if it had been first released at the same time as Part 1, not years earlier? What are some games that may have been the right game, but may have just been at the wrong time? Love and Respect, Brian from Happy Gaming
