{"id":19521,"date":"2013-04-24T19:16:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T00:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=19521"},"modified":"2013-04-24T19:59:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T00:59:02","slug":"dishonored-ep19-listen-to-your-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=19521","title":{"rendered":"Dishonored EP19: Listen to Your Heart"},"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\/pOunOKgraFM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pOunOKgraFM'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Another episode of fun mechanics, rich environments, and bland characters. To expand a bit on the question that Rutskarn posed: <em>What do you think of games that allow you to skip or miss content?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Allow me to refine the answer I gave in the episode: We&#8217;re really talking about three different types of content: <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mutually exclusive paths. You can go through Route A or Route B, but you can&#8217;t see both areas in the same play-through. <em>You can either blow up the Collector base or preserve it.<\/em>\n<li>Optional content: We can skip this section if you don&#8217;t want to be distracted from the main mission. <em>You can decide to help Jacob or just ignore him.<\/em>\n<li>Hidden or obscured content that&#8217;s only accessible to the diligent, lucky, or thorough player. <em>You can only do the mission for Conrad Verner if you find him, if he&#8217;s still alive, and if you made the right choices in the past.<\/em>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If there are only one or two nuggets of optional content, then I find it slightly annoying. I don&#8217;t want to play the whole game again just to see the five minutes I missed.  However, once you get enough optional content it starts to justify a second play-through. And if I am going to do a second play-through, then I want as much alternate content as I can get.  So I guess my answer is that when it comes to optional content, I want &#8220;<em>Nothing or a double helping<\/em>&#8220;, as <del datetime=\"2013-04-25T00:58:12+00:00\">Pippin<\/del> Merry says. <\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s just my thoughts. How about you: <em>What do you think of games that allow you to skip or miss content?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also note how this ties in with the <a href=\"?p=19519\">save-game stuff we talked about yesterday<\/a>.  Some people like to save, go down one path, then re-load, and take the other. This is often difficult or impossible with checkpoint saves. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Another episode of fun mechanics, rich environments, and bland characters. To expand a bit on the question that Rutskarn posed: What do you think of games that allow you to skip or miss content? Allow me to refine the answer I gave in the episode: We&#8217;re really talking about three different types of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[280],"class_list":["post-19521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-dishonored"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19521","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=19521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}