{"id":18595,"date":"2013-01-29T22:31:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T03:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=18595"},"modified":"2013-01-29T22:31:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T03:31:42","slug":"killing-floor-post-zombie-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=18595","title":{"rendered":"Killing Floor: Post-Zombie Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday to <a href=\"?page_id=16386\" title=\"Spoiler Warning\">Spoiler Warning<\/a>, which turns three years old this week. This is a good point to look back over the last three years of discussions, analysis, recording, editing, and all the other work we put into the show.  We&#8217;ve come a long way and learned a great deal. We&#8217;ve released over 200 hours worth of show and played through ten different games, as well as covering a dozen more in specials and one-off episodes. <\/p>\n<p>Looking back over this body of work I have to say: <em>What a complete waste of time. Who would watch this drivel?<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>And speaking of time-wasting drivel, it&#8217;s time for your next dose&#8230;<\/p>\n<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\/2w1GFQXj_WI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2w1GFQXj_WI'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have much to say about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Killing_Floor_(video_game)\" title=\"Killing Floor\">Killing Floor<\/a>. It wasn&#8217;t horrible or anything. (I grouched a bit while we recorded, but that was mostly due to the fact that I was getting sick and felt horrible.) In the beginning I said that Killing Floor was a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Payday:_The_Heist\" title=\"Payday: The Heist\">Payday<\/a> knockoff, which is a Left 4 Dead knockoff.  That&#8217;s not really the case at all.  I blame the fever. <\/p>\n<p>Having played all three games, I can say they all come from the same general space of small-group co-op shooting against hordes of AI driven foes. Each one has a slightly different approach. In my experience, Payday is a grueling slog of a game where I&#8217;m usually asking, &#8220;Is this level over?&#8221; long before I&#8217;ve even reached the halfway point. Killing Floor is more mercifully paced, and the end-of-round shop adds a lot of variety to the experience. Then again, I have a soft spot for Payday&#8217;s dark humor and the extreme jackassery of the main characters. <\/p>\n<p>But the biggest problem with all three games is that Rutskarn tells horrible puns while we&#8217;re playing and it completely ruins the experience. Honesty, I don&#8217;t know what the devs were thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, there you go. Three years of Spoiler Warning. We&#8217;ll probably finish up Walking Dead next week.  We&#8217;ve already chosen the game for next season, so don&#8217;t bother shouting suggestions at us. After The Walking Dead is over, we&#8217;re going to play <strike>something else<\/strike>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for watching!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Birthday to Spoiler Warning, which turns three years old this week. This is a good point to look back over the last three years of discussions, analysis, recording, editing, and all the other work we put into the show. We&#8217;ve come a long way and learned a great deal. We&#8217;ve released over 200 hours [&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":[283,208],"class_list":["post-18595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-killing-floor","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18595","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=18595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}