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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.
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Comments
I keep hearing Mass Effect getting slagged off for its binary Paragon/Renegade branching paths. While I agree that games offering more nuanced choices can be phenomenal, I'd argue that there is still room for opposing paths.
With binary options, a much more focused, cinematic story is available. In Mass Effect specifically, you're playing a character renowned throughout our corner of the universe; a hero of epic proportions known for bold, brave moves. Wether noble or cut-throat, Shepard gets the job done. Politicians are not the heroes of the story. They would be the people making the more nuanced decisions (and I'd welcome an expanded universe game dealing with that type of decision making gameplay).
It's Superman vs Batman. Captain America vs Wolverine. It's a narrative that has served us well, and as long as it's being served to us well, I'm on board.
P.S. I have a slogan for the NGP as a 'Marital Aide': NGP for when you're Not Getting P....
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Very good point. I've always been puzzled by this criticism of ME2 as well.
Although I can see that it might break the immersion if you are going out of your way to "game" the system, my argument is that if you are trying to "game" the system in the first place, you've already pulled yourself out of the story.
I found the paragon/renegade options deeply satisfying. Not because I was watching the meters, or trying to max out 1 side over another, but because I felt the game gave me the ability to do things that I would actually want to do in those situations.
Sometimes I would go out of my way to help a stranger, and sometimes I would shove someone out a window because they were jerking me around.
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