Weekend Confirmed 74 - NHL 12, Toy Soldiers: Cold War, El Shaddai

by Garnett Lee, Aug 19, 2011 11:00am PDT

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The power trio of Xav, Jeff, and Garnett come together for a midsummer's night podcast. Picking up on the excitement Shane left last week, El Shaddai gets a closer look after having played it--and fares well for the most part. Other games in Whatcha Been Playin? include NHL 12, Madden, Portal 2 co-op, and Toy Soldiers: Cold War. For the Warning, we talk about whether MMO design needs to better emphasize group play, and the recent assertion that few people finish games. Some of that discussion spills over to the news segment, which starts off with Mark Cerny's prediction that isolated single-player games will be gone in three years. Finishing Moves tops it all off.

Weekend Confirmed Ep. 74: 08/19/2011

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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: 00:29:01
Whatcha' Been Playin Part 2: Start: 00:29:35 End: 00:58:32
The Warning: Start: 00:59:32 End: 01:31:15
Featured music Mista Perkins "Pop Life" feat. Aaron G. West: 01:31:15 End: 01:34:50
The Front Page news: Start: 01:34:50 End: 02:09:51

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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.

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I want to throw up a question to my fellow Shackers. Do you feel as if the general gaming press often times unfairly blames the rest of the general community for a game not selling well (and resulting consequences: studio layoffs, lack of sequel, etc)? I felt like I was "under attack" by not buying games like Child of Eden and I feel accused of just buying Call of Duty every year and hating on "creative" games and the people who make them. Sometimes it seems as if the press feels like they are the voice of God and I must obey. Specifically to Child of Eden, the discussion seemed to be "Why did you not buy Child of Eden?" instead of "Why did Eden not sell well?"

For me, and most of the community, I don't have a personal relationship with developers so I have no obligation to spend $60 on games I deem to be a poor value.

Am I just crazy?

Aug 19, 2011 6:19pm PDT

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  I'll come back with a proper reply later, but for now, I'd just like to say that the other side of this c... : CampKusoge
  - This I agree with also. With all enthusiast hobbies (which I realize is actually a redundant term), the c... : ImprobableJ
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    I actually almost totally disagree with that. Producers do need to listen to their paying customers and t... : Videosta
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      Hmm, maybe it is the "complete ass" part that bothers me more than anything. I think that making fair and... : CampKusoge
      
      I totally agree on the complaints before anyone really knows anything real about the title they are gripi... : Videosta
    - Crowd-sourcing improvements/changes goes both ways in equal measure. For every praise for a specific chan... : ImprobableJ
- this is a great comment, and i agree in full. : silentdante
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  You are crazy. :3 But you're also right, although I think : "Why did you not buy Child of Eden?" is the ... : Monkey0111
  - They are not the same question. "Why did you not buy game x?" Implies that I should have bought it, thus ... : CaptainThunderpants
- Very good point. How about blaming the publishers for releasing 3 hour games that have zero replay va... : CptBedlam
- Of those that were "under attack", I think that those that have that hipster attitude where they are cons... : ImprobableJ
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  The idea of purchasing Child of Eden or Shadows of the Damned never even occurred to me, because they wer... : CruelLEGACEY
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    Shhh, now they are going to give us the lecture on how we mustn't consider the dollars per hours of enter... : ArgentR
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      lol.... see, in some ways I do agree with that. I do think it is possible for a game to have such a strong impact that the time spent playing is almost irrelavent, but those are very rare cases.
      
      However, not once did I read or hear anything about Child of Eden or Shadows of the Damned that made me think either game might be on that caliber. Both gamers were generally reviewed as "Lots of fun, while they last".
      
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      lol.... see, in some ways I do agree with that. I do think it is possible for a game to have such a stron... : CruelLEGACEY
- I've noticed the same thing too. I don't appreciate being considered part of a "problem" simply because I... : GrandHarrier
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  To me the games press chastises us for not buying certain games that don't sell the same way movie critic... : Vinnymike
  - All very good responses in my opinion. I've been saying lately that the gaming press has lost the trust o... : omnilaw
  - Spicer kind of does that too. "Hey support your local struggling comedian by going to a show". : Runnermatt
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  Well, if you just buy CoD every year, you're clearly part of the problem. :P Seriously though, I ca... : MHSilver
- Thanks everyone for responding. The discussion has been great so far. : CaptainThunderpants
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  No you're not crazy. You just see game value differently from those in the games press you were talking a... : goingcommando117
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    Oh boy! The "$200 Flower Incident of 2011". My problems with this are: A: the press doesn't buy the ga... : CaptainThunderpants
    - A: Fair enough. B: Since typing long form text on mobile does suck, I do want to hear you elaborate on... : goingcommando117
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      No people will experience SOME elements of a game the same way. But how they react to those experience... : MHSilver
      
      I think you may have missed the point of my post. I'm trying to say that a game is is not an experience i... : CaptainThunderpants

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