Malleus on 30/5/2007 at 17:11
Their tendency of screwing up good stuff. DA sucked because it was already too different from the original. It's totally personal, mind you - I just loved the originals and I hate ubi for changing it. Same with Rainbow Six. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Funniest thing is, that there are no games like the old SC on the market.
Thirith on 30/5/2007 at 17:29
Have they said anywhere that there would be no night missions at all?
In any case: The team that's working on the latest Splinter Cell did Chaos Theory; it was the Taiwan (?) team that worked on Pandora Tomorrow and Double Agent (PC and X360), the two SC games that most critics and gamers thought were much weaker. Based on this, I'm more than willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, at least till the demo - and there've been demos of all the SC games so far, so I'm not worried yet.
Malleus on 30/5/2007 at 17:38
I can't help it, I'm too much of an orthodox fan. There have been gameplay videos from it and this is not Splinter Cell, no matter who's developing it. I'm staying away from it.
(It was Ubi Shanghai, btw.)
Thirith on 30/5/2007 at 17:50
So you mean you might play it if it didn't have the Splinter Cell title?
Malleus on 30/5/2007 at 17:58
Then I might check it out, yes.:p :rolleyes:
poroshin on 30/5/2007 at 19:12
Quote Posted by Malleus
Funniest thing is, that there are no games like the old SC on the market.
This is so true. Back then the gameplay was actually revolutionary, I think. At least up till SC1 I haven't played such a stealthy game (other than Thief). Right now there don't seem to be any stealth games at all - some have stealth elements, but not nearly 100% stealth. And thus I agree with Malleus, it's sad to see Ubi go away from what made Splinter Cell... Splinter Cell.
Makahlua on 3/6/2007 at 13:38
Oh hai! :cheeky:
I didn't forget about ghosting in SC, I got distracted by Tomb Raider : Legend & Oblivion, and then my old compy went and corrupted itself into oblivion :p
So I had to get an emergecy replacement and while it's all Vista-shiny, it lacks a good GFX card. The onboard is adequate, and even good enough for TRL, but it seems to lag a bit with SC. I probably need to fine-tune some things and I can get back to it (or rather, restart b/c I lost my old saves too), though I'm also plagued by random general protection faults ..*sigh*
I might just wait for the better graphics card; this is one game where timing is everything, and lag is truely killer :erg:
Mr.Duck on 5/6/2007 at 06:22
Ah, Splinter Cell, good ol'Sam...
The first 2 had a bit of a tight, linear, leash on the player but they were, imho, good. Chaos Theory really moved the series forward with some subtle changes, and Double Agent (the old Xbox version) kicked ass. Mind you, I liked too the 360 version, though it was somewhat more linear compared to the Xbox one (which in strict terms, it was also linear, but what gives).
Eh, good times...and, yes...it -would- be a challenge finish these suckers in Ghost Mode...dayum...
poroshin on 2/8/2007 at 21:10
Necromancing yet again. :p
I'm both sad and happy to report my old PC completely died last week. I had all my Splinter Cells installed there, in various stages of completedness. That's the bad news. The good news is that I've got now a brand new PC with 4 Gb of RAM, C2D 2.13 processor, nVidia 8800 GTX, and Windows Vista.
Installed SC4 last night and played the very beginning. Much much better :) Just have to make it widescreen.
P.S.: Anyone know if it's possible to simply move the games installation directories from the old hard-drive to continue playing the games without needing to install them again and start all over? I had Dark Messiah, R6 Vegas installed, among others.
Jeshibu on 2/8/2007 at 21:28
You'll have to install most of them again, but you can copy the save files for most games. Places to look for those are:
* C:\Documents and Settings\
* Some obvious directory in the game's directory
* My Documents
I know that SC:CT has its savegames in C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Local Settings\Application Data\Ubisoft\Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, for example.
If you want to move complete game installs, you could try, but some might whine about some missing registry entries. Some keep a good deal of their settings or their cd-keys there, and others work fine without.
PS - I wouldn't be too wild about having Vista on that machine, but that's up to you. :erg:
