{"id":28058,"date":"2015-08-04T09:50:09","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28058"},"modified":"2015-08-04T10:19:18","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T15:19:18","slug":"experienced-points-the-bioware-romance-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28058","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: The BioWare Romance Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We brought up this topic in <a href=\"?p=28019\">the podcast<\/a> this week, but here I wanted to give the subject <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/14401-BioWare-Romances-Can-Be-Pretty-Predictable\">a full column of its own<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Having said all that (assuming you actually went and read the column) I&#8217;ll say that&#8217;s probably only half the problem. The other half is that AAA action videogames<span class='snote' title='1'>I&#8217;m not commenting on games dedicated to the topic. I don&#8217;t play them and have no frame of reference for appraising their quality.<\/span> aren&#8217;t an awesome medium for doing romance. And even when it works mechanically, writers tend to be rubbish at it.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to round this out with a list of action videogame romances I like. Here is what I came up with:<\/p>\n<p>1. The Secret of Monkey Island<span class='snote' title='2'>PLUNDER BUNNY!<\/span>.<br \/>\n2. Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.<br \/>\n3. I guess the romances in KOTOR were sort of okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We brought up this topic in the podcast this week, but here I wanted to give the subject a full column of its own. Having said all that (assuming you actually went and read the column) I&#8217;ll say that&#8217;s probably only half the problem. The other half is that AAA action videogamesI&#8217;m not commenting on [&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":[84],"class_list":["post-28058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-bioware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28058","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=28058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}