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
(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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