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Weekend Confirmed Episode 46
by Garnett Lee, Feb 04, 2011 12:00pm PSTGood friend of the show Christian Spicer joins Garnett, Jeff, and Jeff this week. They've been playing a number of games, filling Whatcha' Been Playin? with Magicka, the Witcher, a new run through Halo: Reach and Red Dead Redemption, a report from Namco's 2011 preview event, and more. Your conversations about last week's announcement of the Sony NGP get things started in the Warning, which continues through to some of our "happiness" games. And in the news, more on the post-launch features planned for the 3DS and cloud computing for PS3 and Steam headline the Front Page.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 46 - 02/04/2011
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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: 00:30:35
Whatcha' Been Playin? and Cannata-ford: 00:31:41 End: 01:03:40
The Warning: 01:04:45 End: 01:35:10
Featured Music "I Think of Me Too" by Hello Ninja: 01:35:10 End: 01:38:32
The Front Page: Start: 01:38:32 End: 02:12:40
Tailgate-Super Bowl Edition: Start: 02:13:41 End: 02:23:33
Hello Ninja is a Boston-based rock revival band. The band features the talents of Cat Basile on vocals, Will Deeks on lead guitar, and Tim Thompson & Anthony Geehan providing the band's rhythm section. Hello Ninja will be touring the Northeast from February 5-12, making stops in Worcester, MA, Providence, RI, New London, CT, Brooklyn, New York, Albany, New York, and finishing in Somerville, MA. You can find out more info on their upcoming tour & hear their new EP on the Hello Ninja official site, MySpace, or The Hello Ninja bandcamp page.
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
Garnett, the big trick to playing Reach on Legendary is that you just need to play far more slowly than you're probably used to. You spend a lot more time behind cover, using angles, and flanking.
It really emphasizes the "RTS" elements that I always see in Halo. You need to master the various weapon combinations that are effective against different enemies (like knowing what troupes counter each other in an RTS). Then, you approach each encounter as a defended position, where the key to progressing is finding the weak link in the enemies troupe deployment, and take it out first (this is exactly what you were getting into when you mentioned prioritizing targets, just taken a step farther).
I've beaten every Halo game solo on Legendary, but I agree that Heroic is the sweet spot when you just want to sit down and have fun for a little while.
If you want to see something really stupid, check out this video guide I made: I's a walkthrough of the first mission of Reach, on Legendary, with ALL SKULLS ON (referred to as "Mythic" difficulty). The punchline? You need to beat the mission without dying! Took me 4 hours, but I did it ;p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3i879A6LBA
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And I agree.... I think that the single most important factor in Halo's success as a franchise is it's ability to be so many different games for so many different people. When a game taps into that ability to offer such a diverse range of experiences, things really take off. I've never played WOW, but I imagine there is a similarity to the level of diversity that can be found within the game. 2 people could play WOW, or Halo, for a year straight, and have a completely different set of experiences.
Pretty cool stuff, really.
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