{"id":380,"date":"2008-12-23T19:14:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T18:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2008\/12\/23\/the-crippled-world-of-modern-gaming\/"},"modified":"2008-12-23T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T18:14:18","slug":"the-crippled-world-of-modern-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2008\/12\/23\/the-crippled-world-of-modern-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crippled World of Modern Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Citation on how the author experienced the end of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fallout_3\">Fallout 3<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe final quests consists of following a massive MechWarrior-esque robot who basically does all the killing and fighting for you. All you have to do is stay behind him and collect the loot of the dead Enclave soldiers &#8211; loot you&#8217;re not going to need anyway, but hey, in an RPG, grabbing loot is a reflex. You then shoot a few Enclave baddies in a building, flick a switch, and the game ends. It was so easy I kept on telling myself this was just an intro to a massive battle. <\/p>\n<p>When I realised I had actually finished the game, I was all ready to grab some chips, and make me a nice pot of tea, but before I even got up off the couch, the ending sequence was already over. Five pictures slid by, with the voice over telling a three-sentence story, and that was it. The end. That&#8217;s your reward for 140 hours of gaming and 64 Euros. A sepia slideshow.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Usually, I&#8217;m not that much of a fan of Thom Holwerda&#8217;s somewhat provoking\/sensational writing style, but this piece really is an entertaining read \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.osnews.com\/story\/20679\/The_Crippled_World_of_Modern_Gaming\">Read the full story on OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citation on how the author experienced the end of Fallout 3: The final quests consists of following a massive MechWarrior-esque robot who basically does all the killing and fighting for you. All you have to do is stay behind him and collect the loot of the dead Enclave soldiers &#8211; loot you&#8217;re not going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2008\/12\/23\/the-crippled-world-of-modern-gaming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Crippled World of Modern Gaming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}