Just Cause 2 is another game in the long line of "Screw reality, i want to blow stuff up!" sandbox games, they are great anger relief, nothing quite beats picking up a guy's car and beating him to death with it!
Zero Punctuation: Just Cause 2
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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A good sandbox map is second only to the design of the game itself.
It's why I can still play GTA3 and have fun with it because the map was simple, but functional in each different part of town. They also blended together well, rather than the black-and-white differences found in the later games.
Too many sandbox games today lose that sense of scale (mostly by recreating what appears to be the ONLY BLOODY FUCKING CITY IN THE WORLD over and over. You know the one.) and the sense of momentum the player gets when traveling between places.
If you increase the momentum too much, you end up with Vice City and its end game Helicopter > all shenanigans. If you don't do enough, you end up with GTA4, where driving around isn't fun because there are roadblocks and broken physics everywhere.
It's why I can still play GTA3 and have fun with it because the map was simple, but functional in each different part of town. They also blended together well, rather than the black-and-white differences found in the later games.
Too many sandbox games today lose that sense of scale (mostly by recreating what appears to be the ONLY BLOODY FUCKING CITY IN THE WORLD over and over. You know the one.) and the sense of momentum the player gets when traveling between places.
If you increase the momentum too much, you end up with Vice City and its end game Helicopter > all shenanigans. If you don't do enough, you end up with GTA4, where driving around isn't fun because there are roadblocks and broken physics everywhere.
Admittedly, I thought the title "Just Cause" actually was reffering to Just (Be)cause, not a just cause. I liked this much more because it meant that the game designers didn't really care what they would call it, and when the marketing department called and asked why they didn't give their name a title, they said "Just 'cause."
Wow, first 4 posts put on probation for, guess what, NOT ENOUGH WORDS. Seriously, that's the most BS rule I've ever heard of.
On topic: fantastic job once again you crazed dingo. Wasn't planning this from the start anyway, still the grappling hook looks like a casserole of laughs.
On topic: fantastic job once again you crazed dingo. Wasn't planning this from the start anyway, still the grappling hook looks like a casserole of laughs.
I think I might have to play this one now. And I'm going to refrain from the "just cause!" joke.
Sounds like the game would be fun for a lark if:
A) They drop the price to $20
B) I have enough time on my hands to actually want to spend tooling around yet another Sandbox.
Considering I've yet to even pick up Far Cry 2, which did the same thing but with more awesomeness-blunting realism, I'd say the odds I ever touch Just Cause 2 are low.
A) They drop the price to $20
B) I have enough time on my hands to actually want to spend tooling around yet another Sandbox.
Considering I've yet to even pick up Far Cry 2, which did the same thing but with more awesomeness-blunting realism, I'd say the odds I ever touch Just Cause 2 are low.
I have a cat named random. Why do I suspect Yahtzee now has 3 cats named silent and hill and two? I can't play JC2 thanx to the fact that it only runs on DX10 and DX11. I've got windows XP with DX9. why can't JC2 play on DX9? Just cause.
....totally pointless and the word fun, sometimes I don't understand you guys lol
Good one Ben, I'm not gonna buy this game.
Good one Ben, I'm not gonna buy this game.
I'm a happy chappy. This weeks video made me laugh, especially the hook shotting images of cats. Well done Yahtzee.
Note to everyone else I've played the Demo of Just Cause 2 and it can suck my nut sack. Its a rental game at best if even that. Certainly not one I would actually pay any money for. The fucking around aspect gets old after 5 minutes.
I guess I just like substance in my games.
Note to everyone else I've played the Demo of Just Cause 2 and it can suck my nut sack. Its a rental game at best if even that. Certainly not one I would actually pay any money for. The fucking around aspect gets old after 5 minutes.
I guess I just like substance in my games.
I am officially in love with you, Yahtzee, and I want to have your babies.
Why?
FUCKED IF I KNOW.
No, in all seriousness brilliant review and there was something different about your style in this review...you very nearly sounded happy? Or satisfied (sexually or otherwise)? Something good anyway (Y)
Loved the cats ^_^
Why?
FUCKED IF I KNOW.
No, in all seriousness brilliant review and there was something different about your style in this review...you very nearly sounded happy? Or satisfied (sexually or otherwise)? Something good anyway (Y)
Loved the cats ^_^
Agent under Fire? I loved turning on zero gravity and hookshots on in that game, too bad the maps sucked. :/twaddle said:
OP: I might get this, I enjoyed Mercenaries 2 quite a bit and this game seems to be that plus extra destruction and awesomeness.
