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Weekend Confirmed 88 - Skyrim, Holiday leftovers
by Garnett Lee, Nov 23, 2011 11:00am PSTJoin Xav, Jeff, Andrea, and Garnett as they celebrate the long Thanksgiving weekend. They share tales from Skyrim and Assassin's Creed Revelations during the beginning of the show. Some of the excellent discussions from the show comments last week fuel plenty of discussion on whether gamers want to be told a story, or play their own. Everyone is set for the 360 dashboard update, now that it's finally coming December 6. And the group starts to sort through the gaming leftovers already gathering from a great year of games that included LittleBIGPlanet 2, Bulletstorm, Crysis 2, L.A. Noire, and so many more titles that are already fading into memories. Finishing moves and a special Thanksgiving games edition of the tailgate wrap it all up.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 88: 11/23/2011
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Show Breakdown:
Round 1 00:00:00 to 00:27:48
Whatcha Been Playing Part 1 00:28:23 to 00:57:40
Whatcha Been Playing Part 2 00:58:09 to 01:22:05
Listener Feedback/Front Page News 01:22:33 to 02:00:28
NFL Tailgate 02:01:12 to 02:11:45
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Comments
I did find it interesting that Xav felt that the tower defense element took Ezio, and the player, out of the role of master assassin and into supervisor.
While I didn't particularly enjoy the Den defense stuff (although I didn't have enough trouble with it to hate it either) I thought that the CONCEPT of that, as well as the concept of the Master Assassin training missions, actually made a lot of sense.
Ezio is getting old - he's one of the few playable protagonists past their 50s, and it makes sense that as his stature increases but his body starts weakening, he would take on a role that was more about shaping the future and overseeing operations. So I liked the concept of taking an older character there, though I didn't particularly care for the method.
And when the character Yusif jokingly asks Ezio 'When were YOU ever young?' I'm sure every gamer thought 'Hey! I've been doing this since I was a teenager!'... and then realized how far they'd gone and how much they'd been through with Ezio.
Indeed, the theme of maturing, growing past one's initial, personal motivations and seeking something greater echoes across all three of the protagonists stories in the game (including Desmond's emo home movies), and it's an interesting Jungian idea that isn't often explored in games because it fits more within the context of a mid-life crisis or late-life fatalism.
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I've always like the Desmond/2012 Sci-Fi elements in Assassin's Creed, it wouldn't be half as interesting to me if it weren't there. I'm not sure why so many people don't like Desmond think he has no character.
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