{"id":9117,"date":"2010-08-20T16:24:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T21:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9117"},"modified":"2010-08-20T16:45:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T21:45:34","slug":"experienced-points-the-rise-fall-and-rise-of-adventure-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9117","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Adventure Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is plastered with ads for Kane &#038; Lynch 2, sequel to the original ugly self-important chore from Eidos in 2007.  If the sequel is anything like the first, you&#8217;ll pilot a completely unlikable jerk from one murder spree to the next in order to thwart some bad guys so bland I can&#8217;t think of a metaphor boring enough to&#8230; <em>meh<\/em>. The combat had all the fun and energy of churning milk in January. I quit when the story got to Havana.  I have no idea how it ended. But in the alternate ending I wrote for myself on the wall using a black sharpie tightly clenched in one fist, Lynch died, Kane&#8217;s men died, the cops they gunned down recovered and then launched an enormously successful anti-crime program for youth, the secret conspiracy guys continued to do nothing interesting forever and ever, and Kane&#8217;s stupid ass went back to prison. If this is not how the game ended, please don&#8217;t tell me.  I&#8217;m happy with the one I wrote.<\/p>\n<p>What? Oh. Sorry. Anyway. Kane and Lynch 2 is everywhere and yet nobody talks about the wonderful things Telltale games is making for us. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/8016-Experienced-Points-The-Rise-Fall-and-Rise-of-Adventure-Games\">This is my own small attempt to rectify this injustice.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet is plastered with ads for Kane &#038; Lynch 2, sequel to the original ugly self-important chore from Eidos in 2007. If the sequel is anything like the first, you&#8217;ll pilot a completely unlikable jerk from one murder spree to the next in order to thwart some bad guys so bland I can&#8217;t think [&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-9117","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\/9117","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=9117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}