Zero Punctuation: Saboteur
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Dear EA
This is the Island of Ireland
It has a population of 6,300,000, give or take
All of them can do better Irish accents than whoever the hell you hired
If you ever allow one of your subsiduries to make another Irish protagonist, use one of them
THank you
OT: Very good, as always, and I can spot the subtle hints of "Asscreed 2 is a good game"
This is the Island of Ireland
It has a population of 6,300,000, give or take
All of them can do better Irish accents than whoever the hell you hired
If you ever allow one of your subsiduries to make another Irish protagonist, use one of them
THank you
OT: Very good, as always, and I can spot the subtle hints of "Asscreed 2 is a good game"
Interesting review this week. I agree, the French suck... and so do the British. Yay Irish!
I was sort of expecting a "Best of 09" like everyone else is doing or like you usually do at the end of the year giving out fake awards and shit. I suppose that will probably be for "Extra Punctuation" this time around, right?
I was sort of expecting a "Best of 09" like everyone else is doing or like you usually do at the end of the year giving out fake awards and shit. I suppose that will probably be for "Extra Punctuation" this time around, right?
ha, i got the german version... not to say that the voice actors are any better here xD it's almost a Hawking-esque void of emotion in everything.
but that doesn't mean i don't enjoy the saboteur. It's nothing special, and it has it's flaws, many of them pointed out here, but waiting for assassins creed to get his behind to the PC, i thought running along paris' rooftops was as good a timewaster as any other.
I say, rent it if you can. There's worse games out there these days
edit: oh and a happy new year to you too ;D
but that doesn't mean i don't enjoy the saboteur. It's nothing special, and it has it's flaws, many of them pointed out here, but waiting for assassins creed to get his behind to the PC, i thought running along paris' rooftops was as good a timewaster as any other.
I say, rent it if you can. There's worse games out there these days
edit: oh and a happy new year to you too ;D
With the years-long glut of WW2 games that seem to flood the market every year like drunk broads at spring break, one only needs to look to the GGW franchise to understand why anyone still voluntarily plays these games anymore. While it has all been done before (and much better in some cases), there are still enough morons who enjoy killing Nazis... however, you never see them going ape-poop on a bunch of modern-day neo-Nazis, which I always found personally strange. With all this Nazi anti-semetism that has been rerun as a theme in more games than Mario has mustache hairs, by now you'd think some dummy would have tried "re-enacting" a scene from their favorite game in reality (a la GTA).
Perhaps the overall irony for me about WW2 games is how many people still anticipate playing these games when clearly none of them are old enough to remember WW2 (me included). What's the big tie-in that people still have with WW2, Nazis, and smelly French douche-muffins that game developers continue to sink money into these projects, and waterheads continues to buy and play them enough to convince studios to keep making them? Yahtzee was quite on the mark by saying that we know how everything is going to turn out in the end. So what is the point unless you are only going to vaguely use WW2 as a reference point to create some alternate universe of the modern world based loosely on the events of WW2 with just a slight tweak, like maybe the atomic bomb was never invented and how the Germans took over? Oh wait... they did that already a few times.
I certainly hope a majority of people will agree with me when I say that ANY war game has jumped the shark a very long time ago, and you dingleberries who still drool over the release of Call of Duty games need to get over it already. It is bad enough that the American Army releases its' own war game you can play for free online, why would you want to pay for one? Studios and developers have run the world war simulation games dry, it's about time they got the message that it's time to do something innovative for a change already.
By the way, probably the last hurdle anyone has for killing Nazis is to get Mario in a WW2 so you can stomp on their heads until coins pop out of their butts. After that, it is definitely over.
Perhaps the overall irony for me about WW2 games is how many people still anticipate playing these games when clearly none of them are old enough to remember WW2 (me included). What's the big tie-in that people still have with WW2, Nazis, and smelly French douche-muffins that game developers continue to sink money into these projects, and waterheads continues to buy and play them enough to convince studios to keep making them? Yahtzee was quite on the mark by saying that we know how everything is going to turn out in the end. So what is the point unless you are only going to vaguely use WW2 as a reference point to create some alternate universe of the modern world based loosely on the events of WW2 with just a slight tweak, like maybe the atomic bomb was never invented and how the Germans took over? Oh wait... they did that already a few times.
I certainly hope a majority of people will agree with me when I say that ANY war game has jumped the shark a very long time ago, and you dingleberries who still drool over the release of Call of Duty games need to get over it already. It is bad enough that the American Army releases its' own war game you can play for free online, why would you want to pay for one? Studios and developers have run the world war simulation games dry, it's about time they got the message that it's time to do something innovative for a change already.
By the way, probably the last hurdle anyone has for killing Nazis is to get Mario in a WW2 so you can stomp on their heads until coins pop out of their butts. After that, it is definitely over.
You make it sound like Australia's a bad place. =[JaredXE said:
Good review. Wasn't keen on this game, and the apparent sloppy-ness of the game is keeping it that way.
I have to ask, but did he honestly not make a joke about the Belle De Nuit?
I'm surprised.
But nonetheless, great review.
I'm surprised.
But nonetheless, great review.
dont play that card with me, if i wanted to i cud find loads of instances where the brits/english where fucked over by various countrys. very few if any "old" countrys dont have a past which includes hardship, the irish hardship is just more recent.Continuum said:
the brittish/english people have themself been pretty much enslaved at some points in history so dont try & use that as if its unique to the irish.
the only differance between irish hardship & any other in the british isle's is time.
I'm not sure if I'll ever play this. I usually play all sorts of games of varied reception but when it comes to sandbox games, I want the best since you have to invest plenty of time in them. Same for RPGs.
I agree with this, I lost all tolerance for WWII games after I played CoD 2 all those years ago, since than I havnt even touched one, with the exception of Company of Heros because of its RTS take.GodKlown said:
The only way a WWII game can be made genuinely interesting is if it has a German protagonist, after all, nazis had the best military technology during WWII. It would kick ass to fly the prototype jet engine Messerschmidt, easily outrunning AA guns and mowing down Commies.
Furthermore the Eastern Front, or Barbarossa saw some of the most insanely intense fighting with the heaviest casualties of the entire war, it would make a kick ass game.