{"id":3314,"date":"2014-11-03T23:34:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T23:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=3314"},"modified":"2014-11-03T23:34:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T23:34:36","slug":"itll-just-work-itself-out-naturally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=3314","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;&#8230;it&#8217;ll just work itself out naturally.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So after completing every mission on Portland, then Staunton Island, it was time for a quick trip over to Shoreside Vale to see if the old Purple Nines Glitch was still intact.\u00a0 Going through and deleting everything my Xbox had in its memory was a bit tough to do, but in the end&#8230;\u00a0 was it worth it?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3315\" style=\"width: 746px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/purple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3315\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/purple.jpg\" alt=\"Guess who's back!\" width=\"736\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/purple.jpg 736w, https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/purple-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guess who&#8217;s back!!\u00a0 This was taken DURING the mission in question where they didn&#8217;t show up before.\u00a0 Whoot!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>YES!\u00a0 Finally!\u00a0 I can complete this silly little cutscene movie of mine without worrying about any skipped missions.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I love this game, this is the third time in a few years that I&#8217;ve played through <em>GTA3<\/em>, and I think I&#8217;m done for a while.\u00a0 Much like <em>Ocarina of Time<\/em>, even the best games get tiresome after a while.<\/p>\n<p>Playing through it again wasn&#8217;t all for naught, however.\u00a0 In capturing all the cutscenes, I also let the recording continue through gameplay.\u00a0 There were several things that happened that reminded me just why I love video games so much.\u00a0 It&#8217;s those moments that leave you genuinely laughing out loud, screaming at the screen in disbelief, or moments where\u00a0 you barely make it through alive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve decided that on top of my cutscene movies (mostly made for my own enjoyment, by the way), I&#8217;ll be putting together a variety of gameplay snippets from the games I play through.\u00a0 Nothing too complicated, and nothing that will blow your mind&#8230;\u00a0 just random moments that help remind me that playing games is fun, and that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s really all about.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3316\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/dru2m.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3316\" src=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/dru2m.jpg\" alt=\"I might use memes too much on this blog. But then again, I can't ignore the Bobs.\" width=\"490\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/dru2m.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/dru2m-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I might use memes too much on this blog.<br \/>But then again, I can&#8217;t ignore the Bobs.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after completing every mission on Portland, then Staunton Island, it was time for a quick trip over to Shoreside Vale to see if the old Purple Nines Glitch was still intact.\u00a0 Going through and deleting everything my&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=3314\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grand-theft-auto","category-xbox"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3317,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3314\/revisions\/3317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}