{"id":731,"date":"2007-08-17T10:41:19","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T14:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/17\/the-100-point-system-exposed\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T03:01:13","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T07:01:13","slug":"the-100-point-system-exposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/17\/the-100-point-system-exposed\/","title":{"rendered":"The 100 Point System Exposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the caveat that I haven&#8217;t played <em>Bioshock<\/em> yet, and that when I do it will be the PC version, is there anything more ridiculous than <a href=\"http:\/\/consoles.gwn.com\/reviews\/gamereview.php\/id\/1350\/title\/BioShock.html\">giving a game 99 out of 100<\/a>? I am more willing to believe that a game is perfect than that it falls short of Elysium by one tiny point. Struggling for &#8220;lows&#8221;, James Pikover cites &#8220;lack of personal shadow&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That rant out of the way, it looks like Irrational&#8217;s highly anticipated title is <a href=\"http:\/\/gamerankings.com\/htmlpages2\/931329.asp\">winning raves from all sides<\/a>. I so rarely buy non-strategy\/non-RPG games that actually plunking down the bucks for a pseudo-shooter will be quite a milestone. I guess I&#8217;m not as immune to hype and buzz as I thought I was.<\/p>\n<p>No surprise there, really. The other day, an IRC discussion of a Taco Bell <em>ad<\/em> had me craving tacos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the caveat that I haven&#8217;t played Bioshock yet, and that when I do it will be the PC version, is there anything more ridiculous than giving a game 99 out of 100? I am more willing to believe that a game is perfect than that it falls short of Elysium by one tiny point. [&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":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-bN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"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=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}