{"id":23795,"date":"2014-07-23T14:28:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T19:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23795"},"modified":"2014-07-24T03:26:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T08:26:50","slug":"skyrim-ep52-its-all-one-big-yoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=23795","title":{"rendered":"Skyrim EP52: It&#8217;s All One Big Yoke"},"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\/CGCPSDAfMzQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CGCPSDAfMzQ'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we&#8217;ve reached the part of the season where we&#8217;re all just phoning it in and recycling the stuff we&#8217;ve done before. (Although be sure to check out Rutskarn&#8217;s freestyle Skyrim Draugr fanfiction at the 15 minute mark.)<\/p>\n<p>In fairness, Skyrim is just as out of ideas as we are. This is a parade of missed opportunities and disappointments. We capture a dragon, which sounds dangerous and audacious but ends up being awkward and stilted. We speak with it, but it just info-dumps on us with no character development, worldbuilding, or player agency. Then we &#8220;ride&#8221; the dragon, but it&#8217;s just a scripted fast-travel. It carries us to the ends of the earth, but it looks exactly like the places we&#8217;ve already visited. We arrive at the home of the big bad, but it&#8217;s just another mook maze filled with the most-overused monster in the game. We enter his lair, but it&#8217;s the same dungeon assets, sounds, and foes we&#8217;ve seen dozens of times already. There are puzzles, but they&#8217;re all recycled from earlier in the game. <\/p>\n<p>Even if you&#8217;re criminally unambitious and lazy, you could still decorate the dungeon with red lights for zero cost, so the place feels somehow different from all the others. <\/p>\n<p>The next episode will finish off Skyrim for good. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Yeah, we&#8217;ve reached the part of the season where we&#8217;re all just phoning it in and recycling the stuff we&#8217;ve done before. (Although be sure to check out Rutskarn&#8217;s freestyle Skyrim Draugr fanfiction at the 15 minute mark.) In fairness, Skyrim is just as out of ideas as we are. This is a [&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":[],"class_list":["post-23795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23795","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=23795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}