{"id":6454,"date":"2011-11-04T09:02:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T13:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?p=6454"},"modified":"2011-11-04T09:02:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T13:02:32","slug":"wil-shipleys-review-of-fallout-new-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/wil-shipleys-review-of-fallout-new-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Wil Shipley&#8217;s review of &#8220;Fallout: New Vegas&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wil Shipley, has an interesting review of Fallout 3: New Vegas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now, I am only about half way through Fallout 3 New Vegas&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0So I can&#8217;t vouch for the accuracy of the review&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I certainly agree that the questing system is aggravating&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0But it&#8217;ll be real interesting to see if the end game is as Wil states&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wanted to love Fallout: New Vegas. I loved the original Fallout, and Fallout 3. I didn&#8217;t much like Fallout 2, which, in what may or may not be a coincidence, happens have the same designer as New Vegas, and share a lot of the same problems.<\/p>\n<p>New Vegas tries to be way too big, so you end up in a world that&#8217;s physically huge but emotionally totally empty. Each town you encounter after the first doesn&#8217;t feel like it has any heart; it&#8217;s too easy to see the characters as cardboard standees with word balloons over their heads. There&#8217;s no there there.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wilshipley.com\/2011\/01\/why-i-hate-new-vegas.html\">Why I hate &#8220;Fallout: New Vegas&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wil Shipley, has an interesting review of Fallout 3: New Vegas&#8230; Now, I am only about half way through Fallout 3 New Vegas&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0So I can&#8217;t vouch for the accuracy of the review&#8230; I certainly agree that the questing system is aggravating&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0But it&#8217;ll be real interesting to see if the end game is as <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/wil-shipleys-review-of-fallout-new-vegas\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[137],"tags":[202,861],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->