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Weekend Confirmed 153 - PlayStation 4 announcements, Year Walk, Crysis 3
by Jeff Mattas, Feb 22, 2013 11:00am PSTThe PlayStation 4 has been announced, so it shouldn't be a surprise that this week's episode of Weekend Confirmed is all about the new system, services, and software. Though Jeff Cannata is away in Barcelona, Garnett Lee and "Indie" Jeff Mattas are joined by Christian Spicer and Mike Schramm to break down what's exciting, what's concerning, and that which is still unknown about Sony's next-gen console announcements. Though PlayStation 4 is this week's focus, the crew also manages to sneak in some impressions of Crysis 3, and praise for Simogo's moody iOS adventure, Year Walk. Of course, a fresh batch of Finishing Moves brings it all home.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 153: 2/22/2013
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Round 1 - 00:00:34 - 00:27:40
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Whatcha Been Playin Part 2 00:58:47 - 01:26:36
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Comments
"I quit. Seriously The you didn’t love the PS4 presentation so therefore you’re an asshole crowd make me hate that I wasted my time on a show"
"For the record, not that anyone will get it right, I think the PS4 looks awesome."
"And that a box that rad warranted a far more aspirational presentation. So shoot me for wanting more and not just cheerleading."
First of all, people saying that Garnett is an asshole for his opinion are jerks.
But second, I think that Garnett's outrage at people thinking that he had a negative impression of the PS4 is more than a little bit unfair. Yes, he had a few nice things to say about the hardware. He said that Cerny's involvement had him "optimistic" and that it was "juicy." After that, I would say that the show was dominated by some pretty harsh criticism.
This goes back to what I was saying about Jeff's Fire Emblem comments from the previous show. When you spend 90% of your time talking about things that are bad about something, people are going to get the impression that your overall impression was negative unless you make a serious effort to emphasize the contrary.
I listened to the show again just to make sure that my memory of it wasn't colored, but no - it was very negative. Basically, things that might have been positive either got glossed over and set aside or turned into speculation about how it probably wouldn't be executed well, and things that were negative were dwelt on and joked about at length.
For example, I get the impression that Garnett thought that the Infamous trailer was really good. But it wasn't discussed at all except to say that it was a mistake not to show it first.
So to Garnett: I like the show and I think that you are probably the best show host in the world of video game coverage. But the PS4 episode was overwhelmingly negative and you can't blame people for coming away with the impression that you had a negative impression of it. People react to the amount of time you spend saying negative vs. positive things.
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Garnett, as he himself has admitted many times, takes feedback on the show way too personally.
He also has a tendency to be extremely condescending towards his own audience when he knows he's going to be presenting an unpopular opinion. I guess he does this as a way to build up a wall or whatever, to pre-emptively troll the trolls, but it's not productive and it's immature. Instead of just stating his opinion on the PS4 conference in a respectful tone, he used the entire show as a chance to be sarcastic and condescending and frequently implied or flat out stated that anyone who disagreed with him was a Sony fanboy.
So, when he gets incredibly negative feedback, to the point that I'm assuming much of it is rude, I don't have a ton of sympathy for him when he was consistently rude to his audience for pretty much the entire show. I get that he's doing a show with his friends, and he's in the moment and they were agreeing with him, but the reason he is generally a great host is because he's aware there is an audience outside the people in the room. In this show, he wasn't.
On top of that, a lot of the posts here are pretty respectful. But for some reason, Garnett (and Cannata is the king of this, btw) seems to focus on and respond to the most negative and disrespectful posts, while completely ignoring the constructive ones. That's pretty disheartening from a listener prospective. Why should I give feedback if Garnett and Jeff C. are almost always just going to respond to the assholes, blow up about it, and then not discuss anything else with their audience?
I'll still listen to the show if Garnett continues to do it, because I find it entertaining, but there seems to be an increasingly huge divide between the people that listen to the show and the people that participate on it, to the point where I feel somewhat insulted (as much as I can be, as a podcast listener) because Garnett and others tend to lump everyone who listens or provides feedback into one category.
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