{"id":423,"date":"2009-05-23T00:47:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-23T07:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbal007.com\/word\/?p=423"},"modified":"2009-05-23T00:47:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-23T07:47:18","slug":"the-escapist-on-fallout-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/the-escapist-on-fallout-3-2","title":{"rendered":"The Escapist on Fallout 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received Fallout 3 free with my PS3 console deal… \u00a0 the “Collectors Edition” that is.<\/p>\n

I’ve put just under 10 hours into the game and although the new turn-based like targeting system (aka “VAT) is pretty satisfying, the game is pretty repetitive. Glad I took the time to play it as now I’m more sure than ever that I want to avoid most first person RPGs.<\/p>\n

You like the open world RPGs? \u00a0Then you’ll probably like this game. \u00a0However, if life demands your attention, don’t pick this one up or:<\/p>\n

1) You won’t get anything done. \u00a0You’ll constantly be late for work. \u00a0You’re wife will leave you (though this is more tolerable to spouses than “WoW”).<\/p>\n

2) You’ll snap out of a trance, 10 hours in, and think, “Where am I? It’s 2am?” and set out to burn the drug-like media before it tempts you into more game time.<\/p>\n

Checkout what the Escapist has to say<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thief? \u00a0 \u00a0Hmm… \u00a0 yeah, I still haven’t played that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received Fallout 3 free with my PS3 console deal… \u00a0 the “Collectors Edition” that is. I’ve put just under 10 hours into the game and although the new turn-based like targeting system (aka “VAT) is pretty satisfying, the game is pretty repetitive. Glad I took the time to play it as now I’m more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[60,782,211,212],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-game","tag-humor","tag-ps3","tag-rpg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}