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Weekend Confirmed Episode 53
by Garnett Lee, Mar 25, 2011 11:00am PDTThe Nintendo 3DS arrives in Europe and North America over the weekend but Jeff and Garnett have already been playing with the new handheld for a week. Their impressions of the hardware and some of the launch games fill most of the opening Whatcha Been Playin? section but there's much more to come includine Crysis 2, Shogun 2, Mortal Kombat, and Patapon 3. Shacknews's own Jeff Mattas and good friend of the show Christian Spicer round out the cast this week and brought their A game for the Warning where the group covers game criticism, behaviorism as applied to discovery in games, and more. All that, plus this week's videogame news in the Front Page and Finishing Moves make this a can't miss show.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 53: 03/25/2011
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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 Part 1: Start: 00:00:00 End: 00:29:52
- Whatcha' Been Playin Part 2: Start: 00:30:40 End: 01:01:34
- The Warning: Start: 01:02:40 End: 01:34:46
- Featured Music "All My Life" by David RuffinJr.: 01:34:36 End: 01:38:02
- Front Page news: Start: 01:38:02 End: 02:13:11
This week's Featured Music comes from the supremely talented David Ruffin Jr. In the past years, highly touted music publications such as Rolling Stone, The Source, and Rap Pages have labeled David Jr. as "talented and is up-and-coming". However, perhaps his most thrilling moment in music came when he heard a world wide, multi-platinum song, called...Gin & Juice. A Hip-Hop Classic now! A song that Dr. Dre, T-Green, Snoop, and he collaborated on and recorded together. David Jr. recently relocated to Los Angeles in an attempt to get some recognition for his latest creations. David credits his father, along with current soloist, Joe and 80s crooners, Alexander ONeal, James D-Train Williams, and the great Marvin Gaye as the major influences on his style of singing.
Pick up a copy of his new CD "All My Life" at CD Baby. You will not be disappointed. And keep up with the latest and greatest from David Ruffin Jr. on ReverbNation, facebook, and twitter.
Original music in the show by Del Rio. Get his latest Album, The Wait is Over on iTunes. Check out more, including the Super Mega Worm mix and other mash-ups on his ReverbNation page or Facebook page, and follow him on twitter
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Comments
I posted this last week as a respone to EternalGamer2's statements about game critics being overly forgiving towards "Blockbuster" games. He compared gaming critics to movie or literature critics, which is a comparison that I don't at all agree with. Here's my response:
"In my opinon, there is one giant descrepancy in your argument.
Generally speaking, there are many different reasons people watch movies. Yes, they are 'entertainment' in the broad sense, but it is very common for people to watch a movie for reason's other than "to have fun".
Now, I will be the first person screaming from the rooftops that videogames are capable of delivering a wide range of experiences on many different levels. Games can be scary, thought provoking, exciting, emotional, funny, sad, and everything in between. But, there is one key uniting factor between all great games: they are FUN. This common thread means games cannot be judged in a similar fashion to movies, books, music, or other forms of art/entertainment.
Since delivering a FUN experience is a major part of the end goal for just about every single game ever made, it must be judged accordingly.
With this in mind, I have absolutely no problem hearing Jeff say that Bulletstorm is silly, immature, yet fun to play. Even if it is a faliure from a creative/dramatic point of view, it can be an incredibly fun game to play.
Now, some people put more weight into narrative in games than others. For someone who really deeply cares about strong narrative, then Bulletstorm probably isn't for them. But a critic cannot ignore the fact that Bulletstorm delivers in the area that is the most important to the greatest number of people: fun gameplay."
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My point is that it is a benchmark for that style of gameplay, and that I respect the subtlety and skill that went into making it work as well as it does.
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