Zero Punctuation: Splinter Cell: Conviction
- Thread starter Yahtzee Croshaw
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Whats a Father Christmas? AMERICAAAAA!!!!!
jk.
OT: Haven't played this game yet, it looks good. The only reason Ubisoft made it so easy was because the original games were to hard for the majority of people to play, they made it easier so they could get more money.
jk.
OT: Haven't played this game yet, it looks good. The only reason Ubisoft made it so easy was because the original games were to hard for the majority of people to play, they made it easier so they could get more money.
Wtf? all you people saying Splinter Cell has always been weak on stealth? you have got to be jokeing.Yes Concivtion is weak in the stealth deparment but it needed to change with the times.Seriouly do you all think MetalGearSolid was a better stealth game series? If you do your fulling yourself.I like both series but splintercell up till conviction kicks metalgears ass in the steath department.
Also im sure this will get me flamed but Yathzee must not have been paying much attention to the story or he would have known that the bad guys were tring to kill the president so the vice president could take over.Funny review never the less and he can hate on America all he wants but we still get our games way before Australia.
Also im sure this will get me flamed but Yathzee must not have been paying much attention to the story or he would have known that the bad guys were tring to kill the president so the vice president could take over.Funny review never the less and he can hate on America all he wants but we still get our games way before Australia.
Well, one part of the reason is that letting people get banned for things easy to catch means we have less people who ignore rules getting banned for harder to find offenses.tburke0 said:
And the rule isn't that they can't post within 5 minutes, the rule is "no first posting". However, mods are human, and sometimes may ban before reading in the case of ZP threads. I think we've mostly stopped that these days though.
When you post something like "I enjoyed/hated this review" before it was physically possible to enjoy the review, then the only reason you are posting is to be a first post, or for something else equally inane.
If you post something legitimate and on topic (Random example of a rare post that actually contributes some discussion to a zp thread [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/jump/6.176837.5096925]) then it doesn't matter when you post it. The end result is it is a very rare post outside of a problem report with the video that can be considered to be anything other then a "first post" in this context.
Also, if we did a 5 minute lock, we would still have the same problem with idiots waiting for the unlock to spam the thread in pursuit of a first post.
Another episode of Zero Punctuation!! I was glad I could watch this before spending eight hours in a car going to a relatives house.
But, yeah, great review. I've never been a fan of SC but, I've only played Pandora Tomorrow. It was still a good episode though.
P.S. How the FUCK could you like Hitman: Blood Money?!? That game was an utter embarrassment IMO. (don't ban me!)
But, yeah, great review. I've never been a fan of SC but, I've only played Pandora Tomorrow. It was still a good episode though.
P.S. How the FUCK could you like Hitman: Blood Money?!? That game was an utter embarrassment IMO. (don't ban me!)
Keep in mind that in Doctor Who, London is a suspiciously common target for any and all alien invasions, and in La Jetee the focus is entirely on Paris' destruction without a peep about all the other cities of the world. America neither invented nor patented this particular expression of nationalism in media, and I'll thank you if you consider that fact before jumping to the conclusion that Americans are somehow uniquely stupid about their national pride.WolfmanNougat said:
South Park makes fun of everything.Mad Stalin said:
You don't see Yahtzee constantly taking pot shots at himself or the countries he lives/lived in.
Actually, those two bits (the "savages you every time you try to give it free health care" line and the plug for Mogworld)got the loudest laughs out of me in the entire video. So YMMV.DurianBlink said:
Yahtzee seems to me to be more of an all-purpose basher anyway, making fun of every nationality when the opportunity arises, including his own.
Wait, are we talking about the same Yahtzee here? The one I know takes shots at himself about once a video, and has blasted both Britain and Australia on multiple occasions. Remember Manhunt, when he said that Australia's government "has this habit of trying pathetically hard to jump onto bandwagon issues that roll in from real countries [USA and UK]"? Or his "no one likes the British, either" in The Saboteur?DurianBlink said:
Actually, you do. Australia's anti-game policy and release dates have been bashed many times, for example, and he nailed himself many times before as well (as in that he's rubbish in bed and so forth).DurianBlink said:
It is so sad that my favourite video game franchise has become so weak.
I love the first Splinter Cell and Chaos Theory. That was where the real stealth occurred and you had to be clever but had options to kill or not to kill.
Conviction was all about killing lots of people.
The review amused me but missed out on the two key things that irritated me the most:
1. You can no longer move bodies around. This was one of the main stealth aspects of Splinter Cell up until now.
2. The save system blows. Terribly. It's worse than the one in Dead Rising.
I love the first Splinter Cell and Chaos Theory. That was where the real stealth occurred and you had to be clever but had options to kill or not to kill.
Conviction was all about killing lots of people.
The review amused me but missed out on the two key things that irritated me the most:
1. You can no longer move bodies around. This was one of the main stealth aspects of Splinter Cell up until now.
2. The save system blows. Terribly. It's worse than the one in Dead Rising.
I liked the game, but you're review was pretty spot on.
Oh, and can there be one review where you don't take time out to go, "America sucks and all Americans are retarded nazis"
Oh, and can there be one review where you don't take time out to go, "America sucks and all Americans are retarded nazis"
Really? I'm surprised they'd remove a feature like that at this stage. I mean, Assassin's Creed II ADDED that feature when it wasn't in Screed 1. I'm honestly perplexed by this and can see why you'd be irritated.FoolKiller said:
Meh. This one was entertaining, but not necessarily that funny. I guess that most of that comes from being hung-up on this part: O:41. (To comment on that bit, though: Damn straight we will.)
Yeah, normally that'd be true, but personally I'd have to agree with Durian here. Even I usually get a laugh out of the times when he does that stuff, like constantly portraying Americans with cowboy hats, or what have you, but here it didn't really seem funny.Mad Stalin said:
