{"id":485,"date":"2013-01-07T14:13:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T20:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2013-01-07T14:13:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T20:13:16","slug":"game-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/game-overload\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Overload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, the first-world problems.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m playing too many games at once again. I&#8217;m currently playing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Final Fantasy XIII-2<\/li>\n<li>Assassin&#8217;s Creed III<\/li>\n<li>Assassin&#8217;s Creed III: Liberation<\/li>\n<li>Lost Odyssey<\/li>\n<li>Professor Layton and the Last Specter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, I actually beat another game in the interim between the last post. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/10000000\/id544385071?mt=8\">10000000<\/a> (ten million) and wow, it&#8217;s a fun, addictive game. It didn&#8217;t take me long to beat, but still, it&#8217;s a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>I started playing Lost Odyssey while on vacation. We were visiting the in-laws, and my father in law has an Xbox 360. I found Lost Odyssey used. I had previously played a rental back in 2008 or 2009.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve enjoyed it. It was created by Hironobu Sakaguchi and scored by Nobuo Uematsu. Final Fantasy fans will know those names. In fact, Lost Odyssey really reminds me a lot of Final Fantasy VIII. It has a skill-learning system that&#8217;s reminiscent of FF VIII&#8217;s Junction system. It&#8217;s also got a thing where in combat, as your character is about to strike their opponent, you try to hit a button at exactly the right time to do extra damage. This was also present in FF VIII&#8217;s gunblade attacks.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to have to be put on hold, though. I didn&#8217;t get particularly far. I&#8217;ll still play it for an hour here and there so I don&#8217;t forget what&#8217;s what, but it&#8217;s on the\u00a0back burner.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve started playing Assassin&#8217;s Creed III: Liberation because I&#8217;m a nerd and I bought a PS Vita. So far, it&#8217;s fun, and I&#8217;ll just pop onto it here and there to do a mission. It&#8217;s buggy as all get out, though. I actually had to restart the game from the beginning because of a bug that trapped me on load screens (even after resetting the game). I&#8217;ve also managed to swim under and inside houses, trapping myself there. I&#8217;ve seen pedestrians walk into and through walls. I climbed through a roof once to get a treasure chest.<\/p>\n<p>On the heels of playing AC: Revelations, I&#8217;m really disappointed in Ubisoft. That was buggy too. Now that the main AC games are done (though I haven&#8217;t beat III yet, of course), I may not purchase future games in the series. AC III seems to be bug-free so far, so that&#8217;s something. But Liberation wasn&#8217;t dirt cheap and it feels like a beta release.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of AC III, I&#8217;ve got past the point where I switch characters. There was a nice plot twist at that point, which was very cool. I won&#8217;t say what it was, but they did a good job. I felt more and more uneasy with a particular aspect of the story until the twist made sense of it all. I loved it.<\/p>\n<p>Final Fantasy XIII-2 is on the list, but I haven&#8217;t played it for a few weeks. I may pop it on soon and try to wrap some stuff up. I&#8217;m probably only 5\u201310 hours from beating the game; though I&#8217;m not entirely sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, the first-world problems. I&#8217;m playing too many games at once again. I&#8217;m currently playing: Final Fantasy XIII-2 Assassin&#8217;s Creed III Assassin&#8217;s Creed III: Liberation Lost Odyssey Professor Layton and the Last Specter In addition, I actually beat another game &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/game-overload\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[48,38,45,46,7,23,29,47,26,8],"tags":[103,41,50,51,44,10,36,49,53,33,52,13,14],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-48","category-assassins-creed","category-assassins-creed-iii","category-assassins-creed-iii-liberation","category-final-fantasy","category-final-fantasy-xiii-2","category-last-specter","category-lost-odyssey","category-professor-layton","category-roleplaying-games","tag-103","tag-assassins-creed-2","tag-assassins-creed-iii-2","tag-assassins-creed-iii-liberation-2","tag-assassins-creed-revelations-2","tag-final-fantasy-2","tag-last-specter-2","tag-lost-odyssey-2","tag-playstation-vita","tag-professor-layton-2","tag-ps-vita","tag-roleplaying-game","tag-rpg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stackofshame.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}