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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.
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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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I'm 39 years old, and video games didn't really exist before I was born, but I've grown up with them and loved them my entire life. Alot of the people I work with are just slightly older than me, but the chasm couldn't be wider. They watch reality TV and get more excited about other poeple's lives than their own. If the topic of Nintendo comes up (because video games are Nintendo the way facial tissue is Kleenex) I'm always proud to say that video games should be considered interactive entertainment, intellectually stimulating, and in many cases even art. They have no idea how to respond to that, and just look at me like I have 2 heads.
To put it bluntly, one day those people will be gone or in the minority, and video games will be widely accepted. It's the same struggle every other medium has gone through. It would be interesting to compare the median age of our population now with the age of the earliest video game adopters (my generation). It must be close, which would mean video game "acceptors" would be slipping into the majority soon.
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