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Special guest Ben Hanson of Game Informer joins us to discuss the low-detail announcements of Super Smash Bros., The Division 2, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.  

Audio: https://soundcloud.com/easyallies/smash-bros-in-2018-easy-allies-podcast-31418/s-pFSwp

L&R,

- Damiani

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Smash Bros in 2018 - Easy Allies Podcast - 3/14/18

Special guest Ben Hanson of Game Informer joins us to discuss the low-detail announcements of Super Smash Bros., The Division 2, and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. CLICK HERE FOR TIME STAMPS AND LINKS! Ben Hanson Intro - 00:00:36 And For That Reason - 00:03:21 Corrections - 00:06:00 Super Smash Bros Announcement - 07:13:00 The Division 2 Announcement - 00:18:18 Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 Announcement - 00:24:18 WarioWare Gold/3DS Support - 00:27:59 Podcast Halftime - 00:35:30 Fortnite's Battle Royale Mobile Announcement - 00:38:42 L&R - Can Marketing Help a Game's Narrative? - 00:45:30 L&R - Back of the Box Trivia - 00:52:53 L&R - Who Do You Want in Smash? - 01:03:03 Time for Bets - 01:13:49 Closing - 01:19:54 Thank you to our official sponsors! Sweet Justice - http://www.sweetjustice.audio Brent Clouse - http://www.brentclouse.com Scorn - http://www.scorn-game.com iKeyless - https://ikeyless.com Hoeg Law - http://www.hoeglaw.com Schemata - schemata-game.com Project Longtail - www.longtailgame.com Support us through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/EasyAllies Schedule: http://easyallies.com/ Merchandise: http://shop.spreadshirt.com/easyallies Live streams - https://www.twitch.tv/easyallies Stream archives - https://www.youtube.com/easyalliesplays https://twitter.com/easyallies https://www.facebook.com/easyallies

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RedVIII

Wow, first time having a guest on the Podcast, I believe? And Ben is a great choice for a guest!

Anonymous

Holy shit, Ben!! This is going to be great.

Anonymous

Ben Hanson on the podcast?! Dreams DO come true.

umryan

What a surprise!!!

Chris H

I rank Division 2, CoD (even tho I won't be playing it) then the restand the rest bottom (down with Nintendo!) ha Xbox is looking better for the next system since the player base of multi-player games will be larger because of crossplay. Sony is shooting them self in the foot. PS5 would probably be hurt by Sony not wanting to enable crossplay.

Tim O'Keeffe

Ben Hanson as a guest is awesome!

Anonymous

Ben Hanson was a fantastic guest co-host! Made an already great podcast even better.

Anonymous

PS4 and Switch have a crossplay game and it's Dragon Quest X in Japan.

Erunion

I always loved that Final Fantasy XI had PC/PS2/360 crossplay (sadly no longer the case since PS2 and 360 can’t play the game anymore).

Anonymous

Are the podcasts no longer going to be number in the title or thumbnail?

Anonymous

We’re on a roll with these guests. Ben was even more impressive since I already was a fan of Ash Paulsen going in.

Samuel Cardwell

We all know you mean 'get Elyse on' ;) (but actually I'd be scarcely less thrilled if Adam, James or Bruce rocked up)

Gabriel Heilborn

Smash Bros probably will have the rabbids, maybe some other character from Ubsoft, and Mario will have the moves from Odyssey (including taking control of other characters with the hat)

Samuel Cardwell

Really happy with the guest appearances (happening both ways!). Definitely a good way to branch out in year 3. And now you have a whole betting team for guests, so you'd better start filling it! Maybe your goal (unannounced, non-binding) could be to have a guest on every six weeks?

Anonymous

The issue I have with Smash being just a port at this stage is the fact that the logo is different, Sakurai said he's having trouble coming up with a title, they hid a portion of the roster instead of showing them, and they didn't mention it being a port when they have for literally every other port so far. The chances of it being a port at this rate seems super low to me.

Anonymous

Correction: The copyright information of Smash versus the information for all the other ports in that direct is telling. All other ports included copyright dates ranging from their initial release to 2018. Smash had a copyright for 2018 only : <a href="https://imgur.com/a/P5ch4" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://imgur.com/a/P5ch4</a>

Anonymous

100% agree, they would not do this build up for a port. It's going to be an epic new smash brothers fitting of the switches legacy.

Cash

The 6th Low Bet for Jones this season.

Andrew Chalmers

I don't get why people want Goku so much. Maybe it's just me, but I always associated him with the anime? It'd be like wanting Batman or other non-gaming icons to be in Smash.

Anonymous

Correction: At 1:07:28 Kyle says that Villager "doesn't ever punch." He does punch. His neutral A attack has him pull out boxing gloves, no less, and making rapid blows.

Anonymous

Ben was great! Glad to see some more collaboration happening!

EasyAllies

I'm not sure. I might go back to the old style because views have actually been down ever since we switched up the thumbs

bangos

Correction: mice can get on a counter, I sew a mouse get on a counter from a window that he climb a tree to get to (and it wasn't an easy tree to climb)

Adam Mullany

Ben Hanson was a PERFECT choice as first official podcast guest!, let’s get him back soon! 👍🏻

Anonymous

Hanson &amp; Bosman it's the dream duo.

Joey and Cait

I watch the game informer podcast from time to time so this is awesome! Also, I'm from Minnesota where the GI crew resides.

Sonny Laguna

Kyle Bosman is so damn funny and crazy, love him! I can’t count how many times I’ve laughed out loud by myself listening to Kyle. Much love and respect

Sean Dupree

Correction: Kyle, mice can easily climb up counter tops and do all the time, source: i am an exterminator

Anonymous

Don't really want it but I could see Skyrim generic Nord tuning up in Smash. I'm with blood Shovel Knight is the obvious &amp; best choice

Anonymous

Great Episode! Since there will be a Solaire of Astora Amiibo, i really like to see the Dark Souls Knight as a playable character in Smash! Praise the Smash!

Anonymous

Cool! A guest! When will we see Elyse as a guest? I know we got Ryan Stevens before. It'd be awesome having Geoff as a guest. He was a guest in the Dude Soup Podcast.

Anonymous

Great to see the Allies getting some guest stars in there.

Anonymous

So in regards to the 1st question for L&amp;R, isn't a perfect example of this FFXV? Like they literally had a Film, Anime and then a short Manga for the great but because it was like... go get this other information elsewhere people was like... nah i'm alright, game is pants because the other stuff isn't in the full game?

Anonymous

There is precedent for this PS4 v Xbox One online thing that's going on with Fortnite. This happened first with Rocket League.

Mugen Himura

Nice podcast. Ben from gameinformer is great and their podcast is also awesome. Thier Interview with Aonuma and Miyamoto when they hand the 2D metroid paper is awesome.

Anonymous

I like the guest and I like how he brought a home game to L&amp;R. Very fun to watch!

Ivan Mattos

CORRECTION: The ARMS characters have default arms that can be unlocked for other characters but virtually all of them have unique attributes that share similar inputs. Much like how Smash Bros. has a universal input system (IE A+up, or B+down, etc.) , moves in ARMS can very character to character depending on whether the block, dodge, or jump inputs are being held or executed during a certain time. For example holding guard with Helix let's him turn into a puddle and evade more easily, doing the same with Lola Pop inflates her body allowing her to approach her opponent which is something that no other character can do. Master Mummy heals while he guards, while Misango summons an attribute boosting spirit. Like Smash Bros. ARMS keeps the inputs streamlined but allows their characters to determine what happens when they are executed. Wow I'm so sorry for the wall of text... P.S. The Easy Allies elevate the podcast game and I'm grateful for the earnest yet professional content you guys put out every week. Thank you, good night and good game.

Derrick DesRoches

This is not a correction, I wanted to point out that I think it's about time to make an addition to that quick segment at the end (I forget the name if it actually has one) where Brandon sais "I am loving these microtransactions).

Anonymous

Loved seeing Ben on the podcast and would love to see more guest every now and again. Perhaps Danny O'dwyer from Noclip?

BeatenDownBrian

I could be wrong, but I think he said they would only be added once a year, so there's probably a new one coming after their anniversary.

ToastIX

This is correct. Villager does punch. He even wears boxing gloves while doing so. Still, a garbage character imo.

ToastIX

Correction: Villager does punch.