{"id":973,"date":"2008-06-16T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T18:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/16\/a-new-colonization\/"},"modified":"2008-06-16T14:04:26","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T18:04:26","slug":"a-new-colonization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/16\/a-new-colonization\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Colonization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The worst part about being away from the Internet for a week is that <a href=\"http:\/\/ir.take2games.com\/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=315205\">really cool things happen<\/a> and no one bothers to tell me. Thanks 2k. I thought we were cool.<\/p>\n<p>People who bother to listen to me know that I am getting a little tired of all the great talent at Firaxis pillaging its past in the search for new games to make. <em>Civilization, Pirates, Railroads<\/em>, now <em>Colonization<\/em>&#8230; Come on guys. Surprise me.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I&#8217;m not all curmudgeon. A <em>Colonization<\/em> based on the Civ IV engine is great news. I don&#8217;t see <em>Colonization<\/em> as one of the great Meier via Reynolds Microprose titles. It&#8217;s a good game with some neat concepts that don&#8217;t completely gel for me for a number of reasons. But I still go back to it every now and then, probably because it tries things that other strategy games didn&#8217;t and still don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>More news as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The worst part about being away from the Internet for a week is that really cool things happen and no one bothers to tell me. Thanks 2k. I thought we were cool. People who bother to listen to me know that I am getting a little tired of all the great talent at Firaxis pillaging [&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":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-fH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973"}],"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=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}