{"id":5416,"date":"2009-10-09T17:19:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T21:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5416"},"modified":"2010-05-12T08:43:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:43:38","slug":"experienced-points-give-me-dessert-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5416","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Give Me Dessert First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Champions has been a blast.  Partly because of the action-oriented gameplay, but mostly because there is just so much less filler in the game.  I&#8217;ve gone all the way to level 30 without needing to grind (kill the same dudes over and over) even once.  You get a quest the moment you enter the game, and from that point on you&#8217;re always doing <em>something<\/em>.  Moreover, the quests themselves feel like less of a time-sink.  There aren&#8217;t a bunch of quests that force you to grind for drops.  (The quest to get Murloc eyes in Westfall is the most notorious example of this in WoW.  You can wipe out an entire village of Murlocs and not have a single eye to show for your trouble.)  If Champions says to defeat five dudes, you only need to defeat five dudes.  <\/p>\n<p>The game is shorter overall, but the content is densely packed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/6632-Give-Me-Dessert-First\">This is an excellent trend and I hope it continues<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champions has been a blast. Partly because of the action-oriented gameplay, but mostly because there is just so much less filler in the game. I&#8217;ve gone all the way to level 30 without needing to grind (kill the same dudes over and over) even once. You get a quest the moment you enter the game, [&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-5416","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\/5416","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=5416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}