{"id":2076,"date":"2009-01-13T13:52:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T18:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2009-01-13T14:05:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T19:05:53","slug":"no-bioshock-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2076","title":{"rendered":"No BioShock for Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People keep asking if I&#8217;ll be getting BioShock now that I have a Xbox 360.  I didn&#8217;t want to open up this can of worms again, but the question deserves an answer:<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t bring myself to play it.  The game is dead to me.  I played the demo and was completely underwhelmed.  (And hoo boy did that cause a flamewar.  I had to close the comments. Some regular commenters left, and I never saw them again. I&#8217;d rather not repeat that.)<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind, System Shock is my super-extra-special favoritest game ever.  I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/shocked\/\">a novel<\/a> about it. BioShock is supposedly the &#8220;spiritual&#8221; follow-up to that, but it&#8217;s missing all the parts that made the series appeal to me.  To play System Shock without the inventory, the mad AI, the electronic music, the cyberpunk setting, the taut resource management, the level-up abilities, and using thumbsticks instead of the mouse?  No, I will not do that.  <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t begrudge those that love the game.  I understand the story is good.  But the game I loved is dead.  I&#8217;m not going to go and snuggle the corpse for old time&#8217;s sake. Leave me to my grief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People keep asking if I&#8217;ll be getting BioShock now that I have a Xbox 360. I didn&#8217;t want to open up this can of worms again, but the question deserves an answer: I can&#8217;t bring myself to play it. The game is dead to me. I played the demo and was completely underwhelmed. (And hoo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames","tag-bioshock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","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=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}