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Weekend Confirmed Episode 41: New Year's Eve Special
by Garnett Lee, Dec 31, 2010 9:00am PSTFor this New Year's Eve 2010 show--the second of our two holiday specials--Shane Bettenhausen joins Garnett, Brian, and Jeff for one final 2010 recap and then a lengthy gaze into the crystal ball to see what may lie ahead in 2011. We catch up some with what Shane's been playing with friends back home from music games like Dance Central and Rock Band to developing thumb blisters at Super Street Fighter IV ... oh, and, uh, Sonic IV. Your responses from our SModcastle live show seed the conversations in the second segment with topics like why we really want to get our hands on the Nintendo 3DS. In the second half of the show all attention turns to 2011--the games, the trends, and, of course, predictions!
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 41 - 12/31/2010
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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: 00:30:24
Whatcha' Been Playin (cont) and the Warning: 00:31:28 End: 01:01:43
2010 Wrap-up and 2011 predictions: 01:02:45 End: 01:32:02
Featured Music "Shake Shake Boom Boom" by Those Crosstown Rivals: 01:32:02 End: 01:35:08
2011 predictions (cont): Start: 01:35:08 End: 02:13:08
In the Featured Music segment this week it's Lexington, KY based Those Crosstown Rivals with "Shake Shake Boom Boom" from their album The Day After Yesterday available now on iTunes, Amazon, and cdbaby. Show them some love if you like what you hear! Keep up with Those Crosstown Rivals on their Reverb Nation page, Facebook page, and Twitter.
Original music in the show by Del Rio. Get his latest single, Small Town Hero on iTunes. Check out more, including the Super Mega Worm mix and other mash-ups on his ReverbNation page or Facebook page.
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Also, Leahy said that the F.E.A.R. series has "got some PC cred left". Again, I disagree. FEAR 2 felt like a watered-down experience; the screen resolution was locked to 16:9, the engine didn't seem optimized as much as other games released at that time (with my 8800GTS back in mid-2009, I was playing CoD:WaW at 1400 x 1050, while I had to have FEAR 2 down in 1024 x 768 to get a decent framerate), there were quicktime events all over the place, leaning was removed, the control configurability was worse than that in the first F.E.A.R., and a number of the weapons weren't all that good. After playing through FEAR 2, I felt like that franchise needed a good rest before doing something else, but then WBIE goes and announces that Day One Studios is doing F3AR. At that announcement, I put my hand to my face and said, "Ugh, why even bother at this point?! Well at least Monolith isn't stuck doing this." Now maybe Day One will have an outstanding game that will bring back some of the magic lost in FEAR 2, but I'm not counting on that. I feel as though WBIE is just trying to milk the FEAR IP for all it's worth and thensome by putting out FEAR 3.
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In my opinion the first Crysis didn't really need to pick one thing as "it's personality" because it was such a well-rounded game - it did everything other shooters were doing and pushed it to the max. From the previews I'm reading even if Crysis 2 isn't as open-ended as the first game, it still seems like the level design will give players a lot more choices than Call of Duty or Gears of war.
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