{"id":24738,"date":"2014-10-22T21:12:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T02:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=24738"},"modified":"2014-10-22T21:13:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T02:13:51","slug":"the-last-of-us-ep10-free-range-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=24738","title":{"rendered":"The Last of Us EP10: Free Range Zombies"},"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\/yfgz-5NOwJU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yfgz-5NOwJU'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>If the start of this episode makes no sense, it&#8217;s because the whole conversation is a call-back to the first season of Spoiler Warning, which was the last time Randy was on the show. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really struggling with this season now. I&#8217;ve nitpicked the plot as much as I dare, and I&#8217;ve praised all the stuff I like. At this point it would be time to talk about the mechanics, but I haven&#8217;t played the game myself. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s hurting the commentary, but I feel like I&#8217;m not doing my job.<\/p>\n<p>Like, the entire inventory system seems ludicrous to me, because I&#8217;m looking at it like a movie-watcher and not a player. Bricks are massively useful. Why can we carry only one? Why do they poof into nothing after being thrown? Why don&#8217;t we carry something smaller and lighter that can still make a lot of noise? Why do shivs break? THIS IS ALL RIDICULOUS NONSENSE!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, these are all simply videogame contrivances. Like, I accept that Batman has infinite explosive gel but can only use three globs of it at once. It&#8217;s an abstraction around which puzzles and challenges are built. It&#8217;s a small compromise made with realism for the sake of gameplay. Arkham is full of silly little details like this that make perfect sense as a player and no sense as a viewer. I&#8217;m sure the same is true for TLOU. If I&#8217;d played the game myself, this contrivances probably wouldn&#8217;t bother me<span class='snote' title='1'>&#8230;as much.<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if this is hurting my commentary, but I I&#8217;m going to avoid covering games I haven&#8217;t played in future seasons. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway: Story is great, characters are vibrant, scenery is amazing, etc etc. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) If the start of this episode makes no sense, it&#8217;s because the whole conversation is a call-back to the first season of Spoiler Warning, which was the last time Randy was on the show. I&#8217;m really struggling with this season now. I&#8217;ve nitpicked the plot as much as I dare, and I&#8217;ve praised [&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":[439],"class_list":["post-24738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-the-last-of-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24738","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=24738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}