The "What are you playing?" topic.

[Hooahguy]

the problem is that theres no checkpoint system, so if you forget and die you are in huge trouble.
also, you can only have one save at a time, so you cant go back 2 saves if you need to.

[Azathoth]

You can look at it that way, I suppose. But the game is still more lenient than its predecessors. If I remember correctly, alerting the enemy no longer results in instant mission failure.

I love Lambert's line: "This isn't a videogame."

[Fragony]

Splinter Cell is trial and error, you will die a lot but you just need to figure out what the game wants you to do, it has nothing to do with stealth. Play Thief if you want stealth done well.

[Hooahguy]

Splinter Cell is trial and error, you will die a lot but you just need to figure out what the game wants you to do, it has nothing to do with stealth. Play Thief if you want stealth done well.

clearly youve never played the bank mission.
or you never tried to get 100% on a mission either.

[Fragony]

clearly youve never played the bank mission.
or you never tried to get 100% on a mission either.

Clearly you have never played Thief. Splinter Cell isn't a stealth-game, it's a game about stealth. It's as open-ended as gravity the only way is down. In thief you are given a mission, how you want to solve it is up to you. Not a on-rails series of petty stealth-challenges but a semi-sandbox where quick wits and creativity always pays of, or smacks you in the face. Hard. Can you finish the game without even killing a single person? Can you finish the game not having being seen at all, sorry man just sneaking through? Can you make a desperate escape by shooting a rope arrow in the ceiling, climbing the rope and jump on another floor and find a hiding place? No you can't you just have to do what the makers want you to do.

//waits for that other rabid Thief fanboy to confirm

Anyway, playing Darksiders and it's good. I wanted to buy God of War 3 really, but they can shove the 70 euro they want me to pay for it up their , I might just [turn green and go on a Hulk style rampage] for the first time in my life just because of this overpricing. Darksiders on the other hand costed only 20 euro and it's a truly splendid title and it's a pretty damn recent. Combat feels great, the post-apocalypse setting is great, the puzzles are Zelda-esque great, money well spend oh yes.