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Weekend Confirmed 142 - Bioshock Infinite, Far Cry 3, Guardians of Middle-earth
by Jeff Mattas, Dec 07, 2012 7:00pm PSTToday's episode of Weekend Confirmed brings together Garnett Lee, Jeff Cannata, Jeff Mattas, and special guest Nikole Zivalich, and naturally, many videogames are discussed. Cannata delivers some early (and glowing) impressions of the first couple of hours of Bioshock Infinite, Far Cry 3 gets some more time in the spotlight, and the first console MOBA, Guardians of Middle-earth, gets a bit of scrutiny. Before Finishing Moves and the post-show TailGate, the crew also chats about how best to handle Weekend Confirmed's Game of the Year awards. If you've got some feedback, a preference, or some ideas about how you think it should be handled, make yourself heard in the show comments.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 142: 12/07/2012
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Comments
Anyway, whatever problems you might have with Oscars, the one thing I can respect is that their awards seem based on observing and celebrating the actual craft of making movies: cinematography, special effects, etc. They actually seem to give credit to a lot of the people involved in the movie-making process who otherwise wouldn't get any mainstream attention. AIAS seems to do something similar for games. A lot of the awards are for things like best sound design, best online implementation, best art design, best graphics tech, etc. I know observing the actual craft of making games might not be the most fun way to do it, but it at least seems like the way that's the most respectful to the people actually making games, since they're supposedly the ones who get the awards.
As for every one else, I don't really pay attention because there are so many different people and publications doing their own GOTY awards. Way too many to care, so outside of AIAS I just reserve my own opinions.
My own favorite game of each year is usually the one that I wanted to keep playing the most, plain and simple. I might think about separate genres, but you have to remember the reason you do that: to observe games that outside of their genre might get overlooked. Mostly though, it's just whatever game I wanted to keep playing the most.
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Sure it is popular, so what? Popularity doesn't automatically disqualify it. Pac-man was outrageously popular. Heck, all the games nominated with Angry Birds were also popular.
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