{"id":9635,"date":"2010-10-07T08:21:16","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T13:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9635"},"modified":"2010-10-07T08:45:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T13:45:46","slug":"spoiler-warning-3x12-stop-me-if-youve-heard-this-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9635","title":{"rendered":"Spoiler Warning 3×12: Stop Me if You’ve Heard this Before…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, person from the future. This space used to have an embed from the video hosting site Viddler. The video is gone now. If you want to find out why and laugh at Viddler in the process, you can read the entire silly story for yourself<\/a>.At any rate, the video is gone. Sorry. On the upside, we're gradually re-posting these old videos to YouTube. Check the Spoiler Warning page<\/a> to see the full index.<\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

I’ve been waiting for this episode. The Big Daddy transformation was a cavalcade of lazy plotting, supported by a layer of contrivances, and glued together with a few pounds of sloppy videogame logic. I think it actually undermines the earlier themes about free will. Now that you’re no longer a slave and you’re free to think for yourself, the game requires you to do something dumber and more illogical than anything that you did while you were supposedly under control of others. <\/p>\n

This section of the game very nearly wins the title of “Most Obnoxious Plot Door”, a title which currently belongs to Neverwinter Nights 2<\/a>. But BioShock gets off the hook because this plot door only takes about thirty minutes, not five hours. <\/p>\n

It’s a shame we had to cut this sequence in the middle. We point out the rest of the flaws with the Big Daddy Quest in the next episode. Then there’s one more mini-episode after that one where we wrap this series up. We’ve already selected our next game, so your pleas are futile. <\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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