{"id":2002,"date":"2010-02-09T06:56:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T11:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/09\/rpging-%e2%80%93-one-hour-at-a-time\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T20:51:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T01:51:24","slug":"rpging-%e2%80%93-one-hour-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/09\/rpging-%e2%80%93-one-hour-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"RPGing \u2013 One hour at a time &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My gaming time on weeknights is often pretty limited due to real life influences \u2013 work, family, you know the drill.  I think I am a nut for trying to tackle <em>White Knight Chronicles:  International<\/em> (WKC:I) in this manner.  A week after the game was released I am sure there are plenty of folks finished with the game, or at least a good deal of the way completed, and of course they are making glorious online cities.<\/p>\n<p>Not me.  I am making my way through this one bit by precious bit.  Last night I got in 45-60 minutes, but died right before the next save point, which probably cost me 20 minutes of in-game time.  That is almost half an hour of my life that I will never get back.  Oops!<\/p>\n<p>I am enjoying WKC:I, but I have not really explored any of the deeper aspects of the combat (combos), skill system, guilds, or item enhancements.  At some point I may actually read the manual to see what is what; doubt I will immediately jump into any forums looking for hits, cheats, guidebooks and the like.  At least not year.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a while since I have attempted to tackle an RPG, so when I ordered WKC:I I sort of ignored the fact that I have a couple of newer titles sitting on the shelf, FFXIII is looming, and that I never made a solid commitment to Oblivion.  The good news is that I am having fun with WKC:I, and if I can continue to show steady progress playing the game a few hours a week, I may have a virtual RPG re-birth.  In the past I never considered 30-60 minute RPGing sessions as a valid way to play these titles; times change.<\/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>My gaming time on weeknights is often pretty limited due to real life influences \u2013 work, family, you know the drill. I think I am a nut for trying to tackle White Knight Chronicles: International (WKC:I) in this manner. A week after the game was released I am sure there are plenty of folks finished &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/02\/09\/rpging-%e2%80%93-one-hour-at-a-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RPGing \u2013 One hour at a time &#8230;<\/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-2002","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\/2002","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=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}