{"id":1563,"date":"2009-07-27T06:50:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-27T11:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/27\/more-hvb-fun\/"},"modified":"2010-06-13T07:27:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T12:27:03","slug":"more-hvb-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/27\/more-hvb-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"More HVB Fun."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I played my first online games last night.  I lost the first one by 100 points, but I won the second game, which happened to be a rematch initiated by the game one winner, 164-163.  While my scores were not really noteworthy, much less impressive, the online experience was fun for two reasons.  First, I earned a trophy, and it looks fairly straight forward to unlock some more trophy whore goodness.  Hooray for trophies!  Second, since I was using Berry, and my opponent was using Berry, I learned how to better utilize Berry.  I know that sounds crazy, but back in the more civilized golden age of gaming friends would come over to kick your ass in Lock \u2018n Chase and you would learn from your beating.  Playing HVB online was sort of the same experience.<\/p>\n<p>I always have a good time researching a game at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/ps3\/highvelocitybowling\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/ps3\/highvelocitybowling', 'metacritic');\" target=\"new\">metacritic<\/a>, and in the case of High Velocity Bowling (HVB) the scores are rather revealing.  The review sites give the game a subpar 68% (based on 13 reviews), but the users give HVB a 9.0 (based on 12 votes).  The users have spoken; HVB is the bees knees.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I played my first online games last night. I lost the first one by 100 points, but I won the second game, which happened to be a rematch initiated by the game one winner, 164-163. While my scores were not really noteworthy, much less impressive, the online experience was fun for two reasons. First, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/07\/27\/more-hvb-fun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More HVB Fun.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,26,28],"class_list":["post-1563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ps3","tag-psn","tag-trophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2964,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1563\/revisions\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}