{"id":27,"date":"2010-03-29T19:28:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T01:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hobert.net\/blog\/all_about_the_blood\/"},"modified":"2015-08-20T22:06:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T04:06:21","slug":"all_about_the_blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobert.net\/road\/all_about_the_blood\/","title":{"rendered":"All about the blood&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about computer games involving blood that really makes my day?\u00c2\u00a0 First it was Gabriel Knight, culminating in BLOOD OF THE SACRED, BLOOD OF THE DAMN, when I knew I had found an art form I thoroughly enjoyed.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, it was clunky and the puzzles sucked and every thing that could go wrong on a project did.\u00c2\u00a0 But not only did it have an engrossing story, it showed exactly how immersive a game could be.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s Dragon Age, where I spent 90 hours on one character and various other times on 4 more.\u00c2\u00a0 Not counting the 20 hour expansion.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s about $1 for two hours of entertainment, and not a lot besides MMOs are that cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Take the plunge, give it a try.\u00c2\u00a0 You can be anything you want to be.\u00c2\u00a0 Just remember to save the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/social.bioware.com\/brc\/18133\">IT&#8217;S IN THE BLOOD&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/ff340fe0-4458-47fb-894b-2721c13a9b54\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=ff340fe0-4458-47fb-894b-2721c13a9b54\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>PS &#8211; &#8220;Licking a lamp post.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Nuf&#8217; said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about computer games involving blood that really makes my day?\u00c2\u00a0 First it was Gabriel Knight, culminating in BLOOD OF THE SACRED, BLOOD OF THE DAMN, when I knew I had found an art form I thoroughly enjoyed.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, it was clunky and the puzzles sucked and every&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hobert.net\/road\/all_about_the_blood\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobert.net\/road\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobert.net\/road\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobert.net\/road\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobert.net\/road\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobert.net\/road\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobert.net\/road\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobert.net\/road\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hobert.net\/road\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobert.net\/road\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hobert.net\/road\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}