{"id":21327,"date":"2013-10-09T18:35:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T23:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=21327"},"modified":"2013-10-09T18:35:50","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T23:35:50","slug":"metro-2033-ep1-ranger-hardcore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=21327","title":{"rendered":"Metro 2033 EP1: Ranger Hardcore"},"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\/6tCvr17WNAk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6tCvr17WNAk'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>The people have spoken, and the people said they wanted some other game. So we ignored them and we&#8217;re giving you this. <\/p>\n<p>I kid. This was actually one of the most requested games. I wasn&#8217;t kidding when I said this game won out over Max Payne 3. I find this interesting, since Max Payne looms large in terms the impression its marketing campaign left on me. But today&#8217;s hyped-up cultural event is the game everyone is kinda &#8220;meh&#8221; about a year later, and sometimes low-profile titles become beloved classics. I think time has a way of washing away the bullshit of marketing and review scores to show the real worth of a game.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that? I&#8217;m not a huge fan of this game yet. I admire it from a storytelling \/ worldbuilding perspective, but I never really enjoyed the mechanics. I spent a lot of time wishing the game was more Fallout-ish, having more looting and exploring. (Which is interesting, since Fallout 3 could stand to take a few hints from this game when it comes to everything else.) <\/p>\n<p>And Chris is right: &#8220;Ranger Hardcore&#8221; totally sounds like a pornstar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) The people have spoken, and the people said they wanted some other game. So we ignored them and we&#8217;re giving you this. I kid. This was actually one of the most requested games. I wasn&#8217;t kidding when I said this game won out over Max Payne 3. I find this interesting, since Max [&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":[317],"class_list":["post-21327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-metro-2033"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21327","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=21327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}