{"id":1989,"date":"2010-02-04T06:42:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T11:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/04\/white-knight-chronicles-international-%e2%80%93-off-the-pot\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T22:16:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:16:22","slug":"white-knight-chronicles-international-%e2%80%93-off-the-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/04\/white-knight-chronicles-international-%e2%80%93-off-the-pot\/","title":{"rendered":"White Knight Chronicles International \u2013 Off the Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite pastimes in a silly sort of way is watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/ps3\/whiteknightchroniclesinternational\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/games\/platforms\/ps3\/whiteknightchroniclesinternational', 'metacritic scores');\" target=\"_blank\">metacritic scores<\/a> roll in to see how the \u201ccritic\u201d review scores line up with the \u201cuser\u201d rating scores.  As mentioned previously, <em>White Knight Chronicles International<\/em> was getting flogged by the so called pundits, but a funny thing happened as the users, presumably RPG fans, started voting \u2013 65% (6 critics reviews) to 8.1 (36 user votes).  I\u2019m still waiting on one of the better RPG review sites to offer up a score; that should be the telltale sign of where the game actually stands.<\/p>\n<p>Just for the hell of it, I decided to get off the pot; do my business so to speak and order the game.  It should be here tomorrow.  Worst case is that I either don\u2019t have enough time to play the game (typical on a lot of my impulse purchases) or maybe I don\u2019t like the game.  There is always eBay, right?  At least I can offer up some other than peanut gallery comments.<\/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>One of my favorite pastimes in a silly sort of way is watching the metacritic scores roll in to see how the \u201ccritic\u201d review scores line up with the \u201cuser\u201d rating scores. As mentioned previously, White Knight Chronicles International was getting flogged by the so called pundits, but a funny thing happened as the users, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/04\/white-knight-chronicles-international-%e2%80%93-off-the-pot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">White Knight Chronicles International \u2013 Off the Pot<\/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":[9,11,17],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ps3","tag-rpg","tag-wkci"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","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=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2113,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/2113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}