{"id":5674,"date":"2009-10-25T13:26:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T17:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5674"},"modified":"2010-05-12T12:02:41","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:02:41","slug":"experienced-points-ding-now-you-suck-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=5674","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Ding! Now You Suck Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/6690-Ding-Now-You-Suck-Less\">Here is a bit about leveling and about how too many games screw it up.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I usually cite examples in my articles. When I&#8217;m talking about a bad trend, I&#8217;ll bring up a game following this trend.  Inevitably this derails the conversation when some idiot fanboy experiences a short-circuit in his reasoning center:<\/p>\n<p>Me: Too many games begin with the &#8220;amnesiac&#8221; premise. STALKER was a recent example.<\/p>\n<p>Fanboy: But! I LOVED STALKER! So therefore amnesiac plots are always awesome and you are wrong and biased!<\/p>\n<p>And then the discussion thread becomes a referendum on the game I cited instead of about the actual subject of the article. Also, people will dogpile on me for NOT referencing certain games:<\/p>\n<p>Fanboy: How can you bring up amnesiac plots and leave out Muradin Bronzebeard from the WoW expansion?<\/p>\n<p>Me: You know, there are games in the world I have not played&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Fanboy: Unprofessional!<\/p>\n<p>I tried to sidestep this trend this time around by not citing any games. (Although Oblivion slipped in there.) This didn&#8217;t really help as much as I&#8217;d hoped. And one poster predictably jumped in and called me &#8220;unprofessional&#8221; for not citing specific games.<\/p>\n<p>Hm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a bit about leveling and about how too many games screw it up. I usually cite examples in my articles. When I&#8217;m talking about a bad trend, I&#8217;ll bring up a game following this trend. Inevitably this derails the conversation when some idiot fanboy experiences a short-circuit in his reasoning center: Me: Too [&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-5674","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\/5674","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=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}