{"id":28141,"date":"2015-08-10T17:06:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T22:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28141"},"modified":"2015-08-10T17:06:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T22:06:28","slug":"experienced-points-kings-quest-and-the-reboot-of-an-entire-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28141","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: King&#8217;s Quest and the Reboot of an Entire Genre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/14425-Is-The-Kings-Quest-Reboot-Good\">how hard it is to reboot something like King&#8217;s Quest<\/a>, which is a game mostly defined by its adherence to tradition. I hope it doesn&#8217;t sound like I&#8217;m complaining that King&#8217;s Quest didn&#8217;t abandon its established style and chase after every new trend. I actually find its dedication to its core fans to be admirable, even if I wasn&#8217;t one of those fans. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll talk about this more on the Diecast this week, which will hopefully go up tomorrow. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week talks about how hard it is to reboot something like King&#8217;s Quest, which is a game mostly defined by its adherence to tradition. I hope it doesn&#8217;t sound like I&#8217;m complaining that King&#8217;s Quest didn&#8217;t abandon its established style and chase after every new trend. I actually find its dedication to [&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":[460],"class_list":["post-28141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-kings-quest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28141","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=28141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}