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Weekend Confirmed 135 - Star Citizen, Dishonored, Hitman: Absolution, ZombiU
by Jeff Mattas, Oct 19, 2012 11:00am PDTHost Garnett Lee is away this week to attend the Nite to Unite charity event, but Jeff Cannata, Jeff Mattas are joined by special guest Xav de Matos from Joystiq to talk about a whole bunch of current and upcoming video game releases. Chris Roberts' Star Citizen project gets some love, as do Dishonored and Hitman: Absolution, and Cannata explains his growing excitement for the WiiU launch lineup, after having had some more hands-on time with the system. Finishing Moves wraps up the show proper, followed by another brief TailGate session.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 135: 10/19/2012
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Show Breakdown:
Round 1 - 00:00:36 - 00:28:31
Whatcha' Been Playin Part 1 - 00:29:06 - 00:57:31
Whatcha Been Playin Part 2 00:58:24 - 01:23:37
Listener Feedback/Front Page News - 01:24:30 - 01:56:25
Tailgate - 01:57:11 - 02:05:48
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Comments
Before I share the straw that broke the camels back I'd like to make a few points. I started listening to 1up Yours and followed Garnett here. Kinnata is great, his rational opinions and thoughts are a pleasure to listen to.
Andrea is the dullest, most terribly informed dimwit who apparently has has no history of game playing and therefore no frame of reference and I have just had enough of her. I don't play many games myself but I don't appear on podcast.
I'm sorry Garnett, I know you get touchy about "your baby" but the fact is your put that baby in a sack, chucked a brick in too then hurled it into a pond.
NOW TO THE POINT..
Your conversation regarding the Eurogamer article. I urge everyone who thinks Andrea has any credibility to read this link which proves Andrea has been taking kickbacks herself:
http://m.neogaf.com/showpost.php?p=43764178
She's an absolute joke and terrible hypocrite. It's too late for me, I won't be listening to your podcast again but I'd like to wish Jeff K luck with whatever he does and thank him for the hours of entertainment he gave me. Garnett, thank you too.. I sometimes thought you were a total douche but at least you have a good knowledge of your subject.
I discovered the Bombcast around E3 and its was so refreshing to listed to people discussing games without the constant inane input from uninformed imbeciles.... I leave you all with this thought:
"The Wii U doesn't even play CDs"
so long
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/10/25/video-game-journalist-robert-florence-leaves-eurogamer-after-libel-complaints/
The state of "games journalism" is absolutely depressing.
Hope WC talks about this this week.
Thinking back from the current generation to the PS2, Xbox era, most successful games today are this. Old franchises made to look and sound better. I can think of only a few games that have taken full advantage of hardware and could not be done on older consoles (aside from the obvious vanity upgrades).
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Just thought some of you might be interested in this.
If anyone here is a fan of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, I'm releasing a series of tutorial videos to help people get into multiplayer. If you've always wanted to try multiplayer but feel a little intimidated, this series will hopefully help you get your feet wet.
Here's the trailer for the series:
http://cruellegaceyproductions.com/transformers-fall-of-cybertron-multiplayer-guide/
The series goes live October 29th. Check it out if you're interested, and let me know what you think!
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The 6 characters in the beta are extremely different from each other in their approach to the fight. I assume these are the 6 types with variation on them in different skins. Not sure entirely how the scoring works its not a straight kill to death ratio, there is some other additive in there.
PS fat princess is a beast deffinetely my favorite in the beta. I didn't think I'd be saying that!!!!
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Also I have to wonder the formula of (Highest End Graphics + Persistent Online Gameplay + Sim Starship Design / Combat + Current internet infrastructure of the world = Latency Nightmare). Which is one of the main reasons MMO combat has largely stuck to what essentially can be boiled down to turn based. The game designers can not afford to let latency play a large part so action bars and cool downs and lack of hit boxes is the method it has to be.
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Jeff talked about NFS coming out in 2 or 3 weeks, but too bad Garnett wasn't around, I would have liked to hear his opinion of Forza Horizon, which comes out in 4 days and got reviewed already by most sites for over a week (except shacknews for some reason), it got great scores across the board it seems.
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The expression "I DID actually play it on hard...", "What I DID do, was...", "I DO think..."
Is that simply a common expression in California or only in the video game press? I hear it all the time on this podcast (at least 6-7 times this episode alone), the Bombcast, 8-4 Play, but not often at all in everyday life at school here in the US.
Thanks to anyone who can enlighten me!
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..... they never happened :(
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO5Z6256hnI
The mermaid that drops down from the ceiling and vomits on you.
So guys, what's the weirdest/most unusual boss you've ever faced in a game?
(Props to The End in MGS3) but I think the Vomiting Mermaid outweirds him
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Your death toll apparently takes some toll on the main NPCs in the game too.
In the last mission, the boatman guy let me know how much he respected what I'd done for the world, etc. My friend just finished, after killing pretty much everyone in the game, and his boatman guy told him he was a piece of shit, and fired his pistol in the air to alert the guards to his position. He then promptly killed the boatman, even though he never had any hatred for him, as he had only been killing "the bad guys".
Especially when you slag on Hitman for having 12 ways to complete a mission is now a bad thing and magical Dishonored is something that is better because that stuff is totally not programmed.
OH WAIT it it totally fucking is, you being able to talk to some guy to do a mission for him so that he takes care of a target for you IS SCRIPTED and PRE-PLOTTED.
Sure after you kill a dude in a game it isn't surprising the second time but 12 different ways is the same as the X different ways in Dishonored will get unsurprising once you do it the first time. That is still 12 different ways to do a single stage
Also you guys totally need to stop talking about Survival Horror & Stealth Games on the same podcast because Dishonored isn't a stealth game because the lack of tension that is often talked about with it is ANATHEMA to stealth games.
Tthat genre REQUIRES tension you are trying to get through something without being noticed by people who will want to kill you YOU SHOULD FEEL TENSE.
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Xav adds a +10 Awesome stat buff to any weekend confirmed show he appears on. I can't wait to give the show a listen!
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(I'll preface this by saying that I probably love most of the good single-player games you like as well)
DevSword, you do realize that you can play multiplayer games with as much strategy as you want, right? No one's forcing you to run around in circles for hours on end like a complete buffoon. You can, but you'll get murdered over and over again in everything except Call of Duty.
I get the feeling that you really don't like multiplayer, but that doesn't mean that it's inferior to your own preference in games. I suppose you also hate professional sports for the same reason.
I disagree that mechanics as a whole aren't reason enough to engage with a game the majority of the time. They are, after all, games.
There are plenty of other types of games besides video games, none of which need narrative to make you play them.
Do you need a narrative
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I can't wait for launch!!!! (window lol)
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