{"id":23,"date":"2005-03-07T20:55:53","date_gmt":"2005-03-08T00:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/wordpress\/?p=23"},"modified":"2005-03-07T20:55:59","modified_gmt":"2005-03-08T00:55:59","slug":"privateer-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Privateer Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> noticed the <a href=\"http:\/\/priv.solsector.net\/announcements.htm\">Privateer Remake<\/a> on both Slashdot (<a href=\"http:\/\/games.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=05\/03\/07\/1154252\">thread<\/a>) and MetaFilter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/40260\">thread<\/a>). I&#8217;m not going to play or even try it for the reason that, although playing the original game was extremely fun (and frustating at times), I cannot see myself playing that game once again.\n<\/p>\n<p>First of all it&#8217;s based on Vega Strike. It&#8217;s a game that doesn&#8217;t want to run on my computer. Secondly, sure Privateer was revolutionary that time, but so was <em>Elite<\/em>.  Replaying these old games for the sake of sentimental reasons seems not to work for me. There&#8217;s one final reason why I don&#8217;t like playing the game: the main storyline is <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~arthur\/weblog\/archives\/002057.html\"><em>too<\/em> linear<\/a>. If I was one of the Privateer Remake developers I would look for a professional story writer.\n<\/p>\n<p><small>Ed: I wonder how much of this remake will infringe the original WC\/Origin copyrights<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed the Privateer Remake on both Slashdot (thread) and MetaFilter (thread). I&#8217;m not going to play or even try it for the reason that, although playing the original game was extremely fun (and frustating at times), I cannot see &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=23\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}