Zero Punctuation: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
- Start date
Recommended Videos
This one was kind of hard to take seriously since Yahtzee complained about all the games being the same but didn't give a single mention to the choices within the game, which were implemented really well for the most part. (Some were kind of confusing though, like giving you a 'Press F or Space' during the segment with Farid. It would have been better to just let you use the gun yourself.)
A lot of the signage in the Lahore level were recycled textures from Modern Warfare 2. I remember the "Fariha Market" sign from the "Invasion" multiplayer map, and there are some others too.Arif_Sohaib said:
It does seem like a lazy shortcut to take, when they went to the trouble of getting genuine Urdu voice acting for the soldiers, which is pretty neat. Maybe the graphics people and the voice-recording people weren't talking to each other.
I liked it when CoD was still in World War II. Yeah, it's still as ludicrous as it is now, but at least then you might've tangentially learned something about history.
Regardless, you know it's going to make a mint off the stooges who just want to see crap blow up. I however do not enjoy the Spunkgargleweewee genre. Spunkgargleweewee BlOPs is, so buy it I will not.
Regardless, you know it's going to make a mint off the stooges who just want to see crap blow up. I however do not enjoy the Spunkgargleweewee genre. Spunkgargleweewee BlOPs is, so buy it I will not.
I've only read the first page of posts, so hopefully people have caught on by now, but I think it's hilarious that at least 3 people have already taken you seriously. Well done! That's how you know sarcasm (blatant sarcasm) is becoming an utterly lost concept on the average person. I personally laughed my ass off when I read the serious responses.ARCTIC_EAGLE said:
Anyway, on topic, I'm not surprised at all that Yahtzee didn't like BO2, but the general consensus seems to be that for a CoD game, this one is pretty good. I didn't buy into MW3 so I've actually had a pretty long absence from CoD, and I'm honestly enjoying this one. For now.
Welp, looks like im done with Yatzee, and btw, it is racist when people make fun of whites for the sake of there white, they are making fun of them for there race, thus its racist.
Let me get this straight. The plot for Blops 2 covers the Contra war efforts in Nicaragua?
You know, the one where the Reagan Administration created an anti-communist army to utterly destroy a small nation recovering from their revolution against a US-supported tyrannical leader, who bombed his own cities to stay in power, and was finally defeated by the rebels that created a new, non-communist government focusing on a recovery effort from the bombings and the devastating earthquake just previously? The one with which their social reforms which emphasized equality in gender and the such-like, health and hygiene and literacy, which was so effective they were recognized by UNESCO and the World Health Organization, were utterly destroyed by the US' sudden invasion? The US invasion that targeted schools and hospitals, with an estimated death toll of around 50,000 Nicaraguans? The one in which the International Court of Justice was so horrified by the actions of the US they pulled funding and demanded it pay reprimands to Nicaragua? To which the US sold weapons to Iran to continue funding of the Contras, which they were later discovered in a huge embarrassment and were sentenced for corruption? Only through a rigged election in Nicaragua by the US, the new leader was put in place that excused the US so they wouldn't have to pay a single cent for the terrible war, and everyone that was found guilty for the Iran-Contra affair was strangely absolved, and the US was allowed to continue harassing Nicaragua for it's economy to benefit their own? That war, then? And Blops 2 paints out the Nicaraguans as the terrorists?
I thought the US' corruption over the whole affair was well known. Now I'm severely disappointed and angry. How dare they.
You know, the one where the Reagan Administration created an anti-communist army to utterly destroy a small nation recovering from their revolution against a US-supported tyrannical leader, who bombed his own cities to stay in power, and was finally defeated by the rebels that created a new, non-communist government focusing on a recovery effort from the bombings and the devastating earthquake just previously? The one with which their social reforms which emphasized equality in gender and the such-like, health and hygiene and literacy, which was so effective they were recognized by UNESCO and the World Health Organization, were utterly destroyed by the US' sudden invasion? The US invasion that targeted schools and hospitals, with an estimated death toll of around 50,000 Nicaraguans? The one in which the International Court of Justice was so horrified by the actions of the US they pulled funding and demanded it pay reprimands to Nicaragua? To which the US sold weapons to Iran to continue funding of the Contras, which they were later discovered in a huge embarrassment and were sentenced for corruption? Only through a rigged election in Nicaragua by the US, the new leader was put in place that excused the US so they wouldn't have to pay a single cent for the terrible war, and everyone that was found guilty for the Iran-Contra affair was strangely absolved, and the US was allowed to continue harassing Nicaragua for it's economy to benefit their own? That war, then? And Blops 2 paints out the Nicaraguans as the terrorists?
I thought the US' corruption over the whole affair was well known. Now I'm severely disappointed and angry. How dare they.
So it's okay to completely kill everything in sight in Just Cause 2? Why? Is it because the game takes place in Asia and the main character is hispanic or at least has a hispanic sounding name? So it's okay as long as it's not white people killing people of other ethnicities?
I won't comment on whether the game is racist and/or looks down on poor people, as I haven't played it yet. However, I will say that this whole "White people are privileged and so they have no right to complain about anything" is bullshit. Pure bullshit! I'm white, I'm male and I'm also straight, but that does not mean that I simply have to take it when someone disriminates against me. I've never enslaved anyone, I don't think that women are inferior to men and I've also never committed a hate crime.
I know that Yahtzee's reviews are supposed to be funny, but this just wasn't funny at all.
Also, It's called a first person shooter.
I won't comment on whether the game is racist and/or looks down on poor people, as I haven't played it yet. However, I will say that this whole "White people are privileged and so they have no right to complain about anything" is bullshit. Pure bullshit! I'm white, I'm male and I'm also straight, but that does not mean that I simply have to take it when someone disriminates against me. I've never enslaved anyone, I don't think that women are inferior to men and I've also never committed a hate crime.
I know that Yahtzee's reviews are supposed to be funny, but this just wasn't funny at all.
Also, It's called a first person shooter.
Thank you for that equally racist (against Americans as a whole) rant. I admit to not particularly liking the "armchair generals" (they should get off their a**es and do something about whatever they feel is wrong) but also the whole, how do I say it, anti-American thing going.Yahtzee Croshaw said:
Everyone has their right to their opinion, but keep up these reviews and I will vote with my mouse, and not watch your videos anymore. I say that because it is the only legitimate way to oppose someone for their beliefs is to write why they are wrong (I will not do here because they have been said, and I do not feel like fighting a flame war this week) and/or not give their content views.
This is your first warning (you have 3 left).
This leaves me a bit mystified. I haven't played any of the MW/BF games, but I would think that the adrenaline spree of gunning down noobs would clash a bit with he methodical plan-it-out style of most tower defense games. I'm wondering if they include it for their core audience or if it's supposed to draw otherwise uninterested parties. Because if I must pay for tower defense I'd much rather just plunk down 10 or 20 bucks for Defense Grid or Orcs must Die or any of the other steam variants.
Whoa!
Getting just a hair uncharacteristically political there.
Political grubbings are the lowest form of 'fish in a barrel' humor.
I'm a long time fan and I hope you go back to good ol' fashioned snark.
Getting just a hair uncharacteristically political there.
Political grubbings are the lowest form of 'fish in a barrel' humor.
I'm a long time fan and I hope you go back to good ol' fashioned snark.
Goddamn a lot of you guys are butthurt. Deal with it.
OT: Wanted Yahtzee to tear this game a new one. Was not disappointed.
OT: Wanted Yahtzee to tear this game a new one. Was not disappointed.
Wow ummm.......wow. Jesus Christ, I knew Yahtzee wasn't going to be singing praises about the game, but I didn't expect him to go on the political rant that he did. Man I haven't seen the forum light up about a ZP review like this in a long time. Might as well move ZP to the politics section whenever he reviews a military shooter.
I have to say that the term "butthurt" is getting thrown around a lot on this thread. I have to admit I don't really like it, it seems rather immature.
Mate, I know you're trying to bring sense and logic and calm into this, but it's way too late. It was too late right about after the first person watched this video.erttheking said:
Best for all us sensible people to just gtfo right now before we have giant heart attacks from all the stupid.
I gotta say, I'm disappointed with this one. I thought the Warfighter review got all his ethical problems with Spunkgargleweewee out of his system. I'm fine with his opinions on this matter, but he's supposed to be reviewing the game for what it is on gameplay and story; in this case the actual review feels like an afterthought to his soapboxing.
If this is what he's going to do by default from now on, it's going to get really old, really fast.
If this is what he's going to do by default from now on, it's going to get really old, really fast.
Oh you are one of "Those" people huh? Please, for the sake of everyone, get over yourself, male privilege? White privilege? Come the hell on. and there is no butthurt here, im just sick of all this differentiation that everyone is trying to do right now, this CIS gender shit, thin privilege, all that bullshit is retarded as shit.Ultratwinkie said: