Zero Punctuation: Far Cry 2
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heavy on the accent for this review lol i dont think I want to play this game, very glad you reviewed it for me finally
OK, as a South African, I can say, with a little authority, that while the accent used in the review approximated that of a local here, it slipped more into the realms of Australian and bits of British (i.e. some parts of England).
Not all people here (or any that I know of) speak that badly, except, *maybe*, for those whose first language is firmly Afrikaans and second language is a very loose English. It was still more Australian to my ear.
Otherwise, the review summed up what I felt about the game. I did, however, enjoy hearing the use of Afrikaans and a mangled, modern Zulu in parts of Far Cry 2. South Africa is no-where near as rugged (except for the rugged bits) as Far Cry 2 would have you believe, so I think the game is probably set in a fictional African setting (as Ubisoft had said) with South African mercenaries.
Also, what's with that South African policemen joke at the end? Just because they're called the SAPS (South African Police Service) doesn't mean they're stupid...
Anyways...
Not all people here (or any that I know of) speak that badly, except, *maybe*, for those whose first language is firmly Afrikaans and second language is a very loose English. It was still more Australian to my ear.
Otherwise, the review summed up what I felt about the game. I did, however, enjoy hearing the use of Afrikaans and a mangled, modern Zulu in parts of Far Cry 2. South Africa is no-where near as rugged (except for the rugged bits) as Far Cry 2 would have you believe, so I think the game is probably set in a fictional African setting (as Ubisoft had said) with South African mercenaries.
Also, what's with that South African policemen joke at the end? Just because they're called the SAPS (South African Police Service) doesn't mean they're stupid...
Anyways...
He's starting to pick up the Australian accent. I guess after living there for so long he couldn't help but soak it in. I have friends from here in the NY who moved down south, come back to visit after a year and they sound like country bumpkins. I think the same thing is happening here with Yahtzee. In terms of the game it sounds like he's on the fence with this one. I was never into Far Cry anyway.
Thats a terrible Australian accent. Thought it would be easier for someone British-born to pull off, guess not. lol
South African accent is kinda like a poorly-enunciated(retarded [http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?mkt=en-gb&vid=4cc43bfe-e113-4a00-8894-d6d4d087aaf0]) Australian accent. The game is set in South Africa. Maybe you wouldn't have missed the joke if you stopped picking your nose for five seconds and paid attention to what he says: you would've caught the whole "if only you classify a hilarious South African accent as a mutation" part of his review when he first started using said accent. Just because the accent shifted doesn't mean he wasn't using understandable dialect anymore.Enlong said:
Neither does quoting someone quoting someone else, so I'm not going to waste my money.Pyronox said:
Is it just me, or is (almost) everyone on The Escapist forums completely dense?
On every page there is like 20 people commenting on the accent in confusion, and one or two people pointing out why it is like that. How can a person possibly miss this unless they simply post without checking even the first two pages of comments!?
Seriously.. the accent was a joke. It was comically exaggerated to make it more effective. Oh and Far Cry 2 is not set in South Africa (the landscape looks more like East Africa), but some of the mercs you work for (and fight against) have cheesy Afrikaner accents.
Personally every time Ben shifted accents I guffawed. I thought it was great in a completely over the top way. Oh and the Mods vs. Rockers, and the South African police joke in the credits were my two other favorite parts of the video.
Far Cry 2 is a beautiful game (not just "good graphics", but jaw droppingly gorgeous graphics). The gameplay while repetitive never got old for me, until I hit the anti-climactic end, which made me actually pretty pissed I spent so much time getting to it. But while the ride lasted, I had a great time of it.
Overall I'd say this was the bet ZP I've seen in about 6 months. It was accurate, provided some review points and had clever humor. Good Job Ben.
On every page there is like 20 people commenting on the accent in confusion, and one or two people pointing out why it is like that. How can a person possibly miss this unless they simply post without checking even the first two pages of comments!?
Seriously.. the accent was a joke. It was comically exaggerated to make it more effective. Oh and Far Cry 2 is not set in South Africa (the landscape looks more like East Africa), but some of the mercs you work for (and fight against) have cheesy Afrikaner accents.
Personally every time Ben shifted accents I guffawed. I thought it was great in a completely over the top way. Oh and the Mods vs. Rockers, and the South African police joke in the credits were my two other favorite parts of the video.
Far Cry 2 is a beautiful game (not just "good graphics", but jaw droppingly gorgeous graphics). The gameplay while repetitive never got old for me, until I hit the anti-climactic end, which made me actually pretty pissed I spent so much time getting to it. But while the ride lasted, I had a great time of it.
Overall I'd say this was the bet ZP I've seen in about 6 months. It was accurate, provided some review points and had clever humor. Good Job Ben.
Calling Stalker a roleplaying game is far from the truth. its a solid FPS with a few RPG elements. You cant level up and you dont have skilled areas. The only rpg elements are the inventory and small stat changing artifacts you normally forget about.Pyronox said:
As for leaning. Yes that was rather amiss of me as most pc shooters dont have itand i was not aware of any console using it.
i was dissapointed i was expecting the word repetitive and boring a few times.
i didn't enjoy it as much as all the other ones.
i realy had my hopes up for this one.
i guess it's because i haven't played the first farcry.
and i am not south african but i think yahtzee actualy sounds australian in this episode.
then again, i am not australian either.
i didn't enjoy it as much as all the other ones.
i realy had my hopes up for this one.
i guess it's because i haven't played the first farcry.
and i am not south african but i think yahtzee actualy sounds australian in this episode.
then again, i am not australian either.
uhg... sandbox style games just aren't as good as they used to be SURE the were awsome, origenal, and full of enjoyment but nower days the adverage retard is able to create a sandbox game and he happens to be the tester so it always has ghood reviews until the fans get it then the nicely descuiesed game gets its face ripped off to for all to see what it is almost as if it were michel jackson when he was black and young he was the best anyone ever knew but as soon as the face ripping started he is now the butt of 12% of jokes in the world
Jesus Christ man, it's the 12th page and people are still asking this question?Zulu-Echo14 said:
I go around calling it GTA: Africa for a reason. It seems nothing more then a rip off of the GTA series with a much more open setting instead of a city filled of innocent civilians you could crush with your car. All the missions reminded me of that, dive here and kill this person, drive here and drop off this item, drive here and pick up that person.... ad infinitum.
Did anyone else get the feeling this game was racist though?
It was the only reason I could come up for why everyone and their grandmother wanted me to get intimate with their bullets! Right at the start you couldn't drive down the street without someone ramming you off the road for no apparent reason and then opening up with fully automatic gun fire. The only time this didn't happen was the cut screen event, where I can assume they where worried about offending that well liked black person whom drove you into the country. Soon as he vanished, your arse was theirs and not in a good way. All I could conclude it was because I was playing the Russian and like all good racists they where too stupid to realise that white doesn't automatic mean I was going to be an oppressive mother *removed* driven by some genocide urge to kill of all black people.
I didn't even get as far as Yatzee, the repetitive nature of the game bored the hell out of me within the first hour.
Farcry 2, one for the GTA label but with even less story line.
Did anyone else get the feeling this game was racist though?
It was the only reason I could come up for why everyone and their grandmother wanted me to get intimate with their bullets! Right at the start you couldn't drive down the street without someone ramming you off the road for no apparent reason and then opening up with fully automatic gun fire. The only time this didn't happen was the cut screen event, where I can assume they where worried about offending that well liked black person whom drove you into the country. Soon as he vanished, your arse was theirs and not in a good way. All I could conclude it was because I was playing the Russian and like all good racists they where too stupid to realise that white doesn't automatic mean I was going to be an oppressive mother *removed* driven by some genocide urge to kill of all black people.
I didn't even get as far as Yatzee, the repetitive nature of the game bored the hell out of me within the first hour.
Farcry 2, one for the GTA label but with even less story line.
Great review as usual, actually... it seemed to be more positive at times than I thought it would be.
I actually just created an account to ask... Why the hell was there a seemingly random flashing of the UC Davis logo? When I was watching the review I thought I had some kind of "Big Brother" moment. Unbelievably, I was in the Davis library (I go to school there) at the time. I thought there was some kind of subliminal messaging going on for a minute.
I actually just created an account to ask... Why the hell was there a seemingly random flashing of the UC Davis logo? When I was watching the review I thought I had some kind of "Big Brother" moment. Unbelievably, I was in the Davis library (I go to school there) at the time. I thought there was some kind of subliminal messaging going on for a minute.