{"id":23499,"date":"2014-06-27T17:16:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T22:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23499"},"modified":"2014-06-27T17:23:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T22:23:59","slug":"skyrim-ep48-enchanting-questions-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23499","title":{"rendered":"Skyrim EP48: Enchanting Questions Part 3"},"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\/zTedS4hN468\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zTedS4hN468'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>And so  it ends. The only way it could have ended. <\/p>\n<p>I know the &#8220;list of 10 great female leads&#8221; is probably going to be frustrating if we left out someone you like. There&#8217;s nothing more frustrating than being ignored while you&#8217;re shouting suggestions at a video. So go ahead and post your own list below. (It doesn&#8217;t need to be ten. Just whoever you think is good.) We sort of made up the rules as we went, but by the end we seemed to have agreed that:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>She needs to be in a game you&#8217;ve personally played, and she needs to be a good character. So &#8220;Jane Gunhaver is dull, but the gameplay is awesome!&#8221; doesn&#8217;t cut it.<\/li>\n<li>She needs to be the star of the game, not a supporting character.\n<li>She has to be explicitly female. So gender-select-able or gender-ambiguous characters don&#8217;t count.\n<li>Borderline rule: The game should probably be good.\n<\/ol>\n<p>I was crushed to find myself hating Remember Me. Here is everything I&#8217;ve been saying I want from games: Female lead, non-American setting, cyberpunk setting, big-idea premise, experimental new mechanics, gorgeous scenery. This should have been my Game of the Year.  I got everything I said I wanted. But apparently while I was making my wish I neglected to tell the genie that the game also needed to be fun to play. That&#8217;s how genies get you: They look for loopholes like that. <\/p>\n<p>Stupid genies.<\/p>\n<p>But fine. I guess we&#8217;ll just wait another decade or so before someone gets the nerve to go out on a limb like that again. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dandwiki.com\/wiki\/Pun-Pun_(3.5e_Optimized_Character_Build)\">This abomination is Pun Pun<\/a>. I&#8217;ll be honest: I understood less than half of that. Still, sounds like there might be some balance concerns in there.<\/p>\n<p>And to be clear: That wasn&#8217;t a joke at the end. The game really did crash. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) And so it ends. The only way it could have ended. I know the &#8220;list of 10 great female leads&#8221; is probably going to be frustrating if we left out someone you like. There&#8217;s nothing more frustrating than being ignored while you&#8217;re shouting suggestions at a video. So go ahead and post your [&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-23499","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\/23499","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=23499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}