Im thinkin about pre-ordering the book its just that well . . Im lazy and poor, mostly lazy thou
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Zero Punctuation: Splinter Cell: Conviction
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This is one of the few i didn't agree on, to me this was the best SC so far. It felt more like Metal Gear stealth gameplay. the kind that you don't want to alert the guards but if you do, you're still enough of a bad ass to take them down anyway. i completely agree on the gun thing because it didn't make any sense to have a shotgun in a stealth based game. the Iraq level is the only one where you don't want to be completely silent. can't wait to get a copy of Mogworld!
Anybody getting the DLC pack for co-op for this game? And I agree with everyone that said this game was way too easy, but personally I enjoyed it.
Watched this review before playing Conviction, thought it was funny. Played Conviction, came back and watched the review, found Yahtzee was wrong about almost everything he said...but it was funny, and that's what he's here for.
Your America joke is too good to pass up on, though. You know the part about the ape eating all the money? That's kind of what "free" health care does.
Your America joke is too good to pass up on, though. You know the part about the ape eating all the money? That's kind of what "free" health care does.
I agree with most of what he said about the game.
The AI seemed to be completely thoughtless when it came to a guy TRAINED in STEALTH to dealing with some flunky who happens to be armed.
Guard A: "Well lets insult him as he takes aim and is well hidden."
Other guards: "Sounds alright."
Guard B: "Hey, Fisher....You suck!"
*Guard B, guard C, guard D, and lastly guard A are shot in the head*
Guard E thinks he has his team still alive, until he's grabbed and "interrogated" by Sam. Then, he gets a "present" in the form of a bullet in his head.
Each "boss" tends to be some idiot who can't fire his assault rifle straight or he is completely unarmed. What a joy that is. Oh my your guards are powerful and yet you suck....Why are you still in charge again?
They could've bloody shot the bugger and taken his place for all I cared. Would've been one less guy for me to toss around the room...
Hate to sound like a purist, and sure they were quite linear. Splinter Cell seemed to be going on the right track while in Montreal's hands, and now this. It's as if they thought no one had common sense left, and somehow common went to uncommon. So, we were given a dumbed down AI system and enemies a child with 1 arm missing could've taken out in a day.
Maybe they just said, "F*** this!" when it came to programming the AI, after everything else just to prevent another "They're late again!" rant thread.
Speaking of too much ranting, maybe this is enough for me, on this game at least.
The AI seemed to be completely thoughtless when it came to a guy TRAINED in STEALTH to dealing with some flunky who happens to be armed.
Guard A: "Well lets insult him as he takes aim and is well hidden."
Other guards: "Sounds alright."
Guard B: "Hey, Fisher....You suck!"
*Guard B, guard C, guard D, and lastly guard A are shot in the head*
Guard E thinks he has his team still alive, until he's grabbed and "interrogated" by Sam. Then, he gets a "present" in the form of a bullet in his head.
Each "boss" tends to be some idiot who can't fire his assault rifle straight or he is completely unarmed. What a joy that is. Oh my your guards are powerful and yet you suck....Why are you still in charge again?
They could've bloody shot the bugger and taken his place for all I cared. Would've been one less guy for me to toss around the room...
Hate to sound like a purist, and sure they were quite linear. Splinter Cell seemed to be going on the right track while in Montreal's hands, and now this. It's as if they thought no one had common sense left, and somehow common went to uncommon. So, we were given a dumbed down AI system and enemies a child with 1 arm missing could've taken out in a day.
Maybe they just said, "F*** this!" when it came to programming the AI, after everything else just to prevent another "They're late again!" rant thread.
Speaking of too much ranting, maybe this is enough for me, on this game at least.
The Cheezy One said:
It's really not that hard to change IP.
Comes in useful when dealing with the 'tards that is wiki.
On topic, this is the first Yahtzee vid in ages which I've actually laughed at.
Either it's improved or the cold is producing a fever...
tkwelge said:Oh, har har. I looked it up and Cleveland was counted twice. I couldn't think of any other tidbit of information less important, though.sazzrah said:I believe 'deplorable' has been watching too much QI. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QItkwelge said:What president was double counted? I don't get it. What makes those "commonwealths" not states?deplorable said:relax hey you live in a country where you're convinced you have 50 states, even though it's 46 states and 6 commonwealths. Americans have managed to count the same guy twice as president, so while obama is the 44th president, he's actually only the 43rd person TO be president.
hehe.. got to love yanks
so glad the health care reform went through though, i mean jeez... some of the media were reacting like it was the black plague.
THe whole commonwealth vs State thing is pure semantics, though. Their is nothing more annoying than people who believe that they are intelligent for knowing seriously unimportant fun facts.
How about snobs who think they're so awesome insulting the intelligence of someone who's bothered to learn odd facts?
No-one we know of course..
ouch mate i just had a week and a half cold.Cyberjester said:
lost a load of weight, and im still overweight
damn this attraction to foodbut yeah, its not hard to change, your only hope is getting people who are too lazy or scared to change it
Well, the Splinter Cell series is my favorite stealth series I've ever played, because it's the ONLY stealth series I've played. I enjoy it, but a very funny review. I'll wait until I can find SC:C cheap, because 60 bucks is a bit much.
I love splinter cell conviction. with that said, this review nails it. one of the funnier reviews this year.
First of all, big NO NO on the America part. Yeah the country is full of idiots (including in office) but it's still my country. Also the wall jump thing leading to the door opening. Yeah I almost had the achievement to complete one of those game types that has 10 enemeies in each part undetected. Also done (and this is taking awhile) and I go to jump on a wall, the moran runs to a door, opens it, I get spotted, achievement ruined. ALSO for anyone who ordered the collector edition got screwed. The USB credit card doesn't work, all the collectors item (the in game items) have been unlocked to everyone, the only gun that hasn't is the silenced shotgun for preordereing. Problem is you have to put a scope on it to fully upgrade it, who puts a scope on a shotgun? and what sucks more, I can't take it off. But play chaos theory that was the fun one, it had a light and sound meter to show how dark you really were and how much sound u were making compared to how much sound was being made around you, made you want to replay over and over, and try and be a stealth as possible
I agree with you, in part, on your review. Splinter Cell Conviction is probably the worst Splinter Cell game to date, as it abandoned every thing that endeared me to the first games. Sure the Splinter Cell series may not be as open ended as say Hitman or Thief and the combat may suffer from what I like to call "suck" but there are usually enough stealth options provided for you to enjoy the games many times through. (In my humble opinion of course)As an added side note I have never enjoyed taking brain dead terrorists hostage as much as in the Splinter Cell series. In order from best to worst I would rate the Splinter Cell games as follows: Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, Splinter Cell Pandora Tommorow, Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell Double Agent and Splinter Cell Conviction.
Having now played this game I can say, while his criticisms are spot on (although overly harsh, but it's yahtzee so of course), this game was immensely enjoyable and I actually liked playing it much more than any of the previous Splinter Cell titles. It did feel a bit lame that you almost HAD to kill everyone on every mission, but that didn't take away from the fun. I also really enjoyed the visual styling (black and white when hidden, font on action areas/objectives).
I usually love your videos but this one was just way off. Third Echelon director Tom Reed's plan wasn't to make himself the president, he was going to use the EMP as a cover to assassinate the current president and get the vice-president into power, a man who was in Megiddo's pocket. President Caldwell had tried to get Third Echelon shut down after Lambert's death because of the corruption of the new director but Reed wouldn't allow it, and planned to use Third Echelon agents to kill Caldwell while framing Sam as the murderer. Yes, the joke in the video was funny ("that's how politics works") but when the facts aren't accurate the joke isn't worth making.