The Hardest Setting

[giza]

For those who don't get the reference, it's from 1 minute and 25 seconds into the latest Zero Punctuation review. If you haven't yet seen it, go watch it!

[Edit: For my co-workers and parents, the fursuiter is the very nice tanidareal.]

Comments

[film2edit.livejournal.com]

Rock on.

Have fun at Fur Fright.

[cadpigjr.livejournal.com]

lol, Tani is the hardest setting... SHE IS HARD CORE!!!!

[silverscalenaga.livejournal.com]

Haha. we should talk about the stalker series.

[roninotter.livejournal.com]

YES!! :D

By the way, his review of STALKER: Clear Sky is PERFECT. I love the game, and he is spot-on with his review.

[silverscalenaga.livejournal.com]

there are some things that are wrong in his review...

[roninotter.livejournal.com]

After the greatness of SOC, I was very disappointed by the last 1/3rd of Clear Sky. I thought he summarized the shortcomings fairly well, with the exception of omitting the poor handling of the storyline.

What do you feel he was wrong about?

[silverscalenaga.livejournal.com]

the missions are being canceled, not 'completed'. You don't get credit for those, but you also don't get penalized as if you failed. That seems to be mainly an issue at the start with clear sky and the renegades. I have not had as much of a problem with it involving other factions.

You do not 'go prone' in fact the icon that shows your position shows you as standing, lowering slightly, or outright crouching. (not that in most cases you would necessarily want to go prone...)

The AI does not detect you too quickly in my experience. If its completely dark, and you have a flashlight and try to approach someone, they are going to see that someone is approaching from quite a distance. There is also the aspect of making enough noise that you get your attention. A better complaint would likely have been that once aggroed, they know exactly where you are even if you move when they cant see you or hear you. Night vision helps somewhat here, but it makes a degree of noise too.

The guns /do/ jam too frequently, but that is why you have a sidearm, and most things drop a gun. The intent is that you use a looted weapon until you get into heavy fighting that requires your primary weapon. Converting all the nato weapons you intend keep to fire 5.45mm helps with this... a general tip that helps with thins like that is that for most mutants you use your pistol (except against zombies now, since they are incredibly dangerous as they ALWAYS fire AP rounds now... yet you can run up to them and knife them to death if you are quick and might come out better than trying to shoot them...)

Which leads to something I assume he either did not encounter, or did not recognize, from lack of playing the first one... poltergeists are obscenely difficult to kill. Even if you downgrade to novice it takes around 65 buckshot rounds that actually connect to kill ONE. I am specifically referring to the three or four that hang out at the end of the agroprom, at the spiral staircase to leave.

Bugs? Most definitely correct. I just wonder which version he was using. the first stalker had severe issues until about the 3rd or fourth patch. Same in this case. The things that remain broken as of I believe 1.5.05, are unfortunately the faction wars. There are also a few instabilities I have come across, but those pertain specifically to my system, not necessarily clearsky

[giza.livejournal.com]

Do you suppose he might be exaggerating for comedic effect?

For example, contrary to his video, the Angry Video Game Nerd can land the plane in Top Gun. But that doesn't make the review nearly as funny.

[silverscalenaga.livejournal.com]

Not in this particular case no. See aim convo~

[girtygrin.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed. For me "Snow leopard" would be the hardest setting.

*whistles innocently to himself*

[sagejackal.livejournal.com]

LOL XD

I just watched this earlier today!

It's a small internets after all.

[delphanaeous.livejournal.com]

LOL... That was worth booting Windows for.

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

The funny thing is that I watched that video just before seeing this!

(Well, okay, it's not the ONLY funny thing about it, but...)

[xydexx.livejournal.com]

Fursuit bowling. Awesome.

[delphanaeous.livejournal.com]

That's a bowling alley?
*looks harder*
That is a bowling alley. That's nicer than any bowling alley I've ever been to :)

[rickwoods.livejournal.com]

Hah, I went and watched the ZP review after seeing this entry... I wasn't expecting this exact picture to appear!! :-D

[rickwoods.livejournal.com]

Where is this picture on icanhascheezburger? Anyone know? It wasn't posted in the last week or so...

[giza.livejournal.com]

It's not. I merely used the generator to make that pic.

[rickwoods.livejournal.com]

Oh, well damn...

I guess the question is then "where did he get the picture from?" :-P

[giza.livejournal.com]

WikiPedia (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Fursuit_TaniDaReal_top.jpg). I searched for "fursuit" and it was the second match.

[rickwoods.livejournal.com]

Aha, thanks for clearing that up!

[cyriljackal.livejournal.com]

Why oh why would a anthro be the hardest setting? *cough*

[tilton.livejournal.com]

I'd never seen her suit before! It's adorable!

I rate it: TOTALLY HUGGABLE.

[kitt3ns.livejournal.com]

I watched this earlier at work with my co-worker. He didn't recognize why I started cracking up at "The Hardest Setting" joke. :3

[cheetah-spotty.livejournal.com]

I lost on the hardest setting.

[bushrat.livejournal.com]

I love this game! I also assure you that the hardest setting is indeed Schnolf...

Also, for absolute maximum effect, be sure and drink plenty of this as well:

http://www.snowleopardvodka.co.uk/

[tiger-sammy.livejournal.com]

Win :D