{"id":928,"date":"2009-09-21T20:48:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T20:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocobeam.me\/playground\/2009\/09\/i-want-a-skip-button-too\/"},"modified":"2009-09-21T20:48:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T20:48:30","slug":"i-want-a-skip-button-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2009\/09\/i-want-a-skip-button-too\/","title":{"rendered":"I want a skip button too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\">   <\/p>\n<p>Yes I want it. I want a way to go through games without having to fail miserably 50 times and giving up, thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2009\/09\/10\/why-can%e2%80%99t-i%e2%80%a6-skip-ahead-in-games\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rock Paper Shotgun to talk about it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Game Over\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/18828270@N00\/3941322151\/\"><img style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Game Over\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2567\/3941322151_15a13fab70.jpg\" \/><\/a>       <br \/><em>It\u2019s a thing of the past now. Please.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because to appreciate a game you need to play it. If a level is boring and you stop because it\u2019s hard \u2013or badly designed- so you miss an awesome experience next level, it\u2019s really a loss for the player, for the game culture. I skipped countless boring chapters reading books, or skipping songs on a album. It\u2019s easy. In games it\u2019s never easy to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Because hardcore gamers who actually do it over and over until the end would be proudly seen as people with balls and determination instead of being seen as dorky nolife gamers. <\/p>\n<p>Because I hate the fact that if I passed three-third of the level, I have to restart over. Yeah I got it, merit and blabla but it\u2019s a damn game people. Game developers were doing that in the 80s\/90s because of hardware restrictions. Now, let me pause and save my game wherever I want. Whatever the game is. I demand freedom on my play sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Because I\u2019m a fucking adult and life is sufficiently hard. That doesn\u2019t mean I want to play Peggle everyday. That means I don\u2019t want your batshit crazy rules that make me fail all the time because the designer decided so. I don\u2019t want something dull either.<\/p>\n<p>Because I want to enjoy my games and if I pass this level, I don\u2019t want to start it over everytime I launch my game. <\/p>\n<p>Because I don\u2019t have time for that. I have time to enjoy, I don\u2019t have time to feel frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>Because I would actually finish games, feel good and buy some more. What game developer doesn\u2019t want that widely? A lot apparently. <\/p>\n<p> <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes I want it. I want a way to go through games without having to fail miserably 50 times and giving up, thanks Rock Paper Shotgun to talk about it. It\u2019s a thing of the past now. Please. Because to appreciate a game you need to play it. If a level is boring and you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}