Behind the Scenes Games Biz Stories w/ Chris Kramer - Easy Allies Podcast - May 23, 2025

The Easy Allies Podcast

Easy Allies

Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.7 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 181 minutes

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Summary

Ep 476 - Industry veteran Chris Kramer shares how they kept Resident Evil from being too easy, why they made the Mega Man 9 box art intentionally bad, and other inside stories from 30 years in the games business. Plus it's a stacked week of games with Deadzone Rogue, Onimusha 2, Deliver At All Costs, and more. Get the extended cut: https://www.patreon.com/posts/extended-behind-129687224 (0:00) - Intro (6:09) - Games Biz Stories from Chris Kramer (59:30) - Kramer's Doom: The Dark Ages Impressions (1:13:51) - Deadzone Rogue Impressions (1:22:26) - A Word From Our Sponsors (1:24:24) - Tanuki: Pon's Summer Preview (1:33:11) - Onimusha 2: Remaster Impressions (1:51:29) - Deliver At All Costs Impressions (2:02:28) - April Sales Report (2:12:01)- Also This Week (2:27:16) - L&R: The Littlest Things (2:33:10) - L&R: Memorable Cheats (2:39:19) - L&R: GTA Endings (2:47:21) - Bets (2:54:25) - Closing Go to https://www.shopify.com/allies for a one-dollar-per-month trial period to grow your business–no matter what stage you’re in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the Easy Allies podcast on this beautiful day in May, 2025.
0:31.0	Get that context in there. It's May 2025. Enjoy it. I am Michael Hoover. We are Easy Allies,
0:37.3	and this is the Easy Allies podcast.
0:41.7	We're here to talk about what's new, what's news, and what we've been playing.
0:44.7	But first, let me introduce everybody.
0:47.9	Daniel Bloodworth.
0:48.8	Yo.
0:49.5	What is up?
0:50.8	Back from Poland.
0:51.8	Back from Poland.
0:52.6	We're running around all over the place. Back from Poland. What Poland running around a load of place back from Poland what an epic
0:57.2	place to visit yeah it's so epic I made the most of it I got a that's all you can do had a couple
1:03.8	of I had a lunch with one other person that's there that wasn't part of my you know plan trip yeah had
1:10.2	uh yeah had dinner with one person had lunch at CD Project Red with Paris.
1:15.7	Nice.
1:16.4	And we got a tour of the campus.
1:18.0	So fun.
1:18.5	And then I had asked one of my contacts, like, who else should I see since I'm there?
1:23.0	And they told me about a studio that was like within walking distance in my hotel.
1:26.5	Yeah.
1:27.3	That's, you know, pretty much brand new.
1:29.2	Couldn't even see their game yet, but got to beat them.
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