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Weekend Confirmed 114 - Diablo 3, Max Payne 3, Lost Planet 3
by Garnett Lee, May 25, 2012 12:00pm PDTDiablo 3 has strengthened its hold on Jeff Cannata who really only wants to talk about his barbarian, but there's so much more to cover. Garnett returns to the driver's seat after spending last week getting a sneak peek at some of the big games ready to vie for the spotlight at E3. "Indie" Jeff and Andrea Rene complete the adventuring party that gets down to business discussing their varying degree of anticipation for E3, the demise of 38 Studios, and the plight of subscription model MMOs, whether Max Payne 3 actually improves the gunplay over previous Rockstar open world games, and a handful of other games including Lost Planet 3 and Rock Band Blitz. Put a bird on it with Finishing Moves and you've got one massive show to take along on the Memorial Day weekend.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 114: 05/25/2012
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Comments
But first, consider Peggle. Yes, Peggle.
How do you play Peggle? You line up the cursor, and click to fire the ball. This is your means of interacting with the game state, right? Then, the ball hits the pegs, lighting up the pegs and making "happy" sounds - this is the game state reaction to your interaction. Finally, you are awarded points based on the success or failure of your shot (a tangible measure of your interaction with the game state), and the process repeats again.
The concept is relatively simple - press button, get shiny, repeat. When the ball physics are right, the sounds are synced with the ball contact, and you are given significant and/or particularly meaningful opportunities for big rewards, the process gets even more compelling. It's akin to Pavlov's experiments with dogs.
Now, replace ball-firing with combat, pegs with undead, and a scoreboard with loot. Diablo's combat is obviously more complicated than lining up a shot and taking it, but when you look at the abstract idea of what you're doing (short interaction, reward, repeat), you're looking at the same compulsion loop.
TL;DR - Do stuff + get shiny = fun.
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I define this as It doesn't waste my time. Even if I play for 5 minutes, I am likely to find new loot, get some gold and exp. I hate it when you play a game for 20 minutes and get zero actual progress because you died or you had to turn it off before a check point or you simply aren't doing much.
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