Weekend Confirmed Episode 2

Demon's Souls , best game on ps3 ever and second best game ever next to Fallout 3 . how did you guys like Demon's Souls

Garnett , I am so happy your back were you belong , in a room making the best podcast in the gaming world today . And its so cool to hear from Billy again , I had no idea you did not work for G4 anymore . You started Feed Back and I miss you on the show . Hope to hear more of you on this show . Brian and Jeff you guys rock as well .

Jeff C, I am with you brother on Mass Effect 2. Its a broken pile of crap on the 360 (tho have heard good things on the PC side). There were times when I considered it unplayable...only to return to it again after a cooling off period. By the by, finished the game and when given the option to restart or continue, I ejected the game disk instead. And the sad part is I really enjoyed the first game despite its flaws and was really looking forward to this one. I sincerely hope #3 is a return to the original formula or barring that gets better QA people or something.

I'm just happy we get a second episode. Downloading now.

finally listened to the first two eps. great work so far guys - glad to have you back Garnett - glad to have you in a longer format Jeff - glad to meet ya Brian. looking forward to hearing from Billy this week, and the friends and colleagues who'll rotate through the 4th chair.

I would comment on the MW2 DLC. I didn't intend to buy it myself, but the friends that I play with all bought it, so I was forced into it to keep playing with them. That said, if you break it down, it is only $3 per map. The way I look at game pricing is how does it compare to movies? $3 is 1/3 of going to a movie - and for argument's sake I'll say the movie is 3 hours. Am I going to get more that 1 hour of play out of each map? most certainly.

all you need to do now is figure out a new killer sound effect for 4 min warning.

Love the reference to Clue i heard early on in the podcast. Best. Film. Ever.

Wow! Let me just say I've been a fan of Garnett since he debuted on 1up's podcast and was like many, saddened at him leaving. I had been extremely excited at the rumored, highly anticipated, return of Garnett in a new podcast of his own and found it to be an utterly sweet birthday gift as Weekend Confirmed aired on "my" special day.

So, all in all, you guys are doing great so far. I'm really enjoying the addition of and input from Brian and Jeff. Garnett, you rock! Keep it up and thanks for my new favorite podcast and an added reason to look forward to the weekends.

Thank you Brian, Garnett and Jeff... had some very entertaining 2 hours!

Gears of War 3

Typical console cash-in? Same engine? Same gameplay with a couple of gimmicks?

Or technical showcase for a new engine?

Metro 2033: to remove the gas-mask pres and hold the button to replays gas cylinder, on the pc hits G key I don’t now on X-Bot.360.
Just Cause 2 sucks on the PC B-Cause hits a console port and the controls are sluggish (same thing for Battlefield Bad Company 2), I loved Just Cause 1.

Also, my StarCraft 2 name is:

empathe.shack

You were talking about immersion and how Metro 2033 had an ammo count meter and I thought of a possible solution.

The gun gets lighter as you empty a clip therefore the recoil of the gun as it fires gets worse and worse because the gun has less weight. This would totally replace an ammo count meter.
It could be exaggerated so you can really feel the difference as you empty the gun of bullets. It would remind people to reload their gun or oh maybe I should stop wasting all my bullets.
Maybe someone has done this already.

Thank you
GameJumperX

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What is the email i need to use if i want to send an email to the weekend confirmed?

It great to hear you back Garnett with a new cast crew that at times reminds of me what made the original 1upyours podcast so great. Keep up the great work.

Love that Jeff is super busy lately.

TRS!

Good episode, but I wish that Garnett could be a bit less antagonistic in a "broverload" way. One example was at about 1 hour 48 minutes, in the news section Brian was talking about jumping into a MW2 match after having left it aside since January, and describing all the killstreak spam; Garnett goes "waah waah waah, I couldn't do anything.... dude I just gotta give you a hard time." There was another part where either Jeff or Brian was trying to recall the name of an indie developer, and Garnett starts saying "Don't tell him the name, don't tell him the name." Stuff like that makes me stab for the fast forward button. Sometimes that stuff, when exececuted properly and not in a repetitive manner, can bring across a point, but when it gets to the point of frat party bantering, I get exasperated, especially when I'm in the middle of a drive. It's part of why I skip every other Giant Bomb (when Ryan and Jeff get into that string of frat boy "broverload"), and it's part of why I really like Idle Thumbs (because they either articulate their points, or turn it into something absolutely hilarious, like The Kane of Lynch, turret sequence criticism, or the Dawn of Discovery tool-based export-driven economy).

That said, I love Four Minute Warning, as it forces everyone to get their points staged ahead of time, and keep their counterpoints relatively brief and on-target. And I hadn't heard one of Garnett Lee's podcasts before, so when I heard Weekend Confirmed 1, I almost thought that Art Bell was hosting it.

its awesome to hear Garnett again! im also really happy to hear Alan Wake is going to be good because im super excited for it. love the new podcast you guys are all awesome seriously.

Brian is my hero, totally set Jeff straight concerning Dragon Age PC. Brian said what I wanted to say watching Jeff's TRS review many months ago.

Thrilled Garnett Lee has emerged in a new place with seemingly less red tape and a more friendly podcast. 1Up can finally be left totally behind in terms of 4 Guys for a guy who is more like my own podcast style as a host who keeps things moving but stays on topic... unlike IGN, which seems to lose steam more and more every week with random topics.

Just Cause 2 sucks because "blow shit up" was tiresome 5 years ago and I have no use for "fun" games that are there for no other reason than hollow human abuse laughs and pointless time waster progression rubbish.

Games like that are only worthwhile if they introduce completely new mechanics that justify experimentation and combat. Some grapple weapon is NOT that mechanic.

This is great so far, everything I enjoy about Garnett's older god-damn-shows without the brutal infighting over topics or direction.

Fuck me! Garnetts back! Leaving 1up behind for this new thing.

I enjoyed last weeks, this one will undoubtedly be stellar as well.

Subscription RSS not working in Google Listen. :(

Where were questions for Four Minute Warning culled from this week?

I'm new to the [shack] community and just wanted to say that I'm really enjoying the PODcast. Thanks for the hard work!

I can't wait. Started 4-minute warning. Just to let you know, Garnet, my user name actually isn't l33t speak. It's yami 4 see tee. Yeah, it's a long story. I absolutely love having another gaming podcast to listen to.

im enjoying this podcast greatly, just thought id say- keep it up!

D&D style loot is awesome.

Bring on the weekend and another interesting podcast from the podcasting masters!

Sweet, right before I have to go to work. Thanks guys! Best podcast out there right now, keep up the good work!

I'm happy to hear that you guys are going to be amending last week's curt dismissal of Just Cause 2... I picked it up a few days ago and can't put the stupid thing down. Just swooping through the trees like Tarzan, destroying things, and pulling off badass maneuvers is enough to fill me with glee.

yes,thats 2 hours of work that will fly by,thanks garnett

Woohoo!