{"id":638,"date":"2007-04-27T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T15:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/27\/who-buys-these\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T03:33:29","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T07:33:29","slug":"who-buys-these","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/27\/who-buys-these\/","title":{"rendered":"Who buys these?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like we&#8217;ll be getting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/newsStory?cId=3159035\">novelization of Command and Conquer 3<\/a>. I&#8217;m sure it will be as full of literary goodness as the novelizations of <em>Baldur&#8217;s Gate<\/em>, <em>Halo<\/em> and <em>Warcraft<\/em>. If it approaches the almost readable Alpha Centauri novels, it will be a freaking miracle.<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Games for Windows podcast has a long segment on game novelizations. Apparently publishers just send those to GFW HQ no questions asked. Questions like &#8220;Do you want this crap?&#8221; The GFW crew and Penny Arcade both make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2007\/04\/27\">the obvious joke about novelized games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What isn&#8217;t so funny is that people apparently buy this crap. I&#8217;m generally not one to attack another person&#8217;s tastes in books, film or TV &#8211; the line between high and low culture moves a lot through the ages &#8211; but no one in their right mind can expect this to be either a compelling read or a useful companion to the game itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like we&#8217;ll be getting a novelization of Command and Conquer 3. I&#8217;m sure it will be as full of literary goodness as the novelizations of Baldur&#8217;s Gate, Halo and Warcraft. If it approaches the almost readable Alpha Centauri novels, it will be a freaking miracle. This week&#8217;s Games for Windows podcast has a [&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":[78],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-ai","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"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=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}