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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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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:
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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Buy 'Stanky' on iTunes
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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Comments
Essentially all a new Call of Duty game is, is a skin. New gun skins (maybe slightly different stats) new character skins and new maps, it's just a 60 DLC with a short story and a few new game modes, hell Halo does this for free, so did the AC:B multiplayer.
What's the point in wasting your money on this?
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Earning a blue shell in Mario Kart, or being closest to the item drop when a Hammer falls in SSB has nothing to do with skill, but completely destroys the playing field.
You earn advantages in competitive pursuits. Imagine Football if the position of the first down was decided by a coin flip. Wins and losses are meaningless, because the team that wins may have simply benefited from random chance.
In CoD, the random spawns, the fact that players at higher levels have access to equipment and kill-streaks that other players don't, bad netcode, and a host of other features rob the game of the kind of competitive legitimacy that games like Quake, Counter-Strike, Halo, Team Fortress 2 and others enjoyed and continued to enjoy.
That's all I meant. You can 'get competitive' with whatever game you choose - but the wins and losses are essentially meaningless.
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