{"id":12126,"date":"2011-06-24T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=12126"},"modified":"2011-06-24T15:12:18","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T20:12:18","slug":"spoiler-warning-s5e37-puts-on-sunglasses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=12126","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning S5E37: *Puts on Sunglasses*"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/yd1RbAFkHag\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yd1RbAFkHag'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad to run into quests like this.  Do we give Obsidian a pass for striking out because they were swinging for the fences?  Does than mean we&#8217;d rather game developers not dream big?  (Although both approaches are better than Fallout 3, where the story aimed low and it <em>still<\/em> failed.)  <\/p>\n<p>This plot of this quest alone is larger and more complex than some games. The number of parties and viewpoints is large and there&#8217;s a lot going on.  There are several points where you have lots of choices on how to proceed. But in the end, the whole thing is broken and your choices don&#8217;t make a lot of sense. (I wonder how many people got frustrated and just killed everyone because they didn&#8217;t know what to do next.)<\/p>\n<p>My experiences with Obsidian games always end up <a href=\"?p=882\">conflicted<\/a> like this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) It&#8217;s sad to run into quests like this. Do we give Obsidian a pass for striking out because they were swinging for the fences? Does than mean we&#8217;d rather game developers not dream big? (Although both approaches are better than Fallout 3, where the story aimed low and it still failed.) This plot [&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-12126","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\/12126","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=12126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}