{"id":11222,"date":"2011-04-01T05:39:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T10:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11222"},"modified":"2011-04-01T05:39:56","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T10:39:56","slug":"spoiler-warning-railroad-to-nowhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=11222","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning: Railroad to Nowhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Spoiler Warning as you&#8217;ve never seen it before: In glorious 1D! <\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ugcu5yQKLZU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ugcu5yQKLZU'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Truly, one is the loneliest dimension.<\/p>\n<p>This was unplanned. We&#8217;d already recorded our April Fool&#8217;s Day show.  It was in the bag.  Then I started telling the crew about <em>Trainz 2010: Engineer&#8217;s Edition<\/em>.  Everyone insisted that we record another show for April Fool&#8217;s, featuring this game.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be clear that while this game is hilariously bad, it&#8217;s not as bad as it looks&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Point:<\/strong> The game is not as slow as you see here. Normally, it runs at a nice 50 frames a second on my machine.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Counterpoint:<\/strong> Okay, that&#8217;s the same framerate that I get from Crysis 2, which looks about six graphics generations better. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Point:<\/strong> But still, the game is smoother than you see here. The extreme low framerate was an artifact of recording.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Counterpoint: <\/strong>Other games don&#8217;t have this problem. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Point:<\/strong> I made no effort to educate myself on the game.  I just jumped in and started pushing buttons.  The results would be not all that different if you tried the same thing with a flight simulator.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Counterpoint:<\/strong> Flight simulators involve travel in more than one dimension.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Point:<\/strong> It&#8217;s probably not fair to pick on games like this one which have niche appeal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Counterpoint:<\/strong> It&#8217;s not fair to allege that this game has &#8220;appeal&#8221;, niche or not.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Point:<\/strong> Okay, you got me there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Spoiler Warning as you&#8217;ve never seen it before: In glorious 1D! Link (YouTube) Truly, one is the loneliest dimension. This was unplanned. We&#8217;d already recorded our April Fool&#8217;s Day show. It was in the bag. Then I started telling the crew about Trainz 2010: Engineer&#8217;s Edition. Everyone insisted that we record another show for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}