{"id":28328,"date":"2015-08-26T21:21:27","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T02:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28328"},"modified":"2015-08-26T21:21:27","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T02:21:27","slug":"knights-of-the-old-republic-ep1-knights-of-the-dumb-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=28328","title":{"rendered":"Knights of the Old Republic EP1: Knights of the Dumb Questions"},"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\/djbVxrOmKHU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=djbVxrOmKHU'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Warning: We average about ten inflammatory \/ controversial assertions a minute for the first few minutes of this video. So expect broad statements about the BioWare catalog, Star Wars, D&#038;D editions, and the historical importance of this game. Try not to freak out.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear: I kind of overstated the importance of this game in making me an RPG fan. I was indeed a shooter guy in the 90&#8217;s. But I was also really into System Shock and Deus Ex, which I think qualify as RPGs, even though I didn&#8217;t think of them that way at the time. I just thought of them as &#8220;interesting shooters&#8221;. Ultimately I think it was the one-two-punch of KOTOR and Morrowind that made me realize that RPGs were my jam. This is why I never played Baulder&#8217;s Gate or Ultima. They pre-date my interest in RPGs, and I was never able to get into them retroactively. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Warning: We average about ten inflammatory \/ controversial assertions a minute for the first few minutes of this video. So expect broad statements about the BioWare catalog, Star Wars, D&#038;D editions, and the historical importance of this game. Try not to freak out. To be clear: I kind of overstated the importance of [&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":[84,513],"class_list":["post-28328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-bioware","tag-kotor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28328","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=28328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}