{"id":7114,"date":"2010-08-16T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ever-wondered-why-there-are-no-ladders-in-fallout-or-oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/7114-ever-wondered-why-there-are-no-ladders-in-fallout-or-oblivion","title":{"rendered":"Ever wondered why there are no ladders in Fallout or Oblivion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/xbox360.ign.com\/articles\/111\/1112469p1.html\" target=\"_blank\">IGN<\/a>, Bethesda&rsquo;s Todd Howard admitted during a Quakecon panel that there are no ladders in Fallout or Elder Scrolls because they would cause problems with their AI.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Play our game; find a ladder that you can use. We don&#8217;t have them,&#8221; said Howard. &#8220;One day, we tried to figure out why we wanted ladders so bad because we don&#8217;t really need them. It just felt like we&#8217;re game development pussies because we can&#8217;t do ladders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it. As it turned out, the best work around to their ladder AI problem was to just make games entirely devoid of ladders. Some might call it a cop-out, but I sure&nbsp;didn&#8217;t&nbsp;miss them. Both games went on to receive a variety of accolades, including Game of the Year awards, as well as perform excellently at retail. ALL WITHOUT LADDERS! &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me either, but there aren\u2019t, and there is a reason<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}