GAME SINS | Everything Wrong With Splinter Cell Conviction
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How have I not sinned a Splinter Cell game already. Well I was waiting for Ubisoft to do something with the franchise before getting to them, but that doesn't seem likely anytime soon, so here are the sins of Splinter Cell Conviction.
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I guess this has to take the spot of the longest opening sin ever
Meh, a close one with Dying Light
I was thinking the same thing.
Nah that's cyberpunk
@@unimusha77 actually this one is 15 seconds longer lol
@@GaucheEtVeule holy shit ya... Well apologies mate!
I'm surprised that you didn't sin the "choose your ending" of this game; at the end of it all, it sets up a situation where you can choose to kill Reed or not, implying that you get a different ending based on your choice. But.... nope.
Choose to kill him, and Sam shoots him. That's it. End of story.
Choose not to kill him, he laughs at you, and Grim shoots him. Again, that's it. End of story.
"Sniper shoots the informant to keep them from spilling instead of the hero they have a clear shot on" is a trope I really wish would die.
Open-world Splinter Cell is what they make you play in the Ninth Circle of Hell, all day every day.
That circle is reserved for traitors, so that punishment makes it all the more clear what a terrible crime treason is.
So Ghost recon wildlands?
@@richardendresz161 I was gonna say The Division but that works too :P
@@capthavic everyone in the division has titanium skin so
@@richardendresz161 >Only customization option is the "Splinter Cell" costume
>All weapons have a suppressor
>You no longer play as Nomad. Instead, you play as a guy who's supposed to be Sam Fisher, but isn't, judging by his voice
Sin the original COD Modern Warfare trilogy. Maybe do the OG Black Ops games and World at war as well!
Well, you gotta wait until dartigan put the game in the voting pole at the end of the video then.
Gaming Sins already sinned them (except WaW)
@@C4MMU5 Gaming sins are kind of suck ups though.
You cant sin masterpieces
@@TheAndrassa what do you mean?
Conviction doesn't feel like a Splinter Cell game, but it damn well feels like a John Wick game.
I used to speed run the demo version of this game trying to beat my own record. I loved this game to no end.
"The trash is where ubisoft finds most of their plots"...this line right here sums up almost every ubisoft game after far cry 3
Yes! Even new dawn feels like a story they discarded earlier
I'm guessing it's their "multicultural team with varying views and beliefs" not getting to use any of those varying views and beliefs over the market research algorithms that tell the execs of the "least controversial plot that has the least impact on our sales".
Black flag was good
I've heard Far Cry 3 described as a game so good it made Ubisoft get lazy with every game after it and I struggle to find a better way to say it
Far cry 4 definitely wasn’t as good as 3 but it’s story was still pretty good. I really enjoyed Pagan Min as a pseudo-villain and the twist of both your allies ending up being worse than Min at the end was great. No matter what you choose with them the country becomes arguably worse.
I am now a member, because you did not forget about Splinter Cell. Ubi did.
They didn’t even forget Sam fisher is in rainbow six and ghost recon but it still feels like there almost moking the community and I still feel like chaos theory will always be the peak of the series even if they make a new one
Yes, Chaos Theory is the best and it's still a fun game to play! I agree with what you say about Ubi mocking the community. You can't make Open-World-Lootbox-SC so they just asked Sam to random other games and I hated it.
How did you do that emoji
@@handsomesquidward5160 You can use the emoji as a channel member.
And beatiful to
19:00 treyarch and ubisoft were definitely thinking Clinton would win, even before she announced her running lol
After the fallout from Hurricane Katrina it kinda seemed like a forgone conclusion at the time until the primaries started heating up.
This man continues to make the first sin of his videos literary art
The only positive I can give this game is that at least they brought back Micheal Ironside
And he was still in good health at the time so that was about as impressive as remembering to breathe.
Unlike in Blacklist where he's shunned for a younger model of male. I say that because I really can't remember Sam's Blacklist Voice Actor.
@@TheHufflepuffSaint we all try to forget about blacklist.
@@TheHufflepuffSaint Ironside was undergoing cancer treatment, pretty sure they could've just used the other guy for motion capture.
@@TheHufflepuffSaint Oh, he went on to play a creepy pervert villain in the 50 Shades sequels.
5:42 his feet are literally clipping through the floor
I would be sooo happy, if you could do a video about deadly premonition. It’s one of my guilty pleasures.
We need Dartigan to sin Deadly Premonition expeditiously
@@JohnSmith32643 definitely!
Yessss please
Weirdest game I've ever played
Which one the terrible pathetic one or the first??
I'm gonna be hated a lot, but I think the best Splinter Cell is the last one, Blacklist, where you can have this predator-like Sam ultra action packed if you want, but with the hardests difficulty modes, a super demanding stealth game way closer to the older Splinter Cells than people might tell.
Why? You are right. The story might not hold up but the gameplay is as Splinter Cell as it gets.
Yeah, Blacklist was pretty good when on Perfectionist. Even with 3 playstyle, Ghost, Panther, Assault, it was harder than the first Splinter Cell (especially Hacker's Den). The story didn't go as well.
I really enjoyed Blacklist, I don't know why that game gets so much hate.
I love Blacklist too, though the story did kind of suck. My only major problem is that I felt like you moved way too fast both as a “stealth operative” and as a 50 something Sam Fisher.
@@jdt1981 it was mostly because they didn't bring Michael Ironside back. They should've made a new character instead tbh
Conviction is one of my all time favourite games personally. I absolutely adore the soundtrack.
still one of my favorite splinter cell games.
For sure. I mean I love the first game and chaos theory with all my heart, but conviction is still a lot of fun, despite being a disappointment.
It's kinda funny: It's a good game, but a fucking horrid Splinter Cell game.
It seems that's what Ubi is really good at: Absolutely having no respect for their IPs and branding.
Same, i'm fan of the splinter cell franchise since the first episode and conviction is the one I played the most thanks to deniable ops, own since day one and today still playing it lol.
@@jesustyronechrist2330 Horrid is a strong word, but its definitely quite the genre shift. Somehow i wasnt really affected my it in my late teens, but i can definitely see it now, whiplash inducing for sure.
Classic Ubisoft consoomer cope.
Non-Assassins' Creed are made for you certainly,
considering you enjoy your non-Splinter Cell slop.
A round of applause for the mediocre squadron here.
Biggest sin is that there hasn't been a new Splinter Cell for a minute....
No the biggest sin is Sam Fisher, and basically Splinter Cell in general, has been relegated to being a selling point for other games *_THAT EXIST THANKS TO HIS LEGACY._*
• A garbage DLC Hail Mary for Breakpoint *_(WHO I AM STILL BLAMING FOR THE DEATH OF GHOST RECON)._*
• An admittedly cool Operator in Six Siege.
• AND A CHARACTER IN A $HITTY MOBILE GAME.
I am now at the point where I'd be *_HAPPIER_* if it was just *_"No new Splinter Cell since Blacklist."_* There'd be some closure to that. *_Now every time Ubisoft betrays my heart with another announcement, and I see those three green dots, but it's not another Splinter Cell Game, I die a little more inside. Every, single time._*
At this point that might be for the best...
Im still upset there hasn't been any Syphonfilter games in a while
@@sebastianriz4703 now that I agree with 100%. Gabe Logan has more left in the tank
Hell I think fans would just be happy for a remaster of every game in Ubisoft’s current graphics engine (the one for siege and far cry not their other stuff).
I really liked conviction...the co-op was sick too...
Same!
sarcasm
goodie
It wasn't much of a Splinter Cell game, but if you go in without that expectation, it's actually a decent game.
3:42 I mean, the man is physically active and in great shape. Makes sense to age better.
Ahhh nothing like a two-minute opening first sin in a dartigan video! I feel he's doing this on purpose more and more.
I mean I like your videos, and I agree with a lot of your points for this game. But come on, no sin removal for when Sam leaves the 3rd Echelon building?
Should sin all of the Splinter Cell games. At least we’d somehow get some SC content then
That should be a sin on its own
"This is the only splinter cell content youve gotten this decade" Ding.
At this point when watching Dartigan videos, I'm always looking forward to the very first sin and the long diatribe that accompanies it!
I'll admit this is the only game I've played out of the splinter cell series. It felt like the ghost recon games that are out now, you know what you are playing there is something missing that you know what it is but you dont understand why its missing
You haven't really played Splinter Cell until you've played Chaos Theory. Still holds up today.
I think you really misunderstood the details about Sarah's fake death at the beginning, and are also guessing some things about black ops/agencies that are kinda wrong. But you raised some great points and also made me chuckle a couple times. Great work!
Here's a sin you totally neglected about: Splinter Cell Conviction NEVER came out on PS3. It was a console exclusive for Microsoft in 2010, so Sony fans were forced to get that console in order to continue Sam's story, as Blacklist was released in 2013, 7 years after 2006's Double Agent came out on PS3, meaning they were missing a main title in between that was only released on the console they didn't own/didn't care for. Yeah, there was also the PC alternative where all the main entries minus the PSP one were released as well to remedy that, but console gamers were shafted 1 game out of the HD trilogy on PS3 while the X360 users can gloat all day, unlike the original trilogy which all 3 of the PS2/GameCube/Xbox consoles got it complete.
Why are you mad that you guys missed a Shitty entry in the series not only does blacklist recap it in a 10 minute video but youtube also exists
@@connorcountryman4178 I'm not mad, dude
I just pointed out a sin he totally missed out about this game
yeah Blacklist may have a recap of it and YT has plenty of videos of it as well, but this is something he forgot to mention since he did his research on it before he even made the video but might have missed that little bit
if he's a fan of the series, then he shouldn't have left it in the dark
if you've read my comment thoroughly, you'll understand why
"There's really only one reason the VP would be scheming behind the president's back." Oh look, it's America 2021!
@Thor Odinson Shut up Trumper
@@unstablebrother Why? He's right.
It's been a while since I last watched Dartigan.
The writing's gotten sharper and sharper.
Love it.
i really do want them to make new splinter cell games or at the very least remaster the old ones. but the demand for theses games are pretty low. splinter cell became pretty niche even before black list or conviction came out
And you have famed Canadian character actor Michael Ironside voicing Sam Fischer.
This channel is under rated. He has a much better voice that the other gaming sins channel.
100% agree with this. Dartigan's voice has that certain sarcastic yet nonchalant quality to it that makes his videos even funnier lol
@@NightBreakDreamer Meh, he sounds like he could use a backhand or two to the mouth to take the "sarcastic dipshit" tone out of his voice. Maybe it fits with the tone of the videos, but it's still incredibly annoying to hear.
Despite everything people say about this game, I like it a lot, it's fun despite the stealth being so fucking baby like.
The game was very cool, absolutely not as a Splinter Cell, but as a Hollywoodian type blockbuster with a bit of stealth in the back, the game was really good
@@crazys0ap281 the game literally plays itself you just shoot automatic headshots there's no variety or challenge
I loved that game the first time I played. Years later watching this video makes it feel like it was written by Michael Scott.
Damn the opening sin was long as hell.
Also, do Wolfenstein Old Blood.
Hitman Absolution next time.
I’ve always thought Blacklist was the perfect compromise between this and the original splitter cell games. Particularly in how they allowed you to plan your movements and take out lights along the way and how quickly you could go from takedown to movement to objective. You felt like a badass while still requiring skill to succeed.
My ultimate favorite Splinter Cell games are the 2002 original and Blacklist. Both these games gave you so much freedom to create your own play style, whether it was trying to sneak past every enemy undetected, or neutralizing them and hiding their bodies in pitch-black areas. The original game revolutionized how dynamic light sources could be affected in video games, and Blacklist was the perfect fusion between the original and Conviction's sleeker mechanics.
Dartigan has a point. Why is this about Sarah? Unless she has som sort of electronic that is vital to keeping her alive like a pace maker or a portable insulin pump ect. The EMP wont even affect her. This game is dumb
Nah, it affects her cause she's a fucking robot.
Great video m8, you never disappoint
UBISOFT should be treating Fisher more like a thief rather than a Rambo type.
Also, ubisoft weren't happy with the loyal few million loyal fans, they wanted even more sales.
Take a small budget, a small team & make old school linear splinter cell with new school mechanics.
We also noticed that GR Breakpoint was a splinter cell game, but for some reason ubi has no confidence in SPLINTER CELL anymore. Can't wring every drop of money out of us in an old school game.
SPLINTER CELL is loved & missed.
They wanted Sam Fisher to become the gaming's Jason Bourne. I mean... Just look at that sweater.
Then in Blacklist, they wanted Sam to be... A fucking predator? "Panther" playstyle is so... Out of character and out of operative. Why the fuck would an intel-spy murder bunch of NGO guards or even terrorists? That's not his fucking job and defeats the whole purpose of "get intel, don't leave any traces, get out without anyone knowing you were there."
God damn I'm getting motion sickness from these cut scenes. It looks like this was filmed on a phone
This man sounds exactly like a robot and he is so funny he should just keep doing this is the best sins (not really when he did Far Cry 5 that was the best one) no wonder he is my favorite CZcamsr
Sin:40 I think Lambert kept his daughter's death a secret so Sam would stay motivate on accepting his mission in Prison to Become a double agent.
Correct
meaning it's incredibly pointless from sams perspective and killing lambert well he's killed people for less
You should show a sin on average every how many minutes at the end
How about sinning the saboteur? Or Hitman blood money?
Between wolfenstein and absolution though, definitely the latter
You a intellectual the saboteur a underrated gem rip pandemic studios
I just love the snake reference. Man that was the time. Ubisoft is never gonna create another character like Sam.
I forgot this game existed. Thanks for reminding me of that horrible experience. I forgot it for a reason😑.
can we admit that in the first flashback he just clipped through th floor
Still a great game, if and when Ubisoft finally gets off their ass and makes another splinter cell game I hope it is at least as good as chaos theory or blacklist
Agreed. Took me a few years to get to know Blacklist... but i guess thats my own fault for doing the Charlie missions early (FUCK the first 2 charlie missions jesus christ) but other parts where fun, main story included.
I heard someone describe this game as being made for a member of a royal family, as everything is done for you.
The reason Sam feels it's so vital to stop the EMP near Sarah: Have you ever seen a woman without her phone now?! They enter their Final Form.
God fucking dammit i dont know why but when the bad guy rosted the president i was drinking water and fucking laughed , I almost drowned myself.
This is like the 8th Splinter Cell Conviction related content since last month and I own this game.....
4 navy seals coming out of a bar sound like that wrestling story of Shawn Michael
I'm pretty sure EA would stop being greedy and make a genuinely good sports game before Ubisoft bothers with doing with the Splinter Cell IP besides putting Sam Fisher in literally anything but a new game.
I loved conviction so much.
I still love it... beating that co-op was lovely made my first online friend playing that...
11:24 - 11:26 : I was soo waiting for Dart to comment "If only this had been said to Ubisoft at a board meeting before finalizing this narrative."
I have been waiting for this since I watched your first game sins video all those years ago. It was worth the wait.
I liked the co-op mode. Played the crap out of that.
Yup the Deniable Ops and co op story with Archer and Kestrel was so fun in split screen
I enjoyed the Tom Clancy Rainbow Six Book heavily detailed and slow but overall great
Watching how Sam moves, takes cover and fires in this, and I see where The Division and Watchdogs gots its from. In all their horrible jankiness
Definitely not the best Splinter Cell game, but I love it nonetheless.
I loved it when I was 22, but I have a hard playing it now at 33. Blacklist still holds up amazingly though
The way they made this game it looks like Sam is being followed by a camera crew like he's on a reality show
Whenever I hear Michael Ironside all I can see is Michael Ironside. Very immersion breaking
Are you going to do Everything Wrong with Mafia: Definitive Edition?
Zurab Bekauri What's the point of remaking an old PC game with a limited open-world design if you're not going to, oh I don't know, actually add something other than hidden collectibles to that open world?
@@daneray9594 Mafia is a game focused heavily on story mode, with the "open" world being just a distraction. And, considering how good the story mode is, the game absolutely deserved a remake.
@@kaldunaaa Fair enough. So if the open world is just a distraction, why does it need to be included at all? Couldn't they make a more linear Mafia game where the story gets more attention and focus since there are no more "distractions"?
@@daneray9594 It *is* linear. The open world isn’t there unless you specifically pick the Free Ride mode in the menu. Otherwise, it’s just as linear as Mafia 2 was.
@@kaldunaaa Maybe this just feeds into my general problem with the Mafia franchise: that the games never take proper advantage of their open worlds to expand on the stories they tell.
*Hitman Absolution* next, please.
Grim is Icelandic and has a perfect American Accent
That's the first sin that is so long that i don't want to talk about it. *Ding*
Wow! Now that was a cool intro!
In case you're similar to me but less patient, he starts talking about the gameplay after 4 minutes. So, yes, there is talk about the important mistakes. It's mostly about the story, however.
Michael Ironside doesn't give a single shit about this role anymore and it's hilarious to see.
5:42 You flashed back into a glitch through the floor👀
just what to say at the moment grim shot Sam the game I was playing said "Oh look a weapon"
The only splinter cell i didn't love was blacklist, and that's really only because the voice was changed.
Dropped everything as soon as I got the notification
As a guy who likes fast paced shooters like COD i also love stealth games and spliter cell is one of my favorites
Only sin I have a problem with is the keyboard electrical execution... my mother's computer was acting up so I turned it off and when I was unplugging it to take to fix it, the problem showed itself in the form of an electrical arc that both hurt when I came to and scared me making me jump thus knocking myself out by smacking my head off the bottom of the desk... I think my face was still making a connection because my brother got shocked as he dragged my dieing ass out from under the table.... point being electricty is a fucking bitch, and can jump to other devices.
I hope you get round to looking at Splinter Cell Blacklist one of these days. Would love to see your take on it.
A EMP blows off, an ad pops up. Wait, wait, wait. Is this a coincidence? Again, that's a sin. *ding*
0:20 Yes, very sad... whilst chaos theory is my favorite i did enjoy conviction and managed to enjoy blacklist as well... but that was 8 years ago...
Great content been waiting for this hope you continue the series
I rewatch this a lot.
I think I'm the only person who loves this game!
I never could get into the other Spinter Cell games prior to this one, but this one is perfect, simple and makes a lot of sense, you have Sam as a retired badass showing that he doesn't need his toys to destroy the bad guys! The story and setting feels like a mix of Taken with Olympus has Fallen! I thought the idea of putting the text and interrogation videos on the environment was genius as it felt way more immersive than having it as a pop up text on hud or having to interrupt the gameplay! Also the mechanic to auto shoot was pretty cool and you only refil those by stealth killing bad guys, so you have to stealth kill to be able to auto shoot and the auto shoot felt really bad ass!
Blacklist improved a lot on the gameplay aspect, got more complicated with more toys and had a crappier story.
Both are awesome games IMO, but Conviction is still on my top favorite games along with Alan Wake and the Uncharted series.
What can you expect when the game director was Máxime Beland, someone who didn't played any Splinter Cell game in his entire Life.
To be honest, I think it would pay credit to Ubisoft, if they returned to the Splinter Cell format and drop the open worlds for a while. Last Ubi Open World I actually enjoyed exploring was Far Cry 5 and New Dawn's Hope County.
Assassin's Creeds worlds have gotten so massive that most of them get unexplored due to those who just wanna play the story.
And the recent Watch Dogs Leigon London Map was kinda boring to explore in as it was openly futuristic. I was hoping it would be a city based on our modern day London. Not all this hologram BS and a bloody shopping mall in Battersea.
And God knows how big Far Cry 6 will be given the subject matter of South America, it'll be really annoying if the whole country sector is explorable.
Maps are just overly big nowadays with nothing much to do. So please god Ubisoft, go back to Linear Stories.
hell no they should sell the game rights to an actual competent Developer that doesnt put MTX into all their games or makes litteraly any game an open world filled with nothing but shit....
I like the metal gear solid reference
Why isn't John Clark and Sam Fischer in the same universe? In the books and the game.
I always thought it was weird how Megiddo wasn't mentioned again in Blacklist, literally all they had to was say the villain of that game was hired by Megiddo, further setting up another SC game, but since it's impossible to make an always-online open world world game out of Splinter Cell, the only representation we get from that franchise anymore is cross overs, I recently played the Ghost Recon Breakpoint crossover, man what a let down, at the very least we have Michael Ironside playing him again but he needs his own solo game again, maybe with him training an upstart and him stepping back into the mentor role.
... I wonder how he feels about the "storm the whitehouse" sin now...
plot armor dose amazing things it stops electricity make you have fall proof damage and also seems to spread to other friend to to main character can get shoot 100 times and come back stronger if only we could get this plot armor to it could save people
You didn’t even remove a sin for Sam’s auto-mark rampage at Third Echelon
Splinter Cell has to go back to the original stealth games.
Same with Ghost Recon going back
If current gaming industry makes it they will make it splinter soy.
Chaos theory was the best splinter cell and one of the best stealth game ever made.
This game is the peak of the entire Splinter Cell franchise. A true masterpiece, whose legacy was completely ditched for a stillborn mutant like the Blacklist
Conviction is still one of my favorite Splinter Cell games
I can't help but hear Darkseid.
My favorite Splinter cell is conviction . I kinda suck at being stealthy so i played other splinter cells similar to conviction even when conviction wasn't a thing.
I have been waiting years for this
Waaaah this game is a legend!!!! Nothing is wrong!!!
So, basically, Sam has become Jack Bauer. I thought this was Splinter Cell, not 24: The Video Game.