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Weekend Confirmed 66 - FEAR 3, Shadows of the Damned
by Garnett Lee, Jun 24, 2011 11:00am PDTSettling in to summer, the Weekend Confirmed crew finds a stack of great games waiting to be played. Christian Spicer sits in with Xav, Jeff, and Garnett to talk F.E.A.R. 3, Shadows of the Damned, inFamous 2, Trenched, and more in Whatcha' Been Playin? The Warning gets started with a continuation of a discussion that started on twitter about whether names like Mizuguchi, Suda, Mikami, and Yamaoka generate big buzz. The group also looks at all the other big games hitting their 10th anniversary along with Halo and realizes 2001 was a pretty special year. The news and Finishing Moves bring it all home.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 66: 06/24/2011
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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: 00:29:54
- Whatcha' Been Playin Part 2: Start: 00:30:28 End: 01:01:20
- Whatcha' Been Playin Part 3: Start: 01:02:26 End: 01:32:04
- Featured music "The Constant" by The Felix Culpa: Start: 01:32:04 End: 01:35:30
- The Front Page news: Start: 01:31:47 End: 02:06:53
The Felix Culpa is a four-piece band consisting of vocalist/guitarist Marky Hladish, bassist/vocalist Tristan Hammond, guitarist/vocalist Dustin Currier and drummer Joel Coan. From the Illinois/Wisconsin border, the band is best described as progressive indie with post-hardcore elements. They have released two full-length albums ("Commitment" and "Sever Your Roots"), an EP/DVD combo ("Thought Control"), a digital EP ("SoSo Remission") and are currently signed to No Sleep Records. They can be found online at Facebook, twitter, and on their official site.
The Felix Culpa are headed out on a short supporting tour w/ The Dear Hunter.
Tour Dates:
July 22nd - Minneapolis, MN Triple Rock
July 23rd - DeKalb, IL House Cafe
July 24th - Chicago, IL Lincoln Hall
July 26th - St. Louis, MO The Firebird
July 27th - Covington, KY Mad Hatter
July 28th - Grand Rapids, MI Pyramid SchemeKay
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 delriomusic.
Christian Spicer performs his stand-up comedy show around the country. For more info, including dates for upcoming shows, check out Christian Spicer's site.
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
Part of my mindset is definitely influenced by the fact that I work in the marketing industry. But even as a gamer, I am guilty of being less excited about demos for games that I know or feel are going to be awesome walking in.
Take this year for example. The two best demos for me this year were Tomb Raider and Prey 2. My friends and I went into E3 with moderate (Tomb Raider) to zero (Prey interest) in either game. After those demos, we were absolutely obsessed with tracking down every scrap of info and media about the games. They defied expectations.
Bioshock Infinite, Arkham Asylum, Uncharted 3... we knew they would be awesome. They were. We have our pre-orders already. In a marketing sense, those games are no better or worse off than they were heading into E3. They hit their beats, kept the games in the gaming consciousness through the summer.
Meanwhile, the demos for Prey 2 and Tomb Raider put those games on the map. They are significantly better off coming out of E3 than they were going in from a fan interest point of view.
So that's why I think they are the best E3 demos of 2011.
NOTE: This E3 was the first one I have missed since 2005. I wrote for a fan-site in my spare time, and it was large enough that we were even invited through 2007 and 2008 when attendance was severely restricted. So I'm speaking both to hands-on and hands-off demos here.
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I'm constantly hearing members of the gaming press complain that there are not enough new IPs. Honestly, when was the last time that a new IP matched games like Halo Reach, Mass Effect 2, Assasin's Creed Brotherhood, Uncharted 2, Bad Company 2, or any of the other INCREDIBLE sequels that have been released this generation.
Certainly, there are the rare times when an exceptional new IP comes along. But those are truly rare exceptions. More often than not, the best a new IP can hope for is to be strong enough to generate enough sales to warrant a sequel, allowing the developers the opportunity to take the groundwork of the original and deliver an imporved experience.
I remember in an episode of Weekend Confirmed earlier this year, the cast were re-visiting Halo Reach. Garnett posed the question "Was Reach overlooked last year? Did we not give it enough credit". Jeff responded "If Reach was released as a new IP, I think it would have sold less but reviewed better" (I'm paraphrasing).
I agree with Jeff's theory completely, which I find really upsetting. The gaming press has such a huge hard-on for "new IPs" that they all too often glance past THE BEST GAMES that are being released because they are "just sequels".
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