{"id":671,"date":"2006-10-02T07:21:58","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T12:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=671"},"modified":"2006-10-02T07:23:30","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T12:23:30","slug":"best-console-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=671","title":{"rendered":"Best Console Shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cineris.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/01\/elsewheres\/\">Cinneris comments on Halo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"quote\">I&#39;m not a huge Halo fan but I do think it is one of the best console shooters out there. <\/div>\n<p>Which is how I feel about Halo.  I will add, however, that being one of the &#8220;best console shooters out there&#8221; is not very high praise.  This is akin to being the world&#8217;s cutest cockroach, or the world&#8217;s sexist leper.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m mystified that people are still trying to capture the first-person experience using a television and a joystick. Consoles are ideal for many types of gaming experiences.  In fact, often times a console is the <em>only<\/em> way to properly experience a game.  But first-person games belong to machines that can connect to a mouse, and anyone who tries to do it with a d-pad sould be <em>whipped<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out some of the other links in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cineris.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/01\/elsewheres\/\">that post<\/a>: The link to the Yu-Gi-Oh! parody is pure gold, even if you&#8217;ve never seen the show.  Anyone who&#8217;s seen some anime should get it.  Many familiar anime tropes are delightfully savaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cinneris comments on Halo: I&#39;m not a huge Halo fan but I do think it is one of the best console shooters out there. Which is how I feel about Halo. I will add, however, that being one of the &#8220;best console shooters out there&#8221; is not very high praise. This is akin to being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","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=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}