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[ArjanN]

A campaign that is good? Well fuck me.

Really, the campaigns are always pretty good as long as you don't mind they're short and super linear.

 

[Krabboss]

It's completely understandable, we've had plenty of horde modes this generation. I never understood the infatuation with them in the first place (to the point that now even Dishonored is getting its own horde mode).

What weirds me out is the fact that Jeff apparently thinks the CODBLOPS2 singleplayer campaign is "impressive". I haven't played it yet (will in the next few days), but from what I've seen so far in the Quick Look I'd be hard pressed to point out anything interesting. Especially after playing the fantastic Halo 4.

Judging a campaign based on a bit of the first mission seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do.

 

[netBuff]

Judging a campaign based on a bit of the first mission seems like a pretty reasonable thing to do.

Reading the campaign impressions in other threads, it doesn't seem like this iteration deviates too much from the tried and tired Call of Duty formula. Jeff being down on the Halo 4 singleplayer because it is, in his opinion, more of the same while only a few days later calling this stuff "impressive" certainly seems very strange.

 

[StuBurns]

Jeff's had mixed opinions of Halos in the past though. Specifically he didn't like 2, and if 4 is closest to any, it's 2.

 

[hamchan]

Reading the campaign impressions in other threads, it doesn't seem like this iteration deviates too much from the tried and tired Call of Duty formula. Jeff being down on the Halo 4 singleplayer because it is, in his opinion, more of the same while only a few days later calling this stuff "impressive" certainly seems very strange.

Have you read his review?

 

[I should be doing hw]

Reading the campaign impressions in other threads, it doesn't seem like this iteration deviates too much from the tried and tired Call of Duty formula. Jeff being down on the Halo 4 singleplayer because it is, in his opinion, more of the same while only a few days later calling this stuff "impressive" certainly seems very strange.

Where you even listening to what he was describing as impressive though? He wasn't speaking about the narrative itself as much as the actual deviations in question and how they appear somewhat creatively utilised.

 

[Xater]

It's completely understandable, we've had plenty of horde modes this generation. I never understood the infatuation with them in the first place (to the point that now even Dishonored is getting its own horde mode).

What weirds me out is the fact that Jeff apparently thinks the CODBLOPS2 singleplayer campaign is "impressive". I haven't played it yet (will in the next few days), but from what I've seen so far in the Quick Look I'd be hard pressed to point out anything interesting. Especially after playing the fantastic Halo 4.

Dude he hated Zombies in every COD and likes Spec-Ops which is also a horde mode. I always thought that Zombies in COD is at least doing interesting stuff with he base building, changes to the maps, power ups etc.

 

[Krabboss]

Dude he hated Zombies in every COD and likes Spec-Ops which is also a horde mode. I always thought that Zombies in COD is at least doing interesting stuff with he base building, changes to the maps, power ups etc.

Spec Ops isn't a horde mode. There was a type of Spec Ops in MW3 that was a horde mode, but that's it.

 

[Plexirvones]

Quick Look: Zone of the Enders HD Collection (Youtube) (19:23) (Patrick/Ryan)

 

[Meatvillain]

ZOE 2 was so rad, to this day Zero Shift is one of the coolest things I've ever seen in a game. Hope this quick look isn't bitchy (about the game itself at least).

 

[StuBurns]

ZoE2 is pretty slick, shame about the crappy escort mission though, but ZoE1 is rubbish.

EDIT: And Kojima has more than expressed interest in ZoE3...

 

[shadyspace]

I could never get the hang of ZOE2. Makes me feel like a dog in one of those "I have no idea what I'm doing" pictures. Sucks 'cause it really seems up my alley.

 

[Lazy Jones]

Quick Look: Zone of the Enders HD Collection (Youtube) (19:23) (Patrick/Ryan)

Je-huty in 10-80p.

 

[Absol]

Jehuty with Zero Shift and Vector Cannon. So sexy.

 

[strafer]

Zone of the Enders, such a great game.

 

[Vire]

Yay for saving me $60 GB.

Black Ops 2 looks like a crass and ugly game in more ways than one. From the color palette and low resolution textures to the random chopping off people's heads and stabbing in the neck with a machete.

No thanks.

 

[sixghost]

It took me almost that entire quicklook to realize that Zone of the Enders and Ender's Game weren't the same thing.

 

[xptoxyz]

Quick Look: DBZ Budokai HD(Ryan/Vinny)|(59:27)

 

[CrunchinJelly]

Quick Look: DBZ Budokai HD(Ryan/Vinny)|(59:27)

YouTube version lasted 15 minutes. LOL

 

[inky]

I still can see the YT version.

 

[xptoxyz]

That sucks, hopefully that is just the auto-youtube-thing and will be sorted out, the GB player has been working ok for me lately though.

I still can see the YT version.

I'm guessing ABGroup owns Europe rights or something.

 

[Broder Salsa]

Is it just me or has giantbombs servers become amazingly slow? I often have trouble streaming their videos now. :/

Edit : Just saw in the other thread.

 

[inky]

I'm guessing ABGroup owns Europe rights or something.

Yea, I though it might've been a Europe thing after I posted.

 

[Haunted]

Quick Look: DBZ Budokai HD(Ryan/Vinny)|(59:27)

I've got serious deja vu right now.

 

[Oxx]

An hour of DBZ. The hits just keep on coming.

 

[Gomu Gomu]

Is it just me or has giantbombs servers become amazingly slow? I often have trouble streaming their videos now. :/

I just gave up on streaming content from their site. It's slow and weirdly pixelated, even on HD. I always go to youtube, which is why I think we should start posting the youtube link to QLs in the future along with the link to the GB site.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

Listening to Ryan and Vinny trying to remember DBZ characters and half-succeeding will never get old.

 

[Randdalf]

Man, the dialogue in Black Ops 2 sounds like it was written by pre-schoolers.

 

[Aaron]

Man, the dialogue in Black Ops 2 sounds like it was written by pre-schoolers.

Your pre-schoolers are both very educated and filthy.

 

[alr1ght]

Is it just me or has giantbombs servers become amazingly slow? I often have trouble streaming their videos now. :/

Edit : Just saw in the other thread.

I download their stuff with jdownloader, which almost triples the speed compared to dling straight via browser.

 

[LiveFromKyoto]

ZOE 3 for PS4 launch. Do it Koj!

I played both back in the day, still have Second Runner kicking around in a garage somewhere. Like Patrick, I'm not sure if I ever finished the second one, it got pretty freaking hard at certain points.

Gorgeous games, not sure I want to revisit these two again though.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

Someone tell me that I'm not the only one a little unnerved by a videogame having you follow orders from Oliver North to go to the Angolan Civil War and run across fields chopping off heads with a machete.

 

[tsigo]

Someone tell me that I'm not the only one a little unnerved by a videogame having you follow orders from Oliver North to go to the Angolan Civil War and run across fields chopping off heads with a machete.

Nope, that sounds pretty shitty.

Not looking forward to hearing Arthur Gies talk about it, though.

 

[shadyspace]

Not looking forward to hearing Arthur Gies talk about it, though.

lol

 

[Data West]

Is Vin Diesel the MP announcer in Blops 2? Sounds like him

 

[NameGenerated]

Who is the nerdy guy voice in zombies. It sounds familiar as shit.

 

[SirIgbyCeaser]

I'm sitting here waiting for the giant bomb podcast to show up.

I wish they kept a timely schedule for this. Quicklooks today didn't really catch my enjoyment.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

How long until someone gets tired of Vinny's shameful display of lapsed DBZ knowledge and sends him a Kai boxset?

 

[FStop7]

Is Vin Diesel the MP announcer in Blops 2? Sounds like him

Whoever it is I hate the way he whispers like some kind of sadistic Barry White.

 

[The Wizard]

For all that talk about big changes for the campaign in Jeff's Black Ops 2 review, I didn't really see anything for me to get excited about in that quick look.

 

[Tamanon]

Who is the nerdy guy voice in zombies. It sounds familiar as shit.

Sounds like Scott Menville, Robin from Teen Titans.

 

[shadyspace]

Who is the nerdy guy voice in zombies. It sounds familiar as shit.

Kevin from Mission Hill.

 

[BigAT]

Bassist of Boy Hits Car.

 

[Empty Space]

Is Vin Diesel the MP announcer in Blops 2? Sounds like him

One of the team announcers is the same VO for the generic white males in New Vegas. I've played a lot of New Vegas and every time I hear him say something it gives me a random flashback to that game. Its driving me crazy.

 

[Typographenia]

Quick Look: Zone of the Enders HD Collection (Youtube) (19:23) (Patrick/Ryan)

I never played the ZOE games, but I always wanted to.

Man, the leap from 1 to 2 is very significant. Sorry to hear about the framerate, but looks like it would definitely be worth playing still. Going to have to grab this. Looks like a lot of fun! Well, 2 at least.


Also, the lady telling him to use the burst attack reminded me of FLUDD from Mario Sunshine's voice.

 

[hey_it's_that_dog]

Someone tell me that I'm not the only one a little unnerved by a videogame having you follow orders from Oliver North to go to the Angolan Civil War and run across fields chopping off heads with a machete.

Seeing an African man's head fly off in a bloody arc as the result of a machete attack was possibly the first time a videogame has prompted me to think to myself "This may be in poor taste."

 

[Adam Scott Aukerman]

Seeing an African man's head fly off in a bloody arc as the result of a machete attack was possibly the first time a videogame has prompted me to think to myself "This may be in poor taste."

That quick look turned my stomach on more than a few occasions.

 

[Dimmuxx]

Is it just me or has giantbombs servers become amazingly slow? I often have trouble streaming their videos now. :/

Edit : Just saw in the other thread.

It seems that videos that been recently posted are really slow, like they haven't spread properly to all servers yet. Videos that are one day or older works just fine. This is what I experience in the official xbmc addon. If I watch new videos on the site they work fine.

 

[hey_it's_that_dog]

That quick look turned my stomach on more than a few occasions.

I have to assume that what bothers me is both the "realistic" context in which the cartoonish beheadings are taking place, and the whole machetes butchering Africans thing.

If the Call of Duty games had any semblance of maturity or sophistication in terms of tone or content, maybe this kind of violence would be there intentionally to make you reflect on something. But I don't think that's what's going on.

 

[sixghost]

Someone tell me that I'm not the only one a little unnerved by a videogame having you follow orders from Oliver North to go to the Angolan Civil War and run across fields chopping off heads with a machete.

I thought it was poignant how Jeff wandered aimlessly around the battlefield, contemplating the futility of the conflict, then chopped off a man's head.