{"id":930,"date":"2014-09-24T11:06:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T15:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/?p=930"},"modified":"2014-09-24T11:06:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T15:06:50","slug":"aiptlf-shut-your-claptrap-borderlands-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2014\/09\/24\/aiptlf-shut-your-claptrap-borderlands-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AIP\/TLF Shut Your Claptrap (Borderlands 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/thelearnedfangirl.com\/2014\/09\/24\/as-i-play-borderlands-2-shut-your-claptrap-part-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">first post in a new As-I-Play series has gone live over on TLF: <\/a>this time, I&#8217;m playing through <em>Borderlands 2<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>This is one of those games that I kept considering every time I thought about getting a new game. I played and enjoyed <em>Borderlands<\/em>, in spite of the huge disappointment that was the Vault ending. But I liked most of the gameplay, I liked the world, and I enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek atmosphere of Pandora, which reminds me quite a bit of <em>Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But I didn&#8217;t like it enough to actually go out and buy the second game. There was always a hesitation, something that said &#8220;meh&#8221; every time I seriously considered it. In part, it was because of the fairly anticlimactic ending. In part, it was because I wanted to play it co-op, and my cohorts slowly abandoned me. And in part, it was because I got very good at wandering into places where the enemies were leveled so far above me that I kept getting annihilated.<\/p>\n<p>But the husband bought it for me, so I no longer have to justify spending the money to myself. I can just sit back and play. \ud83d\ude42 And then babble about it at you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first post in a new As-I-Play series has gone live over on TLF: this time, I&#8217;m playing through Borderlands 2! This is one of those games that I kept considering every time I thought about getting a new game. &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/2014\/09\/24\/aiptlf-shut-your-claptrap-borderlands-2\/\">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-930","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-f0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","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=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/playing-at-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}