{"id":7499,"date":"2022-02-28T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T22:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=7499"},"modified":"2022-02-28T15:46:17","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T22:46:17","slug":"grab-for-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2022\/02\/28\/grab-for-the-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Grab For The Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The wait is over.\u00a0\u00a0 Years in the making, ELDEN RING was released last week, and has been taking the gaming world by storm.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t listen to me.\u00a0\u00a0 From Software brought me on to do their worldbuilding, so I can hardly pretend to be objective.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at a few of the reviews:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/lifestyle\/a39204927\/elden-ring-review\/\">https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/lifestyle\/a39204927\/elden-ring-review\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/02\/23\/1082603088\/elden-ring-review\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/02\/23\/1082603088\/elden-ring-review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/reviews\/elden-ring-review-in-progress-death-of-the-wild\/1900-6417832\/\">https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/reviews\/elden-ring-review-in-progress-death-of-the-wild\/1900-6417832\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; well, there&#8217;s more.\u00a0\u00a0 Lots more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once in a generation&#8230; masterpiece&#8230; beautiful and brutal&#8230; a sumptuous open world&#8230; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Music to the ears.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, almost all the credit should go to <span class=\"data\">Hidetaka Miyazaki and his astonishing team of games designers who have been laboring on this game for half a decade or more, determined to create the best videogame ever.\u00a0\u00a0 I am honored to have met them and worked with them, and to have have played a part, however small, in creating this fantastic world and making ELDEN RING the landmark megahit that it is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a taste:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ELDEN RING \u2013 Overview Trailer\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OT8if6DXOFQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Happy Gaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wait is over.\u00a0\u00a0 Years in the making, ELDEN RING was released last week, and has been taking the gaming world by storm. But don&#8217;t listen to me.\u00a0\u00a0 From Software brought me on to do their worldbuilding, so I can hardly pretend to be objective. Take a look at a few of the reviews: https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/lifestyle\/a39204927\/elden-ring-review\/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[234,316],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7499"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7511,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7499\/revisions\/7511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}