{"id":18622,"date":"2013-01-30T21:05:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T02:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=18622"},"modified":"2013-01-30T21:05:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T02:05:27","slug":"fallout-3-ep8-dead-cats-and-other-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=18622","title":{"rendered":"Fallout 3 EP8: Dead Cats and Other Treasures"},"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\/FQgvN-IZ9rg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FQgvN-IZ9rg'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Wow. I forgot how terrible the dialog was here. Camera-grab railroad conversations for sidequest characters. NPC&#8217;s that ignore your questions to stick to their script. Offering the player a list of 3 dumb things to say instead of the one obvious smart one. <\/p>\n<p>Which is worse? The casual stupidity of Fallout 3&#8217;s railroading and conversations, or the vapid and un-engaging conversations in Skyrim? Is it better that Bethesda force-feed us stupidity, or that they make all the dialog bland and perfunctory? You know, my instinct is to say that given the choice between the two, I&#8217;d prefer Skyrim.  Then again, I clocked at least twice as many hours in Fallout 3. So&#8230; I have no idea. <\/p>\n<p>Look, all I want is a gigantic world, smart quests, limitless choice, detailed characters, and branching dialog. Is that too much to ask? It is? <\/p>\n<p>That sucks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Wow. I forgot how terrible the dialog was here. Camera-grab railroad conversations for sidequest characters. NPC&#8217;s that ignore your questions to stick to their script. Offering the player a list of 3 dumb things to say instead of the one obvious smart one. Which is worse? The casual stupidity of Fallout 3&#8217;s railroading [&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":[279,208],"class_list":["post-18622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-fallout-3","tag-spoiler-warning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18622","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=18622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}