FAR CRY 2 (Zero Punctuation)
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2011
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This week Zero Punctuation travels to Fictionesia, Africa for Far Cry 2.
Fast-talking Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw reviews a new game each week in this animated series that combines informed critique with cutting humor. Watch the next episode of Zero Punctuation a week early, only on The Escapist.
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His South African accent sounds like a German, who has spent the last few years in England, trying to do an American Southern accent.
Level 58 Death Knight Oddly specific. But I can hear that, yeah.
I always loved how Yahtzee's accent fluctuated between British and Afrikaners in this review. It always cracked me up.
+Serious Smith yeah i noticed after about the third time watching
+Blake the radical “Super OP” Gamer I noticed because I find the Afrikaners accent horrid without a face to show you how the face weirdly contorts to make the sounds.
Elite Beat Agent?
wh3nderson95 Agents are GO!!! :D
Serious Smith Love it!
Rewatching this in 2019 is hilarious knowing that 2008 was nowhere near the worst of sandbox overload or the worst at just plopping you down so you can figure out what you want to do.
@liam dahlgren agreed. Nostalgia and one of the best games for me. I implied myself so much within. The seriousness of the game just blown up the barrier
I actually think we've gone downhill a bit in terms of sandbox games. I almost miss not being railroaded from action set piece to action set piece.
South Africans gather round and marvel at the wonderful Cockney-Australian accent put on by Yahtzee.
I WANNA HEAR HIM SAY FLIG
I'm South African and I'm laughing my ass off at Yahtzee making a fool out of himself at fooling himself that he's talking in a South African accent.
Onsokumaru You mean Sooth-efriken.
It's not Australian in the slightest (or Cockney to my ears but I'm no expert on that). It _maybe_ sounds slightly New Zealand.
@@Robert399 No Robert, it does not sound like any New Zealand accent. It's definitely much closer to badly done Afrikaaner than either Australia or New Zealand (although I'm pretty sure his whole point was that the game was doing those accents badly in the first place), but there is for sure a whole lot of Cockney coming through at moments.
I love how all the criticism this game got over 9 years ago are nowadays seen as one of it's strong points. It's a brutal depiction of humanity in these regions and the fact that you go from helping one faction to helping another really encapsulates the idea of you being a mercenary. You're not meant to stabilize the region like in most games released in that era, but instead are doing anything to survive. And in the end it will be all for nothing anyway. As malaria kicks in, all that's on your mind is living another day, until you get to a certain point in the story.
I just find it interesting to see that these are some points we praise it for nowadays, as the gaming landscape has saturated quite a bit.
it's more because the gaming community at large has the attention span of a brick and are now whining about the very things they demanded from games back then because they are no longer shiny and entertaining.
also the malaria system is malarky. you literally have infinite meds until you start faction missions and you won't "run out" until certain story points where the next Underground mission is available. it's basically just a more subtle version of Far Cry 5's mechanic where the game would literally knock you out and drag you to a plot important mission when you caused enough problems.
@@gotgunpowderoh that far cry 5 mechanic to progress the story was so dumb
"Modern graphics look like they have coco powder sprinkled on them". Dude back then you were so right hahah
And now games still look the same but the coco powder got a bit moldy and grey.
+DarkWingDerpy don't forget the most important thing... LENS FLARE ON EVERYTHING
That's one thing i dont miss from late 2000s/early 2010s FPS's. Everything looked like they'd splattered some dirt colored paint over them.
something tells me that if Yahtzee had still being doing the "use a song whose lyrics vaguely correspond to the game" gimmick he'd have played "I've Never Met A Nice South African" from Spitting Image
zeh-bruh
zee-brah
bruh
That's a strong Kiwi accent ya got there Yahtzee.
It's not even kiwi dafuq u on about?
the sirens surely are nice accent tho
*Seeeeoooouuuufffff Efriken
Kiwis mix up vowels too breh. Fush en chups inyone?
It's less that we Kiwis mix up vowels, and more that we just kinda mumble. Steve Hansen is the benchmark accent example.
Only thing I hate about this game is that everyone has it out for you, you can't drive along for long without having a fucking enemy driving up and shooting you up, same with the guard posts. Can't run a guard post without having 50 gun tooting enemies unleash hell on you. What I really do like about far cry 2 is the decent arsenel of weapons, sand box world, and its long, I started far cry 2 weeks ago and I'm still only a quarter through act 1 (the beginning of the game). Then again I've been searching for missions and diamonds
It was kind of a double-edged sword. The outposts/checkpoints are extremely annoying at times, but it do force players to rethink their approach. Say you're in Pala and have to go to the north-west or something. You look at the map to see which rout have the least amount of checkpoints. There's also supplies at the checkpoints easily available after you've killed the 3 or 4 guys manning it. The problem of them not being there would be that the entire game would be empty. Still, I'd wish the checkpoint didn't regenerate as soon as you've gotten 100 meters from it. Would be better if the soldiers respawned after 24 ingame hours or something. I found that using boats work well too if you drive faster than a wet cat on a caffeine trip. The fishing boat functions nice as a safe, albeit slow gunboat for traveling the river system. You seriously get the Apocalypse Now feel from doing that. Also subvert the faction missions into "buddy missions" from the calls your allies give you. It will upgrade your safehouses until you get a jeep with a .50 machine gun, or if you have the DLC you can use the big safari truck. It's the closest thing to a tank this game got, save for the jeep with a grenade launcher in act 2.
I kinda like the shitload of grunts stealing my intestents every 100 goddamn meter on a secluded road, because I get to hate them by all that much more and come up with various new ways to painfully end their lives (aka try clearing an outpost only by running people over x)
Am I the only one that loves the malaria and jam mechanics? I find them to really spice up the gameplay of shooting the same bloody 4 people in the same damn checkpoint every 5 minutes.
They really make up for very dense moments; sometimes the amount of bad luck + malaria reminds me of Darkest Dungeon's RNG.
Me too. 4 playthroughs (2 these days and 2 many years later) and I never had real bad luck with malaria. It's a mechanic and you need a fast what to do mechanic to deal with it. I really liked the duration and jamming mechanic. It reminds me of the bundeswehr these days. We got these terrible extrem cheap plastic practice ammo and during practice fire fights my mg3 jammed very very offen. I was so angry over the times, so I shout at this thing, punched it over and over, attacked it with my shovel and so on. Every time the gun jammed in FC2 I shout angry words, punched the button and start to laughing about this (my) mechanic.
@@frogglen6350 I couldnt drive for more then 1 minute before encountering another hostile vehicle and then 1-3 more vehicles drive up and join....the roads were death traps every time i ever used them was just a big waste of ammo.
The way he speaks with "no punctuation" reminds me of the characters from Far Cry 2.
You would think he provided the dialogue for the game xD
3:20 "there was no sense of achieving anything" That was the goal of the storytelling.
As a South African...I can say that I've heard worse impressions
me too. Leo Di Caprio in Blood Diamond and Daniel Craig in Munich
not to mention Arnold Vosloo, who is South African, in Blood Diamond
Those are nothing compared to what I've heard in the past, I've come across people who tried to speak with a South African accent and it usually comes out sounding like an Australian, American or sometimes even Irish accent!
Tyler Botha tjoh! eish! Irish? really?
Ja, I don't know how they screw it up that much
I know this is a five year old comment but your name sounds like what you would get if you clicked an afrikaner name generator
Far Cry 2 was actually my favourite, Africa was a treat to explore, my only gripe was with the enemy's ability to somehow spot me from halfway across the map whenever I tried to be sneaky.
I agree. Far Cry 3, in my opinion, was kinda awful. Far Cry 2 had much more satisfying shooting mechanics imo. Neither are great, But FC2 was a lot more enjoyable for me, and idk, Far Cry 3 has come to represent Ubisoft incarnate for me. And Ubisoft is absolutely awful.
Oh, thank fuck I'm not the only one! That drove me mental during my playthrough! And suppressors did nothing to stop their hearing anyway.
Especially that guy with the lakeside mortar in the Southern region who could target you if you stuck a finger up from behind a rock half a mile away. I really hated that dude.
@@Markus_Andrew this son of a bitch on a tiny island? Ikr
@@Markus_Andrew That shit head pisses me of too the point where I just say fuck it to the boat, and swim up too pump a full mag on his body before trying anything else around him. A lethargic ritual for all the time he wasted me having to revert to saves, if not waist a buddy save.
DAT ACCENT XDDD "Little big plenet"
Oh Yahtzee. You never cease to impress everyone.
everytime he talks with that accent i giggle like a mad man
"ah bloed poes hey" - something I've shouted more than a few times to idiot drivers.
Um, at 2:14 did anyone else hear police sirens in the background?
That South African policeman joke is accurate.
And now farcry 2 is said to be the best in the franchise, and people like how it gives you freedom and no clear objective. Amazing.
It is 👍
It always was imo I love the weapon mechanics and freedom to what every the fuck I want
@@AlexWithington malaria crisis everytime at wrong moments 🤣
@@trunzlerclement3227 I only had to treat it 4 times in my playthroughs because I always had pills and it causes the symptoms to fade if you take pills every time but I think despite being annoying it was a good addition because it reminded you that you weren't invincible unlike in later games with skills/perks
Who in God's name thinks Far Cry 2 was better than Far Cry 3? Far Cry 3 was the high point since it had all the best parts of 2 with that loveable villain, a somewhat fun crafting system, fun hunting, a good story line/plot, and an awesome setting. 4 was more of the same but with less interesting characters and a less interesting plot, Primal was more of the same but with even less plot/characters, and I didnt play 5.
Did anybody in the background heard at 2:20 like a police cruiser alarm? I don't know why but I heard it
sergiocast345 I noticed a lot of background noise in his older videos, especially when wearing headphones. He's probably just recording this next to a computer in a standard apartment, rather than a make-shift noise suppression studio like some professional Let's Play RUclipsrs (I noticed Markiplier and Game Grumps seem to have a decent setup).
Randy Kemuksigak oh, good point
sergiocast345 i did i thought i was going insane
dramamusicfanatic Have I ever told you....?
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How come Yahtzee didn't notice that Jack Craver from Far Cry 1 was the Jackal is beyond me.
0:42 "Ah bloed poes hey"? Can someone please reverse-engineer that guy's accent for me?
I know this comment was from 7 years ago but I still can’t find out what he is saying sorry
@@nicoliethybirbyt4165 The translation is literally blood pussy
I think hes saying "classify". The complete line at your timestamp comes out to "yes, but only if you classify a hilarious south African accent as a mutation"
What I took from this game:
Start drowning,
Pull rusty rebar out of stomach,
It's K.
Yesterday I pulled up to a guard post and left my car behind to be more agile. A few moments later I heard a massive ruckus behind me.
A zebra had run into the car and died on the spot.
Goddamn it! Far Cry 2 is the best game of all time!
Conspiracy hats on:
Jack Carver is in FC2, he's the Jackal
Am I the only one who could hear real police sirens during this video
Yea I heard them
After finally watching Apocalypse Now, I now understand the last reference.
Anyone else hear an ambulance or something in the background around 2:05 or am I just fucking crazy?
No I hear it as well.
I think Yahtzee's speech patterns are starting to rub off on me more than the hair my cat sheds.
the probably looking for bodies in his basement.. or all the games he buys from the US that aren't allowed in Australia
I feel like Yahtzee didn't get the concept for the game, as so many others. But what he (and everyone else) did get was Far Cry 3 with 200 different coats of paint.
I love the Mods vs. Rockers analogy there
It's weird that when I hear the respective names Yahtzee has given the factions in this game to confirm they are actually a real thing I looked out this video.
Old comment, but I was raised on British Invasion music, so the mods/rockers analogy was quite tickling for me
Yes, you just described warfare in Africa;
No good guys, no bad guys just blood diamonds and east bloc weapons.
How to run over Zebras: Revelations coming to a store near you.
That Bear Grylls joke had me in stitches.
Does anyone else hear sirens in the background?
Yes
thank god soneone mentioned it, i thought i was going nuts
Am I hallucinating or are their sirens blaring in the background around 2:10? What, did Yahtzee kill someone before this review?
Nope I heard it to. Probably background noise that filtered through xD
Either you have an insanely high tolerance to loudness, or you're both insane, because I heard jack squat.
Try playing the video on a louder, better speaker. Maybe you are the insane one for not hearing it if that doesn't work O.o
I'll have you know my ears are sensitive.
Irrelevant. I said try speakers...
I'm not the only one who heard the sirens in the distance starting at around 2:00 ?
Everything looks like it's been dusted with cocoa powder... so true
0:53 Hey look, a sad lemon.
Yahtzee's South African accent impression is hilarious XD
Replaying it in 2018, of course. And really awesome with headphones.
I just found this, and i love it already :D
Am I the only one who enjoys this game?
no i loved it myself, but 3 is waaay better
Robin DC 4 looks god as well.
I enjoyed it all except for the fucking malaria thing that asks you to stop what you're doing and take care of it.
I personally loved it and think FC3 is shit compared to 2. I feel like the oddball for not loving FC3, but it's fucking terrible, then HUD ruins the scenery, the driving mechanics are terrible, missions fail for no fucking reason all the time forcing me to restart them which is just baffling in sandbox game for them to PUNISH me for stoping and collecting stuff while doing my mission.
I mean sure, the character and story is awesome but everything else is piss awful. I really hope FC4 is a nice amalgamation of the previous 2 and something random and different scooping out the worst parts of FC3 and dumping them in the mountains of Tibet.
his accent's like the main dudes from pacific rim.
the main guy is gonna play the millionaire in 50 shades movie :)
Joe blackman Actually Charlie Hunnam dropped out of that movie because felt it would be bad for his image. He's also in a popular TV show called Sons of Anarchy.
dapperboots awwwwww at least the chick playing the woman is hot right?
Joe blackman 50 Shades movie?
Don't we already have enough porn?
SHAUUUUUUUUUN never enough... never enough
This may be my favorite Yahtzee video I have seen.
Yo bru shout out from the good old South Africa. Banger accent😂
Dude this game is great if it didn't do this 1 stupid thing:
Make every gun happy bloke in a 100 km radius acutely aware of your silent machete backstab animation!
***** I've been getting this a lot lately.
I'm here because of Yahtzee's Metal: Hellsinger review ... Yeah, as a South African, the accent is quite weird. Sounds like a Brit who came to South Africa getting accent lessons from Leonardo De Caprio (whose SA accent is equally terrible)
Me too.
After watching multiple videos from this channel I have decided to subscribe.
Damn that Hector Voorhees impersonation is pretty impressive
I feel like at the end your accent kept changing. Is it just me?
I heard it too
He did it intentially to emphasize the "hilairiass sith afrikahn eccents"
Yeah but it wasnt just for that part, for the last few minutes he had a weird cross between South African, Australian and New Zealand
AstrosGamer That was part of the joke.
This comment seems to be getting more likes recently. Does Far Cry 4 have anything to do with that perhaps?
As I am a South African I have noticed your South African accent/ imitation is pretty bad, it's like my pa drunk and trying to do a god awful Australian accent :P
That was intended.
Sounds about right now that I think about it :P
You have internet!?!?!?
SteveSwipe yes, we do... not very good internet and it costs a ton. but it's internet non the less :P
goodness it really is quite terrible hey! (Also South African)
That was more Aussie toward the end hahahaa
shout out to the ambulance siren cameo
I remember hearing that on my headphones and wondering if anyone else picked up on it
"Jack Carver has nothing to do with Far Cry 2".
I don't think Yahtzee realized that the Jackal IS Jack Carver.
To be fair, most people at the time didn’t connect the dots back then either.
Far Cry was released in 2004, Far Cry 2 was released in 2008, Far cry 3 was released in 2012 and Far Cry 4 was released in 2014. So does those diagnostics say that Far cry 5 will be released between 2016 and 2018?
Far cry 2 is 6 years old? Holy balls, I just installed it recently and it looks great graphic-wise. I though it would be at most 2-3 years old.
lindinle The thing i hate most about far cry 2 is that i can't complete the game. At least every time i complete the last mission the game starts over from the last save before i completed it and i can't escape the end so is it a glitch, a missing patch or what?
Knowing Ubisoft, it'll probably be 2016...
Jordan Jolivette ia that an observation, negative remark or positive remark on ubisofts behalve
Observation
at 2:09 i heard sirens in the recording and outside of my door at the same time...trippy
3:53 its 2021 and I still say shark the same way
I hear police sirens in this vid
Your accent was Waaaay more pronounced back then.
11 years later, and that bad South African accent still cracks me up!
oh my goodness you said 'biro'. hah, when i first came out here people always wondered what the heck i was talking about.
captions please
Litil big plinit
I'm glad I'm not the only person that knows the basking shark exists. Sharks are awesome
Oh man, that south African accent he dose just kills me, I cannot stop laughing to save my life when he dose it!
Worst seth-efreecen eccent evah china
2:10 Do I hear someone getting voilently raped?!?
Is that the sound of emergency vehicles in the background? Around 2:09?
Dam these are such throwbacks
The accents...you failed to have just one and it was awful. Your normal voice sounds good for what you do, so keep it.
It was intentional. It was supposed to mock the bad accents in Far Cry 2.
I figured, but it was still painful. He could have just bluntly mentioned it like he does most things.
ThePCguy17
He would never have gotten his point across if he didn't, because now you know roughly what South Africans sound like. I have to admit that it was pretty close too :(
ThePCguy17 He did kind of bluntly mention it when he said they all talk in "hilairiass saath africahn eccents" (there's no proper spelling with phonetics, so don't go mad). It was terrible from the get-go because it was supposed to be, and as a result, was also hilarious.
ThePCguy17
That would spoil the joke. Why would he reveal his jokes as jokes?
Sure it's been 7 years but DAMN does that Aussie accent drops hard on this vid.
This was the first video i saw from Zero Punctuation.
"In terms of calming influences, I was somewhere between Henry Kissinger and a tank of gasoline" xD
Just another nameless mercenary who going on to the next job
I'm surprised he didn't mention the diamond hunting, which is the only thing I remember about this game.
His African accent is basically Chester A. Bum
My father actually imported some jaffa cakes from England just to find out what they were like. We ate a couple, decided they were OK, and then they sat around for a week.
I noticed them again and ate one, whereupon I discovered they're one of those foods that only gets better when it's stale.
"Dude's nowhere to be seen FOR ONCE IN HIS LIFE."
Lol. I'm loving these Zero Punctuation reviews. Even though I thoroughly enjoy many of the games being reviewed, it's impossible to go past his hilarious and in most cases accurate observations.
The fucking accent 🤣
As a born and bred Australian I feel compelled to tell you, that is the most hilarious thing I've heard in weeks.
i love how about half way through his voice noticeably went from British to Australasian
There was a rumour that Carver is the Jackal, but it seems like a flimsy connection
Jaffa cakes are little sponge cakes (often mistaken for biscuits because of there size but they are actually cakes) they have chocolate on the top an orange filling.
Around 2:10 I started hearing sirens in the video's background. YAHTZEE, WHAT DID YOU DO?!
I am from the future in 2020 and doom came back and it is great
i love games with user made content in them they are simply funner.
the way you parodied a south African accent has a suprising amount of accuracy, exaggerated, but accuracy non-the less
Lmao 2:07 siren in the background
one of my favorite games
"Jaffa Cakes are a snack introduced by McVitie and Price in 1927 and named after Jaffa oranges. The most common form of Jaffa Cakes are circular, 2 1⁄2 inches (64 mm) in diameter and have three layers: a sponge base, a layer of orange flavoured jelly and a coating of chocolate.
Jaffa Cakes are consumed primarily in the United Kingdom and Ireland. McVitie's did not trademark the name "Jaffa Cakes", and other biscuit manufacturers and supermarkets have made similar products under the same name."
If you listen really hard at 2:09 then you can hear a siren in the background of the recording.
Lol I love the South African accent which changes randomly into something found in the midlands :P
Damnit Yahtzee! I thought my country was safe from your words! XD
@musicalrt yeah I can. that's why I mentioned it he starts in his regular voice and after about the second time he says zebras it gets very noticeable how much he's trying for Ausie and yes I know he lives in Australia, but he is British and normally speaks with a British accent. so yes I can
1:12 The bully is Mattias from Mercenaries 1 & 2
Car alarm at 2.07