{"id":8178,"date":"2010-05-27T08:31:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T13:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8178"},"modified":"2010-05-27T08:32:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T13:32:54","slug":"spoiler-warning-fallout-3-8-dead-cats-and-other-treasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8178","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning Fallout 3 #8: Dead Cats and Other Treasures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back when we discussed Fallout 3 as a possible candidate for Spoiler Warning, we talked about the fact that the open-world setting and focus on inventory might make it difficult to keep the story flowing. We knew going in that we&#8217;d have episodes like this one, where very little happens and where we spend a lot of time walking and looking at menus. <\/p>\n<p>Still, we did manage to get a sliver of plot in there. I do hope you find something to enjoy floating around in the thin broth of this episode.<\/p>\n<p><center><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"437\" height=\"370\" id=\"viddler_bc21c6a0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.viddler.com\/player\/bc21c6a0\/\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.viddler.com\/player\/bc21c6a0\/\" width=\"437\" height=\"370\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" name=\"viddler_bc21c6a0\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>About a third of the way through we hit the point where I thought of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/7588-Experienced-Points-Voice-vs-Choice\">my column<\/a> for last Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when we discussed Fallout 3 as a possible candidate for Spoiler Warning, we talked about the fact that the open-world setting and focus on inventory might make it difficult to keep the story flowing. We knew going in that we&#8217;d have episodes like this one, where very little happens and where we spend a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8178","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=8178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}