{"id":8496,"date":"2010-06-25T09:36:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T14:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8496"},"modified":"2010-06-25T09:36:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T14:36:39","slug":"stolen-pixels-206whose-side-am-i-on-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=8496","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #206:<br\/>Whose Side Am I on, Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The plot of Alpha Protocol is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/7753-Stolen-Pixels-206-Whose-Side-Am-I-on-Anyway\">hard to understand<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I finished the game last night.  I haven&#8217;t figured out if the ending worked or not.  The plot might be a Mass Effect 2 pile of holes and unexplained actions, but I can&#8217;t nail it down because I couldn&#8217;t follow it. I suppose that&#8217;s one way to avoid having to write an airtight story. There were several people that I wanted to confront, only to have them vanish from the gameworld. But were these plot threads left hanging KOTOR 2 &#8211; style, or could I have met up with them if I&#8217;d made a few different choices?  <\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ll find out.  I started a new game.  Now that I know the secret of stealth characters (use the magic pistol power) I&#8217;m going to try and play as a proper spy instead of shotgunning my way through the game. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plot of Alpha Protocol is hard to understand. I finished the game last night. I haven&#8217;t figured out if the ending worked or not. The plot might be a Mass Effect 2 pile of holes and unexplained actions, but I can&#8217;t nail it down because I couldn&#8217;t follow it. I suppose that&#8217;s one way [&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-8496","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\/8496","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=8496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}