{"id":27996,"date":"2015-07-30T16:01:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T21:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27996"},"modified":"2015-07-30T16:01:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T21:01:26","slug":"doom-3-episode-2-the-death-and-redemption-of-reed-rickles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=27996","title":{"rendered":"Doom 3 Episode 2: The Death and Redemption of Reed Rickles"},"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\/5SKAo1CZRdM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5SKAo1CZRdM'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>In this playthrough, Chris is keeping things fast and interesting by skipping all the &#8220;secret&#8221; containers. What you&#8217;re supposed to do is listen to all of the audiologs and read all the emails to find the cabinet codes, and use those to unlock the item stashes. I imagine that most of us &#8211; trained by years of item-scarcity mechanics &#8211; reflexively did all that work without doing any sort of cost \/ benefit analysis. In my case, I frequently found myself popping open containers to find everything inside was useless to me. I was maxed out on the offered bullets, my health was topped off, and I really only needed a fraction of the armor pickups. But I kept opening them anyway because that&#8217;s how you do things in a videogame.<\/p>\n<p>So here 11 years after the fact I&#8217;m really glad to see that the cabinets really do make a huge difference. Halfway through this episode is the point where I was able to start using the shotgun exclusively. Now I see Chris skip the containers and wind up completely starved for ammo. I guess I&#8217;m just glad to know all that hassle wasn&#8217;t a complete waste, only mostly a waste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) In this playthrough, Chris is keeping things fast and interesting by skipping all the &#8220;secret&#8221; containers. What you&#8217;re supposed to do is listen to all of the audiologs and read all the emails to find the cabinet codes, and use those to unlock the item stashes. I imagine that most of us &#8211; [&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-27996","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\/27996","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=27996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}