{"id":424,"date":"2006-09-07T15:44:49","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T19:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/07\/writing-a-wrong-opinion\/"},"modified":"2006-09-07T15:44:49","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T19:44:49","slug":"writing-a-wrong-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/09\/07\/writing-a-wrong-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing a wrong opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Cross has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasoncross.org\/2006\/09\/when-game-reviewers-get-it-wrong.html\">nice little piece on reviewers getting their opinions wrong<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>It can happen. An ill-informed opinion is worse than no opinion at all. (Like the infamous review of single player only <em>Max Payne<\/em> that took off points because the multiplayer was unsatisfying.)<\/p>\n<p>Not being a console gamer (for reasons of frugality, not snobbery) I can&#8217;t vouch for <em>Saints Row<\/em> (it doesn&#8217;t look like my kind of game) or <em>Enchanted Arms<\/em> (which also looks like someone else&#8217;s kind of game.) But Cross seems to like the former okay, and the latter was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/2006\/09\/06\">vigorously defended<\/a> by the guys over at Penny Arcade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Cross has a nice little piece on reviewers getting their opinions wrong. It can happen. An ill-informed opinion is worse than no opinion at all. (Like the infamous review of single player only Max Payne that took off points because the multiplayer was unsatisfying.) Not being a console gamer (for reasons of frugality, not [&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":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-6Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424"}],"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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}