Pleb Tier: Splinter Cell Conviction Review (2020) 

nope

that's not true lmao

I wish you weren’t so negative and actually listed the positives of the game

@@Kelis98 name some

What? You were a rule 34 subscriber? Ok...

Yes. Giving players the understanding of how much his daughter means to him while also conveying important gameplay concepts serves mechanics and the narrative, even if it feels like the tone with which he talks to his daughter is patronizing to the player.

His opinion on Morrowind seemed incredibly positive if that's something you're looking for.

But splinter conviction came out 4 years before John wick. So you liked it before you even knew John wick existed???.... 👍👍👍

@@ASlapOfAFish yes

​@@ASlapOfAFish Okay just replace the name Sam Wick with Jason Bourne. The idea of a quick actioned hero who's real good at killing efficiently isn't new and doesn't fit in Splinter Cell regardless

I was thinking that while I was watching, I think their information will be much more accessible pre-brain contusion

Yup, they should've watched Tropa De Elite before making this game. Interrogations there are short and sweet, always on point.

Couldn’t agree more. I was done with them the moment they turned the lore of Rainbow 6 into operators facing off in a stadium for sport. Tom Clancy is probably rolling in his grave right now.

At least Kojima tried making a more mechanically rich stealth game with MGS 5 after 4 was only like...30% stealth game and let you go guns blazing for literally all of it with little drawbacks. Of course that's kind of a moot point when MGS 5 gave you so many options that stealth was just that, an option. Why sneak through a base when I could take out every guard from a mile away with a silenced armor piercing sniper rifle? Nice that one of big names in the genre actually made a very deep stealth friendly system in an otherwise sandbox game after going borderline full action. Peace Walker too, both were very nice returns to the stealth but both also made it optional so kind of a best of both worlds I guess? You want to be loud and dumb? Go ahead. You want to be a ghost who leaves no trace? Go ahead and get much greater rewards for it, as well as avoiding difficult fights. Like in PW where you had boss fights against tanks escorted by troops. But it was entirely possible to do those in total stealth, kidnapping each soldier one by one and then disabling the tank for capture without being spotted rather than actually doing the boss fight. With major rewards for doing so. Kojima might've been onto something with the level of choice and heavily rewarding stealth but it was still making stealth an option instead of the focus, which is gonna be pretty subjective I guess.

The recent Hitman trilogy is a great stealth series (though more disguise-oriented than Splinter Cell or MGS).

Play skyrim

An Elite NSA agent like Sam would age well. I get the impression he takes good care of himself, unlike the beta Fisher design or his appearance in Black List. This guy in Rainbow Six Seige is Sam Fisher in loadout and animations alone. The design is silly. Doesn't look like Sam. Looks like some guy LARPing as Elder Maxium from Fallout 4.

Man co-op was great, used to play it with the neighbour kid. we'd spend days trying to do that no-detection level. trying to get everything absolutely perfect. I think they had ninja suits too right? Totaly awesome. at least i remember loving it as a kid.

It tried to fuze the old and new, lost what made conviction unique and impactful for his character by making him get right back to the spy game, and makes everything seem so "Jack Bauer / Jason Borne / James Bond"

Yes, that's something I really get annoyed at in stealth games. This reviewer dronning about Sam being violent is tiresome. Sam is out of the Echelon's leach and avenging his daughter, of the course the guy is gonna be a killing machine (and I welcome this decision in this game). Since younger players get empathetic with the enemies (even if they are Nazis) people started making the false equivalence of equating "stealth" with "non-lethal". I remember being like that with Commandos as a kid, and they added cuffs in the expansion and knock out punches in the second game so you wouldn't kill enemy soldiers - in a war! Most of the time "non-lethal" is definitely lethal or doesn't help you going unnoticed at all - since that's another excuse: "Oh, you can't leave bodies because that's evidence". Yeah, the guys waking up with darts on their heads do not count as evidence, nor does the "knocked out" body left 2h in the freezer. At some point people will know they got infiltrated, what matters is whether you already exfiltrated or not. A document missing will be noticed at some point, but will they be able to pin down who stole them? Or will they be able to do anything about it? A guard waking up on the floor (sometimes missing his weapon) will notice that's enemy action. One game that did it right was Death to Spies (a Russian Hitman game), where you can kill a certain amount of enemies and not impact your score. Hitman: Blood Money did that in style by adding accidents (something Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory sorely lacked).

@@filipeamaral216 See I can only see a "non-lethal" stealth playthrough to include not interacting with the enemies in any sense, don't knock them out, nothing. MGSV had a special title for this if you left no evidence.

@@pitchblackgrue Yes, and MGS V's idea of different playstyles, something Blacklist also did, was a good breath of fresh air.

​@filipeamaral216 They were completely right, long-nose. What a strange thing to suddenly complain about. Maybe if your NGOs weren't funneling scum to the first world?

The Twin Snakes does it but the level design isn't designed around it.

In chaos theory u could either mine the alarm switches or take out the guy running off to hit the alarm and alarm level will not rise But it still counts as "times identified as intruder" So similar yet so differently done

This comment is great because it describes exactly why I didn't like the early Splinter Cell games but loved Conviction. A schlocky B movie quest for revenge is my fucking jam.

I actually think this diverse kind of content might be better. PatricianTV, so far, really seems to be a true patrician in all regards, so establishing a brand around that would be far better than turning into Elder Scrolls Fan Channel #57293

You don't write reviews like this because you care about views, let alone making anyone happy. It is refreshing to hear someone tear into all the flaws of the games we might have grown up with.

The Morrowind video was clearly spawned from his love and obsession for the game more than a desire to make gigantic video essays

I think they recently announced a remaster/remake of a splinter cell game. Dont remember which one but oh boy lets see how 2020s theyll make it

I have played the original Splinter Cell but the other ones are stuck in the backlog

@@Patrician Make Chaos Theory a priority.

I did the exact same thing, I had never heard of this channel saw the 8 hour morrowind video and watched that over a few days. I'm a patrician fan now

I recommend Generation Kill.

@@Patrician I bought the series bootlegged when I was in Iraq, the sopranos too. Some episodes had subtitles in Russian, Arabic, Farsi etc.

Not entirely true, because some games are bad enough that you'll say "screw this game, lets go play X instead"

It would be painful to watch and even more painful to review for him. You though he teared into Call of Duty or our other childhood darlings. This would be like beating a dead stillborn horse. The only good part of that game was Adam Jensen/Elisia Tufexis playing the part of Andre Kobin. Please destroy Human Revolution. That game was awful compared to Mankind Divided.

I mean that doesn't directly translate to becoming a sadist though.