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Weekend Confirmed Episode 47
by Garnett Lee, Feb 11, 2011 2:40pm PSTGarnett jetted in early Friday morning from Las Vegas where he attended D.I.C.E., saw the Interactive Achievement Awards, and played Duke Nukem Forever. He joins Jeff, Jeff, and special guest Andrea Rene host of This Week in Video Games and Mahalo Video Games Today. Up first in Whatcha' Been Playin? the conversation includes Killzone 3, Mass Effect 2 on PS3, Stacking, and Hazard: the Journey of Life. A special edition of the Warning delves into some of the creative discussion points raised at D.I.C.E. sessions. And news on Battlefield 3, the Darkness 2, and major upheaval at Activision pack the Front Page to wrap it all up.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 47 - 02/11/2011
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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: 00:31:58
Whatcha' Been Playin? and Cannata-ford: 00:33:00 End: 01:05:33
The Warning: 01:06:40 End: 01:42:34
Featured Music Del Rio featuring Panama Redd with "Oxygen": 01:42:34 End: 01:45:40
The Front Page: Start: 01:45:40 End: 02:28:05
Featured music this week comes from our very own Del Rio. His first album, The Wait is Over, released this past Tuesday. On the show today is the track Oxygen featuring Panama Redd. And we've got a special deal to help celebrate the release. Buy the five tracks listed below on iTunes and Del Rio will send you the other six for free!
Buy:
- The Next Phase (Produced by Anon)
- Move feat. M. Terrel, Mista Perkins, and Natalia
- Wandering feat. Brian Mauleon
- Can't Stop My Shine feat. X2
- Pigeonholed (Produced by Gabe Dulek
Get for FREE:
- Now I Understand
- Love Silly Me (Produced by RNS)
- Oxygen feat. Panama Redd
- Dreaming feat. Charissa
- Wait (Produced by RC)
- Small Town Hero (Produced by RNS
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!
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Comments
Simplicity in any medium can be a sign of skill.
As a musician, I'm never impressed by the bands that play the most notes. I'm impressed by the bands that are able to play the fewest notes, yet make a powerful piece of music.
Yes, there is something truly impressive about a game as deep and complex as AC brotherhood or Mass Effect 2, especially when it comes all clicks.
But that takes nothing away from a simple, elagent idea, masterfully exicuted.
Angry Birds may or may not be a fair contender for Game of the Year. But I will say this: it captured more hours from me than Fable 3, Vanquish, Alan Wake, and a lot of other great games this year.
Andrea's dismissal of a game, purely because it is 'simple', is a truly ignorant and closed-minded way to look at the medium.
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The way I look at it is this:
When I sit down on my couch and turn on my Xbox, I have dozens of games in front of me competing for my time. Usually, smaller downloadable games are nothing more than simple diversions.... something to kill time between major releases.
This fall, something different happened. I had Red Dead sitting on my shelf, Halo Reach freshly opened, Vanquish half finished..... yet I kept going back to Limbo. It was no longer a "little diversion", it was a game that competed against the big boys for my time and interest, and held its own.
To me, that is a sign that a game has crossed boundaries or 'categories'. At the end of the day, all videogames are competing with each other for our time, and if a simple downloadable game can compete with Red Dead and Halo Reach for my time, then it absolutely deserves consideration in a "Game of the Year" discussion.
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