{"id":773,"date":"2020-06-18T07:37:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T12:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=773"},"modified":"2020-06-18T07:37:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T12:37:02","slug":"game-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Game Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BGDA.png\" alt=\"Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 1 and 2.\" class=\"wp-image-774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BGDA.png 400w, https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/BGDA-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Before there were kids, there was the PS2. And my wife and I loved to play couch co-op games. A lot of those were the different LEGO games. But once we got to Baldur&#8217;s Gate, there was no going back. The first time through, we didn&#8217;t have our mojo. But once we realized that she is a barbarian meat shield at heart and I am some kind of tender elven wizard, we were unstoppable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the BG:DA series, we&#8217;ve tried time and again to find something as cool and it just doesn&#8217;t exist. Yes, there are other couch co-op games, but none of them that are, as we call it, &#8220;Dwarfy-Elfy&#8221; enough. And yes, we tried Diabolo III and it was NOT what we wanted. It was too short and didn&#8217;t feel very immersive. (For me it was a total letdown when compared with the story of II, but that&#8217;s me.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before The Big Move in The Before Times, I snuck out and bought a PS2 at the local game junk shop because I found our copy of BG:DA2. I bought 2 controllers and an HDMI dongle goblin to do the necessary technology translation. Last night, I got it all set up &#8211; finally!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This weekend is gonna be grand. With a used copy of BG:DA1, we&#8217;re gonna kick it off and have some real fun &#8211; couch co-op style!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before there were kids, there was the PS2. And my wife and I loved to play couch co-op games. A lot of those were the different LEGO games. But once we got to Baldur&#8217;s Gate, there was no going back. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/?p=773\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.othertime.com\/musicblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}