{"id":25330,"date":"2014-12-10T19:16:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T00:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25330"},"modified":"2014-12-10T19:16:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T00:16:45","slug":"the-last-of-us-ep28-triangle-harder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25330","title":{"rendered":"The Last of Us EP28: Triangle Harder"},"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\/2qtJQx1DsgM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2qtJQx1DsgM'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I know a running joke on the show is how we constantly make fun of Josh for playing so bad, but I think we need to drop that gag for a minute and talk about these goofy mechanics. What is going on here? In the first few minutes we can see:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The game gives you a triangle prompt. Press it, zombie dies. Whee.<\/li>\n<li>Game doesn&#8217;t give the prompt, no matter how you position yourself, how long you wait, or how close you get. It gives no feedback as to what you&#8217;re doing wrong.\n<li>The game doesn&#8217;t give the prompt, but you can kill the zombie anyway.\n<li>The game gives you the prompt, but when you hit the button it insta-kills YOU instead.\n<li>Sometimes you can quicktime event out of getting grabbed. Sometimes you just die.\n<\/ol>\n<p>I have no idea. On one hand, I love this game for its characters, story, and gorgeous visuals. On the other hand, it looks like a completely annoying pain in the ass to play.<\/p>\n<p><em>See, Shamus. If you had PLAYED the game you would understand. The stupid, random, unexplained, and unfair mechanics just reinforce the stupid, random, unexplained, and unfair nature of life in the post-apocalyptic world. This isn&#8217;t broken mechanics, it&#8217;s an integral part of the storytelling and besides I didn&#8217;t have any trouble and I beat the game on hard while drunk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Goofy gameplay aside, this entire section is completely fantastic. Best videogame photobooth since SBCGFAP. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I know a running joke on the show is how we constantly make fun of Josh for playing so bad, but I think we need to drop that gag for a minute and talk about these goofy mechanics. What is going on here? In the first few minutes we can see: The game [&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-25330","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\/25330","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=25330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}