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Weekend Confirmed 144 - Holiday Special Part 1 - 2012 retrospective
by Jeff Mattas, Dec 21, 2012 11:00am PSTThis week kicks off a special two-part episode of Weekend Confirmed to celebrate the best in gaming for 2012. A cavalcade of special guests joins Garnett, Jeff Cannata, and "Indie" Jeff Mattas, including Shacknews' Andrew Yoon, James Stevenson from Insomniac, Jason Paul from Naughty Dog, Andrea Rene from Machinima, and comedian Christian Spicer. Personal favorites of the year are revealed, and much fun and merriment is had by all. Be sure to tune in next week for Part 2 of the special Weekend Confirmed holiday/end-of-2012 celebration, too!
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 144: 12/21/2012
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Comments
I hate to break it to you but before Far Cry 3, there were 2 other Far Cries---and they weren't that different]. Before Halo 4, there were like 10 other Halo games. And sorry, but Guild Wars 2 and XCOM are not mega transcendent titles. I'm sure they're great, but they're not setting the world on fire.
The assertion about Uncharted 2 is just completely baffling. If Uncharted 2 came out this year it wouldn't be as big because Uncharted 2 already came out three years ago That's the entire point of the discussion. Uncharted 3 wasn't considered better than 2 because it didn't set a new water mark for all of gaming in the same way!
We are now in the seventh year of this console life cycle, from when the 360 launched. We have officially seen new engines running at various tech shows, and even fully playable gameplay footage of titles that don't appear to have platforms to come out on yet.
Gamers aren't just disappointed (I think you guys got way too hung up on that terminology) with titles this year, they are frustrated with the entire state of gaming because game development hasn't been this stagnant in a looonnnggg time. We haven't endured such a long of a gap between generation cycles. That's not just a "subjective" take as Andrea tried to suggest, its an objective reality.
I look at The Last of Us and think it could be one of those generational swan song kind of titles, and I can't wait to play it. I certainly want to play that and GTAV way more than anything that came out this year. But I also look at Watch Dogs and Star Wars 1313, and think, all these games look kind of fucking muddy and dated. I am ready for an upgrade.
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