{"id":540,"date":"2006-04-25T20:49:38","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T02:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2006\/04\/the-glory-of-the-first-person-shooter\/"},"modified":"2006-04-25T20:49:38","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T02:49:38","slug":"the-glory-of-the-first-person-shooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/04\/the-glory-of-the-first-person-shooter.html","title":{"rendered":"The Glory of the First Person Shooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d start to quote this fabulous essay as to why the author (as I) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collisiondetection.net\/mt\/archives\/2006\/04\/_the_glory_of_t.html\" target=\"_blank\">enjoys Shootin&#8217; Things Up Real Good<\/a>, but I&#8217;m afraid I wouldn&#8217;t be able to stop &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And it suddenly hit me that I was spending a Friday night doing <em>inventory management<\/em>. Last time I checked, I get enough bean counting at my day job; do I really need to spend my weekends pondering whether I should carry an extra set of warhammers just in case I run into a merchant who might be able to buy them off me? Sure, I enjoy having a virtual life &#8212; but as a virtual <em>accountant<\/em>?<br \/>\nYeah, no.<br \/>\nMoments like that make me re-appreciate the true value of a good first-person shooter: its raw, modernist simplicity. Like a cool, refreshing glass of water on a smog-choked summer day, a shooter cuts through the fog of everyday life.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s what made <em>Halo <\/em>the top-selling game for the Xbox, after all. Everyone blathered on and on about the immersive story, the fleshed-out characters, the great script, yadda yadda. But that wasn&#8217;t why they played it. No, they played it because of what the designers called the game&#8217;s ability to deliver &#8220;30 seconds of fun,&#8221; over and over again. And those 30 seconds didn&#8217;t consist of moderating a frickin&#8217; <em>guild meeting<\/em>, if you know what I mean. Nosiree: They consisted of <em>wasting every last freaky alien that wandered anywhere near your muzzle.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>City of Heroes isn&#8217;t quite your standard FPS, but &#8230;<br \/>\nWell, I enjoy doing RP in CoX.  I enjoy some of the organizational bits and meta-play and all that.  I enjoy the story arcs and plot lines.<br \/>\nBut, y&#8217;know?  A lot of what I enjoy about it is <em>pounding the bad guys into the pavement<\/em>.<br \/>\n&#8216;Nuff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d start to quote this fabulous essay as to why the author (as I) enjoys Shootin&#8217; Things Up Real Good, but I&#8217;m afraid I wouldn&#8217;t be able to stop &#8230; And it suddenly hit me that I was spending a Friday night doing inventory management. Last time I checked, I get enough bean counting at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2006\/04\/the-glory-of-the-first-person-shooter.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Glory of the First Person Shooter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}