{"id":172,"date":"2008-10-08T01:59:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T05:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2008-10-08T01:59:25","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T05:59:25","slug":"oh-no-he-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Oh No He Didn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin-right:10px\" title=\"The Swede from Mercenaries 2\" src=\"http:\/\/the500footbuddha.com\/pics\/merc2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Swede from Mercenaries 2\" \/> I caught up with a friend of mine that I haven&#8217;t talked to in a long time.  He hasn&#8217;t been online at all since he moved to Alabama, but I guess now with the new job he has more time to play Xbox 360.  He picked up a few new games, but the one that I&#8217;ve been most interested in finally getting a chance to play with someone is <a title=\"Official Mercenaries 2 site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pandemicstudios.com\/mercenaries\/index.php\" title=\"Official Mercenaries 2 site\">Mercenaries 2<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>There are a few people on forums that offered to send me a friend request and I could play with them, but generally I don&#8217;t want to deal with that kind of thing.  I&#8217;d rather play the game with someone that I actually know.  Someone who after we are done playing this game I still have a reason to have them on my friends list.  While you can enjoy this game single player I feel most of the time that this game was really made to be played cooperatively.<\/p>\n<p>The only problem with this game is that when you play cooperatively you are only advancing the single player story for the world that you are in.  I&#8217;ve been connecting to his game to catch him up to where I am, but soon I think it&#8217;s going to be his turn to connect to me.  I&#8217;d also like to get some challenges and other things done.<\/p>\n<p>The achievements you get just for playing cooperatively are great.  You get one just for blowing stuff up, one for shooting things, one just for connecting in the first place.  I&#8217;m not really someone who plays just for achievements, but it&#8217;s nice to get them for doing nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught up with a friend of mine that I haven&#8217;t talked to in a long time. He hasn&#8217;t been online at all since he moved to Alabama, but I guess now with the new job he has more time to play Xbox 360. He picked up a few new games, but the one that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[94,104,175],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-mercenaries-2","tag-nate","tag-xbox-360"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.the500footbuddha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}