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Weekend Confirmed 80 - Battlefield 3 beta, Gears of War 3, Resistance 3
by Garnett Lee, Sep 30, 2011 11:05am PDTWe didn’t need the official beginning of fall to know the season had arrived. Games that promise to challenge for Game of the Year honors are hitting over the next several weeks and Weekend Confirmed will be digging into them in earnest. Garnett returns from his expedition to Japan just in time to catch up with the Gears of War 3 discussion to get things started. A nasty bout of the flu knocked Xav out this week but Jeff holds things down with our special guest James Stevenson of Insomniac Games. Naturally, there’s some Resistance 3 talk, but much more as well including the Battlefield 3 beta, Burnout Crash, and yes, Jeff braves the waters to talk some about Kirby. With the trifecta of EA Sports games out we also look at how the annual cycle could be improved. And of course we’ve got all the latest gaming news as well. We tweaked the format a little for this eightieth show, so please, let us know what you think in the official Shacknews.com comments.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 80: 09/30/2011
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Show Breakdown:
Round 1 00:00:00 - 00:31:02
Whatcha Been Playing 00:31:34 - 00:59:38
More Playing and the News 01:00:41 – 01:28:57
Featured Music Break: 01:28:57 - 01:32:14 -- "Point Out of a Curve" – Adam K
Listener Feedback 01:32:14 – 02:07:47
The Tailgate 02:08:30 - 02:16:41
Featured music this week comes from the massively talented house producer Adam K. His track "Point Out of a Curve" is available now on Beatport and iTunes. There's much more where that came from at Hotbox Digital. Catch up with him on the Adam K Facebook page.
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.
Jeff Cannata 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
Garnett, I completely agree with you regarding your wish to see sports franchises slow down their release schedule.
There was 1 major point that I feel like you were about to express, but never quite nailed it:
With the current release schedule, the developers don't have time to learn from their mistakes. By the time Madden 2011 ships, the pre-production team has already sketched out the feature set for Madden 2012.
With any other non-sports franchise, the developers have time to see how their game actually performs in the hands of gamers. They can take that experience and learn from it when developing a sequel.
Sports-game developers have to make these decisions based on what they know about their game before it is even finished. This makes it less of an iterative process, and more like reinventing the wheel every time.
Having said that, the argument still stands that their current model is so financially successful that I don't see EA changing their approach any time soon. Why go to all the trouble of making a better game when the ones you already make are selling so well ;)
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Then again, that's similar to what they tried back in the Sega days be launching the ESPN 2K5 games at $20 right before the NFL deal shut them down.
Damn I miss NFL 2K.
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