{"id":196,"date":"2009-02-11T13:30:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T02:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=196"},"modified":"2009-02-11T13:30:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T02:30:10","slug":"in-case-you-missed-me-ramble-on-about-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2009\/02\/in-case-you-missed-me-ramble-on-about-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"In case you missed me ramble on about video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally, I was going to play and review <em>Fallout 3<\/em>. Then Flip started it while I watched and realised that it was just <em>Oblivion<\/em> with guns. So I figured why not just play that and hit the two main expansions. So I&#8217;ve spent the last week making a new character (a Mage) and levelling him up a bit (he&#8217;s now the head of the mage&#8217;s guild). And now I&#8217;m spent.<\/p>\n<p>I got home after work last night with no desire to hit <em>The Shivering Isles<\/em> or even <em>Fallout 3<\/em>. I will get there, but I&#8217;ve run out of steam for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I turned back to <em>Rock Band<\/em>. It&#8217;s good for a quick pick-up game and we&#8217;re slowly garnering more songs for it. I&#8217;m picking up some tracks that were on <em>Guitar Hero 2 &amp; 3<\/em>. The note tracking is different (and generally easier), but I&#8217;m also getting them for the other instruments. In particular, I like singing them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, now that things are a little quiet on the release front, I&#8217;m starting to look at slightly newer games. Speaking to <a href=\"http:\/\/nobodysplayground.blogspot.com\/\">nobody<\/a> recently, I&#8217;ve been convinced to try the revisioned <em>Prince of Persia<\/em>. Though it probably could have been done under a different title, I&#8217;ll survive. It looks like fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally, I was going to play and review Fallout 3. Then Flip started it while I watched and realised that it was just Oblivion with guns. So I figured why not just play that and hit the two main expansions. So I&#8217;ve spent the last week making a new character (a Mage) and levelling him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[178,44,180,179,43,181],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-3a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}