{"id":1400,"date":"2009-04-24T13:46:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T18:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2009-04-24T13:46:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T18:46:54","slug":"demigod-this-sums-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/24\/demigod-this-sums-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Demigod &#8211; This Sums It Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about having Tom Chick as a friend, is that it compels me to read everything he writes. <a href=\"http:\/\/fidgit.com\/archives\/2009\/04\/demigod_meet_the_final_word.php\">Which means that I read his final word<\/a> on <em>Demigod<\/em>, summing up what a lot of us are thinking.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Reviews of Demigod should concern themselves primarily with the game and not the launch. And now that the launch has passed and the game is well into its second week, the problems that remain can no longer be attributed to the launch. They are, pure and simple, egregious missteps on the part of developer Gas Powered Games and publisher Stardock.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was part of that eight person connection fiasco he describes, and if not for my Skype teammates to talk to during that ninety minute rodeo of hook-ups, drops, wrong rooms, crashes to desktops and reminders that the game does not Alt-Tab well, I would have gone nuts.<\/p>\n<p>I do hope we can arrange to do the 4 v 4, though, since <em>Demigod<\/em> is an outstanding multiplayer game. When you can get it working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great things about having Tom Chick as a friend, is that it compels me to read everything he writes. Which means that I read his final word on Demigod, summing up what a lot of us are thinking. Reviews of Demigod should concern themselves primarily with the game and not the launch. [&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":[81,38],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-mA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400"}],"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=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}