{"id":1487,"date":"2008-01-11T17:05:15","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T22:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2008-01-11T17:06:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T22:06:27","slug":"sins-of-a-solar-empire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1487","title":{"rendered":"Sins of a Solar Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The marketing campaign for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinsofasolarempire.com\/\">Sins of a Solar Empire<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/draginol.joeuser.com\/index.asp?c=1&#038;AID=172493\">begun<\/a>.  I&#8217;m cheering for this game, even though I&#8217;m not really an RTS player.  I enjoyed Warcraft II and Starcraft in the late 90&#8217;s, but since then the games have subdivided into countless sub-genre and grown in complexity.  The focus has shifted away from from story-driven Player vs. PC gameplay, to high-speed PvP.  That&#8217;s nice for some, but it&#8217;s just not for me.  So the whole thing sort of left me behind. <\/p>\n<p>Having said that, I might pick up SoaSE anyway.  I&#8217;m a huge fan of Stardock, and <a href=\"?p=457\">their policy of releasing DRM-free games<\/a> is something I like to <a href=\"?p=73\">support<\/a>.  Plus, the game seems to be a new angle on the RTS formula.  At the very least I&#8217;ll check out the demo.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The marketing campaign for Sins of a Solar Empire has begun. I&#8217;m cheering for this game, even though I&#8217;m not really an RTS player. I enjoyed Warcraft II and Starcraft in the late 90&#8217;s, but since then the games have subdivided into countless sub-genre and grown in complexity. The focus has shifted away from from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-stardock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","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=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}