{"id":877,"date":"2007-07-05T22:33:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T22:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=877"},"modified":"2007-07-05T22:33:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T22:33:56","slug":"game_day_07052007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=877","title":{"rendered":"Game Day 07\/05\/2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IMG_3896.jpg\" alt=\"Game #1\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/game\/22545\">Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI had my first playing of this new game today.  It was billed as a somewhat meaty game with game mechanics from <a href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/game\/9625\">Struggle of Empires<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/game\/18602\">Caylus<\/a>, &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/boardgamegeek.com\/game\/3076\">Puerto Rico<\/a>.  But it didn&#8217;t really combine those mechanics into something more interesting than the sum of the parts.  I think that this is what gave me a negative impression during my play.  I kept thinking fondly on those other games and wanting to be playing them instead.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlso, it was quite long for what it was and it took us 3 hours to play the game after the rules were explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery I had my first playing of this new game today. It was billed as a somewhat meaty game with game mechanics from Struggle of Empires, Caylus, &amp; Puerto Rico. But it didn&#8217;t really combine those mechanics into something more interesting than the sum of the parts. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}