Zero Punctuation: Crackdown 2

[Russian_Assassin]

The sounds when he talks about the jacuzzi get me EVERY FUCKING TIME! I always look at my phone (in the hopes that someone calls me on this lonely day D

No seriously, why do people only call me when I have other plans? I am totally free today! Goddammit!

 

[Serges]

Great episode. Most sequels are always worse than the game before it..

"Most"

 

[Zyphonee]

The Crackdown series never quite appealed to me. I played the first one for fifteen minutes at a friend's house, jumping around, though I spent the last five minutes pretending I was actually having fun while secretly wishing he'd propose doing something different because I didn't want to sound like an ass. It's fun, mindless fun, but after some time it just felt extremely empty. By the time I had jumped from the tallest building in Pacific city four times, I had already seen all I wanted to see. In my opinion, game developers need to understand that a game cannot rely on sightseeing and wacky dynamics solely, but use these to make a solid gameplay element better, which, to me, lacked a lot in Crackdown. I've heard that Crackdown 2 is more of the same, so I'll just ignore it.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Nice review,liked the World of Warcraft joke.

 

[Ickorus]

Do the first two people that respond to something get put on probation automatically or what? I'm really trying to figure out why they were.

Anyway great vid. I might have to check out the first crackdown.

It's because they make a response before 5 minutes after the video has been released because they couldn't possibly have watched a 5 minute video in 2 minutes.

OT: Liked the WoW subscriber joke even though I am a WoW subscriber.

 

[Steven Ou]

Review transformers: War for cybertron next!!!

 

[RvLeshrac]

Do the first two people that respond to something get put on probation automatically or what? I'm really trying to figure out why they were.

Anyway great vid. I might have to check out the first crackdown.

It's because they make a response before 5 minutes after the video has been released because they couldn't possibly have watched a 5 minute video in 2 minutes.

OT: Liked the WoW subscriber joke even though I am a WoW subscriber.

That's interesting, since the second post apparently went up at 12:03, but he pointed out the cell interference 4 minutes in.

 

[RobfromtheGulag]

I liked UT. Not for the multi-player per se but rather for the game structure. No story, just get in various colorful arenas and shoot at people. In my case they were generally ai, but they worked well enough and there were some really slick levels.

It was one of those games you could really sit down and play for 5 minutes then turn off if you had to. Lots of games like to claim that nowadays but most are lying through their teeth.

-As usual I enjoyed and agreed with the rest of the video's points.

 

[Ickorus]

I liked UT. Not for the multi-player per se but rather for the game structure. No story, just get in various colorful arenas and shoot at people. In my case they were generally ai, but they worked well enough and there were some really slick levels.

It was one of those games you could really sit down and play for 5 minutes then turn off if you had to. Lots of games like to claim that nowadays but most are lying through their teeth.

-As usual I enjoyed and agreed with the rest of the video's points.

Sneaky time treavellers.

 

[NimbleJack3]

Has anyone else noticed the occasional glitchy shot transition that's happening in the latest videos?

 

[Tim Chuma]

I would probably rent this if I had an XBox 360.

I still remember when the game was on the Megadrive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU-fvHfW-zU

 

[molesgallus]

Yahtzee has stolen my thoughts!

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Legitimate complaints all.

But I still found mowing over hundreds of freaks in my Agency SUV to be uniquely satisfying. The people in games like Saint's Row run away from you if you try to do this. The freaks just get angry and surge, making the squishy mess all the more satisfying.

I do wish they had given us a new city to play in. And the loss of the bosses was a bad idea. I don't know why they did that.

But I still had fun playing it.

I wish there was some mod that could put Crackdown 1's bosses and interiors with Crackdown 2's graphics and mechanics... best game ever!

 

[Meggiepants]

Legitimate complaints all.

But I still found mowing over hundreds of freaks in my Agency SUV to be uniquely satisfying. The people in games like Saint's Row run away from you if you try to do this. The freaks just get angry and surge, making the squishy mess all the more satisfying.

I do wish they had given us a new city to play in. And the loss of the bosses was a bad idea. I don't know why they did that.

But I still had fun playing it.

I wish there was some mod that could put Crackdown 1's bosses and interiors with Crackdown 2's graphics and mechanics... best game ever!

You watch. I just bet there will be some DLC like that. That's probably why they took it out, so they could sell it to us later.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Legitimate complaints all.

But I still found mowing over hundreds of freaks in my Agency SUV to be uniquely satisfying. The people in games like Saint's Row run away from you if you try to do this. The freaks just get angry and surge, making the squishy mess all the more satisfying.

I do wish they had given us a new city to play in. And the loss of the bosses was a bad idea. I don't know why they did that.

But I still had fun playing it.

I wish there was some mod that could put Crackdown 1's bosses and interiors with Crackdown 2's graphics and mechanics... best game ever!

You watch. I just bet there will be some DLC like that. That's probably why they took it out, so they could sell it to us later.

I would so buy that. Come on Ruffian, do your dick move!

 

[winter2]

RE: the weird sound:

It's not really cellphone interference... well not directly, anyway. It's actually Bluetooth interference. [ ... ]

I strongly doubt this is correct.

Cell phones have been generating that characteristic RFI buzz for years, long before Bluetooth achieved wide adoption. Further, Bluetooth operates over the 2.4GHz band, the same bands as 802.11[bgn] wireless networking. If transmissions over the 2.4GHz band were causing that buzzing, we would have noticed it the moment we put a Wireless Access Point in our homes.

I often hear this buzz right before I receive a call or a text. My personal guess is that there's a common transceiver component that everyone uses (because it's cheap and it "works") that spills a lot of noise into a band that amplifiers can pick up at close range. If the Federal Communications Commission were actually fulfilling its charter, this sort of thing would have been investigated and fixed by now.

Believe what you wish. I can't change your mind. Note, however, that your 'deduction' (which is flawed because Bluetooth uses frequency hopping - at 1,600 hops per second- to hop over the entire 2.4 GHz band. 802.11b, on the other hand, uses direct sequence and only occupies approximately one third of the 2.4 GHz band. As a result, Bluetooth hops all over 802.11b transmissions) is no more valid than me saying, oh, that I have studied this artifacting problem for a major company, specifically in regards to when this phenomena is experienced using bluetooth hardware, and not just cell phones-- at least in this forum. We're not really presenting scientific data here.

It was more of an interesting aside anyway. If it's that important to you; fine- you're 'right'. It's not worth arguing about. Personally, I'll say no more on the subject.

What he said. I used to get that interference sound when I was in college back in.. erm... 94 or so. It always preceded a call or a text message.

See above. Although I find it interesting that you were using SMS in '94... talk about an early adopter.

Not really. I was living in Norway at the time. SMS have been there for like... ages.

 

[duchaked]

I went back to listen to this again...did he really just say Crackdown 1 was a "great" game?!?! wowww hahaha

I think I might get Transformers: War For Cybertron instead of Crakdown 2 now. I'm happy with Crackdown 1, and if nothing's changed, I'm not paying £40 for it.

yeahhhh I had fun with Crackdown 1 (but it definitely got boring really fast when playing alone)
tho War for Cybertron is definitely what I'd choose over Crackdown 2 lol

 

[Belbe]

As a WoW subscriber, I must say that there's nothing to fear about direct sunlight. It just needs to be handled in the same way as direct interactions with people and any sort of interaction with customer service: in small doses while covered in lotion to prevent skin damage.

Lol, touche.

When will this new generation of games stop disappointing me~

 

[Chris8016]

I enjoy Crackdown 2, but Yahtzee is so right about it.

 

[Prince Regent]

Another TARDIS!