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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.
Jeff can also be seen on The Totally Rad Show. They've gone daily so there's a new segment to watch every day of the week!
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Comments
If you get Halo Reach and you really like Halo Reach, then that will be the only disc in your Xbox for months. It is literally impossible to be an "active fan" of Halo Reach, Call of Duty, Battlefield Bad Company, and Team Fortress 2. You logistically don't have enough time in your life to actively play those games enough to be an "active fan". I think the way people treat single player games is more similar to movies. You'll never hear anyone still talking about their 15th playthrough of Dead Space or Mirror's Edge, but if it comes up they'll say "Yeah I liked it!"
Also, games that get a 9 or above tend to last you a really friggin long time. You can literally spend a year "riding the 9's" and always have something new and good to play.
I think you guys(on the podcast) don't realize it, because you tend to just dip your toe into every game that comes out, but a lot of us here will go back to God of War 3 on a higher difficulty, attempt to 100% Red Dead, or prestige a few times in Black Ops. For a lot of us there's no reason to metaphorically "lower our standards" for a 6-7 ish game that maybe gets a couple of things right but isn't at the level of quality of an overall experience that we're used to.
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I don't really understand the point. In some cases there are multiple endings, in other cases there completely alternate pathways. So I understand replaying a game like Mass Effect 2 or Heavy Rain, just to experience everything. Likewise, I'll replay co-op games repetitively for the emergent gameplay opportunities that having a buddy to interact with will provide.
But a game like RDR, I'm only going to play through it once. At least, once in the next five years. I keep all my games so I can go back to them. The idea of revisiting this epic, powerful games always sounds so great, but then I get a few hours in and I'm like...yeah, I remember this...and eventually I realize I would rather be playing something new, working towards new goals, with new characters, and exploring new worlds.
I tend to play the hell out of multiplayer games for 6-8 months, and then get drawn into the next multiplayer release. Halo and Dawn of War are probably the only two franchises for which the idea of 'multiplayer = infinite replay value' actually approached being true. Multiplayer gives games more replay value, but eventually you do get sick of the game gameplay mechanics, scenarios and win conditions.
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