{"id":1151,"date":"2008-07-29T07:00:23","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2008-07-29T07:00:23","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T13:00:23","slug":"divine-divinity-retrospective-at-rpgwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/29\/divine-divinity-retrospective-at-rpgwatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Divine Divinity Retrospective at RPGWatch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/divine-divinity.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"divine-divinity.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/> From an article of mine just posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpgwatch.com\/show\/article?articleid=91&amp;ref=0&amp;id=179\">RPGWatch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">One of the quirky &#8216;top whatever&#8217; lists that appears every now and then is the list of worst names for video games. And somewhere on every one of those lists is Divine Divinity. Yeah, it IS pretty obvious why.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The game would also appear on another list &#8211; if some one could figure out how to name it. That list would be &#8216;best deep role playing game that fans of classic RPG&#8217;s have ignored because it features action-RPG combat and has a very difficult and long dungeon in the beginning.&#8217; So you can see I won&#8217;t be getting a job naming lists anytime soon. Point is, this is a game that many RPG fans tried the demo and felt it was just yet another Diablo Clone and left it behind. Something about the old saying &#8216;you only get one chance to make a first impression&#8217; springs to mind.<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the Retrospective <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpgwatch.com\/show\/article?articleid=91&amp;ref=0&amp;id=179\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article of mine just posted at RPGWatch: One of the quirky &#8216;top whatever&#8217; lists that appears every now and then is the list of worst names for video games. And somewhere on every one of those lists is Divine Divinity. Yeah, it IS pretty obvious why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}