{"id":483,"date":"2006-03-21T07:58:23","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T07:58:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-03-21T07:58:23","modified_gmt":"2006-03-21T07:58:23","slug":"dont-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/03\/21\/dont-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Get It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I\u2019m in the minority, but I simply do not understand all of the hoopla over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elderscrolls.com\/games\/oblivion_overview.htm\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.elderscrolls.com\/games\/oblivion_overview.htm', 'Oblivion');\">Oblivion<\/a>.  I don\u2019t know how good or bad the game will be, but that\u2019s not the point.  I can\u2019t understand how people can go from an online RPG back to a computer AI-only game.  I don\u2019t care how good the programming is, nothing can replace the interaction that occurs between human beings in these online environments.  I\u2019m a big fan of the RPG genre, but my days playing against only the computer started to end when I subscribed to City of Heroes and officially ended with World of Warcraft.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no going back.<\/p>\n<p>I feel the same way about baseball games.  I can\u2019t play Out of the Park Baseball against the computer anymore.  No fun in it for me.  Dealing with other human beings makes OOTP come alive in ways that computer programming simply can\u2019t model.<\/p>\n<p>And who in their right mind is playing Oblivion on a Xbox 360?  Just go and visit all of the Morrowind mod sites to see how silly a notion that is.<\/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 guess I\u2019m in the minority, but I simply do not understand all of the hoopla over Oblivion. I don\u2019t know how good or bad the game will be, but that\u2019s not the point. I can\u2019t understand how people can go from an online RPG back to a computer AI-only game. I don\u2019t care how &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/03\/21\/dont-get-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t Get It<\/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":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}