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Weekend Confirmed 119 - Spec Ops: The Line, Halo 4
by Garnett Lee, Jun 29, 2012 11:00am PDTAfter visiting with its designer last week, Spec Ops: The Line stands for inspection. Adam Sessler and Paul Semel join Jeff and Garnett in the discussion that looks at the game both on its surface as a shooter and its underlying ambitions to seriously address the carnage of a "heroic," one-man rampage. Along with the discussion of violence, the conversation also turns to the sustainability of the big-budget console game. Halo 4's commitment to episodic content and the demise of Radical Entertainment lead the news discussions. And of course, it all wraps up on Finishing Moves.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 119: 06/29/2012
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Comments
Naughty Dog has revealed what their mutated will look like. They did this with the debut trailer. "The mutated" are inspired by a real life fungus that uses insect bodies as its host, and grows out of their brains.
They revealed this using a teaser vid pulled from some nature documentry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt7Z1rb8ung&noredirect=1
And then they actually just showed what "the mutated" look like:
http://cloud.videogamewriters.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/the-last-of-us-20120323040220032.jpeg
http://cdn.gamerant.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Last-of-Us-Joel.jpg
Second, the term "episodic" technically means self contained. Where as serial means a continuous story broken up into parts. People sometimes use them interchangeably, but yeah.
Also, Adam can take his critique of the "who are the real monsters?" question which is in all good zombie fiction and shove it up his ass. The Walking Dead has kept the question relevant for years now, over dozens of issues. 28 Days Later is one of the best horror films ever made. Almost all good horror concerns itself with questions of humans themselves becoming monstrous. So yeah, that's stupid, and a sign of him being pretentious.
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And while all good zombie fiction does ask the question of 'who are the real monsters', there has never been good zombie fiction in videogames, so it's still worth being excited about if it's tackling that idea in this media.
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