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Weekend Confirmed Episode 48
by Garnett Lee, Feb 18, 2011 12:00pm PSTBilly and Christian join Jeff and Garnett in the studio for this week's show. A look back at the Halo: Reach campaign as played solo as opposed to cooperatively gets things started in Whatcha Been Playin? GoldenEye also gets a brief reassessment before yielding to Marvel vs. Capcom 3. There's time to catch up on your comments during the Warning and the open question of how intimidating the competitive nature of some games can be to players who just want to have fun. The Front Page closes this week's show with a full slate of new game and DLC announcements from Double Fine's Sesame Street kinect game to a da Vinci-themed add-on for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 48 - 02/18/2011
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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: 00:30:21
Whatcha' Been Playin? and Cannata-ford: 00:31:10 End: 01:01:36
The Warning: 01:02:39 End: 01:34:24
Featured Music "Hangman" by Room 16 : 01:34:24 End: 01:38:03
The Front Page: Start: 01:38:03 End: 02:12:54
In the Featured Music break this week it's "Hangman" from Room 16. They are a straightforward rock band from Scotland who like playing music with guitars in it. Room 16 has been making music for better or worse for about 3 years now and has had the pleasure of gigging across the country. Their line up consists of singer Ewan McCall, guitarists Andrew Gordon and Adam Gatherer, bass player Kyle McLellan and drummer Ronan McLellan. Hangman was written by Andrew Gordon with additional lyrics from Ewan McCall.
If you're fortunate enough to be around Glasgow on Saturday, March 12 you can check them out at Barrowlands 2. They've also graciously offered to send a free track to Weekend Confirmed listeners just for the asking. Connect with Room 16 via Twitter, Facebook, the official Room 16 site, and their 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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That said, I think he's overlooking just how complex today's controllers are, for the same reason that I often do - because we've been gaming as the controller has evolved.
We weren't just handed a dual-shock or Xbox 360 controller the first time we played games, we had a nice steady evolution and about 5 years to get comfortable with every step.
NES - Dpad and 2 buttons.
SNES - Dpad, 4 face buttons, 2 shoulder buttons
PSX - Dpad, 4 face buttons, 4 shoulder buttons
N64 - One analog stick, four face buttons, 2 shoulder buttons
PSX/PS2 - TWO analog sticks, 4 face buttons, 4 shoulder buttons
Xbox/Xbox 360 Two analog sticks, 4 face buttons, 2 shoulder buttons, 2 triggers
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My wife is not a gamer in general, but she has fond memories of playing the original 2D Prince of Persia on her computer when she was a kid, so I bought her the XBLA version. She loves it, and she had no problem getting used to the controls, because it only uses the sticks and 2 buttons.
Knowing that she also likes Mario Kart, I bough Sonic and Sega All Stars Racing (which is actually a great Cart racer), and she picked it up no problem as well.
Where my wife (and a lot of other people who don't play games on a regular basis) has trouble is when she tries to play any 1st person or even 3rd person shooter or action game. The whole idea of moving with one stick and looking around with the other is just not something she can get used to. It instantly frustrates her, so badly that she isn't willing to spend any time trying to get used to it.
Of course, 1st person shooters and 3rd person action games are by far the most popular genres at the moment. I think the basic 1st person controls that many of us take for granted are actually very dissorienting for "non-gamers".
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