{"id":1287,"date":"2009-03-21T09:15:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T14:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2009-03-21T09:15:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T14:15:43","slug":"empire-total-war-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/21\/empire-total-war-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire Total War Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite things about Tom Chick as a critic is that he always argues a corner. A game either succeeds or fails, with little room for fence sitting. This does not mean that his reviews are not nuanced; he never ignores the good stuff or fails to contextualize the bad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crispygamer.com\/gamepages\/empire-total-war-pc.aspx\">His recent <em>Empire:Total War<\/em> review<\/a>, for example, is full of explanation and subtlety that generally boils down to asking what we, as gamers, should expect from developers who have been working on the same franchise for ten years. Most people who read it, of course, just saw the &#8220;Fry It&#8221; and used that as their entree to his commentary, reading everything through that lens instead of the other way around &#8211; reading the review as a lead up to the &#8220;score&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>And he is generally right about his complaints. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crispygamer.com\/columns\/2009-03-20\/dissenting-opinion-empire-total-war.aspx\">I still think he is wrong to reject the game altogether.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite things about Tom Chick as a critic is that he always argues a corner. A game either succeeds or fails, with little room for fence sitting. This does not mean that his reviews are not nuanced; he never ignores the good stuff or fails to contextualize the bad. His recent Empire:Total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28,117,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-kL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1289,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}