{"id":44229,"date":"2018-10-03T10:53:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T14:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=44229"},"modified":"2018-10-03T10:53:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T14:53:48","slug":"experienced-points-the-new-spider-man-does-amazing-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=44229","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: The New Spider-Man Does Amazing Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My Escapist column this week is about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/v2\/2018\/10\/02\/the-new-spider-man-does-amazing-things\/\">the new Spider-Man game nails several different things that other adaptations have typically struggled with<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently writing my long-form Spider-Man retrospective, so I guess I should warn you that this article will spoil a few points I plan to touch on in that series. Then again, that series won&#8217;t appear for a long time. We&#8217;ve got another month of <em>Grand Theft Auto V<\/em>, then five months of <em>Mass Effect Andromeda<\/em>, and <em>then<\/em> the Spider-Man analysis will run. By then a lot of you will probably have forgotten about this article. Just be warned that you&#8217;ll be seeing these points again in the future, only much, much longer and with many more self-indulgent digressions.<\/p>\n<p>In the article I praised the game for the alternate costumes. They are indeed pretty cool, although to be honest I usually put on a new suit when it unlocked and then five minutes later I switched back to the classic suit. I&#8217;m pretty old-school in my sensibilities. I can still remember being miffed over the black costume in the mid-1980s. I kinda still am. <em>Stop trying to make Spider-Man cool and edgy! Don&#8217;t change things! I fell in love with the character in 1978 and he should stay that way forever!<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m one of <em>those<\/em> fans: The ultra-retro hipster purist snob. Yes, I know we are the absolute <em>worst<\/em>. I can&#8217;t really help it. Sometimes you just latch onto stuff in childhood and it sticks with you. <\/p>\n<p>I suppose it speaks well of the game that I&#8217;m such a fan despite how insufferably picky I am about my Spider-Man content. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Escapist column this week is about how the new Spider-Man game nails several different things that other adaptations have typically struggled with. I&#8217;m currently writing my long-form Spider-Man retrospective, so I guess I should warn you that this article will spoil a few points I plan to touch on in that series. Then again, [&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":[],"class_list":["post-44229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44229","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=44229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44232,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44229\/revisions\/44232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}