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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
I think Jeff posed a very interesting question when he asked "Do you want to be able to say you've played game x, or do you actually want to PLAY game x?"
Personally, I admit that there have been times when I go out and buy a game that doesn't initially interest me, simply because I hear so much praise for it. Once and a while, I am pleasantly surprised, but more often than not I end up putting such games aside and going back to the games I love.
Games I have purchased due to feeling that "I should play them" over the past 6 months include:
Fable 3
Alan Wake
God of War 3
Uncharted 2
Mod Nation Racers
GTA 4 w/ Lost & Damned/Ballad of Gay Tony
Deadspace 2
WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2011 (guilty pleasure)
plus a half dozen XBLA games that I can't even remember right now.
Out of that list, I've put maybe 3 hours into Vanquish, 30 minutes into Fable 3, an hour into Uncharted 2, and a couple races in Mod Nation with my wife. The rest of the list haven't even been booted up yet.
Why? Because every time I sit down to play a game, I ask myself "what do I really want to PLAY right now?". Over the past 6 months, that has been Halo Reach, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Mass Effect 2, and Bad Company 2.
This tells me 2 things:
1) I need to stop buying games unless I actually want to play them (duh)
2) The conceptual desire to say "I have played game x" might be strong enough for me to purchase a game, but when it comes time for me to sit down and pick up a controller, my brain turns to the game I am the most genuinely excited to play.
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- Dead Space 1
- Enslaved
- Borderlands
- Bioshock 2
- Mirror's Edge
- Batman: AA
- Braid
- Limbo
I think it's a good thing to try a variety of games though. I didn't enjoy Borderlands, Bioshock 2, Enslaved or Mirror's Edge, but I'm glad I gave them a shot and was able to decide for myself that I don't like them. Just like you though CruelLEGACEY I find myself constantly drawn back to Halo: Reach among others.
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