{"id":25664,"date":"2015-01-13T15:30:45","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25664"},"modified":"2015-01-13T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T20:35:49","slug":"experienced-points-how-gta-v-fumbles-on-the-easy-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25664","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: How GTA V Fumbles on the Easy Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t expect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/12860-Grand-Theft-Auto-V-s-Amazing-Tech-Whiffs-on-the-Fundamentals\">this column<\/a> to go over very well. GTA fans are famous for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/videos\/feedbackula-gta-v-review-revulsion\/2300-6414760\/#livefyre\">throwing temper tantrums<\/a> when the game is praised too lightly, much less criticized outright. Moreover, my specific criticism is too easily dismissed by &#8220;LOL get gud&#8221; sort of drive-by stupidity. With any luck, &#8220;This review is so biased!&#8221; will also make an appearance. I&#8217;m kind of hoping for that one. That one makes me giggle.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, fear of reflexive fan-rage is a terrible reason to give a game a pass for such a slapdash approach to design. And if someone really is inclined to react with outrage to this critique, then they probably aren&#8217;t going to like anything else I do, so it&#8217;s best to just shake them loose now. <\/p>\n<p>The worst part is, I know Rockstar isn&#8217;t going to change. This game made $RIDICULOUS and so they have no reason to fix this.<\/p>\n<p>But just between you and me? This is the best GTA game since&#8230; I dunno. This might actually be my favorite. I would still rather play Saints Row, but this game does a lot right. And I&#8217;m not just talking about the graphics. If people don&#8217;t freak out too hard over this column I might follow it up with an analysis of what worked. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t expect this column to go over very well. GTA fans are famous for throwing temper tantrums when the game is praised too lightly, much less criticized outright. Moreover, my specific criticism is too easily dismissed by &#8220;LOL get gud&#8221; sort of drive-by stupidity. With any luck, &#8220;This review is so biased!&#8221; will also [&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-25664","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\/25664","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=25664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}