Extra Credits

Of crash course I will recommend, but still, they said that the torrijos-carter treaties were in 1978 when they were in 1977. So as a Panamanian I was PEEEVED.

What topics would you like to see next? I'd be most interested in the Thirty Years' War, the Reformation and the Gunpowder Empires.

Alejandro the Great, of course.

I would also like for the Hundred Years War.

Being the overly blatant nationalist I am, I'd send in a vote for the Eighty Years War.

Failing that, I'd like to learn a bit more about Classical Chinese history.

edited 22nd Nov '14 3:22:30 PM by Kayeka

New episode.

Watching it now.

Y'know... I find it kinda funny that the graph showed Uesugi as being more powerful than the Takeda, given that the latter are almost always stronger than the former in my games of Nobunaga's Ambition.

Wait a bit EC, you find it hard to keep track that Takechiyo = Motonobu Matsudaira = Motoyasu Matsudaira = Ieyasu Matsudaira = Ieyasu Tokugawa? And you don't like that Hiyoshi = Tokichiro Kinoshita = Hideyoshi Kinoshita = Hideyoshi Hashiba = Hideyoshi Toyotomi?

You find it confusing? Seriously?

For shame EC, for shaaaaaaaaaame.

Hey, Oichi was mentioned! Cool beans!

Okay, I think Yoshitatsu killed Dosan actually before the battle of Okehazama took place, it would be really weird for Yoshitatsu to do that after it, given that Nobunaga had pretty much destroyed the clan that was one of the closest to unifying the land. Not that it matters much anyways, given that he died later of Lepropsy and his much inferior son Tatsuoki ended up being defeated by Nobunaga in his place.

"A sandal bearer" said in a dramatic tone, I laughed.

Y'know... I kinda like that this attention is being played to the Inabayama castle. The other major source I had kinda skipped that part of Nobunaga's story.

I know what went wrong!

In one word.

Asakura.

edited 24th Nov '14 9:15:46 AM by SaintDeltora

The way I understand it, the Takeda were the more militarily powerful clan. The Uesugi, however, thanks to their strong ties to the Buddhist priesthood and political marriages, were the ones with more political clout.

As for the episode itself: a little low on content? I dunno, it just wasn't quite as exciting as previous Extra History episodes.

edited 27th Nov '14 9:19:59 PM by Kayeka

I'm not sure I like the latest episode. Most of what they call difficulty settings just seems like bad balancing to me. Like making some classes easier than others without informing the player which ones, or the "intentional" pathing bugs, or how "easy mode" apparently involves doing a lot of of restrictive unintuitive stuff the game never gives any hints about.

edited 27th Nov '14 5:33:52 PM by Druplesnubb

Honestly the game I thought did difficulty best was The World Ends With You. It removes a lot of the shame of lowering difficulty but making certain pins only available at lower difficulties and encourages players to challenge themselves by doing the same with higher difficulties. Difficulty and level can be changed on the fly to allow multiple ways to tweak the difficulty of the encounters.

Huh, I just realized I have missed normal Extra Credits episodes since you guys have only posted Extra History here

Me too, although I caught back up on them a couple of days ago.

No one posted the epic SSB staff fight (run by the CPU) here?! For shame!

Now we know who would win if they all had a fight. Too bad Allison wasn't present. I bet she would win with that bionic arm of hers.

Dan Prime needs to brush up on his commentating skills.

I say he gets a pass because all the Miis look the same. And videogame commentating is boring regardless.

One more chapter Extra History's Sengoku Jidai. Now with Warrior Monks and Ninjas. Because just one of the two wasn't awesome enough.

edited 7th Dec '14 12:35:54 PM by Heatth

I still love how the ending music is titled Hokkaidou, yet the events of this Extra History subseries primarily revolve around central Honshuu.

I believe Hokkaido wasn't even part of Japan at that time.

This is true.

Ah, they did episode on Norway

Pfft, two countries too much west on map

Two?

Anyway, as they explained, they only do these episodes on countries James actually knows. If James spent some time on Thailand, or something, than we would get a episode on them.

Oh, and here the video, btw.

edited 11th Dec '14 8:22:20 AM by Heatth

Eh, Norway is two countries left from Finland if you count Finland as one of two countries :P

Anyway, according to comments, Jantaloven is less "do not stand out" and more "Do not assume other people are worse than you because they have less"

Also, it has wikipedia page and English translation huh

edited 11th Dec '14 8:41:31 AM by SpookyMask

I just didn't understood your wording. I still kinda don't, actually. I originally thought you were saying they were covering too many western countries (which were 3, not 2, of course).

Also, Norway borders Finnland.

The Wikipeida article supports James interpretation, though. At last when concerning the area he was talking in particular.

Yes it does, but at the north and just barely Even though its technically our neighborhood, never in my life I have ever heard anyone refer it as that. Plus I don't think there are many people in norther Norway anyway

edited 11th Dec '14 1:00:48 PM by SpookyMask

Just wanted to let people know that the EC team will be going on break for the holidays. They still have the Extra History episode in the pipeline ready to go, and Dan put in some extra work to get out a new episode of Extra Remix and Design Club to tide us over.

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