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Weekend Confirmed Episode 44
by Garnett Lee, Jan 21, 2011 12:00pm PSTGarnett took a quick trip earlier this week to New York for Nintendo's big press event unveiling the 3DS. Along with the pricing and launch info, he returns with detailed impressions of the upcoming hardware and hands-on impressions of several of the games. Jeff, Billy, and special guest Ryan Payton also get in plenty of questions, but there's more to the show than just the 3DS. Fluidity, LittleBIGPlanet 2, and 999: 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors round out Whatcha' Been Playin? The Warning starts with what may become a regular feature of talking about favorite game endings before moving on to some excellent questions Ryan brought. And in the Front Page, December and Year-end sales figures for 2010 lead a full slate of news that concludes with a few thoughts on EA's ill-conceived "Your mom hates this game" marketing campaign for Dead Space 2.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 44 - 01/21/2011
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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: 00:31:44
Whatcha' Been Playin? and Cannata-ford: 00:32:48 End: 01:05:05
The Warning: 01:06:12 End: 01:37:32
Featured Music "1 Way Ticket" by Beat Bullys: 01:37:32 End: 01:41:00
The Front Page: Start: 01:41:00 End: 02:16:42
Tailgate Playoffs Wild Card Special: Start: 02:17:42 End: 02:30:09
The Featured Music segment presents "1 Way Ticket" by The Beat Bullys. They are a hip hop rap group based in Southern Califorina. Members BNews, Kree & Osama Bin Rappin were brought together creatively by Long Beach Native & Member of LBC Crew, Bad Azz! Their Debut Album, "Bully Music" is set to be released this year on up and coming Indie Label, Provocative Ent. "1way Ticket" is their newest single Produced by Prophit. Check out their Introduction Video on Youtube "Dedication" and follow on Twitter: BNews83 and itsjustkree
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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Comments
COD and most action games like it really appeal to the "Bro" demographic which much of the time is still the main target audience for video games in North America. It's the same demographic that makes action movies and action TV shows successful.
If you were making a game that shared more in common with drama, soap opera, comedy, etc., you would have to sell it to people who are more into that thing. You would have to convince those people that a videogame can do those things well. For starters you'd probably have to have at least a professional TV-level writer deeply involved (if not one of the main designers). You'd also probably have to advertise the game outside of the normal gaming channels.
For a while now I've been wondering if adventure games and other narrative-driven games could prove to be a gateway to casual gamers who maybe don't like action and space marines.
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