{"id":17238,"date":"2012-09-19T15:35:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T20:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=17238"},"modified":"2012-09-19T19:27:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T00:27:26","slug":"mass-effect-ep15-sniper-sandwich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=17238","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect 3 EP15: Sniper Sandwich"},"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\/E7D67Qgyz6A\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E7D67Qgyz6A'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>So the question posed in the episode: <em>If Mass Effect 3 was a stand alone game &#8211; or, if it&#8217;s easier to imagine, if it was your first encounter with Mass Effect &#8211; would you think of it any differently. Would people call it, &#8220;A really smart shooter&#8221;? Would people praise it for bringing dialog and characterization to a genre where it&#8217;s mostly mute dudes having orders shouted at them?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I find it hard to squint in such a way that I can see that particular hypothetical, but my guess is that I&#8217;d be giving this game a lot more praise.<\/p>\n<p>This is not to say that we should excuse the lack of payoff or thematic cohesion. It&#8217;s just an interesting thing to note. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) So the question posed in the episode: If Mass Effect 3 was a stand alone game &#8211; or, if it&#8217;s easier to imagine, if it was your first encounter with Mass Effect &#8211; would you think of it any differently. Would people call it, &#8220;A really smart shooter&#8221;? Would people praise it 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":[250,208],"class_list":["post-17238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-mass-effect-3","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17238","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=17238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}