{"id":4469,"date":"2009-08-14T09:52:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T13:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=4469"},"modified":"2009-08-14T09:57:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T13:57:27","slug":"stolen-pixels-116-an-existentialist-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=4469","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #116: An Existentialist Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m now playing games faster than I could ever hope to review them. I used to have to make each game last for six weeks, sometimes more. Now I have to change titles every other week in order to feed the comic mill. This is good, because it means I get to play a lot of games.<\/p>\n

But it’s also bad, because some games will get played without being reviewed. Today’s comic is basically my entire review of MadWorld<\/a>. It’s a competently executed effort, more or less killed by a single idiotic (and easily fixable) design decision. I got about halfway through the game and realized I was tired of the looping announcer messages, tired of doing the same thing over and over, and tired of indecipherable two-tone images. Alas. The game had a few promising notions and a lot of voice talent, but those attributes can’t rescue fundamentally broken gameplay. <\/p>\n

EDIT: Too bad I didn’t write a review. I never got the chance to describe the graphics as “urine-soaked line art”.<\/p>\n

Oh wait, I just did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m now playing games faster than I could ever hope to review them. I used to have to make each game last for six weeks, sometimes more. Now I have to change titles every other week in order to feed the comic mill. This is good, because it means I get to play a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4469","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\/4469","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=4469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}