{"id":734,"date":"2009-05-28T06:07:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/?p=734"},"modified":"2009-05-31T22:14:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T06:14:02","slug":"the-escapist-on-fallout-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/the-escapist-on-fallout-3","title":{"rendered":"The Escapist on Fallout 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received Fallout 3 free with my PS3 console deal&#8230;   the &#8220;Collectors Edition&#8221; that is.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve put just under 10 hours into the game and although the new turn-based like targeting system (aka &#8220;VAT) is pretty satisfying, the game is pretty repetitive. Glad I took the time to play it as now I&#8217;m more sure than ever that I want to avoid most first person RPGs.<\/p>\n<p>You like the open world RPGs?  Then you&#8217;ll probably like this game.  However, if life demands your attention, don&#8217;t pick this one up or:<\/p>\n<p>1) You won&#8217;t get anything done.  You&#8217;ll constantly be late for work.  You&#8217;re wife will leave you (though this is more tolerable to spouses than &#8220;WoW&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>2) You&#8217;ll snap out of a trance, 10 hours in, and think, &#8220;Where am I? It&#8217;s 2am?&#8221; and set out to burn the drug-like media before it tempts you into more game time.<\/p>\n<p>Checkout <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/videos\/view\/zero-punctuation\/420-Fallout-3\"title=\"zero punctuation\" >what the Escapist has to say<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thief?    Hmm&#8230;   yeah, I still haven&#8217;t played that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received Fallout 3 free with my PS3 console deal&#8230; the &#8220;Collectors Edition&#8221; that is. I&#8217;ve put just under 10 hours into the game and although the new turn-based like targeting system (aka &#8220;VAT) is pretty satisfying, the game is pretty repetitive. Glad I took the time to play it as now I&#8217;m more sure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[782,211,212,145],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jerslife.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}