>> ^MaxWilder:
...How could any human being possibly find that humorous? That takes a really cold heart...


Never said I laughed, didn't vote for it. As far as I can tell it was voluntary, if misguided. I did plenty of face-plants as a kid doing things even sillier and riskier than that, and still have some gravel deep in my flesh. Kids weigh less, are closer to the ground, and are more resilient. Nobody was "pranking" him. That's just plain ol' life experience.

This video lacks the "Amazing Face Plant of Heaven".

No breast face-plant, or "pee on us" or "Ninja made a movement" lines. Disappointed.

I imagine after a face plant that epic, trying to get anyone to sleep with you is out of the question!

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Well as qualified as qualm may be as the moral compass of the internet, I have to disagree with your comparisons. When I was 12 I hit a horizontal steel bar and did a face plant into the concrete about 4 feet below. At the time it was pretty tramatic, I mangled my face and lost my two front teeth.

But here's the best part. Years later I still laugh about it. BECAUSE IT WAS MY OWN DAMN FAULT. Now if this kid has any sense of humor I bet him and his friends have laughed about this several times.

So please stop trying to compare this to horrible accidents or holocaust victims or whatever other atrocity you come up with. It's the kids own jackassery and it's something him and his friends can laugh about years from now.

LOTS of nitpicking, and although I almost always agree with Yahtzee, I'd have to disagree with quite a few of his points.

He's right about the turning, but only because it's a rough transition after so many years of GTA car-turning being so loose and arcadey. This is more realistic, but also a bit stiff. Which leads me to my next point.

I think Yahtzee should rethink his point about games trying to become too realistic over arcade-style. All of the GTA3 games had very arcade-like reactions and physics to it. Take for example, the headshot, making the head disappear, and in it's place a stream of blood shooting straight upwards for several feet from the neck, before the body just falls over. Now, that's funny at first, but after so much of that, it got a bit too cartoony, and I was hoping for a more 'realistic' reaction. Now look at GTA4's physics. They're jaw-dropping. When you hit somebody with a car, they act so accordingly, thanks to the Euphoria physics engine (basically a much smarter, and more natural ragdoll type of physics). I mean, hell, the cars had Euphoria as well. When you hit another car hard enough, the driver dies from the impact, and his face plants into the steering wheel, leaving the car horn blaring continuously. Little details like that also make it really cool. Is Yahtzee honestly saying he'd rather a cartoon reaction over something so impressive as the Euphoria physics?

And the coloring of the city was not brown and grey. Only during cloudy/rainy/foggy days were they greyish/blue, and some point of the day was the city brown. Other than that, I was absolutely AMAZED with how pretty the daytime was. Noon-time actually looked like noon, with a natural looking sun beating down on the sidewalk and cars, etc. Dawn looks like dawn, and so forth.

All in all, he seemed to have liked it. I was a skeptic of GTA4 before I got it, and I honestly was THAT impressed with it, that I'll argue in it's defense against one of my all-time favorite reviewers. Different strokes for different folks, but I think sometimes people should take a step back from their nit-picking, and appreciate what I'd like to consider real quality. I mean, people love ripping on bad games, and rightly so. But I think we as gamers have become somewhat spoiled in the sense that we feel we should rip apart absolutely everything. I'm not directing this towards Yahtzee specifically, but sometimes it just seems that people will have a problem with something just for the sake of having something to complain about to the point of missing the entire point of healthy criticism. This game wasn't perfect, but it's obvious that instead of putting out much of the same, they came together and made something if good quality, and I think people should at least acknowledge that. Whew, sorry about that.

But he's absolutely r ight about one thing. What the hell was Rockstar thinking when they made trees the only thing in the whole game completely indestructible? You can run through newspaper stands. You can bulldoze straight through trash-cans, leaving trash littered in it's path, etc etc etc....and then smash straight into a tree without it budging an inch. The effect of flying through your windshield is really awesome though .

thats why the internet was invented!

In reply to this comment by mas8705:
I can see someone making a video of how their first jump will be into a brick wall... FPFP (First Person face plant) is going to be fun to watch...

I can see someone making a video of how their first jump will be into a brick wall... FPFP (First Person face plant) is going to be fun to watch...

Wow
That was really odd, last night I upvoted a cat farting because it make me giggle and today I see all this discard / abuse. I really hope this stuff stops, i expect to see ranting and abuse by noobies not seasoned contributors

I know this is a retarded video, but i liked it, in fact, ironically, the thing that made me join videosift in the first place was the happy community and the clever insightful videos posted. (although face plants and farts still have a place)

*beer for blankfist

This is hilarious. Wow the guy flys it into himself and has to do a face plant to avoid getting hit. He actually avoids the collision but gets showered with the parts of his plane.

Hahahahaha. Upvote.

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I'm not saying I wouldn't do the same thing if I attempted an ollie but the fact that she just jumps and lands on the skateboard without it even moving, then she pauses and then the face plant comes out of nowhere is just hilarious.

Gotta love the slo-mo face-plant.

Ah sweet memories of childhood...

That show looks as painful as the face plant.