{"id":9548,"date":"2010-09-24T16:20:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T21:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9548"},"modified":"2010-09-24T16:24:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T21:24:18","slug":"experienced-points-your-favorite-game-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9548","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Your Favorite Game Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back, I kind of wish I&#8217;d combined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/8149-Experienced-Points-Your-Favorite-Game-Sucks\">this week&#8217;s column<\/a> with last week&#8217;s. It&#8217;s one of those situations where I had one-and-a-half points to make.  A bit big for one column, but too small for two. Ah well. <\/p>\n<p>I suppose I chafe more than most at fanboys because they <em>really<\/em> hate the work I do here. I prefer to write about stuff that&#8217;s broken in games and talk about how gameplay or story could have been done better, because those are interesting conversations.  But fanboys simply can&#8217;t wrap their heads around this sort of conversational analysis and keep trying to see it as a thumbs up \/ thumbs down review.  A common demand is &#8220;YOU NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE GOOD PARTS OF THE GAME.&#8221;  Which isn&#8217;t really true. My goal is to talk about the stuff that interests me, not offer consumer advice.  I see that most people leaving comments have already played a game or made their decision not to buy it.  We&#8217;re just talking about stuff the way friends do.   <\/p>\n<p>Ann: Did you see that part of the movie where the hero jumped out of the helicopter and didn&#8217;t die because he landed on a bad guy? I thought that was lame.<\/p>\n<p>Bob: Me too.<\/p>\n<p>Carl: YOU NEED TO MENTION HOW AWESOME THE ACTING AND SPECIAL EFFECTS WERE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back, I kind of wish I&#8217;d combined this week&#8217;s column with last week&#8217;s. It&#8217;s one of those situations where I had one-and-a-half points to make. A bit big for one column, but too small for two. Ah well. I suppose I chafe more than most at fanboys because they really hate the work I [&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-9548","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\/9548","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=9548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}