{"id":94,"date":"2009-01-18T08:01:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T22:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frothingdemand.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2009-01-18T08:02:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T22:02:41","slug":"94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frothingdemand.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Not long now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only about 2-3 weeks left in Melbourne, depending on which day we decide to leave. Work is starting to ramp up &#8211; there&#8217;s at least two games worth reviewing this week. Last week&#8217;s <em>Lord of the Rings: Conquest<\/em> was abysmal, but fortunately very short and basic, so it only took two days to finish it and write the review.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been starting a lot of PC games but not sticking to them (Stalker and Medieval II), mainly due to distractions from achievement clean up. I&#8217;m trying not to fall back into bad habits (I&#8217;m still in the top 50 for Australia, though), but it is annoying seeing 50\/1000 scores on my profile. I managed to beat Banjo-Kazooie &#8211; albeit the seemingly easier Xbox Live Arcade version &#8211; which I&#8217;d been trying to beat since 1999. I think the scale of the game and the tasks required have easily been superceded in the 10 years since it came out, which probably made it seem easier.<\/p>\n<p>I started the original Diablo again last night, hoping to beat it without external assistance or hacked online loot. People warned me that it looks like crap now, but I think it holds up okay.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/games.on.net\/article\/4762\/Tomb_Raider_Underworld_Xbox_360_Review\">Tomb Raider: Underworld (Xbox 360)<\/a> at Games On Net<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/games.on.net\/article\/4788\/Banjo-Kazooie_Nuts__Bolts_Xbox_360_Review\">Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts &#038; Bolts (Xbox 360)<\/a> at Games On Net<\/p>\n<p><strong>Features<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/games.on.net\/article\/4789\/The_Warp_Pipe_-_180109\">The Warp Pipe &#8211; A Look into the Future<\/a> at Games On Net<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/games.on.net\/article\/4771\/Coming_Attractions_140109\">Coming Attractions &#8211; 14\/01\/2009<\/a> at Games On Net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only about 2-3 weeks left in Melbourne, depending on which day we decide to leave. Work is starting to ramp up &#8211; there&#8217;s at least two games worth reviewing this week. Last week&#8217;s Lord of the Rings: Conquest was abysmal, but fortunately very short and basic, so it only took two days to finish it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":962,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frothingdemand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frothingdemand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frothingdemand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frothingdemand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frothingdemand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.frothingdemand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/www.frothingdemand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frothingdemand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frothingdemand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frothingdemand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}