{"id":24649,"date":"2014-10-14T15:46:59","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T20:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=24649"},"modified":"2014-10-14T17:01:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T22:01:44","slug":"experienced-points-all-my-hard-work-and-i-get-this-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=24649","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: All My Hard Work and I Get THIS Ending?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/12444-Game-Endings-Should-Make-The-Effort-to-Get-There-Worth-It\">My column this week<\/a> is actually a Diecast mailbag question that I ninja&#8217;d from the rest of the cast. Wide and Nerdy sent in this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast,<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand this argument fans make about &#8220;after all this work we put in&#8221; in reference to playing a video game and the payoff that comes at the end. I&#8217;ve seen people defend this point.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me that if a game is work, you should be playing a different game, not hanging in there and then getting upset when the bit at the end fails to justify 20 to 30 hours of what is apparently considered &#8220;work.&#8221; Am I missing something?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seemed interesting enough that I stole the question and used it for my column. Although, I might have drifted away from the question he posed. I dunno.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully I managed to answer his question somewhere in the column.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I avoided Mass Effect 3 on purpose. If you bring up ME3, then ME3 will overshadow the topic, and I really did want to discuss game endings in general. I&#8217;d be thread-jacking my own column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week is actually a Diecast mailbag question that I ninja&#8217;d from the rest of the cast. Wide and Nerdy sent in this one: Dear Diecast, I don&#8217;t understand this argument fans make about &#8220;after all this work we put in&#8221; in reference to playing a video game and the payoff that comes [&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":[],"class_list":["post-24649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649","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=24649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}