{"id":2206,"date":"2013-03-21T02:01:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T02:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/?p=2206"},"modified":"2013-03-21T02:01:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T02:01:07","slug":"lord-british-completely-misses-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/?p=2206","title":{"rendered":"Lord British Completely Misses Irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/2013\/03\/19\/richard-garriott-game-designers-suck\/\">Lord British Completely Misses Irony<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>The two choice quotes from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201c[Other game designers] generally say, \u2018You know, I really like Medal of Honor, but I would have bigger weapons, or I would have more healing packs, or,\u2019 you know. They go to make one or two changes to a game they otherwise<\/span><span>\u00a0love versus really sit down and rethink,<\/span><span><\/span><span>\u2018How can I really move the needle here?<\/span><span>\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>That\u2019s a direct quote from Richard Garriott, basically calling out his fellow game developers for incrementing or re-visiting the well too often.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Then the article concludes with this (not the quote inside is taken directly from the Kickstarter page):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cGarriott\u2019s new game, Shroud of the Avatar: Forsaken Virtues, has\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/portalarium\/shroud-of-the-avatar-forsaken-virtues-0\" target=\"_blank\">succeeded on Kickstarter<\/a><span>\u00a0with the promise that it\u2019s a \u2018return to his fantasy RPG roots, hearkening back to his innovative early work.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Uh-huh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>#<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/ironsoap.tumblr.com\/\">Like a Detuned Radio<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/ironsoap.tumblr.com\/post\/45882006632\">March 20, 2013 at 06:48PM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord British Completely Misses Irony: The two choice quotes from the article: \u201c[Other game designers] generally say, \u2018You know, I really like Medal of Honor, but I would have bigger weapons, or I would have more healing packs, or,\u2019 you know. They go to make one or two changes to a game they otherwise\u00a0love versus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}