That’s one seriously broad definition of “spoiler.” A “spoiler” is something that “spoils” the experience. Telling you the ending of a movie, giving away the twist solution to a mystery, revealing the secret level that makes the entire game a dream, whatever. Telling you there is a town in the game or that there are giant ants in the desert is not a damn spoiler. What are people supposed to do, talk about the games entirely hypothetically so as not to accidentally reveal to potential players that there are in fact characters in the game who live places and say things?
My point is, the spoiler stuff is ludicrously out of control in the nerd world and it drives me nuts when people call out such innocuous things as what’s discussed in the ZP review as being “spoilers.”
Quitch
4122
Well in an open-ended game of exploration, are the discoveries not the experience? And he does not say “there is a town” he says “there is a town where X, Y and Z will happen”.
anaqer
4124
Hah, “Vader me old mate” cracked me right up.
Jazar
4125
When will Escapist get with 2010 and give mobile viewers MP4 files?
MattKeil
4126
Yeah, that about covers it. And I liked FU2 better than FU1.
If they did that, you could skip the commercial. They’re not going to allow that.
Cobra
4128
What commercial? Adblock blocks everything.
Quitch
4129
Yeah, you show those free sites who’s boss!
Quitch
4131
Your mockery is no match for my ninja edit skills :p
I almost choked on my coffee at the easy-bake oven joke.
Wow…just…wow…glad I don’t really play games like this, it sounds very annoying…
MattKeil
4135
The lack of pacing and Treyarch’s refusal to allow Black Ops’ campaign any time to breathe is the most salient criticism of the single player. Say what you will about Infinity Ward’s batshit crazy plots, but they knew how to mix in quiet tension with the slam-bang Baysplosions in a way that is clearly completely alien to Treyarch.
And, unfortunately, Infinity Ward has forgotten (and Treyarch never learned) about decent setpiece battles. The invisible hand is so busy pushing you through the scenery that we never get “Pavlov’s House” setpieces.
I’m disappointed I spent so much on this game. I was smart enough to avoid MW2, not sure why I picked this one up. :(
Quitch
4137
Pavlov’s House? That piece of shit set piece which served only to demonstrate how diabolical the AI was? Oh dear God that level was terrible.
Anyway, great ZP this week, really laughed hard.
