{"id":9,"date":"2006-02-14T12:07:35","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T20:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2006-02-14T12:07:35","modified_gmt":"2006-02-14T20:07:35","slug":"lack-of-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the only one noticing the general lack of creativity in game development these days. Most games these days suffer from sequelitis. I look through the stores and, sadly, I already own most of the PC RPG&#8217;s out there. For a long time there hasn&#8217;t been much that could really catch my eye. Instead, I continually fund these mediocre games out of sheer boredom.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably end up picking up Fable today. Not that I am saying it is a bad game or anything, but I already know it will have its limitations. For sure it was not worth the original retail tag of $50, but now that it has dropped in price it is at least a more reasonable pickup. I truely cannot wait until Oblivion comes out, but that is still some time away. I have long considered picking up a PS2 just to be able to play other RPG&#8217;s, but I guess the real question is whether I can hold out for the PS3 and try to kill two birds with one stone. It&#8217;s a pity there hasn&#8217;t been many RPG&#8217;s for the Gamecube, but at least Tales of Symphonia was pretty fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the only one noticing the general lack of creativity in game development these days. Most games these days suffer from sequelitis. I look through the stores and, sadly, I already own most of the PC RPG&#8217;s out there. For a long time there hasn&#8217;t been much that could really catch my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arrowflash.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}