{"id":22221,"date":"2014-02-06T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T22:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22221"},"modified":"2014-02-06T17:20:31","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T22:20:31","slug":"skyrim-ep1-the-trial-of-reginald-fluffbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22221","title":{"rendered":"Skyrim EP1: The Trial of Reginald Fluffbert"},"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\/XJdbKTBHlPY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XJdbKTBHlPY'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mpddXJJLhPY\">the Extra Credits episode where they discuss the opening of Skyrim<\/a>, and here is <a href=\"?p=14503\">the post I wrote about the same section<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I think Extra Credits makes a stronger case, but I&#8217;ll defend my position a bit by saying that I was coming in with a lot of Oblivion-esqe expectations. I expected to end up stuck in a linear corridor section punctuated by camera-lock closeups on emotionless plastic faces while a series of NPCs info dumped on me and my only dialog options would be variants of &#8220;Tell me more about that.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>So I guess the takeaway here is that the intro is outstanding compared to Oblivion, but terrible compared to Call of Duty? <\/p>\n<p>Protip: Probably best to let the Empire vs. Stormcloak debate wait a bit. We&#8217;ll get into it in more detail later. But, you know. Do what you like.<\/p>\n<h3>Official Spoiler Warning Skyrim Drinking Game of Fun and Alcohol Poisoning<\/h3>\n<p>OFFICIAL RULES; DO NOT ATTEMPT<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>We want to kill an NPC who is unkillable for no good reason.\n<li>Bizarre and inexplicable glitch!\n<li>Josh gains a point in a skill he never deliberately uses.\n<li>We run into a massive annoyance fixed by a mod one of us is using.\n<li>Merchant runs out of money in one set of transactions.\n<li>An unarmed NPC pointlessly charges into a fight better left to the player or the guards.\n<li>&#8220;This was better in Morrowind&#8230;&#8221;\n<li>&#8220;This was better in Arena\/Daggerfall&#8230;&#8221; 2 drinks.\n<li>&#8220;This was better in Oblivion&#8230;&#8221; Finish your drink.\n<li>Reginald dies: Pour one out in memory of your lost &#8220;friend&#8221;. (If you can&#8217;t pour it out, just drink it.)\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Here is the Extra Credits episode where they discuss the opening of Skyrim, and here is the post I wrote about the same section. I think Extra Credits makes a stronger case, but I&#8217;ll defend my position a bit by saying that I was coming in with a lot of Oblivion-esqe expectations. I [&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":[209],"class_list":["post-22221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-skyrim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22221","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=22221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}