Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow Finally Comes To Steam
>>723232610>Please note: online features for this game are no longer supported. Multiplayer and co-op modes are no longer functional.>needs ubiconnect
did they touch it at all?early 2000s games are unplayabe without tinkering and modding
>>723232610>Not GOGThis is going to be such a trashfire. Just pirate it and use the game-fixing mods.The PC release was superbly fucked and neither the jews at Ubisoft or the jews at Valve have ever, not even fucking once, fixed an old game that doesn't work properly.At least with the Polish jews, they put forward an effort to include the (appropriately jewishly) stolen crack/fan patches to make the damn thing run. Buying games like that on Steam is retarded. Might as well just roll up and smoke those bills instead.
How did they manage to take such a cool protagonist like Sam, and shove him into games like the original Splinter Cell and Pandora Tomorrow, with the most excruciatingly boring dry global political drama, that simply put me into sleep? I bet nobody actually remembers the story of any of these games, because it was as interesting as reading the news like 20 years ago (not today because reading the news nowadays is a complete embarrasment of humanity, the decline is insane).
>>723233361I liked the dryness of it
>>723233361Just like everything Tom Clancy, the story couldn't be any worse, but Sam is pretty well written and the voice acting is superb, so it's one of those things you enjoy for the moment to moment dialogue, not the plot.
>>723232610are they actually gonna patch the trilogy so the graphics aren't broken without dgvoodoo?
>>723233484>>723233575I just think it's a lot worse than people remember it.
>>723233575>somehow, one minor Georgian politician has enough power to threaten all of US.Sure, Tom, you do you. The only game that was semi-plausible was Ghost Recon, with Russia going on a conquer tour across Europe to rebuild the USSR. Only in real life, Russia got stuck in Ukraine, so there goes the conquest of whole Europe.
>>723233892Who needs to remember when you replay at least one of the first 3 games yearly? I agree with >>723233484. I always liked how far the characters go in the first game just to prove the Chinese ambassador was acting alone to avoid war.
The first and PT have great atmosphere
>>723233361All I remember is that Same gets to kill Mossad agents in a mission
>>723233670>he thinks paid professionals in tech would take time away from gash dilation and communist claptrap to move some files aroundYou fool. It took Nightdive like 4 years to slap some mods on System Shock 2. Devs can't even think about the folder hierarchy without needing therapy.
>>723232610Not paying ubislop any money for half ass portPirate it and you can even play it online on fan funded server
>>723232610*crashes*
>>723235839eff arh can someone just fix the fucking thing so we can play PT at higher than 1080p
>>723233361It was a very realistic trilogy, Sam was not there for personal reasons. He had a job to do, did it and moved on. No personal drama, it makes unique to he honest.
Wait, is this a port of the PS3 version?
>>723233361I prefer this over mgs retarded anime plot
>>723233670Heres a good rule of thumb for old games being re released like this, avoid steam and buy on GOG. GOG makes sure it actually runs in modern hardware, Steam is just acting as the storefront and dont deal with the release.
>>723233361The first three Splinter Cell games actually somewhat feel like Tom Clancy books, so yeah, they are somewhat dry political dramas, but that's kind of refreshing in an era where everything is capeshit anime fortnite now
>>723233361>>723236220Its kind of weird when you think that the audience in those days was likely teemage boys and yet the writing is more like a dry new york times report on a military operation.
>>723233361Splinter Cell is (or was) a more grounded game for adults that understand that a ship being captured at sea is a major fucking incidentNot like your faggy Battlefield or CoD games where there's a huge fucking world war going on at all times with the full might of opposing militariesThis is the kind of shit people forget about stealth games, they're supposed to be mundane
>>723236337Yeah exactly. I'm not saying it needed to be MGS tier retarded, but surely they could have made it more interesting than reading a news article. I don't know why anons can always think in extremes only, like there isn't any nuance to things.
This is the game that has a mission on Jerusalem. I have the feeling that Tom Clancy wasn’t very fond of them kikes>Sam arrives in Israel>contact is a Shin Bet kike bitch>she’s shady as fuck, Sam instantly dislikes her>she keeps excusing herself “why don’t you trust me, we’re best allies, remember the six gorillion”>you walk around the town, it’s of course full of kikes doing stereotypically jewish things, showing clearly the odious creatures they are>you eventually find the objective, a Syrian terrorist cell underground>Lambert, out of nowhere, tells Sam to immediately execute the Shin Bet bitch, like shoot her on the head right there and then>if you comply, Lambert says that “you just saved yourself from a big trouble, trust me bro”>if you let her live, then the mission will proceed as normal, until the end, when you’re ambushed by IDF snipers (serves you right, you trusted a jew)
>>723236507I get it but at the same time i like how unique it was, the original trilogy is very low key in writing, even when stakes are high Sam is a professional. I guess i find it unique and like it.
>requires a ubisoft account despite 1 and 3 not needing oneWHY
>>723236981Because you will buy it anyway lol.
>>723237154I won't be buying it now actually but I'm sure plenty of cattle will anyway.
>>723233361Having played the games for the first time this year I think it's still great, as others have said there's something refreshing about a game that puts the work in wetworkI'd say the best refutation of your post is in the very last cutscene of the first game where the President is drolly thanking everyone for all their work and all Sam can do is laughDoing what Fisher does is the cool part, the rest of it, the politics, the accolades, is just noise
>>723236981I pirated AssCreed II recently and it prompted me with this. The invasiveness and depravity that normies have been tolerating all this time just disgusts me.
>>723233361The plots weren't boring. I appreciated how realistic they were even as a teenager.
>>723232610I think I played the first mission of this one and never played it again but I almost never saw people talk about it. Is it just mediocre?
>>723237820Yeah kinda. The first couple of missions are pretty solid but once you get to the jungle, it's pretty meh.
>>723236507>I don't know why anons can always think in extremes only, like there isn't any nuance to things.Anon we just like the way it already is. The "extremes" only appear when someone mentions MGS vs SC, just because they came out in close proximity for a time with some amount of mechanical overlap. And tonally yes MGS and SC happen to be polar opposites.>retarded people are tribal fanatics about muh vidya brandWe're all shocked and amazed.
>>723232610Unironically, this is my favorite one. It was always better than Chaos Theory.
>>723237803>georgia being a threat to the world>realisticgeg
>>723236679Tom Clancy sucked off Israel every chance he got in his books from what I remember. I don't think he had anything to do with the plot of the games.PT was done by Ubisoft Shanghai, and the Chinese populous is a lot more J-aware than most of the West. I'd imagine that's how this plot came about.
>>723232610>Requires 3rd-Party Account: Ubisoft Account (Supports Linking to Steam Account)
Wait, isn't Pandora Tomorrow the "good luck running it on your modern PC lmao" entry in the series or that was Chaos Theory?
https://www.gog.com/en/game/splinter_cell
>>723232610>giving Ubisoft money under any circumstance
>>723237980I can't really pick between them. I love CT's mechanics and mission ratings, but PT has the cool moves they never brought back and it's more linear in a good way.
>>723236679I'm pretty sure the main villain of Pandora Tomorrow is a Jew. His name is Soth after all.
>>723232727I wish they would bring back the multiplayer for these games so badly. Especially Chaos Theory and Pandora Tomorrow. But even just Blacklist would be welcome.
>>723238134Yeah, PT was broken for a while but you can find the fixes for it now on PCgamingwiki.
Did they even bother to fix the completely fucked dynamic lighting on modern hardware? I remember there were spotlights that were impossible to avoid because you couldn't see the light.I know there's a community fix, I just want to know how lazy Ubishit is.
>>723238071It always seemed like a stand-in for Russia. This was somewhat common in popular media after the Cold War ended. Although now that I think about it, SC1 came out 1 year before the Rose Revolution so there might have been some amount of glownigger psy-opping at work to support their color revolutions, despite how insignificant Georgia seems.
>>723238458I guarantee they have not updated or fixed anything. Valve doesn't do that work for developers and this isn't on GOG, so it will almost certainly be exactly as it was.
>>723232610Ubisoft in their infinite wisdom fixed the shadow problem so you no longer have to fuck with dgvoodoo, but they didn't add any support for modern resolutions.There's no reason to buy this version. Saved you a click.
>>723238458I played up to the part with the spotlights in the first mission. They work, but the problem is this is a shitty port that doesn't even have 1080p as a res option.
>>723233361I did have to look up the plot again, just remembering that the first game ended with you shooting a former head of state. But how is "Georgian president delivers nuclear waste to rogue chinese general in exchange for arms/ammunition, funding an ethnic cleansing campaign" boring drama?
>>723240153>But how is "Georgian president delivers nuclear waste to rogue chinese general in exchange for arms/ammunition, funding an ethnic cleansing campaign" boring drama?It's boring for people who are too dumb or ADHD to actually follow what it happening - which is probably most MGS retards who go into Splinter Cell expecting a bunch of character drama pushing the plot forward accompanied by brain-numbing exposition dumps of what is going.
>>723240827Sad, but I agree. SC would probably be beloved as fuck if it had scenes of Sam doing backflips out of the Osprey and long melodramatic cutscenes about how Sams dad diddled him as a kid and now he fights his inner demons every time he kills.Shit that was lambasted when Conviction came out I might add.
>>723232610Xbox is the way to play all 4 splinter cells. The fourth on 360 on an xbox1 or later.They are much better with a controller. And just looked better on xbox.PC controls that could fix it:Hold a mouse button or a key and you accelerate to a run. Press it at slower intervals to maintain pace at desired speed.
>>723233361>How did they manage to take such a cool protagonist like Sam, and shove him into games like the original Splinter Cell and Pandora Tomorrow, with the most excruciatingly boringMichael Ironside
>>723241374>Shit that was lambasted when Conviction came out I might add.I miss when franchise rape was universally called out. If Silent Hill F is any indication, Conviction would be called an underrated masterpiece if it came out today.
>>723241589>playing a shooter with a padconsolefags
>>723241883We're basically an entire generation of gamers away from Conviction, let alone the previous Splinter Cells. People have grown up with absolute slop and literally can't conceptualize anything better.Granted, that's hardly a problem unique to videogames.
>>723241883>>723242312I liked Conviction especially the Deniable Ops missions with Archer and Kestrel
>>723232727Good, they should remove all multiplayer achievements from every game on Steam too
>> Requires 3rd-Party Account: Ubisoft Account (Supports Linking to Steam Account) FFUUUUUUCCKKKK YYYOOOUUUU
>>723242285>Splinter Cell>Shootingnigga please
>>723241883>>723242312>>723242431Conviction was unironically great. Most satisfying plot and ending in the series. Sneaking into the White House to execute the traitor Vice President was maximum kino.
>>723242285>t:zoomer who only played the nu splinter cells that are literal 3rd person shooter slops
>>723242885it plays exactly like a shooterand yes there is many instances of shooting involved with guns and tools, even when you're just trying to be discreet
I still have my disks.
>>723236981i assume 1 and 3 came out before the data collecting craze
>>723242987way to prove you didn't play the first games, you have a few different weapons and many tools involve shootingin terms of controls it plays exactly like a shooter, you just don't shoot as often as an action game
>>723242967You're exactly the kind of shithead we're complaining about here >>723241883>sneaking into the white houseExcept you don't "Sneak" at all, you go in and put a bullet in every single head you come across, the antithesis of every previous game in the series.Remember that in 2008 Splinter Cell got a new director, Maxime Beland, who went on record to say that he thought SC was boring and he intentionally dumbed down the gameplay for the casual audience. This shit is on record you fucking faggot, so don't tell me a game where the director himself says "Yeah, it's easier now because mouthbreathers can't do stealth" is a great stealth game.
>>723242967>Conviction>Sneakinglollmao evenMight as well go do the Pacman-tier """sneaking""" in MGS.
>>723232610I never got the hate for Conviction and I played Chaos Theory back in the dayThe soundtrack especially the combat themes were easily the best in the series and the co-op campaign was kino.>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-BNJVbuGXE>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFS_eE1I0Lk
>>723243308
Play Spies vs Mercs. It's fun.
>>723232610>Requires 3rd-Party Account: Ubisoft Account (Supports Linking to Steam Account)Into the trash.I have not bought, and will not buy a game that requires me to use their trash launcher.>PLEASE NOTE: This is a re-release of the original game, not a remastered version. Aside from fixing critical issues, the game remains unchanged.>Please note that multiplayer mode will not be available.Then what the fuck is the point of forcing the ubishit account?
>>723243717>muh soundtrack>meaningless kino buzzwordThe absolute state of the Convictoid.
>>723243770>Sam voiced by anyone elseHow many projects have to die day one before they get it?
>>723233361The only thing I remember about any of the stories is he went to prison in 1 game for fake killing his boss because he joined islam or some shit and went undercover. Can anyone remember the plot to any of the other games?Cant you just emulate the ps2 version or GC edition of the game in 4k?
>>723243954I assume it's mainly populated on weekends?
>>723244558There's a big community of people playing, you can get games on any day of the week. But it's one of those games that's kept alive mostly due to discord servers though.
>>723233361>nooo where are the clones of clones piloting giant robots and shooting bees at each other
>>723243954>looks right at the spy twiceSomebody get this nigga some glasses.
>>723232610....splinter cell...? been a while since i heard that name....
>>723236981Even worse>remove multiplayer>still require ubishit loginWtf???
reinstalled the first one today, was much more fun than I remembered it
>>723244778When I review my own footage, I always find spies that I couldn't see while I actually played. This game is just like that, people will sometimes bump into spies and not notice them.
>>723243954fuck no it was dogshit and easily exploitablea coordinated team of spies could easily toy with mercs until they all ragequiteat shit, that was the very beginning of why asymm games are a bad fucking idea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woACkuH7sVoThe greatest stealth videogame ever made, unmatched to this day the Year of Our Lord 2025.
What are the chances of them porting the OG XBOX version of Double Agent to Steam?
>>723245125You're just bad. The win rate for mercs is way higher across the board.https://sc-panel.com/stats/mapsOnly a handful of maps have a superior Spy win rate, and none of those are among the most played.
>>723244978Amazing how spies can really blend into the shadows behind him like that. If this were a modern game, you'd get fucked up TAA and Lumen artifacts wafting across the screen as he runs by.>>723245125>a coordinated team winsWhat a stunning realization.
>>723245317lol
>>723245324>posts the most autistic retarded post-gamespy stattrack bullshit i have ever seenwaow, who would have thought that ELEVEN FUCKING YEARS LATER (2011) GAMESPY FOOKIN DIED, PEOPLE HAVE SOLVED THE GAME AND PLAY LIKE SWEATY ANIMALSfucking KILL YOURSELF here and NOW, you stupid NIGGER>ahbhrbrhberhsb but in our PRIVATE circuit as you see, mercs sweaty niggers playing at 300000000 fps per second are actually better than retarded niggers forced to play spy otherwise there'd be no matches!EAT fucking SHHHHIIITTTT you STUPID NIGGER APE
Holy meltie. You don't even deserve a (You).
>>723243770The worst part of this poster isn't even the nog, it's the suggestion of Sam shooting someone. That dude is canonically a Ghost, his entire purpose is to get behind enemy lines, steal data and get out.
>>723245704i can smell the german from my screen.
>>723245530noob-kun...
>>723243717Conviction is John Wick the Game, hardly a Splinter Cell game, and filled with Modern Game Design (TM)
>>723245704NTA but that aim is embarrassing.
>>723245530If this is the level of discussion on /v/ when it comes to actual games, I'm starting to see why 90% of the board is now coomer anime shit and ragebait.
>>723245704what a dogshit FOVwho the fuck can enjoy playing this garbage?
>>723233575so is tom clancy a person or books?
>>723245871>30fps lockIt's like he's genuinely pretending to have fun.
>>723245871>>723245932Get the fuck out my board, you filthy zoomer scum
>>723245827Guns in this game are notoriously innacurate. But yeah, lobbing grenades can be difficult.>>723245871Those are old webms, from over a year ago. The latest version has wider FOV, uncapped framerate, widescreen support, etc.
>>723245348that's every lobby these days, you would never find a room with just randomly paired people so Anons right
>>723245704>spies can easily kite mercs around with stuns and backflips thanks to their 3D peeking abilities>coordinated spy teams can easily complete an objective before the 3 mins mark>anon posts the most piece of dogshit gameplay footage to prove otherwise, refusing to elaborate further>the other anon, easily an ESL from the favelas, has a meltdown hurling racist slurs in every directionGod I love this website sometimes.
>>723246069you are dumber than a zoomer if you are seriously playing that low fov 30 fps garbage
You have never played this game.Or else you'd know that all those actions have cooldowns. You can't chain shock mercs. You can bodyblock but it's trivial to knock them down, it's not like Dead by Daylight where the 1st person character is all helpless and clunky.
>>723233361Gaming used to have adult themes, yes.
>>723232610I played this a year ago on my Xbox :)
>>723241883Conviction was utter horseshit I regret wasting time on, but I'd still like to try out the original hobo mode version we've never got.
>>723232610trash
>>723246792Probably the only time I would have been fine with an open world reboot.Though realistically I bet it would just be another reskin of Assassin's creed with its god awful parkour system
>>723246348yeah you're german alright.already found your steam profile.
>>723242967>new Splinter Cell game>Kestrel is the protagonist>tone and atmosphere similar to Conviction with Kestrel taking vengeance against Voron>something like the Chaos system from Dishonored that changes the game based on how many people you killwould be the most kino game in the series
>>723232610>Splinter Cell:>Chaos Theory:>Pandora Tomorrow: Warning: This title uses 3rd-party DRM (Ubisoft Connect). Requires 3rd-Party Account: Ubisoft Account (Supports Linking to Steam Account)WHY?
>>723248239Why are you acting like calling me german is a slur of some kind? You're wrong lmao.
>>723233361Most of Sam's character comes from Michael Ironside, he says in an interview that Sam was a pretty cold blooded and boring protagonist initially and things changed after he shared some of his ideas with the writing team
>"Welcome to Jerusalem, birthplace of Christianity, Judaism and Islam>Sam: So this is where all that peace and love came from.Popped me when I was playing the other night
>>723232610Ok whats the catch? Did they censor something? Why the fuck now a 21yrs old game comes to steam completely unannonced?
>>723249138>webmHefty kek. Feels like an elaborate shitpost.
Reminder that the PC version of Double Agent is the terrible, shitty one from Ubi Shangai.The real version is the OG Xbox one made by the Chaos Theory devs.
>>723251174What's the PS2 version like? I forgot to buy the XBOX one before they de-listed it because I remember playing the 360 one as a kid and don't remember disliking it
>>723232610Why is this the only one that never made to the stores?
>>723251417I think the PS2 version is just the original Xbox one but uglier and more loading screens. Might be a slice cut out of a mission here and there as well.
>>723233014I'd rather truly own it with a Steam release.
>>723251174The only version I've played was the 360 version, and it really was terrible. I hated the story the most though, so I doubt the Xbox version would fix that.
>>723252521Its a completely different game and I'm not joking. Its 2 separate games.
>>723252521>so I doubt the Xbox version would fix thatIt makes it more coherent and nuanced at least from what I remember, but it still hits most of the same plot points. It's different enough to be worth trying I think.
>>723251174>he still thinks the "real" version of Double Agent is actually a thing
>>723249138
>>723245740what if he's aiming at a lightbulb
>>723232610lmao, they added Conviction back to Steam. I just pirated it like 3 months ago because they took it off. Too late now, retards.
>>723251174Bro I played both of them, and yea they have different levels and moderately different plot beats, but they're so fucking similar that you gotta wonder why Ubisoft even bothered. They're both just 3 out of 5 games.
>>723253174Just watched the second episode after pirating it, he spents the first episode killing a team of goons and the second one as well, while throwing kitchen knives at heads like he's fucking Agent 47. Also Douglas Shetland has a daughter and an indian son who I'm 100% convinced is a stand-in for the pajeet director. Garbage show.
no cheevos no play
>>723253929They were adding them *slowly* since last year and they stopped... Asscreed I, II trilogy and III still don't have cheevos as well as the first three SC. I don't think they'll bother since they can't data collect anything for these old games.
>>723251174this is kind of a myth. XB DA was developer by the Montreal B-team while the A-team was working on Conviction. yes, it took that long.
>>723254704they only add cheevos for games that have cheevos on the ubisoft client. Games that have console only cheevs won't get them on steam
>>723232610>no multiplayer
>>723233361I like PT the most.
>>723232727>no spies vs mercsGayest timeline
>>723233361Without reading all dat trash, you stirred the boomer nest, buddy
>>723258228From what I gather from replies, everybody seems to agree, even those who like it, but they don't mind it.
>>723232610>still no essentialswhat's the meaning of this?
seems like conviction is back too
>>723258228When I played the first Splinter Cell I was like 10 years old. The plot was way too mature for me, I couldn't understand most of what happened but I still completed the game. I only remember killing the Georgian president or something, and infiltrating the CIA office or something. It was pretty cool.I should probably replay them now that I'm older. It's cool to have a plot that is about agencies, secret weapons etc. instead of the retarded Superman anime shit that people are into nowadays.
>>723233361>with the most excruciatingly boring dry global political drama, that simply put me into sleepit was a million times better than the sloppa I'd expect in a high budget Steven Seagal flick that followed afterwards
>>723238071the entire point is that cyberwarfare suddenly turned them into a real threat
>>723233361True. Sam should be fighting for important things, like trans rights, or the for right for his daughter to have brown babies!
>>723245907a corpse now
>>723245907He was a person who wrote books. But honestly, I'm pretty sure the vast majority of his books were ghost written, even before he died.
>>723241589PC has the perfect solution of using the mouse wheel to control your walking speed. What the fuck are you talking about?
>>723264037were they good books? seeing as they made a shit ton of games based off them
>>723264665i heard red october was alright, it's also his first one.
>>723264665>>723264873I liked The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Without Remorse and Rainbow Six.
