{"id":1217,"date":"2015-11-18T16:29:06","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T21:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2015-11-18T16:29:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T21:29:06","slug":"catching-up-borderlands-bastion-and-tomb-raider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2015\/11\/18\/catching-up-borderlands-bastion-and-tomb-raider\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up: Borderlands, Bastion, and Tomb Raider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;ve gotten a little behind on this blog&#8230; and on pretty much everything else this semester.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of TLF posts have gone up since my last post here: an <a href=\"http:\/\/thelearnedfangirl.com\/2015\/11\/as-i-play-bastion-the-kid-finds-religion-part-three\/\" target=\"_blank\">As-I-Play on <em>Bastion<\/em> <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/thelearnedfangirl.com\/2015\/11\/as-i-play-borderlands-2-chairs-beer-explosives-and-animal-rights-part-thirteen\/\" target=\"_blank\">another on <em>Borderlands 2<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;ve started playing <em>Rise of the Tomb Raider<\/em>, I&#8217;ve only gotten to the first campfire, but I&#8217;m already in love with this game. I know it&#8217;s an Xbox exclusive, and someone <strong>seriously<\/strong> dropped the ball by having it share a release date with the multiplatform <em>Fallout 4<\/em>, but <em>RotTR<\/em> is actually really amazing. It&#8217;s also summoning fond memories of <em>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade<\/em> and most of my undergraduate career being obsessed with the holy grail (no, I&#8217;m not looking for the holy grail&#8230; at least not yet). It&#8217;s also really poignantly relevant to modern politics in a way that had me just standing flabbergasted (as Lara) at one point overlooking a city in northern Syria.<\/p>\n<p>All I can really say at this point is that if you own an appropriate platform, go buy and play this game. I already think it&#8217;s worth it, and, as I said, I&#8217;m only at the first fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I&#8217;ve gotten a little behind on this blog&#8230; and on pretty much everything else this semester. A couple of TLF posts have gone up since my last post here: an As-I-Play on Bastion and another on Borderlands 2. &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2015\/11\/18\/catching-up-borderlands-bastion-and-tomb-raider\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9152,9130,9147,9136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-as-i-play","category-game-criticism","category-tlf","category-videogames"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6XN03-jD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}