{"id":22489,"date":"2014-03-11T15:05:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22489"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:05:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:05:29","slug":"experienced-points-10-great-things-about-the-thief-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=22489","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: 10 Great Things About the Thief Reboot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which is worse: To get an in-name-only remake that &#8211; while perhaps good &#8211; has nothing you liked about the original, or to get a remake that&#8217;s horribly flawed but retains glimpses of the original brilliance? Honesty, I still don&#8217;t know. These kinds of choices aren&#8217;t fun to make.<\/p>\n<p>This new Thief reboot is clearly the latter. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/11096-10-Great-Things-About-the-Thief-Reboot\">It&#8217;s deeply flawed, but occasionally good<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea what Square Enix is going to make of this. Given the complete hodgepodge of features in this game, it&#8217;s pretty clear the team didn&#8217;t know what kind of game they wanted to make. Was this supposed to be a power fantasy, like Dishonored? Or was it intended to be a slow-paced stealth game? Was the team even thinking about this distinction, or were they too preoccupied with the story?<\/p>\n<p>And if the devs don&#8217;t know what they wanted, then I imagine the publisher knows even less. <\/p>\n<p>Alas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which is worse: To get an in-name-only remake that &#8211; while perhaps good &#8211; has nothing you liked about the original, or to get a remake that&#8217;s horribly flawed but retains glimpses of the original brilliance? Honesty, I still don&#8217;t know. These kinds of choices aren&#8217;t fun to make. This new Thief reboot is clearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[155,50],"class_list":["post-22489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-experienced-points","tag-thief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22489","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=22489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}