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Weekend Confirmed 86 - Skyrim, Modern Warfare 3, Saints Row the Third
by Garnett Lee, Nov 11, 2011 11:11am PSTThe Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Modern Warfare 3 arrived this week and the Weekend Confirmed crew takes a little break from playing them to share their stories from the games. Wouldn't you know, a cold bug seems to be sweeping through the offices as well, laying out Xav and sapping Garnett. He carries on, though, joined by Jeff and Christian because the show must go on. And boy does it. Saints Row the Third also got into the mix of what we've been playing and we take a look at whether it's odd to play portable games from the comforts of our couch and what we learned about Mass Effect 3 from the beta that briefly leaked out on Live. As always, we wrap it all up with Finishing Moves and our football Tailgate.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 86: 11/11/2011
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Show Breakdown:
Round 1 00:00:00 to 00:23:43
Whatcha Been Playing Part 1 00:24:16 to 00:47:07
Whatcha Been Playing Part 2 00:48:06 to 01:14:17
Featured Music Break: 01:14:17 to 01:17:00 Cool Party Guys, 'Stanky'
Listener Feedback/Front Page News 01:17:00 to 01:52:22
NFL Tailgate 01:53:05to 01:59:47
Billy Bonnell and Greg Santos are part of the sketch comedy group Cool Party Guys which also features Christian Spicer. The song was produced by a guy who has worked with Lonely Island and some top 40 rappers. The video was directed and edited by none other than Mega 64's own Derrick Acosta.
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Comments
The "raison d'etre" of a handheld gaming device is not prtability, it's self-containment. The ability to take the device with you is an offshoot of the fact that all the components needed to game are contained within the unit itself, not the other way around. Not taking a handheld gaming device with you as you would a cell phone is no more strange than not taking your laptop with you everywhere as you would your phone. Portability is a merely feature, it's a thing that the device "can" do that other devices can't.
And you're absolutely wrong about handhelds being unnecessary in a world where smartphones came first. Anything a console can do, PCs can do right now, as well as hundreds of other things, and it's been that way for quite some time, which doesn't seem to have done anything to render consoles obsolete as a platform. In fact, it was this very way of thinking that caused the western game market to crash back in 1984, back when the assumption was that everyone would simply graduate from consoles to home computers, and then some foreign company saw a hole in the market and created a huge splash with a dedicated gaming console that was actually fairly primitive and limited when compared to the computers of the time.
Furthermore, if you truly believe that tablets and smartphones replace the need once filled by dedicated handheld gaming devices, then guess what, the PC as you know it is next, because outside of professional and/or niche applications, tablets replace much of what the average person currently does with their home computer, and for the many of those people, 90 cent app store games are just as adequate a replacement as they were for handheld games.
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