{"id":7723,"date":"2010-04-09T09:15:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2010-04-09T09:39:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T14:39:42","slug":"stolen-pixels-184-dead-faction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7723","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #184: Dead Faction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/7395-Stolen-Pixels-184-Dead-Faction\">My final shot at Red Faction: Baboon<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This was a difficult game to cover.  It was silly, but it was always <em>complicated<\/em> silly. The plot was full of goofy stuff, but I didn&#8217;t want to have to explain the premise before deconstructing it. Like the plot itself, the jokes would need too much setup for too little payoff.<\/p>\n<p>Saints Row 2 had a great system for adding gangsters to your party and dismissing them as needed. I&#8217;m not sure why they didn&#8217;t include that feature here.  It would have made the combat a lot less aggravating.  Sometimes I wanted more helpers, but I couldn&#8217;t attract any. (Okay, there was really only one time when I <em>wanted<\/em> help. And that was when I was making this comic.) Other times I wanted to work alone but ended up doing a lot of babysitting. <\/p>\n<p>They need to extract the good parts of RFG with a scalpel and transplant them to a more viable game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My final shot at Red Faction: Baboon. This was a difficult game to cover. It was silly, but it was always complicated silly. The plot was full of goofy stuff, but I didn&#8217;t want to have to explain the premise before deconstructing it. Like the plot itself, the jokes would need too much setup for [&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-7723","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\/7723","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=7723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}