Cup of Jones - January 6, 2020 - Audio

Happy New Year! We still have some allies out of town, but everyone will start coming back this week, and our schedule will return to normal. Big stuff ahead for EZA. Our massive 2020 meeting is next week, followed by our 2020 Prediction stream, and then our Game of the Year live deliberation and awards. I’ve been getting a bunch of trailers lined up to revisit and playing as many different games as possible for different categories in preparation. Thank you for your questions about games coverage throughout 2019, opinions on games in stuff like Love & Respect, Ask Easy Allies, the Q&A, and the Showcase, along with tips on the top trailers in my post the other day. All of these help tremendously when trying to pool our thoughts into doing our best when it comes to handing out awards to projects that really deserve it.

00:11:50 - Business Questions
00:34:00 - Editorial: Easy Allies in 2019

- Brandon


DISCLAIMER: I take questions for each Cup of Jones episode from the original video post. Questions from this audio-only post will not be used in future episodes. The video version is typically posted just before this one, so scroll down our Patreon page to find it.


PERSONAL QUESTIONS

TURBOCHICKENMAN - A while back, I recommended the YouTube channel Bright Sun Films for their documentary videos about cancelled and abandoned Disney parks. Did you get around to checking it out? JONES - Briefly. I haven’t really jumped in the deep end, yet. But now that I’m done with The Imagineering Story on Disney+ I’m hungry for more theme park history. I’ll get around to it.

ALI SALEMI - Since we had talked about it before, I was wondering if you have more interest in Yakuza Like a Dragon now that they've announced their "Sujimon Collection" side activity for the game. Each Sujimon have their own weaknesses and abilities and there is even an Encyclopedia that gives you information about them. The game has 252 Sujimon to collect and become a Sujimon Master. Thoughts? JONES - I was NOT aware of this development. I’m not sure if this is something that would push me over the edge into a full playthrough. I’ve always known that the side activities in each Yakuza game were just as engrossing as the main campaign. It’s just never been a series I’ve been able to devote enough time to. We’ll see how 2020 goes! No promises.

DANIEL RIBEIRO - As a son, husband, father, brother, son-in-law, human being and for yourself, could you please talk what are your plans, goals, and hopes for this year and decade? JONES - One of my main goals is always to help people appreciate the things they enjoy more, which is why I like making videos about my favorite hobby, video games. I hope to ease my parents’ transition into old age, and eventually passing on. I want to give Milo a valuable education, obviously, but I also want to instill in him a love of this planet. I really enjoy walking him around the backyard and showing him trees, birds, and squirrels, or cruising him around the neighborhood with Sophie. We went on a hike with him over the holidays (where I got the photo that’s my current Twitter header) and I think he enjoyed it. My plans for the next decade, aside from this, include telling more stories. Stuff like Busted Trifecta and Box Peek made me really hungry to create and play more characters, and see what types of narrative content our fans would support.

NICHOLAS BOBBIE - 3 characters in is nowhere near the end of Breath of Fire. You're maybe a quarter of the way through, with 5 more characters to go, and a lot of lot of interesting abilities to see, and epic tales to tell. If you'd been looking at walkthroughs for endgame content and not recognizing anything, hopefully that ends the confusion. BoF2 is also definitely fun, even if the translation is a bit wonky, but I hope you give the rest of BoF1 a chance one of these days. JONES - Good. To. Know. I’ll keep going!