{"id":12518,"date":"2011-08-03T10:14:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T15:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=12518"},"modified":"2011-08-03T10:18:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T15:18:04","slug":"spoiler-warning-s5e47-zion-valley-ranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=12518","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning S5E47: Zion Valley Ranch"},"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\/BtuZXa0bJTw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BtuZXa0bJTw'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>As promised in the show: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facepunch.com\/threads\/631191-I-played-Oblivion-blacked-out-drunk-and-here-s-what-happened-(via-picture-story)\">Here is the story of the guy who played Oblivion drunk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I normally play 100% white knight in Bethesda games, but the Oblivion Assassin&#8217;s guild quests were so fun that I couldn&#8217;t help myself. The characters are diverse and interesting.  The quests have multiple optional goals, which makes them more interesting than a simple pass \/ fail system.  The quest rewards are outstanding.  The writing is delightfully pitch-black humor. The voice acting is uniformly excellent.  <\/p>\n<p>In my final play-through, I did all of the guild quest lines: Fighter&#8217;s Guild, Thieves Guild, Mage&#8217;s Guild, and Assassin&#8217;s Guild.  I also contracted and cured vampirism. (And then used the console to cheat and fix what the game did to my face.)  I became the arena champion and did every sidequest I could find in all the major cities and acquired all of the available houses. (Even though I only ever used the shack as an actual base, because it was most convenient.) All that, and I never set foot in Kvatch to begin the main quest. Screw the main quest. Which means that game wasn&#8217;t so much a play-through as a play-around. Make of that what you will. Same goes for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2fxVeAVl2I8\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Getting back to Fallout: New Vegas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m on my second play-through of Honest Hearts. On my first play-through I managed to miss the survivalist diaries. In my defense, the stuff found on terminals is usually pretty lame.  &#8220;Dear diary, I have this pile of cool stuff and I put them in the container and then wrote about it on this random 200-year-old computer for no reason.  The end.&#8221;  But on the advice of Rutskarn, I went back and read them.  <\/p>\n<p>The survivalist diary collection is some of the best fiction to come out of the Fallout franchise.  Including the stuff in the original Fallout.  When I was done I wanted a whole novel of his stories.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s also the first time I&#8217;ve encountered anything detailed regarding the day the bombs fell, and the days following.  For me, it was worth the price of the DLC by itself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) As promised in the show: Here is the story of the guy who played Oblivion drunk. I normally play 100% white knight in Bethesda games, but the Oblivion Assassin&#8217;s guild quests were so fun that I couldn&#8217;t help myself. The characters are diverse and interesting. The quests have multiple optional goals, which makes [&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-12518","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\/12518","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=12518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}