{"id":2245,"date":"2009-02-21T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-02-21T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2009-02-21T14:18:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-21T19:18:54","slug":"unskippable-the-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=2245","title":{"rendered":"Unskippable: The Darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><script src=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/videos\/embed\/551\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eWS9_nrKOPA\">Yahtzee covered this game<\/a> back in his pre-Escapist days and he mentioned how slowly the main character loaded his shotgun during the opening cinematic.  At the time I thought it was a strange and incongruous thing to bring up.  <em>Okay, it&#8217;s slow.  It&#8217;s a cutscene.  So what?<\/em>  But now that I realize that the loading sequence comprises nearly the entirety of the opening scene his criticism makes a lot of sense.  <\/p>\n<p>This one was interesting because it&#8217;s a semi-interactive scene.  They actually had control of where the camera would point.  From the video, I can&#8217;t actually tell what sparks the conflict.  They&#8217;re driving through the tunnel, then they see a police car and start driving like madmen.  It doesn&#8217;t make sense, but I can&#8217;t tell if it wasn&#8217;t explained in the scene at all, or if some detail was missed because they had the camera pointed in the wrong direction.  <\/p>\n<p>I agree that the tunnel was just preposterously long.  I understand that for technological reasons they needed to <em>not<\/em> attempt to render New York in all of its framerate-smashing glory, particularly not for a single throwaway scene.  But it feels sort of odd to pretend to be in New York and then just have a long tunnel scene.  If nothing else, they should at least have had an establishing shot of the city (a still frame or whatever) before chucking the player into a tunnel.  Another approach would have been to set the thing at night.  They could have alternated between tunnel \/ bridge \/ expressway scenery with just city lights in the background.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, things must be pretty desperate if they&#8217;re giving the cameraman a shotgun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It stimulates my laughter gland. Once again, nice going to Graham and Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I remember Yahtzee covered this game back in his pre-Escapist days and he mentioned how slowly the main character loaded his shotgun during the opening cinematic. At the time I thought it was a strange and incongruous thing to bring up. Okay, it&#8217;s slow. It&#8217;s a cutscene. So what? But now that I realize that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","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\/2245","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=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}