{"id":1291,"date":"2017-06-11T22:26:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T05:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2017-06-11T22:26:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T05:26:53","slug":"sworn-duty-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1291","title":{"rendered":"Sworn Duty: Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, obviously, I was suuuper interested in saving Emperor Uriel Septim VII, and I found the opening quests in Oblivion suuuper compelling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sworn-to-duty-arranged.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sworn-to-duty-arranged-1024x800.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sworn-to-duty-arranged-1024x800.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sworn-to-duty-arranged-300x234.png 300w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sworn-to-duty-arranged-768x600.png 768w, http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sworn-to-duty-arranged.png 1619w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>JUST KIDDING I DIDN&#8217;T LIFT A FINGER TO SAVE THE EMPEROR! HAR HAR!<\/p>\n<p>There are actually things I like about Oblivion &#8211; a lot of the hotkeys and controls are much better and more intuitive than Morrowind or even Skyrim. And yet&#8230; I just never got as into it like I did Morrowind or Skyrim. It wasn&#8217;t for lack of trying, though. I think the two main things working against this game are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I hate the Empire and I haaaaate colonialism, and Oblivion takes place in Cyrodil. Barf.<\/li>\n<li>Everybody is way too uncanny-valley-ugly and I can&#8217;t stand it<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Ayup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, obviously, I was suuuper interested in saving Emperor Uriel Septim VII, and I found the opening quests in Oblivion suuuper compelling. JUST KIDDING I DIDN&#8217;T LIFT A FINGER TO SAVE THE EMPEROR! HAR HAR! There are actually things I like about Oblivion &#8211; a lot of the hotkeys and controls are much better and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/?p=1291\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sworn Duty: Final&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,366,89,368],"tags":[106,408,382],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-gaming","category-silly","category-videogames","tag-comics","tag-oblivion","tag-the-elder-scrolls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1293,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/1293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.certainly-strange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}