{"id":27989,"date":"2015-07-29T15:45:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T20:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27989"},"modified":"2015-07-29T15:45:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T20:45:26","slug":"doom-3-episode-1-steven-blum-is-everyone-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27989","title":{"rendered":"Doom 3 Episode 1: Steven Blum is Everyone On Mars"},"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\/l_HX6ywD25M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l_HX6ywD25M'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t convey the sadness that I missed out on our Doom 3 session. I&#8217;ve wanted to talk about this game for ages. While I don&#8217;t hold up Doom 3 as a timeless classic or anything, I really do think this game did a lot of things right. I&#8217;d even go so far as to say the first couple of hours are really enjoyable. It doesn&#8217;t feel anything like what we expect DOOM to feel like, but viewed as its own thing it actually does a good job of setting a mood and letting you explore freely at the start. This is very preferable to the more modern approach of having lots of flow-breaking cutscenes and bossing you around with waypoint markers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) I can&#8217;t convey the sadness that I missed out on our Doom 3 session. I&#8217;ve wanted to talk about this game for ages. While I don&#8217;t hold up Doom 3 as a timeless classic or anything, I really do think this game did a lot of things right. I&#8217;d even go so far [&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":[43],"class_list":["post-27989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-doom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27989","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=27989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}