{"id":17188,"date":"2012-08-29T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=17188"},"modified":"2012-08-29T12:19:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T19:19:26","slug":"cancer-is-just-the-beginning-for-spec-ops-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/08\/29\/cancer-is-just-the-beginning-for-spec-ops-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer just the beginning for Spec Ops: The Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"17188\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Heavy_sigh.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Heavy_sigh.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Heavy_sigh\" width=\"600\" height=\"351\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the internet works.  Someone writes an article.  A popular aggregate then plucks an incendiary quote from the article.  At which point guys like me blog about the incendiary quote in lieu of reading or actually discussing the article.<\/p>\n<p>But in this case, I&#8217;m not even going to get that far.  In this case, I&#8217;m done with the whole affair after seeing a single word.  It all started when Polygon sat down with the developers of Spec Ops: The Line for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/gaming\/2012\/8\/28\/3269504\/her-full-story-behind-spec-ops-the-line-williams-davis-pearsey-2kgames\">a long talk<\/a> about all sorts of things.  Then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2012\/08\/29\/spec-ops-the-lines-multiplayer-is-a-cancerous-growth-says-yager-staffer\/\">VG247<\/a> latched onto the term &#8220;cancerous growth&#8221;, which lead designer Cory Davis used to describe Spec Ops&#8217; multiplayer, developed by a separate studio.  He was frustrated with what he felt was a waste of resources for a game he designed primarily as a single-player experience.<\/p>\n<p>But Davis wasn&#8217;t content with &#8220;cancerous growth&#8221;.  He further noted, &#8220;The multiplayer game&#8217;s tone is entirely different, the game mechanics were raped to make it happen, and it was a waste of money.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, Mr. Davis, the game mechanics weren&#8217;t raped.  Compromised, botched, bungled, fumbled, or even fucked up.  But they were not raped.  That word means something else.  Now go sit in the corner with Missouri&#8217;s Republican Representative until you learn to talk like an adult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cancer just the beginning for Spec Ops: The Line - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2012\/08\/29\/cancer-is-just-the-beginning-for-spec-ops-the-line\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cancer just the beginning for Spec Ops: The Line - 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