Comments for "Zero Punctuation Review: Oblivion" Video at VideoSift.com

By Kevlar

Kevlar (http://www.videosift.com/member/Kevlar) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:23:47 -0700

Conversation pie, huh? I wonder what conversation pie tastes like around the Sift?

Like cats, I guess.

By charliem

charliem (http://www.videosift.com/member/charliem) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:49:00 -0700

if
{
nothing();
}
else
{
remember(this);
}

...brilliant, with one exception. The if statement is missing its arguments.

By Kerotan

Kerotan (http://www.videosift.com/member/Kerotan) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:49:57 -0700

Here comes the inevitable rise of ZP to top 15.

Not that it makes the video any less awesome...

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:03:53 -0700

I haven't gotten out of the sewer in my Oblivion game. Too busy to play.

By gwiz665

gwiz665 (http://www.videosift.com/member/gwiz665) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:47:23 -0700

I've been a non-mmo player all my life (until recently), and during the development of this game, I thought this would be the dog's bullocks and when I played I thought so too... for the first hour. I've later been introduced to World of Warcraft, which indeed does the things where Oblivion fails miserably: the world feels like a world. It's huge. And different areas have vastly different looks. Oblivion is like an open-world Quake, where everything that isn't brown is gray and everything that isn't brown or gray is actually the wallpaper behind your screen.

By Payback

Payback (http://www.videosift.com/member/Payback) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:45:53 -0700

I've always thought it was:


 if(no)
 {
   thing();
 }
 else
 {
   remember(this);
 }

By NetRunner

NetRunner (http://www.videosift.com/member/NetRunner) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:27:11 -0700

Upvote for "foxy night elves giving you soapy tit-wanks".

By rottenseed

rottenseed (http://rottenseed.videosift.com) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:00:39 -0700

best one yet in my opinion.

By cheesemoo

cheesemoo (http://www.videosift.com/member/cheesemoo) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:22:51 -0700

I like this better:

If nothing()
{

}
Else
{
remember(this);
}

Which would be equivalent to:

If !nothing()
{
remember(this);
}

Which is silly.

By gwiz665

gwiz665 (http://www.videosift.com/member/gwiz665) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:34:40 -0700

cheesemoo, you'd never get that compiled with those blatant missing parenthesis and capitals.

if (!nothing()) remember(this); // is brilliant.

By Krupo

Krupo (http://krupo.videosift.com) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:27:48 -0700

>> ^Kerotan:
Here comes the inevitable rise of ZP to top 15.

Not that it makes the video any less awesome...

Yeah, but this is one of the better and more deserving ones.
LMFAHS - "fifth to reverse."

By dystopianfuturetoday

dystopianfuturetoday (http://dft.videosift.com) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:31:06 -0700

(>*) 4 0 ftw.

By mas8705

mas8705 (http://www.videosift.com/member/mas8705) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:45:01 -0700

why is it in every animation video, if someone gets so scared they pee niagra falls?

case and point... This video 2:00 and http://www.videosift.com/video/Metal-Gear-AWESOME-2 at the mid point...

By MarineGunrock

MarineGunrock (http://marinegunrock.videosift.com) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:36:26 -0700

"Space radiation, not the infinite power of Christ."

By DavidRaine

DavidRaine (http://www.videosift.com/member/DavidRaine) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:59:39 -0700

>> ^gwiz665:
cheesemoo, you'd never get that compiled with those blatant missing parenthesis and capitals.

if (!nothing()) remember(this); // is brilliant.

if (nothing) else remember(this); // Isn't C fantastic?

For more madness: http://www.ioccc.org/

By moodonia

moodonia (http://www.videosift.com/member/moodonia) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:15:11 -0700

Did everyone else see young people f*cking in there?

Maybe it was just my sub-conscious mocking me. Again

By Xax

Xax (http://www.videosift.com/member/Xax) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:51:14 -0700

Dead on review. Once you step out of the dungeon, you've seen pretty much all there is to see as far as landscape is concerned. The game really is one huge copy-and-paste snorefest... very little variety. The game works best as a pretty-but-useless landscape simulator.

By Memorare

Memorare (http://www.videosift.com/member/Memorare) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:00:53 -0700

Upvote for mention of Lord and Master Richard Garriott, not that he's produced anything worthwhile since Ultima 7 but still.

Despite it's self proclaimed hardcore dorkmeister critics, World of Warcraft does indeed get the storyline immersion thing right. i lub WoW.

Age of Conan, meh. Warhammer Online - oooooooh.

By MarineGunrock

MarineGunrock (http://marinegunrock.videosift.com) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:58:48 -0700

I don't see why people are bitching about the terrain.

Go outside and walk for three hours in any direction. I doubt the landscape will change that much, either.

By dannym3141

dannym3141 (http://www.videosift.com/member/dannym3141) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:17:11 -0700

/\ That rather depends on where you live. If i lived in an area where several different races lived and evolved adjacent to each other and yet turned out to be different in skin-tone, hair-tone and type, build and habits, i'd expect the landscape to change pretty fucking dramatically.

By messenger

messenger (http://www.videosift.com/member/messenger) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:09:35 -0700

>> ^MarineGunrock:
I don't see why people are bitching about the terrain.

Go outside and walk for three hours in any direction. I doubt the landscape will change that much, either.

Right. Since when is reality an excuse for lack of creativity in an entertainment product? You think people play RPGs because they want to see their own boring life mirrored back to them? I don't play RPGs much, but I've got a feeling there aren't any set in suburbia where pretty much the same boring crap happens all the time, you have to make decisions about patio furniture, you never kill anybody, and the biggest event is when your pet dies. Oh wait. That's The Sims. But anyway, nobody bought this game to see repeated scenery.

By MarineGunrock

MarineGunrock (http://marinegunrock.videosift.com) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:36:49 -0700

I doubt it's a lack of creativity. More like a land set in the rolling hills of a middle-Earth country side.

Here is something to bitch about:

Every cave is almost the exact same place and every fort is almost the exact same place.