{"id":943,"date":"2007-02-09T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=943"},"modified":"2007-02-13T00:30:29","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T05:30:29","slug":"mass-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"Mass Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table width='400'  cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0' border='0' align='right'><tr><td><a href='http:\/\/masseffect.bioware.com'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/mass_effect.jpg' class='insetimage' width='400' alt='mass_effect.jpg' title='mass_effect.jpg'\/><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table>I&#8217;m reading up on <a href=\"http:\/\/masseffect.bioware.com\/\">Mass Effect<\/a>, a game which is being produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioware.com\">Bioware<\/a> and has every indication of being <a href=\"http:\/\/masseffect.bioware.com\/gallery\/\">exqusite<\/a>. The game follows the time-honored tradition of giving you a spaceship and a crew, and letting you use these resources to save the galaxy.  I&#8217;ve been saving the galaxy since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/TimesSquare\/Maze\/4979\/starflight.html\">Starflight<\/a> in the late 8o&#8217;s, and I can tell you that galaxy-saving just <em>doesn&#8217;t get old<\/em>.  It&#8217;s XBox 360-only, but if previous trends continue then the game will end up on the PC within the next couple of years. <\/p>\n<p>However, if <a href=\"?p=882\">other<\/a> previous trends continue, then in three years <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsidianent.com\/\">Obsidian<\/a> will come out with Mass Effect 2, a game which will trap you on a spaceship with a crew of dysfunctional morons and sociopaths who all hate you yet still call you their captain for no discernable reason. The gameplay will consist of navigating dialog trees which insult or infuriate you in various ways, for sixty hours, until your ship at last crashes into the sun and the game ends.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m reading up on Mass Effect, a game which is being produced by Bioware and has every indication of being exqusite. The game follows the time-honored tradition of giving you a spaceship and a crew, and letting you use these resources to save the galaxy. I&#8217;ve been saving the galaxy since Starflight in the late [&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-943","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\/943","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=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}