{"id":5132,"date":"2009-09-22T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2009-09-22T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T17:00:49","slug":"stolen-pixels-127-prison-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5132","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #127: Prison Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/6560-Stolen-Pixels-127-Prison-Break\">In Champions Online, if you&#8217;ve got the strength you can pick up and throw vehicles<\/a>.  You can lift a truck and hurl it into a group of bad guys, sending them flying and very likely insta-killing one of them.  If you just really hate the taxpayers, you can pick up a police car and use it to pummel another police car.<\/p>\n<p>I really like that they didn&#8217;t simply make it possible to use the scenery in a fight, but they actually took the time to make it an interesting, balanced, and worthwhile part of combat.  Thrown objects are a good opener, but it takes a few seconds to lift the really big stuff so you can&#8217;t just throw cars repeatedly until you win. <\/p>\n<p>I have to give Champions Online credit for a really clean and stable launch.  I&#8217;ve logged over a hundred hours already, and the game hasn&#8217;t crashed once.  No broken quests. No game-killing bugs or griefing exploits.  It&#8217;s by no means perfect, but as MMO launches go, this is about as good as it gets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Champions Online, if you&#8217;ve got the strength you can pick up and throw vehicles. You can lift a truck and hurl it into a group of bad guys, sending them flying and very likely insta-killing one of them. If you just really hate the taxpayers, you can pick up a police car and use [&hellip;]<\/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-5132","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\/5132","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=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}