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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!
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.
Comments
It really has me flummoxed.
I just don't know what it says about gamers that, in this horrible economy, many of us are choosing to buy more games than we can possibly play.
Does anyone else have this issue? What do you think this could mean?
I know part of what has driven me to buy so many games new is a feeling of guilt if I don't support a studio I like by buying their game in the first week or two. But why should I feel guilty?
I have to wonder if part of it comes from developers and publishers blaming consumers when games fail, but in the over-saturated market it just doesn't seem feasible to buy every big new game that comes out.
Still. I am the one in control of my games-based spending, not publishers, developers, or the press. I am going to try to move away from a pure consumer mentality, and spend more time returning to games I already own and love. I am also going to spend more time playing the games I do buy, rather than just blasting through them to get to the next new title.
Help me out guys. I really don't know what to make of all of this!
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With games, I briefly got into collecting Japanese import DS games. The cost combined with the very real chance I won't have any idea how to play it put the kibosh on that pretty quickly, but the motive was largely the same as it was with my music obsession. It was all about the hunt.
My problem is that I like Getting things a lot more than I do Having them. These things were all very exciting to have for a little while, but the real excitement for me was always in hunting for that next thing, searching for the diamond in the rough, to quote one of the other threads. After I have the thing for a while, it's not as interesting, and it's time to go hunting again to get that feeling back.
These days, I'm back in school and the money isn't as plentiful as it once was, so I tend to consider how long I can expect a game to hold my attention, but I'll still see weird and obscure things on the shelf, and it makes me sad that I can't just buy it impulsively to see if it's secretly great.
Not knowing your library or buying habits, I don't know if we're in the same boat or not, but that's the nature of my bad habit...
that and I'm constantly buying new versions of Tetris, but I think everyone needs at least one game that they love beyond reason and will play every new version and scrutinize them on an obsessively granular level.
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