{"id":16012,"date":"2015-05-20T21:52:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T02:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=16012"},"modified":"2015-05-20T21:52:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T02:52:35","slug":"the-new-star-wars-battle-pod-game-is-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2015\/05\/20\/the-new-star-wars-battle-pod-game-is-weak\/","title":{"rendered":"The new Star Wars Battle Pod game is weak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/starwarsbattlepod.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16014\" src=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/starwarsbattlepod.jpg\" alt=\"starwarsbattlepod\" width=\"400\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/starwarsbattlepod.jpg 400w, https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/starwarsbattlepod-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I was so stoked when I saw the preview and articles regarding this successor to the old 1983 video game I still play at Pinballz. Well I got my opportunity to play it a couple times at Dave &amp; Busters which was 15-16 credits a pop roughly $4\/game for gold-card members. How did it go? The first mission entailing the famous Battle of Yavin went alright. The harder, second attempt fighting the Battle of Endor not so much. I wrecked the\u00a0<em>Falcon\u00a0<\/em>into the Death Star&#8217;s reactor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/starwarsbattlepod2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16015\" src=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.net\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/starwarsbattlepod2.jpg\" alt=\"starwarsbattlepod2\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/starwarsbattlepod2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/starwarsbattlepod2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The screens are fantastic but the game play was the issue. With all the computing power we have at our fingertips in the 21st Century, there&#8217;s no excuse to a game like this to be stuck on rails. You receive hints of which TIE fighters to go after yet you have no real control over the general direction you&#8217;re flying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I think I&#8217;ll stick with the analog world via\u00a0<em>X-Wing<\/em> and the new\u00a0<em>Armada<\/em> tabletop games.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was so stoked when I saw the preview and articles regarding this successor to the old 1983 video game I still play at Pinballz. Well I got my opportunity to play it a couple times at Dave &amp; Busters &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2015\/05\/20\/the-new-star-wars-battle-pod-game-is-weak\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,58],"tags":[155],"class_list":["post-16012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcade","category-sony-nintendo-ms","tag-star-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16016,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16012\/revisions\/16016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}