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Weekend Confirmed Episode 21
by Garnett Lee, Aug 13, 2010 12:00pm PDTBefore Garnett and Brian head to Texas for QuakeCon, they sit down with Jeff to record this week's show. It's a broad swath of gaming in Whatcha' Been Playin? ranging from more Madden and Starcraft 2 to Arc Rise Fantasia and even Minecraft. Your thoughts from our conversation last week about the viability of female characters leads the Warning before the subject turns to the line between fun, engaging game design and frustrating compulsion to beat a game. And in the front page there's news of new Borderlands DLC and the celebrity voice cast in Fallout New Vegas. Due to travel we recorded early this week but we'll have Jeff's reaction to Bioshock Infinite and look at July's sales figures next week.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 21 - 08/13/2010
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Weekend Confirmed comes in four segments to make it easy to listen to in segments or all at once. Here's the timing for this week's episode:
Whatcha' Been Playin: Start: 00:00:00 End: 00:30:37
Whatcha' Been Playin and Cannata-ford a New Game: Start: 00:31:40 End: 01:03:29
The Warning: Start: 01:04:38 End: 01:36:58
Music Break featuring "Quid Pro Quo" by Civicminded Start: 01:36:58 End: 01:40:14
The Front Page: Start: 01:40:14 End: 02:12:19
Music Break this week comes from Civicminded, winners of the Best New Artist honors in the Omaha Arts and Entertainment Awards. The track "Quid Pro Quo" comes from the band's debut effort, Sequence. You can download the full song for free on the Civicminded Facebook page. You can also catch up with them on MySpace. Civicminded’s own Phil Reno also composed the soundtrack for the Giant Bombcast.
Original music in the show by Del Rio. Get his latest single, Small Town Hero on iTunes and check out more at his Facebook page.
Jeff can also be seen on The Totally Rad Show. New episodes come out weekly on Tuesday.
Our Official Facebook Weekend Confirmed Page is coming along now so add us to your Facebook routine. We'll be keeping you up with the latest on the show there as well.
Weekend Confirmed will be taping live at PAX! Hope you can join us Saturday, Sep 4 at 2pm in the Serpent Theatre.
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Games that I'm not embarrasssed to admit I like are things like Limbo, Mirror's Edge, Heavy Rain, and Braid, because the experience of actually playing them is a deeper, more intellectual experience. So long as most games base gameplay involves playing with guns and nerdy wish fulfilment, rather than something more ambitious, I won't be so proud to call out that I'm a gamer.
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Now, I'm not trying to be all whiny and defend all video games against great art or something like that, as I DEFINITELY think there is room for improvement. However, I just don't think the solution to tell great interactive stories is going to lie in doing the exact opposite direction of what we are doing now. I really don't see a future where we have games with physical conflict and those without. I would guess there would be more of a balance. More clever uses of violence that actually make it have meaning to the story and more variety of gameplay within things like shooters where you aren't just constantly interacting with the world by pulling a trigger.
Anyway, I basically agree with you guys, but I just felt I needed to make that distinction.
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