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Weekend Confirmed Episode 42
by Garnett Lee, Jan 07, 2011 12:00pm PSTEveryone is excited to get back in the studio for this first show of 2011. Though new releases cooled over the holidays, Garnett, Brian, and Jeff have plenty of stories for Whatcha Been Playin? Catch up time includes classics like Uncharted 2 and more recent titles such as Vanquish and Bad Company 2 "Vietnam". Jeff got in some time with a new game too; he has mixed feelings about Lost in Shadow, though. Your responses to how much a review score determines whether a game is worth playing get the conversation started in the Warning. There's even a little homework for next week too on a couple of subjects we'd like to get your thoughts on. And in the news, we've got a look at the video game stories coming out of CES from Microsoft's press conference to handheld gaming PC concept by Razer, indie games nominated for IGF awards, and more.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 42 - 01/07/2011
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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: 00:28:56
Whatcha' Been Playin? and Cannata-ford: 00:30:00 End: 01:03:52
The Warning: 01:04:40 End: 01:37:52
Featured Music "Baba Yetu" by Christopher Tin: 01:37:52 End: 01:41:22
The Front Page: Start: 01:41:22 End: 02:08:20
Tailgate Playoffs Wild Card Special: Start: 02:09:21 End: 02:19:07
The Featured Music segment presents the Grammy nominated track "Baba Yetu" by Christopher Tin. This theme song for Civilization IV has become something of a hit in the video game community. After the game came out in 2005, Tin re-recorded the song as the first track of his debut album Calling All Dawns, which came out last year. This new recording is recorded by the Soweto Gospel Choir and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Tin went to London's famous Abbey Road Studios to record the orchestra, and then down to Johannesburg, South Africa to record the choir; and, it was mixed at Eargasm Studios. It has won awards in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, International Songwriting Competition, USA Songwriting Competition, and now it's gunning for the biggest award of all... the Grammy.
Billboard picked "Baba Yetu" as one of their nominations to watch. It's up for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists and Tin's Calling All Dawns is up for Best Classical Crossover Album.
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
But since a "Fuck those people" has already been thrown out there: no, fuck you! It was obvious since your preview discussions of Civ V that you guys are actually severely ignorant of both the time at which certain innovations were introduced, and more importantly, what effect they had on the franchise.
Here is your required reading:
Tom Chick's review outlines series flaws that were ignored by every other big site:
http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3181540
Sullla proves that he understands the game better than the people who made it. His article is not an emotional tirade on the game, it is an explanation of the design choices in Civ V and the consequences of those choices. You can just skip down half way to "Five Problem's with Civ V's Design":
http://www.garath.net/Sullla/Civ5/whatwentwrong.html
If you want to have a real discussion you're going to have to catch up to us in terms of understanding the game itself. Telling us to just go back to Civ IV is like conservatives telling liberals to move to Canada. It is such an offensive comment to make in light of the work the Civ community has put into analyzing the game and fixing it on their own (Civ IV was saved when the community made a better AI than than Firaxes could make. Firaxes implemented that mod into an official patch a month later.) "Fuck those people"? Those are the people who will fix Civ.
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It's a decent game, and I think it gets judged a bit harsher than it should by the Civ IV crowd, especially when that game has the benefit of years of improvements and expansions, but that's not to say that it doesn't have it's issues. A lot of the frustration for me personally is that I want the best of both worlds. Civ 5 introduced some really great things that I really wish I could have in IV, and it frustrates me that so many of 5's shortcomings were actually done far better in IV. On some level part of me is screaming "How could you mess that up, you already had it working really well, you should have just been able to bring that part of the experience over!!" even though I know that it's probably more complicated than that.
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