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Weekend Confirmed 128 - Guild Wars 2, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Walking Dead
by Jeff Mattas, Aug 31, 2012 11:00am PDTIn this week's game-packed episode of Weekend Confirmed, Garnett Lee, Jeff Cannata, and Jeff Mattas are joined by regular guest Christian Spicer, and special guest Phillipe Bosher of Buried in the Credits. The crew discusses whether or not Guild Wars 2 brings a breath of fresh air to the MMO space, and a host of other games get some love as well. Forza Horizon, The Walking Dead, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, and Thirty Flights of Loving are just some of the games on tap for critical dissection. And of course, things get wrapped up with a healthy dose of Finishing Moves.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 128: 08/31/2012
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Comments
Perhaps it's because you frequently get the mechanics of the games you're talking about just... wrong.
Mostly, I think it's because you maybe shouldn't be playing MMOs cause you don't seem to enjoy them.
Here's the reason MMOs don't explain every single detail of the game to you, they don't have to. Part of playing the game is learning how to play from the other players. If you're not learning from reading chat and asking questions and, yes, reading the wiki or even the manual then you're doing it wrong. You're cutting out a major portion of the game which is the other people running around you.
It's an MMO. It IS a social game. And if you think reading the wiki isn't social, who do you think wrote that wiki?
Not taking advantage of those other players is like... playing a console game with only one side of the controller. If we're going to make ridiculous analogies.
Oh and if you're worried that the game may be too daunting for the common mortal think of this, there's no manual or on screen instruction for the iPhone either but Apple seems to do fairly well selling and supporting those.
We live in the age of "figure it out or ask". Maybe that'll just have to be a problem for you.
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I'm all for learning the game from the standpoint of exploring, figuring out how things work, and playing in general.
It also seems to me that I ought to at least know how to get around in this world that's been created in order to do that. Or take it from a role play perspective. My character would at the least understand how to do the basic things that comprise their class.
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