{"id":21691,"date":"2013-12-02T20:25:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T01:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=21691"},"modified":"2013-12-02T20:25:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T01:25:12","slug":"errant-signal-the-stanley-parable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=21691","title":{"rendered":"Errant Signal &#8211; The Stanley Parable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to talk about this game when I played through it, but everything I wanted to say about the game boiled down to, &#8220;Did you get to the part where [thing] happened? Yeah. That was hilarious.&#8221; It would be gibberish to people who haven&#8217;t played the game and a pointless re-tread to those who have. The game says what it says, and there&#8217;s not much I can add to it.<\/p>\n<p>But Chris has lots of things to say about it! <\/p>\n<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\/kiCLKmEAa1I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kiCLKmEAa1I'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>We need a name of this emerging genre. Dear Esther. Stanley Parable. Proteus. Setting aside the annoying argument over whether or not these are &#8220;Games&#8221;, they&#8217;re certainly things you &#8220;play&#8221; on the computer. What do we call these things with exploration as the only gameplay mechanic? I mean, I suppose we can call them &#8220;exploration games&#8221;. But that would be boring, accurate, and clear. I feel like we need a genre name that&#8217;s just as stupid and meaningless as &#8220;RPG&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>I vote we call them &#8220;gunless shooters&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to talk about this game when I played through it, but everything I wanted to say about the game boiled down to, &#8220;Did you get to the part where [thing] happened? Yeah. That was hilarious.&#8221; It would be gibberish to people who haven&#8217;t played the game and a pointless re-tread to those who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[236,319],"class_list":["post-21691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videogames","tag-errant-signal","tag-stanley-parable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21691","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=21691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}