{"id":7147,"date":"2011-06-02T17:51:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T00:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=7147"},"modified":"2011-06-02T17:51:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T00:51:22","slug":"over-vergen-ill-never-get-over-vergen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/06\/02\/over-vergen-ill-never-get-over-vergen\/","title":{"rendered":"Over Vergen?  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I had just started reading Game of Thrones, and I had to put it on hold to keep my brain from exploding.  By the time I finished The Witcher 2, I had figured out the storyline just fine.  But no such thing happened with the layout of Vergen.  That small but weirdly labyrinthine Dwarven town, where nearly a third of the game takes place, defied my comprehension until the very end.  <\/p>\n<p>And I used to think that undead city in World of Warcraft was bad.<\/p>\n<p>As for the game itself, well&#8230;I&#8217;ll have more to say when the review is posted.  Suffice to say, The Witcher 2 certainly made an impression on me.<\/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-7147","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>Over Vergen? 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