{"id":20415,"date":"2013-07-23T17:11:59","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T22:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20415"},"modified":"2013-07-23T17:13:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T22:13:09","slug":"errant-signal-the-last-of-us-spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20415","title":{"rendered":"Errant Signal &#8211; The Last of Us (Spoilers)"},"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\/bAzqDgKYfiM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bAzqDgKYfiM'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Last of Us is a PS3 exclusive, which means I won&#8217;t get to play it. Still, I&#8217;ve read the synopsis and it sounded pretty interesting. I&#8217;ve also seen the gameplay and I don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m missing much. This strikes me as being a subset of the Tomb Raider mechanics: All my least favorite parts. So I&#8217;m happy to spoil the thing for myself.<\/p>\n<p>While I can&#8217;t comment on the game in detail, I was really interested in Chris&#8217; idea that this was a perfect execution of a flawed design.  The <em>cutscene &raquo; gameplay &raquo; cutscene &raquo; gameplay<\/em> school of game design is ubiquitous in AAA games and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going anywhere anytime soon. Shooters are the superstars of AAA games. Big-budget shooters need story or they&#8217;ll just be endless violence with no context. The easiest and most straightforward way to put story into a game is with cutscenes. Cutscenes make for great trailers. Trailers drive buzz and buzz drives sales. <\/p>\n<p>This is a rut so deep it could be classified as a canyon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Last of Us is a PS3 exclusive, which means I won&#8217;t get to play it. Still, I&#8217;ve read the synopsis and it sounded pretty interesting. I&#8217;ve also seen the gameplay and I don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m missing much. This strikes me as being a subset of the Tomb Raider mechanics: All my least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dream-cast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20415","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=20415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}