{"id":15737,"date":"2012-04-27T17:49:27","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T22:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=15737"},"modified":"2012-04-27T17:51:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T22:51:59","slug":"alan-wake-ep4end-of-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=15737","title":{"rendered":"Alan Wake EP4:End of Episode 1"},"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\/yxUuJMLzItQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yxUuJMLzItQ'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>End of Episode 1.<\/p>\n<p>I really have to hand it to Remedy.  Their TV-shows-in-video-games are always a lot of fun.  I remember stopping to listen to each episode of <em>Lords &#038; Ladies<\/em> in the original Max Payne. While <em>Dick Justice<\/em> in Max Payne 2 was probably a better send-up, I liked the ridiculous contrst between <em>Lords &#038; Ladies<\/em> and the Max Payne world.  It was always funny to see that some murderous crime boss had a thing for sappy public television historical dramas.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if Rockstar is going to put a TV show in the background of Max Payne 3? That&#8217;s Remedy&#8217;s gimmick, but the shows are one of the elements of the Max Payne World. And it&#8217;s not like Rockstar is a stranger to pop-culture satire. Then again, maybe being set in Brazil kind of prevents this.  If they lampoon Brazilian TV it might come off as mean-spirited. On the other hand, shoving American shows into the world of S&agrave;\u00a3o Paulo might undercut the setting.  Even if they watch a good bit of American TV, the average American gamer isn&#8217;t going to know that, and the result would feel off. (Kind of how an establishing shot in a movie will always show the strongest elements of the local culture, as opposed to a McDonald&#8217;s, even if they have McDonald&#8217;s there.)<\/p>\n<p>End of Episode 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) End of Episode 1. I really have to hand it to Remedy. Their TV-shows-in-video-games are always a lot of fun. I remember stopping to listen to each episode of Lords &#038; Ladies in the original Max Payne. While Dick Justice in Max Payne 2 was probably a better send-up, I liked the ridiculous [&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":[232,208],"class_list":["post-15737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-alan-wake","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15737","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=15737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}